The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-04-20


the water finally settled In these de-
pressions forming cess- pools
Now, the Chinese do everything
the opposite OF what we do. They live
on the under side OF the world. Their
feet are In this direction and their
heads IN the opposite direction. And
80 they seem TO do everything the
opposite from us Americans. They put
their vest on outside their coat. we
wears ours inside. They put on white
1or mourning. We wear black They
each shake their own hands. we shake
each others hands They keep their
pack yards perfectly clean. bringing
All their kitchen refuse, vegetables and
other dirt and dump in into
decays They have been doing
cess pools. 1t sinks down and
this for $500 years and the sail OF
Pekin-it being unpaved,-is saturat-
cd with all kinds OF poisons possible to
imagine. In the summer time there
IS green scum forms over these pools
broken only by the bubbles which
come up from these decaying vege-
tables. Then on the hot summer DAYS
when the street is covered with two
or three inches Of dust, the street
sprinkler comes along with a long
handled dipper. with which he dips
up his water and sprinkles the streets.
1hen you come along in your Chinese
cart; the hot rays Of the sun come
down and the odors come UP. One
or the questions which tourists ask
other tourists when they reach Pekin
Is, What kind OF odors did you smell
today?" And they usually answer:
Smells what / never heard the name
of before"
Nineteen Years Changes.
Now that was nineteen wears ago.
But the gospel Of Jesus Christ has
come to Pekin since that time and
now every street in the capital il
and is as clean as the |
streets of this city today. Nineteen I
years ago the streets were lit with,
street lamps. A street lamp was four
posts, about as high as a mans head: i
upon the top of these posts was a
small paper house, in which was a /
TIN lamp about as big as a coal dig
gers lamp, and they light these lamps
On moonlight nights. They never
light them on dark nights because on
such nights every man had to carry
MS own lantern and what was the
use OF wasting the city oil? But they
lght them on moonlight nights in
order that the cart drivers might
rive between these rows of lights
Without falling off into the cess-pools
Fhat again was nineteen years ago
5ut the gospel of Jesus Christ has
gone to Pekin, as we have said. since
nat time, and He has said, Z am
he Light of the World What does
He mean by that? The preachers
ell us that IL means the light that
omes into the darkened heart with
generation. 1t does mean that, but
means more than that. 1t means
I you please, an oil lamp; for the
he no-christian world. so far as
ave been able to learn, has never
invented decent oil lamp If thew
lever invented an oil lamp, they never
made gas light, or an electric light.
I an oxi-hydric light or anv light
letter than tallow candle or a dish Z
t oil with a wick floating in il. And I
Q now, on each side of those macad-
mized streets there are two rows of
1candescent electric lights with eight
reat arc lights on every crossing.
nd the streets of PeBin are lighted as
fell as the streets Of this city. liz
such are some the changes which I
ne gospel has contributed to bring &
! the Chinese capitol"
The Banquet Last Night.
There were SIS who sat down at one
me to the banquet last night, and
1e service, under the direction 81 Mrs.
lance Of the Prize Co. assisted by d
Dung ladies of the city, was well
Ugh perfect. The banquet was in
large of Stewart Wilson. The affair
as highly complimented by the visit
IS to the city. Executive Secretary d