. The old priest of Mount Omei. s showing the folly of her worship. Thesilver contributed as rental for the rooms which they occupyhas been consecrated to the enlargement and improvementof her buildings, while the old priest, Lao Ho Shang, nowlong past the allotted span of life, happy when he cansqueeze a few extra pieces of silver from his foreign guests,looks with satisfaction upon a prosperous temple, withvisions of yet greater magnificence before it, and as he looks away into the future, hopes that the years of prayerand service will in some other life be remembered beforePu Shan. Their id
. The old priest of Mount Omei. s showing the folly of her worship. Thesilver contributed as rental for the rooms which they occupyhas been consecrated to the enlargement and improvementof her buildings, while the old priest, Lao Ho Shang, nowlong past the allotted span of life, happy when he cansqueeze a few extra pieces of silver from his foreign guests,looks with satisfaction upon a prosperous temple, withvisions of yet greater magnificence before it, and as he looks away into the future, hopes that the years of prayerand service will in some other life be remembered beforePu Shan. Their idols are silver and gold, the work of menshands. They have mouths, but they speak not; eyes havethey, but they see not; they have ears, but they hear not;noses have they, but they smell not; they have hands, butthey handle not; feet have they, but they walk not; neitherspeak they through their throat. They that make them arelike unto them ; so is everyone that trusteth in them.—Psalm 115. 4-8. Your fellow-worker, James R. 11
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