. Life and light for woman . months 7,429 callers, averaging110 a day. I cannot say how many of these callers have im-proved their opportunities for religious reading, yet I know thatnumbers have not only read portions of the truth, but have heardmuch religious discussion. Our coffee-maker says there was for-merly perfect apathy as to a future existence,— a heaven or a hell,— not enough interest to discuss the question. Now, everybody ismore or less on the alert to discuss Bible questions, whether theyaccept them or not. The upper coffee-room has less patronage,but the frequenters are of a hig
. Life and light for woman . months 7,429 callers, averaging110 a day. I cannot say how many of these callers have im-proved their opportunities for religious reading, yet I know thatnumbers have not only read portions of the truth, but have heardmuch religious discussion. Our coffee-maker says there was for-merly perfect apathy as to a future existence,— a heaven or a hell,— not enough interest to discuss the question. Now, everybody ismore or less on the alert to discuss Bible questions, whether theyaccept them or not. The upper coffee-room has less patronage,but the frequenters are of a highly respectable character. Theone great need in these coffee-rooms is for helpers or missionariesto meet seekers after truth and unbelievers. 290 LIFE AND LIGHT. otttt0 feaitle$ iep^Jlm^ttt SOME CHINESE SUPERSTITIONS. BY MES. E. A. WALKER. Two weeks ago a party of twenty, mostly missionaries, visitedKushan Monastery. Kushan Mountain rises directly from theFoochow plain to a height of 2,900 feet. The monastery is about ^. CHINESE SEDAN AND BEAREF^. half way up. We from the city went by sedan-chair, and thosefrom Nantai (south suburbs) and Chong Seng Island went by boatto near the foot of the mountain. Some of us had planned tospend the night at the monastery, and on our return the next SOME CHINESE SUPEUSTITIONS. 291 morning do some visiting at two villages on the route; but onreaching the monastery, we learned that a Chinese ofificial wascoming up early the next morning with a large retinue. We pre-ferred to return that night, rather than take the chances of meet-
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