Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-05-19

toy monkey upon q box. Mothers SEEM
ed at home and domesticlike. One had
brought a bottle Of milk, and while she
imbibed the milk Of the true gospel the
child tugged away at it's kind Of re-
freshment.
Some Of the very young women are
comely enough, with their satin smooth
heads and soft, rolly poly cheeks, pow
dered like those of a real Christian
white lady, and a spot of red paint upon
the middle Of the lower lip. Women
and men do not sit together. Chinese
ideas have not been educated up to that
point yet. On the mems side were
strange contrasts. Here We're young
men, evidently of the better new China
class, fine looking specimens of man
hood as any. I have always had a great
eye for good looking men, and I must
say these were as handsome as the best,
with their polished ivory skin and we'll
fitting American clothes, graceful, &C.
complished gentlemen, who gave US
English Bibles open at the morning les
son and found the place for us in the
queer Chinese hymnbooks. A white
man could not have done it better.
Beside these gentlemen, and q re-
hinder Of the cruelty and barbarism of
their same race and nation, sat a scanned
and horribly Scared old creature whose
ear had been cut off for a punishment
Of come offense. I never saw anything
more CHASTITY than that yawning ear
hole.
The sermon was an intense affair.
Whatever may be said of the sincerity
of Chinese Christian converts there is
no doubt that preacher meant what he
said. The sentences were uttered in q
half chanting tone. What he said was
, another matter. I listened closely, and
it sounded to me like
"Chick. chick, Jim, Jim. Shaw Su-
san, fong gongy, eat a pie, pizen, pizen,
) pizen pie. Shin booy, Shin booy, see de
: fun" And when he remarked exec
: chow" I knew by the way all bowed
, their heads and looked serious that he
said, ''Let US pray"
When you hear one say, as people
t sometimes do, that Chinese cannot sing
r and have no ear for music, do not be-
+ lieve it. At the service today was con
gregationa] singing as well in time and
tune, as softly musical, as you hear any.
r where. They sang the familiar melodies
8 Of the congregational hymns, the words
r in their own language. There was, too,
Q an air Of devoutness and earnestness
: shout them that was especially becom.
r ing. This looks better than burning red
paper to joss, anyhow.
Q A pipe organ and a well trained choi,
q are part of the church belongings Al
o one part of the service the male voices
were silent, and the little dark eyed
q girls went it alone, and that interested
d me more than all the rest. The small
; voices did not rise and soar triumphant,
caroling, assured, like those Of thei,
Q white sisters, but they were timid,
n plaintive and sweet, as though, some
= how, at last, after gray ages of repres
sion, their woman's soul was beginning
to stir family and express itself. Tha,
\ was what the voices said to me.
q At the end the brave old doxology.
o All the world was singing it that Sun
u day. In the States, in the kingdoms ant
's empires, here in the isles Of the sea, il
It rose thunderous, majestic, thrilling, ant
l. it made Of all mankind one kindred
; ''Praise God from whom all blessing,
Is fowl" ELIZA ARoHARD CONNER.
% Honolulu, II. L