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Title: Fifty years in China : being an account of the history and conditions in China and of the missions of the Presbyterian Church in the United States there from 1867 to the present day
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Woodbridge, Samuel Isett
Subjects: Presbyterian Church in the U.S Missions
Publisher: Richmond : Presbyterian Committee of Publication
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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specimens would create a mob andperhaps wreck a building. The sight of human bloodfreezes the average Chinese with horror. The medi-cal profession, like that of the soldier, was not popu-lar. Confucius advised his followers to employ onlydoctors whose fathers and grandfathers had beenphysicians. He trusted in experience more than skill.And when some medicine was given him, the Classicsstate that he pai er sheu tsz, thanked the doctor witha bow and put the medicine on the shelf. Theselearned books do not state that the Sage ever swal-lowed the medicine! As far as the soul is concerned,this combination of learning, Buddhism and Taoism,evolves the following practical belief: When a soulleaves the body it is seized upon by two devils calledOxhead and Horseface. These two hail the affrightedspirit to the city temple, where all the souls of theprefecture must eventually be gathered. A largemirror hangs over a huge idol, which represents thejudge. In the big city temple in Soochow four large
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(i) Chinkiang BoysSchool, Building and Students; (2) Chin-kiang Boys at Exercise; (3) Three Generations of Chris-tians and their friends celebrating the eightieth birthdayof the old man in the center of the picture, who was thefirst Christian baptized at Chinkiang. GENESIS OF MISSIONARY INSTITUTIONS I 55 characters stand out in bold relief. They are writtenin plain mandarin: Ni lai liao ma, You have come,have you? To gain the favor of this monstrous deity thetrembling soul must report a body complete in all itsmembers. There must be no lack, otherwise punish-ment will be condign and frightful. In each citytemple there are horrible representations of twenty-four kinds of torture. One finds here no hope of re-ward, but every fear of punishment. It is all dark,gloomy, hopeless. So awful is the thought of appearing before thegod of the city with some member lacking, that therelatives of beheaded criminals buy the privilege ofsewing on the head before burial. High officials wererarely deca

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