Peeps into China . CHAPTEE VI. THE STORY OF A CHINESE Y teachers name was Sen, and when I firstknew him he was twenty-seven yearsold, had been married five years, and hadtwo children. He belonged to a rich, in-fluential family in the interior of the province, andwas well educated, according to Chinese standards. Ifhe had continued his pursuit of literary degrees, nodoubt by this time he would have been classed amongthe literati of the land; but a foreign power—a power not of himself, and more than English orAmerican, a Power from above—has given him a newpurpose, and changed his cour
Peeps into China . CHAPTEE VI. THE STORY OF A CHINESE Y teachers name was Sen, and when I firstknew him he was twenty-seven yearsold, had been married five years, and hadtwo children. He belonged to a rich, in-fluential family in the interior of the province, andwas well educated, according to Chinese standards. Ifhe had continued his pursuit of literary degrees, nodoubt by this time he would have been classed amongthe literati of the land; but a foreign power—a power not of himself, and more than English orAmerican, a Power from above—has given him a newpurpose, and changed his course of life. For thischange he deserves respect and sympathy ; derision,however, has been his lot. In his new purpose friendsshould aid him and parents cheer him, but persecu-tion and the humiliating feelings of an outcast havebeen his experience. Primitive Christianity in Chinahas thus shown some of the aspects of the primitiveChristianity of the Eoman Empire. Four years ago, having gained some indefinite in-formation of a religion believed in by the fore
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