. The Ansons in Asiatic temples. hey may be prosperousand illustrious. At this season of genial showersand gentle breezes, I desire to recompense theroot of my existence, and exert myself sincerely.^Always grant your safe protection. Most rev-erently, I present the five-fold sacrifice of a pig,a fowl, a duck, a goose, and a fish; also, anoffering of five plates of fruit, with libations 168 THE ANSONS IN ASIATIC TEMPLES. of spirituous liquors, earnestly entreating thatyou will come and view them. With the mostattentive respect, this announcement is presentedon high. Dr. Balkom remarked, after r
. The Ansons in Asiatic temples. hey may be prosperousand illustrious. At this season of genial showersand gentle breezes, I desire to recompense theroot of my existence, and exert myself sincerely.^Always grant your safe protection. Most rev-erently, I present the five-fold sacrifice of a pig,a fowl, a duck, a goose, and a fish; also, anoffering of five plates of fruit, with libations 168 THE ANSONS IN ASIATIC TEMPLES. of spirituous liquors, earnestly entreating thatyou will come and view them. With the mostattentive respect, this announcement is presentedon high. Dr. Balkom remarked, after reading andhanding the prayer to Mr. Anson: To a Chinaman there is no greater sin than to neglect theg worship of an^ ancestor; n o^M- greater calam-ity can hap-pen than thathe should dieand be buriedaway from hisnative land. BRINGING HOME SOTIL. il-imOSt CVCry steamer that crosses the Pacific from Americacarries one or more preserved bodies of China-men, taking them home to be buried.^ A few days later, when the Ansons, with the. HOUSEKEEPIXG IN CANTON. 169 native preacher, were sauntering in the suburbs,they met a man carrying a bamboo over hisshoulder, from the end of which hung a ballwith a coat below it. He was bringing homeone of the souls of his dead father, which wasto dwell in the Ancestral Tablet. The weel^ slipped away rapidly in the pleas-ant company of Dr. and Mrs. Balkom, and inceaseless sight-seeing. The Ansons thoughtthat, on the whole, the Chinese were not aslovable a race as the Japanese, but that theywere fully as much in need of the gospel. Dur-ing the latter part of their stay, Mr. Ansonnoticed a thoughtfulness on Berties face, when-ever they began to talk about mission work inChina. The noble character and self-denyingzeal of Dr. Balkom so impressed the boy, thatwithin his own heart there began to be startedsearching questions. It was pleasant enough totravel about as they were doing, but what if hewere always to live in this noisy, filthy city ofCanton? Wh
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