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Title: Missionary, Visitor, The (1907)
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Brethren's General Missionary and Tract Committee
Subjects: Church of the Brethren Priodicals Church of the Brethren- Missions
Publisher: Elgin, Ill.: Brethren Publishing House
Contributing Library: Bridgewater College, Alexander Mack Memorial Library
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the real life of thepeople. Still men who practice thesecustoms would indignantly deny thatthey were not Buddhists. As Buddhism spread, it made somegreat changes. It almost drove out theanimal sacrifices and the Soma offering.Intoxication now became a heinous sin.With all this, Buddhism has now fadedaway in India. Why? It had to give wayto its intellectual superiors. The Budd-hists were generally ignorant men. Chev-alier Bunsen said: It (Buddhism) ap-peared like a dose of laudanum admin-istered to the wilder races of Asia, inorder to keep them quiet until the timehad come for them to embrace Chris-tianity. Now since India is ready forChristianity, what can we do? Go?Send? Or lend a helping hand? THIS HAPPY CHRISTMAS DAY. This happy day. whose risen sunShall set not through eternity,This holy day when Christ the Lord,Took on Him our humanity,For little children everywhereA joyous season still we make,We bring our precious gifts to them,Even for the dear child Jesus sake.—Phoebe Cary.
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Criminals Bowing Before the Tribunal. MODES OF PUNISHMENT AND PRISONS IN CHINA S. N. McCANN. The Chinamans respect for law, andfor those in authority is not a matter ofpatriotism but of fear. Those in author-ity rule with a despotic hand, and life islittle valued when bribery and corrup-tion is more common than justice. Themethods of punishment are often verysevere and cruel and generally very pub-lic. The public punishment is meant tocreate a wholesome dread for brokenlaw, and for those in authority.Beating in China. In the magistrates yamen or policecourt, a man may be sentenced to abeating for -stealing, street fighting, ordrunkenness. The sentence may includefrom ten to two thousand strokes witha bamboo strip. The heavy sentencesare given in installments of five hundredor less strokes at one time. The skinis often broken open and the culprit left bleeding even after the first few strokes.This mode of punishment, though re-cently repealed, is still resorted to.After the first beati

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