Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1924-02-14

ly constructed body, and thus the
dear god will be intact once more!
You didn't know that there would
be new temple? Well, you are as
dumb as I was. I have seen tenn
pies in utter ruins in various sec
tions of this province, so assumed
that this one would probably be al
| lowed to go by default. But listen.
There have already been subscribed
three hundred thousand big round
dollars, and that's quite some sum.
The Christians are making quite a
stir about it, arguing as to the ex-
| tent of graded roadway this sum
would build, or how it would put a
steel bridge across the Ming. But
that amount is going into gor-
geous new temple instead.
This fire is a mighty present IL
lustration about the way in which
the apocrypha are evolved. Myth is
not something that died with
| Daphne and Pan.
~. The staff of this god fell of
course during the fire but lay prac-
tically unharmed. The next day a
farmer was looking through the
| ruins for anything of use and he
picked this up as goad for his
stock. Beating his pigs with it and
occasionally dragging it on the
ground, he noticed that where the
mud covering had broken or worn
off there was a glitter. When the
| mud was all beaten off by the sur
I prised coolie he discovered that the
core of the staff was solid gold
and he lived happily ever after The
man who told me this went on,
"'They say, too, that the entire
framework of the idol instead of be-
ing made of wood or bamboo was of
! strung pearls enormous in size, but
of course the fire ruined them Of
course.
(2). The newspapers carry the
story of man living in the temple.
whether priest or servitor / know
not, who says, ''The god himself was
not hurt by the fire. Greater than
flames is Uong Tieng Gung. After
the fire demons had taken much of
the temple and had at last come to
the big room where he himself
dwelt, the god leaped up and disap-
I peared But ! saw him, I, riding
\ LWo AuSt HOl up luIO Ilc ohy.
A century, two centuries from
now I wonder what these two stories
will be? Sacred literature of Tao
/ ISM
Let's turn from that to a slightly
nearer and dearer subject. The 9TH
er day Mara and I had some shop
ping to attend to down on the street
and we took Pilik along. On the
return he suddenly ran to catch up
with us and in an aggrieved tone he
complained. Mother, that Chinese
girl back there made smart at
me-" That was too deep for us and
we asked two or three times about
the matter, finally saying, well,
how did she make the smart?" Then
| his pugnosed face was drawn up in
to a scowl and a red tongue appear
ed at the lower opening. That's a
Smart" if you want to know
Please don't make one at him for
he doesn't like it.
| Monday, the 18th. Mara is not
quite ready to chase down to the
street with me where we have to
| find a shower present for a sister
of one of our preacher-friends. She
| is to be married tomorrow and this
evening occurs the chok-goh feast
to the which we are invited, Mara
going rather unwillingly in view of
the array of dreams she enjoy
ed(?) last night following a
Chinese dinner
That was quite some meal, too.
! 1t was given by our nice DR.. HUI
who invited all of the quarterly con-
{ ference members to her home yes
| terday following the communion
service. The business session of
the church was to be in the after
noon so we had fine crowd of the
local leaders. By the way, it is this
church for which | solicited the
subscription in Elmira when ] made
the special trip there last June Mr.
Baldwin offered ten thousand dor
! lars on condition that the people
here raise five thousand Mex, and
they have decided that his asking
is too small. They have set their
| goal at eight thousand instead, and
DR.. Hu has pledge of one thou
sand already. Her sixtieth birth
day occurs this year and her friends
have been planning great cele-
bration. (Chinese celebrations are
just on the tens, and of course the
sixtieth, seventieth, and eightieth
| are great times.) She has officially
and firmly told them that she
! doesn't want any celebration; in