The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1890-05-01
REV. DZAU Use ZEH.
An ADDRESS BY A CHINAMAN.
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Our city Was visited last Friday
by Rev. Dzau Use Zeh. who has Just
arrived from China, and is en- route
Is delegate to the General Confer
ence of the Southern Methodist
church, which will convene in St.
Louis this month. He was cos
tuned in Chinese garb, OF blue mate
rial, wooden sole shoes and wore .
jaunty skull Cap, while his cue, q
yard long, plated, hung down
his back. To facilitate matters of
address, he has assumed the English
name OF Marshall. He speaks En-
glish fluently, clearly and COR
rectly. About time the late war
broke out, he was attending school
at Lebanon, Tenn. His education
was not completed, but he is sufic-
iently informed to teach, and, be-
ing converted to the christian relig-
ion, when in bis native country he
is daily engaged educating the
young Chinese and in advancing the
Christian religion. While in the
city, on Friday night, he attended
the monthly meeting Of the Juvenile
Missionary Society at the Metho-
dist church, and delivered a short
address, by invitation of the presi
dent Of the society, Mr.. John A.
Manget. Col. W. r. Power had
just delivered an address, which he
listened to attentiveiy.
DR.. Dzau Use Zeh, for DR.. Mar
shall, said it had been q years
since he had been in this country
and he was glad to see the children
here engaged in the missionary
work. He is well acquainted with
the Methodist Missionaries in Chi
IA, Young J.@Allen, Anderson,
Burke, and others, and ls associated
with them in their work. He sang
q Chinese song, . Christian tune,
translated into Chinese. He exhib-
tied q Chinese lady's shoe about
four inches long, with pointed toe.
He said the Tartsrs, when they con-
quered China about $50 years ago,
issued an edict forcing the Chinese
women to cripple their feet by
wearing these shoes in order to pre-
vent them from enlisting and assist
ing Chinese warriors in battle, and
it had been practiced SO long that
it is now q national custom. The
! female children at the age Of three
or four years had their toes broken
and pressed underneath the feet,
bandaged and kept that way, thus
preventing growth and Gripping
them for life. He said it was pitt
full to hear the cries of the children
when undergoing this torture, who
we're often beaten by their mothers
and made to walk on their toes, when
the pain was most excruciating. He
said the Chinese had a proverb !:
at takes one big stonejar filled with
tears to have very small ieet." He
said some of the Chinese ladies have
such small feet, that they have two
servants, one on each side to lean
on, to aid them in walking or hob
bling. 5
Only through teaching the chill
dren in day and Sunday schools,
learning them to commit to memory
religious songs, that their mothers
and fathers could be reached by the
gospel Of Christ.
In speaking of the thirteen year
old Emperor, he claims to be six
teen years old, he having right to
borrow additional years, owing to
being styled the god of the sun of
heaven and god of the earth.
In speaking ofone of the prominent
temples of the Chinese idols, he
says it covers twenty-five acres OF
ground, and is crowded with idol
worshippers, who visit it all
night long, going and coming
These people carry candles and
burn incense, filling the room with
the peculiar smoke that these can
dies emit. Little children are taught
m 90 there and how down in wnr-