. Brethren's Almanac (1876). hink evil of others, or to imagine2|l(ae offenses were intended without very strong111 Oof of it. Many others might recall this incidentri(ith profit when they feel the risings of resentmentL ?r some fancied ill-treatment. We are so apt toTiistake ourselves, we should observe the widestjin, barity in our opinions of the acts of others, thus-- Ding only as we would be done by. 01 911 A Praying Machine. Zwick gives the following description of a pray-^r-machine, used by the Tartars and the Jap-laese:— The Kurdu, or prayer-machine, consists of ollow, wooden cylinders
. Brethren's Almanac (1876). hink evil of others, or to imagine2|l(ae offenses were intended without very strong111 Oof of it. Many others might recall this incidentri(ith profit when they feel the risings of resentmentL ?r some fancied ill-treatment. We are so apt toTiistake ourselves, we should observe the widestjin, barity in our opinions of the acts of others, thus-- Ding only as we would be done by. 01 911 A Praying Machine. Zwick gives the following description of a pray-^r-machine, used by the Tartars and the Jap-laese:— The Kurdu, or prayer-machine, consists of ollow, wooden cylinders of different sizes, filled ith Tangud writings. The cylinders are painted 6tl ith red stripes, and adoroed with handsome gilt jnoff otters in the Sanscrit character, commonly making 19t distinct sentence. Each of these is fixed upon 25tn iron axis, which goes through a square frame. ome of these frames are capable of being shut up at, and are formed upon a small scale, much like weavers shearing machine. In many of them,. ^^^^ where the lower parts of the frame cross, there is ahole in which the axis of the cylinder turns; bymeans of a string which is attached to a crank inthe spindle, the machine can be kept in motion, sothat the cylinder turns in the frame like a grind-stone upon its axis. These prayer-mills form a much more importantservice, in the estimation of those who use them,than a rosary, which is only intended to assist theperson who prays; whereas those who use thesemachines believe that when set in motion, whetherby the wind or otherwise, such writings as containprayers and other religious documents, that thenoise of these scraps of theology may reach to thegods, and bring down a blessing. To turn theprayer-machine round once is considered to beequivalent to the repetition of a prayer, and everyturn of it multiplies the petition; so that the trav-eler with a powerful arm can repeat any numberof prayers. Oti, how our hearts should swell with gratitudeto God, that
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