. A Yankee on the Yangtze : being a narrative of a journey from Shanghai through the central kingdom to Burma. ???. * CULTURE AND CHRISTIANITY 101 and astonishment of the terror-stricken Chinese, whoafterwards spread the news all over the city that firewould not burn me. Some of my opium patientsgave me an invitation to visit their markets, and thisled to my making tours from place to place through-out the district, and I have been engaged in this workfor fifteen years, at first with apparently little or nosuccess. But now there are many places where thepeople are opening preaching halls spont
. A Yankee on the Yangtze : being a narrative of a journey from Shanghai through the central kingdom to Burma. ???. * CULTURE AND CHRISTIANITY 101 and astonishment of the terror-stricken Chinese, whoafterwards spread the news all over the city that firewould not burn me. Some of my opium patientsgave me an invitation to visit their markets, and thisled to my making tours from place to place through-out the district, and I have been engaged in this workfor fifteen years, at first with apparently little or nosuccess. But now there are many places where thepeople are opening preaching halls spontaneously ;buying, renting, or repairing the buildings and askingfor a teacher to be sent. Some years ago, I had a conversation with afarmer who professed great admiration for the Christiandoctrine, but gave as his reason for not joining us thatso few of the Literati were with us. He said that theremust be a flaw somewhere which he had not been ableto discover, otherwise why did not the Emperor andLiterati become Christians ? Not very long after this,the Emperor published those remarkable proclama-ti
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