Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-11-09
EPISCOPAL CHURCH PLANNING
TO EXPAND IT'S WORK IN CHINA
Christian Influence Credited With Allaying
Superstition and Accusing Potentially
Wealthy Nation to Opportunities.

I bad tempered force that will work
| ha oc in human life urless it is di
verified by something superior to it
/ into 9TH r channels, where pom it turns
| completely about, its cursing power
vanishes and it stays to bless.
Defensive Methods.
in China has selected in self-defense
some natural object to act as its
guardian against this invisible enemy.
The natural object has greater power
. than the fengshui. II the object has
a resemblance to a living form it is
considered to be very powerful. For
example. the defender (often itself cali
ID tn" fen~shui of the city or plain it
defends) of a certain city in China is
n large piece of ground that slopes
of the town in the shape of great
snail. 1t is regarded as the source Of
all the prosperity and happiness o.
the city. 1t has the power of gather
ing up all the baneful influences tina
the fengshui might scatter broadcast
over the town and Transforming then
into blessings. No spade may eve-
cut into it. Woe to the man with TIL
temerity to build upon it! He would
be ruthlessly murdered by the fright
lieve themselves left exposed to all the
malignancies of the fengshu.
How City Met Disaster.
One city had a succession of disasters.
famine floods, pest and drouth, until il
was brought to the very verge of ruin:
Recourse was had to the professors OF
geomancy. who said the trouble was due
to the fact that the city had no fengshui
(the name being applied to the feneshui
defender), and suggested that two i'm
mense towering pagodas be erected. one
in the west end Of the town, the other in
the east end. Everybody contributed
toward the expenses. and when the pa
godas had been built they felt safe. They
had the geomancer's word for it that
the evil spirits could no longer harm
them. As q matter OF fact, the city
afterward became prosperous. and the
inhabitants all laid 1t to the fengshui
defenders.
The fengshui. however, have func-
ton more dread and far reaching in
onnection with the dead. The Chinese
elieve that their dead have the power
+ blessing or cursing their friends and
do either. however. only through the
agency of the unseen forces or fengshui
that cluster about the places where they
lie buried.
Prevents Development Of Wealth.
Fengshui has prevented the develop.
ment of the vast mineral wealth OF
China through fear. The Chinese did
not dare to open coal mines for fear
of disturbing the fengshui that lay
beneath and arousing its wrath to
his utter ruination. The sound of the
pickax would disturb this dragon that
lay beneath, and SO great coal and
iron deposits and veins Of precious
metal have laid undisturbed for CEN
fury after century.
Before China can be rich she must
first be educated away from this
superstitious belief in fengshui. The
schools, hospitals, colleges and chapels
of the Episcopal Church in China have
long been educating the younger gen.
Grafton of Chinese away from these
devastating beliefs. and through the
nationwide campaisn, which is
movement of the Episcopal Church to
expand and enlarge all phases of its
activities, more than 100000 will
be spent on it's work in China during
the next three years, the greater part
on its schools. So the nationwide
campaign will help to make China
wealthy as we'll as helping to raise
her standards of education. sanitation,
care of the bodily ills of the sick and
of the mental and moral ills Of those
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