Kansas City daily journal., 1895-09-09
The Old Women who Open the Chest.

The Old Women who Open the Chest.
AS those who wish to enter their chapel,
charge first washes their bodies They call
this purifying the body Families having
daughters, on entering this religion, re-
strain one of them from marriage. These
are the guardians of the locks and keys of
the chest containing magical spells and in
canta M,, tons. They are are called the Old Wom-
when persons are sick, they never take
the medicines ordinarily made use of by
others. They must necessarily be pre-
igious teachers. Women must present
themselves for examination in a state of
nudity. If a patient does not recover the
body and head are cut open in order to in
vestigate the cause of the disease, thus
adding 10 the medical knowledge of those
who come after. Adherents of this religion
whose bodies are dismembered after death
are called saints of the first class Those
saints of the middle class, while those who
have their ears and noses cut off are the
inferior saints. QFrom Death Blow to Cor
rupt Doctrines.)
lin case of funerals the religious teach
ers eject all the friends and relatives from
coffin with closed doors Both eyes are se-
cretly taken out and the oriice sealed up
with a plaster. This they call sealing the
son for extracting the eyes is the same as
that above given, viz. the extraction of
on to say that the Christians also use them
for making Photographic material.
Some Horrible Practices.
This chapter closes with giving some of
the horrible practices Of the foreigners:
their statements are such that they cannot
be ,republished The least of them are the
following:
"They are able to impart magical pow
er to water. to send abroad charms on
the spirits C of living persons - for ore evil iii'pHe pnr
poses. They also, BY obtaining the hair
re. h,A
to compel their presence. They take the
horoscopes OF children Of either sex and
way gain possession of their spirits.
They use different methods, to obtain the
commit all sorts of horrible crimes. If
we seek for their general motive, ii is a
and under false pretense of religion 10
exterminate them. It is thus they wish
dom. dor t what infatuation 10 10 embracc , such such
religion this! | have, by extensive
searching of ancient books, and 10y accu-
thus to disclose their wickcdncss, and to
sound the alarm so as to give you timely
warning
PART III.
QUOTATIONS COSCERSING THE FOR
EIGS DEVILS.
Articles About Missionaries From Chinese
Travellers, From the Records of the Gov
ernmcnt and From Great Scholars
The latter half OF the death Blow to
Corrupt Doctrines" is filled up with quo
tations from public documents. with tes-
timonies as to the evil practices of the
missionaries, and other statements which,
ridiculous as they may seem to us have
great effect lpon the ignorant chinese
Here again am prevented from publishing
tne most of the matter by its 'indecencS
and licentious character.
The Magic of England a nd Franc
Here is one quotation:
"In England they have the art of cutting
out paper men and horses, and by burning
charms and repeating incantations, trans
These are used to terrify their, enemies
They may, however, be dissolved by beat
ing a gong or by dischargins large guns at
them They may he dissolved by spouting
''Fhe people of France have devilish arts
SO that those who see them cannot discern
the difference. They continually go to the |
various seapoTts and other places ana kid |
nap Chinese people and carry them to their
"in one of the Christian kingdoms these |
people constantly practice killing men to |
Sacrifice 10 Jesus in praying for happiness. |
They offer sacrifices at their graves, When |
as pa"sPq saPcraee a 70 eS procure SS 9 Victims ms they
catch foreigners ana traders, that no |
one dares 10 go TO the market alone for |
fear of being carried OFF 1t is considered |
honorable TO have many wives, The prin- !
cipal man is allowed 5000, and every year |
they collect the women toselher anu the
setsSS,'' tE'rn,p tie "Record of Things Seen and |
IIeard in other Iands')
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