. New China and old : personal recollections and observations of thirty years. tigershead be lifted, by design or by accident, higher thanthat of the dragon, the luck of the place is gone. Oneof our chief Mission churches in Ningpo is built on theleft hand, or in the white tigers domain, as you entera lane turning out of the main street. On the right-hand side of the lane stands a rich mans house, in theblue dragons region. Our church has a high-pitchedroof and a small bell-turret; and the people declarethat the fortunes of the rich mans family have steadilydeclined since the erection of our C
. New China and old : personal recollections and observations of thirty years. tigershead be lifted, by design or by accident, higher thanthat of the dragon, the luck of the place is gone. Oneof our chief Mission churches in Ningpo is built on theleft hand, or in the white tigers domain, as you entera lane turning out of the main street. On the right-hand side of the lane stands a rich mans house, in theblue dragons region. Our church has a high-pitchedroof and a small bell-turret; and the people declarethat the fortunes of the rich mans family have steadilydeclined since the erection of our Christian church,which has overtopped the dwelling-house of the Chinesecitizen. I was obliged actually to suspend repairs onone of our humbler Mission chapels in a country townsome time ago, because the door which I proposed toopen southwards would have given to our white tigerbuilding an undue advantage over the dragon. The Chinese are, however, not altogether devoid of asense of humour; and a serious outbreak of discontentwas allayed on one occasion by the ready wit of Telegraph and Railways. 229 Russell, one of our earliest Missionaries at elders of the neighbourhood in which our Missionhouse stood, assembled to protest against the erectionof a small single-roomed turret, built with the hope ofcatching a little fresh air above the close atmosphereof the unsavoury city. Our luck will be ruined bythis tower, they said. Mr. Russell met them insolemn conclave. What is Fung-shui? he it not wind and water? Well now, let us arrangean amicable and reasonable compromise. I will give youthe water, if you will leave me the air. The wise menlaughed, and the meeting broke up in truly universal superstition in China is perhapsmore a spectre which requires to be vigorously laid, thana belief which must be slowly eradicated. It seemedat one time destined to oppose a stern front to the con-struction of railways and the erection of telegraph-poststhrou
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