Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1901-05-31

from you and understand that you are
sick, and one Of them has left some
money for you to buy plenty OF food
and meat" and the whole family was
happy.
A month afterward the lilies were
blooming and fragrant, and all the
family was speaking of the very curl
Gus flower, and then little six.year-
old girl came running, very early one
day, and said "That is the sacred
flower, and the God is very glad for
your good conduct, and has given this
flower as present for you, and it will
make you very rich, and also you will
have everlasting happiness by and by
when you die" And while she was
still speaking many other children
came and said the same. 1t seems
that an angel made them say so, and
many people came from all the coun-
try round about and many of them
bought that kind of flower to celebrate
the Happy New Year. So, after seve-
raj years, it went all through China,
and Ying Fong became very rich.
Now Ying Fong's brother, I'll Fong,
had been keeping a store and had lost
all his money, so that he had to sell
all OF his property, and one day Mrs.
III FOng sent for her husband and
said: "Your brother, Ying Fong, is a
man of good conduct and the God
loves him. We are of such bad con-
duct that the God will punish us"
And Ii FOng answered: 81 fear so,
but l will change my conduct to do
good acts so that l can get away from
the punishment" And his wife said: :
THAT is what thought" and that
night they laid awake all night talk
ing about changing their conduct and
doing good, and early next morning
they went to Ying Fong and embraced
him and wept bitterly, and said :
" You do everything that is good; you
will receive everlasting happiness, but
we are sinners and surely will be pun.
ished; now you must find some way to
save u.s." Then Ying Fong answered: ::
"The ordinary man when he commits
some sin does not saysin. l cannot
find better way to tell you that you
are good already" And I'll Fong
said: "No: you must find something
to teach me-" Then Ying Fong
could not answer, but Mrs. Ying Fong
said: "Shall try one way to teach
thems" And I'll Fong said: 1 shall
be very glad If you will say something
to me-" Then Mrs. Ying Fong said:
" Long ago there was a holy man who
taught his students to make book,
with many different things in it with
regard to conduct, and many different
teachings as to good acts and many
about bad acts. They we're divided
into small, medium and great things.
The small things were represented by
the numbers l, 2, 3, 4, 5; medium by
10. 20. ETC., and the great by 100 or
200. This book was Book of Good
Doctrine, and was called Gon-go-gaw.
It makes different lessons for different
treatments. One vas how to treat the
mother and father; one how the En-
peror should treat his people, and how
the people should treat him, another
how the husband should treat his
wife. and the wife the husband; an
other how to treat the brother and
sister; another how to treat the
friend, the merchant, the proprietor,
the servant, etc. He told the students
to follow that book, and every night
before going to bed to take book and
write out how many good acts in that
day and how many bad acts in that
day, and then perform worship before
the God before going to bed. And the
first year the bad things came to more
than the good things, and the second
year the bad and good were equal, and
the third year the good acts were
more than the bad acts, and the holy
man said, when the good acts are
more than the bad acts, that becomes
merit, and then you will get everlast-
ing happiness in this way Now the
book is all through the country and
everybody knows that you can try"
Then Mrs. I'll Fong said; "That is
a very good way; that is a new life for
me-" and she would like to perform
worship before God right away, and
would Ike to commence that day to
begin to follow that book, but Wing
Fong said: MANS duty is to do all
good. We cannot call partial doing
merit. The holy man knows that, but
this way makes easy steps for the be-
ginner, and after that I'll Fong's con-
duct became very good. When he
was bad lie had been more bad than
common, but when he was good he
was more good than common, because
be had the more power in his nature,
and all the surrounding country af-
terward became Christian and the jai
was empty all the time.
And after that Ying Fong prospered
and his children and his children's
children, for he had more than a
thousand descendants after him.
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