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Titolo: Re: Tesseramenti

the Lord
hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep. He will close your eyes;
He will cover your princes and your prophets that have visions." (Daniel
xii: "The wicked shall not understand, but the wise shall understand."
Hosea, the last chapter, the last verse, after many temporal blessings,
says: "Who is wise, and he shall understand these things?" etc.) "And the
visions of all the prophets are become unto you as a sealed book, which men
deliver to one that is learned, and who can read; and he saith, I cannot
read it, for it is sealed. And when the book is delivered to them that are
not learned, they say, I am not learned.
"Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people with their lips do honour
me, but have removed their heart far from me,"--there is the reason and the
cause of it; for if they adored God in their hearts, they would understand
the prophecies,--"and their fear towards me is taught by the precept of man.
Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people,
even a marvellous work and a wonder; for the wisdom of their wise men shall
perish, and their understanding shall be hid.

I contended for in what I then said beyond punishing
    kidnapers was to bring within the cognizance of the law those
    who bought from such kidnapers,--the receivers of such stolen
    'chattels,'--leaving such buyers to set up and prove a
    justification if they could."
    "On the 31st of March, 1880, prisoners in four cases of
    kidnaping,--one most harrowing,--were sentenced. I there lamented,
    and I am sure every right-minded man will concur with me, that
    it was the fact that the very poor were punished and the rich
    escaped. In that case it clearly appeared that one Leong Ming
    Aseng, apparently a respectable tradesman, at all events a man of
    means, had given $60 for a young girl aged 13 years, to one of the
    kidnapers, and he took her away beyond the reach of her distracted
    mother under circumstances from which he must have known that the
    child had been kidnaped. But although the facts were known at the
    Police Court, and this man remained exceeding ten days afterward
    in the Colony, no charge was ever made against him. After passing
    sentences at this time, I made some observations on the '_patria
    potestas_' [power of the father] theory. Dr. Eitel having painted
    this condition in China in what I thought too favorable colors,
    I quoted from Doolittle's 'Social Life in China,' unquestioned
    testimony as to what _pat

of a great verandah of the hotel, and the child swung so
close to us, that we started forward toward her with a cry of pity.
Great tears were rolling down her cheeks, and she seemed to look
straight into our eyes, and attempted a sickly smile at our
expressions of pity.
Later, after the procession of fishes, we sat in company with two
Chinese ministers of the Gospel who came to call upon us, and
discussed in sadness the scenes of the day. They said, if we had
understood the native language and joined in the procession, as they
did at times, we would have heard the old "pocket-mothers" and other
owners of these girls driving bargains for their sale, temporarily
or permanently, with the men of the crowds. These native Christians
marvelled that Englishmen and American men who called themselves
"Christians" could have joined in these festivities in honor of a
heathen temple, and that the Governor should have made a speech of
congratulation, with no rebuke of these scenes of inhuman torture of
women and child slaves, when the procession paused at his door. These
parades continued two or three days, always accompanied by the great
paper dragons, whether in the daytime or at night, by the noise of
deafening tom-toms, and the sickening sight of tortured slave-girls.
CHAPTER 15.
"PROTECTION" AT SINGAPORE.
"Ladies, I wish to introd