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Date: 18uu Contributing Institution: Hong Kong Baptist University Library Description: This wall was built during the 3rd century, B.C. It is 1,250 miles long, and was built as a continuation of other defences already existing to seal China against the foreigner. Until 1862 no Europeans were allowed to travel in China. Now they may be found in every Province. There are to-day about... View Full Item at Hong Kong Baptist University Library -
Date: 18uu Contributing Institution: Hong Kong Baptist University Library Description: There are 2,033 great walled cities in China. In not more than 500 of these is there a resident Christian missionary. View Full Item at Hong Kong Baptist University Library -
Date: 19uu Contributing Institution: Hong Kong Baptist University Library Description: The dragon is the imperial emblem of China, and is one of four mythical monsters of the Chinese. A procession such as this is part of their ceremony of worshipping the Spring. View Full Item at Hong Kong Baptist University Library -
Date: 18uu Contributing Institution: Hong Kong Baptist University Library View Full Item at Hong Kong Baptist University Library -
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Date: 18uu Contributing Institution: Hong Kong Baptist University Library Description: Chinese children have wonderful memories. A girl under twelve years of age in a C.M.S. School has learnt by heart the whole of the four Gospels in Chinese. Chinese baby girls are often thrown out to die. Numbers are being rescued by C.M.S. agencies, and are being trained in Homes and Schools. View Full Item at Hong Kong Baptist University Library -
Date: 18uu Contributing Institution: Hong Kong Baptist University Library Description: A Chinese believes that he has three souls and when he dies one goes to the other world, one into the tomb, and the third into the Ancestral Tablet which is treasured and worshipped by his surviving family. It is said that the Chinese spend 24,000,000 pounds per annum on Ancestral worship. View Full Item at Hong Kong Baptist University Library -
Date: 18uu Contributing Institution: Hong Kong Baptist University Library Description: The Chinese have a proverb 'the crooked tree when it is large will straighten itself,' a contradiction of the Christian teaching 'Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.' There are 2,394 Christian schools and colleges in China, and only 52,965 out ... View Full Item at Hong Kong Baptist University Library -
Date: 19uu Contributing Institution: Hong Kong Baptist University Library Description: The Chinese characters above stand for 'The great English extensively benevolent institution for curing opium smoking and other diseases, and for training in the Western healing art. The Chinese 'materia medica' includes boiled spiders, scorpions' eggs, centipedes, horned toads, mummified caterpi... View Full Item at Hong Kong Baptist University Library -
Date: 18uu Contributing Institution: Hong Kong Baptist University Library Description: The worship of ancestors costs the Empire of China £30,000,000 annually. The total number of Christian adherents in China in connexion with the C.M.S. is placed at 27,000. View Full Item at Hong Kong Baptist University Library