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Fireside Echoes--No 7
CHRISTIANITY AND IDOLATRY
I have heard the Krigmavazi abricks of unfortunati, Hókincse daught by the Japanese Special Police during their first occupa- tion of Foochow during 1941, when they employed many mid- dersleed versions of methods of torture these paining 50 gram phically portray..
ed.
Advertisements and Busines
It is a long and very tedious communications should be ad dressed to the Company CHINA Ceremony to watch, 80, doubtless,
the grandfathers of yore dis MAIL. LTD.
covered one sure way of keeping family members at home during Puo-do was to let them indulge in gambling to their Heart's content (possibly to the extent of footing more than one resultant debt); for that is one thing the true Fukiencse can do well-and wilt travel miles to do at any hour of the day or of the night.
NEW INEQUALITIES FOR OLD
By. Wm. M.S. Brand
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"n" dozen. {miles"; or so, a special dress 1 worn and bearing the whole distanco a small wooden stool upon, which a pot of Incense is burning the devoted himself
od hearing.
It wil be interesting to sea it must walk, and every third, fifth, the ECAFE conférence at Bangkok ori ar seventh step he takes, he faces really does decide the represcrita-
the direction of the temple, places tien of UNO who. the stool on the ground and bows
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"Sild one bedbug to anbiker: "The doctor says. I've got DDT's."
ha in their departure their 'real the Far East in their we peculee.church's balice in Tukion kymbols." has suffered à ingging of Fulden one has a med before it.
13
No, Myrtle, the Grand Coulee In the ceremony of releasing foundations.
ley of beilets among the populace
In many cases the devotee cat-th America is not a flattering the soul from · ·putġatory, Ave ~ 1 refer especially to the Angil-- illuftrated a few years back by ries out the traditional 'kew-tow, description of the labouring 32212 different thents of manguptaring can branches of mission workers idol processions of occasions of that is, kredis and bows low until masses. written charms are hung up facing who pulled out of the province danger, or" special actu Foo- the Yorehead touches the ground, the four cardinal points of the from 1939 onwards, saveral, of chow has seen many calamities in once or three times depending on S compass, with the fifth
In the whom I could name, who today its time serious fires bolts in the the extent of relief: the devotec After looking at the deficit in centre of the hall.
are comfortably settled in Eng business section along the Nantal has received. This pilgrimage in South Korea's budget, one la Toward the close of the ceresh parishes, and from Who Waterfront and the extreme exacting, expecially in the am-forced to the conclusion that what
letters wa, lagra are conducting Southern City suburbs flanking mony these papers are collected Chinese students on tours of the both sides of the Bridge of Ten mer when it is usually performed, they need is a new won.
being carried out Another form and ceremoniously burnt, and' in [^ntryside. This does''IDA · SEGUI) Thousand Ages, repeated lisas and nothing may deter it from t this manner transmitted to Hades
Which feininda mo that punters to deliver from the clutches or to be fitting termination to trous floods, and an unusually of paying-off vowa fa for the de-
at Happy Valley dro the Special Police of those for missionary career in the rar Kait serious plague of cholera, At votes to roll the whole distance. down gions the soul for whose benent for men and women who, while such times the effigies of the re- This favoura an Indian custon regularly finding out that money or souls as the case may be residents in Chias, elber dia lated god are paraded through I have not witnessed this par- can be lost in more ways thon
many years wen. the ceremony has been perform-posed, of their, European wearing the main streets, usually at night.cular form for
apparel, household linenware, crockery and, cutlery, to li Some of these are wonderful though.
exceedingly well Through this maze of indiv Chinese-style, or merely adopted creations,
modelled, richly dressed, and dual beliefs concentrated in this many, coating small fortuna province of Chins among an es Chinese-style dress
If the continued absence of They are usually the property of timated population of 17,000,000 these men and women is due to Guild, and take the form of huge in 1949 in an area of 40,332 Reports indicate that there was reasons for making way for the masks set on an elaboralo bam- square miles, the Light of Chris; considerable Basmaller when the advancement of younger people boo frame which is carried on
tianity, kindled a century ago Hurricane had passed over the in the ranks of the Foreign Many thoulders in the same man-hhs glowed and though hot per Persian Gulf. sionary Army, then it clear ner as the Occidental sandwich- ceptibly as bright as might be
announce- wished, like a slow charcoal fire, a ko, their London Headquarters coal-boardman carries his
It is burning nevertheless bul. Right' tarn der theft work in the Big Buku ment.
The mask with its head-dress like a churcoal fire; needs con neis class with the wide world as their field of operation: In the iame way as Vicker's' or Du) has been known to weigh as much I stant attention by fanning as well matiniëlpal election results,. It is Pant's except that the latter aro 55: 50-153, "the frame averages as refuelling,
another 40-lbs, so with the robing members of a Life-Saving Car with the movable wooden-arms tel
the total weight is about 120-lbs.
catry,
the is required. In such a contro- what is better than a "choreonl lot alone to bear
verelal matter as religion, when Position of churches ich requires husky men to In that process infinito patience
stifling heat within the image:
Indigestion. Whatever the position may bilAt the same time the bearer applied to the true Fuklenese In Foochow I was the custom up to as late as 1938 to parade of the Anglican Churches in must hasten, or slow, his gait; as may be true of the Far East
despite taking You are a real heroin, as the Its celestial ruler once in the Fukien, whether one day they dance, or caveen, in keeping with in general-it must be steadfast- which support the Govern- course of the year round the City I intend to Mind over completely to | the characteristics of the god his ly remember the rapidly desi drukaddict sold to the divan
a full advantage of extensive suburbs and the competent band of provincial burden represents, be that ment in Peking to publish, then the Foreign Settlement on they bhye nurtured from child- tatry a dignified court official, o veloping culture throughout their attendant.
milschievous environment yel sticking. to even as a paid advertisement, Nantai Island. Thus "peating the hood: raised to Brotherhood in hunch-bick, or a
led to ump and, at the same time, by medieval ignorant customs in bounds of his domain not only youth, and, finally installed
working their life and customs, it must "It's á visame mon should have to the rashopoly of wild cats," a statement by the Malayanured him keeping a weather positions of trust in manhood, or pulling strings and Government. It has arisen,
eventualities, but whether the-adidi, the fuLLERY | levgis, move arms, eye-balls,] be; remembered that 50 Years) sighed Betsy, dane
as the tongue, and chin, in harmony them counts but a yesterday: too, out of the action taken
of carrying on their
This Is Where I believe theBut they haven't defaced" to his with, the knit. average trader has forgo succour his bodity needs of paint in the small window in the chest of Roman Catholic Church has not Myrtle. "It's only our duty-
religions lite of the true Puklen the emgy enables the bearer to see erred in its work undertaken in make them think so." ese, that is that, whatever his way. Some of these effigies that province. Apart from hold-| -|
ing theological advantages aver Faith he helde to, it la-ebntrolled are 15 feet in height.
their Protestant neighbours by u by physical science, and to an
centralis unity of doctrine and, a extraordinary degree, perhaps more distinctly so thân met with In the other provinces.
How much longer Coma- munist Partics and news- papers will be permitted to
The towns along the so-called enjoy rights and liberties coastal-belt of Fuklen, such as Funn, Loyuan, Lienkong Inghok, they deny all others in Com-Hinghwa, and so on past Amoy to include Foochow, possess their munist-ruled countries is now becoming a question of lively individual. "City dody with the
has debate. It
arisen in usual array of attendants, Malaya as a result of the re- fusal of two Chinese papers
against the Communists by
the Australian Government and other examples in France, South Africa, and the United States. There has indeed been a marked increase lately In the battle constantly being fought between democratic Governments and Communist minorities.
eye alert to also permitted human hands to and lacquer:
Elaborate procession
In times of very archt danger he would also be produced, the of an elaborate centre-piece
precedia by fire- procession, Crackers and followed by his at- tendants and the Custodians of Hell,
But, strange to say, he went into hiding with his grotesque retinue when Japanese bombers knocked at his gates, nor did he trával very far with, pomp, and
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Exacting vows
Infinite patience
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Julging by: the British
nit only Communist China, which
le leaning slightly to one side.
"If you suffer from Indigestion,
biscul and a glass of water?"
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"Held in 10,000 theft.” Crime doesn't even pay.
begin to
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ed organisation, their workers in this field own no chattels, seek "Many of the provincial faiths
no pay other than their main-
"You're looking well,” said one To my mind, this is not entail exseling vows being strict tenance, asking only the privilege
and still Thank you. I see you're that matters in his religious life ly observed when the devotee's of service, and this last in many women to another. he socks something, he can look prayers are considered answered cases I have known to in concrete form in order to to his satisfaction. A distinctive know in Foochow entails service putting on a bit of weight too."
for life Issues of conscience and
visualise theological conceptions, type of such observance met with strategy are presented by any
If he keeps in, his house à amb in Fukich is known as "worship How much greater, then, most attempt to outlaw a political
idol, or an image, if not re-pins with incense" and applies be their appobl In the eyes of an party alming at a social re-
garded by him so much as to all members of the social scale ignorant person who is groping volution by peaceful memsi ceremony, as in- the years before; ligibus töken, bat ús something to from government official down to for something, he can understand | and with the assent of the the rare occasions, be, emerged respect which del Rey Dus- the lowliest of the low
afier sun-down during those hectrales electorate. These issues still tic years following? su
completely dis- To-day, he has apply even if the party con- cerned aims at establishing a appeared from public view. Oc
casionally the Custodians of Hell, dictatorship to attain its re- are given an airing: but the ht volutionary aims. But Com- tendant procession is a very sim- munist aims and methods ple affair merely attracting, the attention of children. And so it have removed them from the has been with the idols of the sphere of academic discussion. smaller titles and the towns in As "The Times" has pointed the hinterland. out, the question does not
Jobe...
really arise in the case of the so-losses the populace have
financially other wise, since 1938, through the Pacific War and the fratricidal
the
on Depending
the temple whence the vow was placed, whether it be a few hundred feet
'to allay his fears?
the supernatural force underlying his particular farth
I think this is where the Roshan Catholics have an advantage in away from the devotees home, or
Life in Moscow--No. 1:
+
(To be continued)
Night out with the Baranovs
orchestra plays wild in hospital in deep despair, a com- Communists. However pas
Georgian music, the vodka lindpanion tells him: fly, because you sionately they may renounce civil war that followed, his conYou can have a good time) The
tinued to date, and which uppears on a night but in Moscow..
wines Bow, and around midnight are not an ortiinary person-you force when it suits them, theo have little chance of an early Those Ruskiana work hard there is often a truly Bobemion are a Soviet Mad"
Such sentiments do not seem actions and speeches of their ending, defnitely seems to have and doloz well have money to atmosphere. minds of the Fu-
But theatre-going in Moscow is in the least banal or shocking, to leaders, even in countries dedected
And the Rushahs are beyple at deadly seribut business. Apart a couple like the Buranova)" who ballet, have lived their lives behind the where Communist power has kientse from this type of idola spare for a spree.
or belief, who enjoy their pleasures ver from the ever-popular trous worship or not already wiped out all This fact should give a great though some of the especially apers, and Russian classic plays, Iron Curtain,
́ ́work ́ ́ bein to the great rivals, show that they are nip ready at a sign from the undertaken in the province by the heavily prophandlat plays there is virtually not show on
which would appeal to
to an Kremlin to instigate ncts of foreign missions, which I can not and, filou are not the sort of
average Englishman for a sabotage or disruption against
But even the Kremlar has not and any Government in the world. workers,
hd Moscow, democratic theory, and a rule tions, for the most part endowed denards in bow has high It is the first principle of with sound académie qualifica et put politica into eating and bf common-sense, that no with independent means, possess man can claim from the ing infinite patience, and a very deep and sympathetical knowledge State rights he is not himself of the languages and customs of can
of
say they have lake advantage
majority of these foreign
men
women
thing
There are no urik festrictions
· at all, In the restaurants, gov
winds, And
order
"from"the",
By Cordon Young Young
They have come genuinely to bellave that, despite all difficul ties, they are tacky to be Soviet citizens and not to live In Em rapidly collapsing Western world. (A Swedish correspondent from Moscow, Birger Lundberg, telia how once, when Russia vas chic- brating the day of the Soviet Revolution, an lantelligent Rustan in Moscow now which does not girl read of a reception which
"mes-
willing to concede to his the Fuklenese, have evacuated for from the Arirat TruElango.".
to this only too often in Its comments on Malaxa
at
a working couple like Fedor bows, the papers may, the
:8
and his wife, hose
a heavy-political
Molotov was giving for the DE- Idmatic Corps. "Poor Molotov, tre you like, 201
One toy hit at the moment, ra- she commented, "on_n: festival Teen on the streets you: eld
cently awarded 20,000 Salin buy a glass by volle troma kitako prize, to Viennie wkt's play the day like this to have to associate
with FOREIGNERS!" For their evening gut together Unforgetable Year 1919 which
Barenov
heroic #ght of Lenin and Stalin wide range soči mpaka to,
against Anglo-Saxon ·Intervén- from, according to the biste of tinitit 14 their family budget.
hother Stallh prize, of
how avourite! 500 Effensorini Crocodile OFDME biting caricaturelle Attive, Berin, and other Werterà Marmongere ties (56) cladas of Mo
comfortable
(chw):{ebpecially Di-when, as still
they Showing: dnsoliti German mu
Deannie Dur.
fellow-citizens. Commumits good-whether in fright, or dis»: are therefore in the ambigu gust, I do not venture to say... bus position of demanding as of right the privileges of citizenship from States which they openly declare their Intention of betraying. De-
There have been com- mocracies need not have plaints, too, against two of scruples about taking meă- sures against them when the the Chinese papers in Malaya! If they are 3 MOMOTAIKINA) they cry Sutaron need arises. What is essential which openly support the can spend whole evening at
"House of Calitre is that persons innocent of People's Government in Pek- altached to any hostile intention to doing and give extensive pub works V mocracy should not suflen arlicity to Peking Radio proA ban on the process, and that action taken against the Comiqua paganda. They would for there they can dine equately ists should be as effective as mally be entitled to do this laten af 10 Adepre possible and involve theas do some of the papers here, usually at feast possible-dislocation. In in Hong Kong, since they keep part Idenlogy and
Russian dances, While for the life and way of behaviour within the law by refraining and watta Samo 4" And w of a tree Society
from open support of the nie banged, de symbols of the Co-1 170tzow the The ironies of history pres Communist gangs in Maidya cadent west. But it the sent themselves acutely to-But normal conditions do not once to escape day in the alignment, present exist, in that tauntry: the and thei and potential, of the cold war. emergency overshadows all, this, à bogkat Cynics, viewing these things. There is the further point the are apt to forecast that the that Treaty rights are general ironies of a third world war ly reciprocal. In all Com might be no less frustrating munist States freedom of the The Communists have to be Press has vanished. checked, but by our methods, not, their's, there is need for.
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