The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-11-30
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: FOR FAITHS SAKE.

I1uSA. I1Qou.- hurry. III 5Su lily
companion, and we passed her on the
run. '.
A moment later we had left the
building, and after two or three hasty
explanations found ourselves outside
the walls of the Legation.
Everything seemed quiet outside.
The rifle practice which had been
going on earlier in the morning had
ceased. Now and then we came upon
the body of a German soldier hor-
ribly mutilated. For a while we
walked in silence, each wrapt in his
own thoughts. - ia -m..a..
Il don't wonder the natives feel as
they do Manning began aloud.
| What do you mean?" e..
DO you think that to gibber pray
ers and assume an attitude Of Worship,
the same as that girl We just fright
ened in the hall, is going to pIacate
an Infatuated Buddhist"
| What would you have?"
You can't ask much, perhaps a
| little more liberation. Now, unless. |
suffer for the sins of my countrymen,
should be safe in any part of Picking
to-day, I'VE burned incense before half
the josses in the city. / am pretty
good. Buddhist and am a first-class
Mohammedan-wha in name?"
The man who refuses to defend his
faith in Picking today is an apostate
and traitor I replied.
We'll, what would you do?" he
/ cried. Il grant an hereditary faith is
| all right, but where do l get mine?
was born Scotch dissenter, I'm by
education a Catholic, by profession
member of the Church of England,
and by belief-what? l tell you, my
| friend, the faith par excellence is that
which keeps mans skin whole, and
his head on his shoulders. This is no
! time. for converts. But lookl Here
comes our friend the Celestial"
| From a narrow side, street groups
of Chinese were pouring into the main
! thoroughfare, and all ahead of us the
street was crowded with such a mass
of heterogeneous humanity as only
Picking in all the world can show.
| Here and there one would be walking
alone and staring about him with the
establishment characteristic of a
/ stranger to the city Oftener they
walked in groups of three or four,
/ chattering and gesticulating, and sew
eraI times we passed a street orator
/ haranguing a knot of his excited coun-
/ trymen.
! But these were only eddies in tide
which set steadily forward. We saw
shops closed as by magic; chair-men
! and street vendors of all kinds de-
serted their burdens to swell the tide
| of the advance, and a fringe of wide
| eyed watchers lined either WALL It
was the rising of all kinds and classes,
| the silk robe of the merchant brush
ing against the coarse blue cotton of
| the laborer, a very Babel of speech,
/ from which / could catch only an oc-
i casionaI phrase. Manning, however,
pushed forward with eyes, glistening,
winding in and out among the press
in pursuit of conversation or paus-
ing in rapt attention in the lee of a
group of listeners. as..s.4s...s.,
I'VE could not have chosen. a. better
day for our purpose" he said aloud,
speaking, much to my discomfort, in
English. THE crowd of heather are
out after native Christians and doubt
not will get them. We had better stop
soon and take on the role of onlookers.
Then, whichever party wins, we save
our skins"
THAT seems to be your principal
concern answered ineautiously.
Manning laughed
Yours, too, l judge. Else why so
choice of that laboriously acquired
] Chinese? But we will keep. on, if you
/ wish"
/ mo! Let US stop" | answered
shortly, and tried to suit the action
to the word, but for while the pres
sure of the crowd was so tremendous
that. escape was impossible.
At the intersection of two streets,
however, fate favored US; a paianquin
| abandoned by it's bearers stood in our
/ very way. Seized by sudden in7
spiration, flung myself between it's
shafts. Manning followed, painting
for breath, and we chung to It while.
the mob swept by on either side, a sea
Of cleaning eyes and faces dark with
passion. s
It. was the first time I had faced.
them, and whether through cowardice
| or not, fear came upon me. | wrenched.
open the door of the palanquin, and
climbing nimbly in closed it after me.
Manning himself, not unimpressed,
crouched between the shafts outside,
and with my face at the tiny window
in front Through which the bearer
received his orders} our heads were
not six inches apart.
We've a, good place." began Mani
ming. irrenressihly, almost. as soon as
we were settled in our positions. do
yorl hear the musket fire ahead?
They'll be haIfng the Christians