UNDOING A DIVORCE.
KING'S PROCTOR IN CHINA;
A TASK FOR THE MISSIONARY.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY MARCH 1 1911
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him. Then I suddenly turned Missionaries in West China on the other father and said, have to turn their lunds to almost You have received two cows in everything, and if they happen place of the nino ounces of silver to be working among the tribes you gave years ago. What are men then they can never be sure you going to give in return for what the work of the morrow will all the work the girl did for you 75 years, with the option of renewal at the Colony of Hongkong, for a tenu of bo. All kinds of difficulties and in your home? Then I nukoil troubles are brought to them. At the girl if she had worked when veyor of His Majesty the King, for.
Crown Bent to be fixed by the Bur pno time they are planning how in her husband's home. Sho one further term of 75 years. to destroy a couple of man-eating Cushed out immediately with u tigors, at another time they are long list of things she had done, PARTICULARS OF THE LOT. taking steps to defeat the selienos feeding pigs, carrying water, cut- of an old wizard, whose trado lasting bracken for the stables, almost ceased since the people roping ants at harvest-time, -bocano adherents of the Christian &c. And what, I required,'
would an ordinary labouror Church. To-day it is drawing up plans for a little country school, got a day for such work?' About throw halfpence, was to-morrow it is toaching the native proachors how to light the dreaded | the reply, “What about the girl's ' and yery provalent typhoid fever. I wages? At this question the One question which is always fiery father of the boy broke producing difficultiosis tho mar- into a storm. But he soon found riage question. In the old days, that others could play at that Hongkong, 27th Feb., 1911. and these old days were less than electric work.
Wo were still making no, soven years ago, there was practi- cally no marriage tio,, the only boadway. Every now and again roal tie was, the mutual love for soincone would say "Let the the little ones. The children toucher decide what shall be saved the situation. When bus-done," hoping that I should re- bands or wives gut tired of each [cognise what had béon dove, other and desired to separate they Hoping for some way out of could do so with vory little the difficulty, I then, asked the difficnity. The coming of Chris- father of the boy why he had tried tianity is altoring all this and to got Miss Precious Happiness gradually building up homes in as a second wife for his son. Here which husbands and wives respect the girl stepped in with a real and love each other. Tho victory touch of woman's nature and said, | Saigon, or to is not, however, won without They wanted to get a pretty ....many iofeats. Here and there wife this time, somo one bet- avon members of the church who ter looking than mo.".......I tried are marries get tired of eachother, | to score ono quoting the and now and again there is revòrsion ta thu customs of the old days, when alivoreo was easy and no ono protested against it. Why not eil an intolerable situation by the simple matlik of separation and marrying else whore? What difference would that make to their now Chris tianity P
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Thon finado an appeal to the young people. Hid your has band ever beat you? No." Did your husband over curse you?'
No?"
Did your wife ever bent you?' The little husband answered quite seriously No" to this question, woll as to the second. And
my front room, writos a mission-wore yon happy together?'
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Yes,' was the reply.
Turning to the old men and
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The break came at this point. But what about the cows? was askod. Oh, you keep one of them The young woman is. twenty as a présent from both of you to years of ago. Six yours ago shothe young people, and return the was married to her husband, who other to the girl's father. Then was then a boy of twelve. It was lot the father of tho girl go down in the your of famine, and horto my stable and pick out the best fathor lind sold her to the father calf there is there, and that shall of the boy for nine ounces of silver.be present from the teacher who For awhile tho children wore shares in redeeming the girl, now happy. Then came a change, no longer, sold, "but given in The two fathers quarrellod, ind marriage. being cousins the quarrol showed One thing no sign of onding. lod to another, until at-hast the father of the boy so treated the daughter of his enemy that she and after that the boy-husband | DES VEUX ROAD CENTRAL. ran away home. “So quitters went should lead his wife back again. on for two years, and at last the Aitor the discussion was boy's father demanded the repay-ended the daughter, and her ment of the nine bunces of silver. father roumined behind, Sho Some other people began to in-eriod bittorly, saying, 1 like terfere, and when the, caso came my husband, but 1 am afraid to my knowledge the young hus- of his father. If we could only band and wife were separated and have a home of our own-wo should. the father of the latter bad repaid bo all right. I told her that. two cows as the price of his as I was giving one of the cows to daughter's roleuse? Both tlie holprodeem bor. I had now, share young people had been baptized, † in her, and wimild see that the The father of the hoy, is a bad- | husband's father behaved himself. tempered, overboaring man. Ile If he does not we would manage begin to take steps to get another to get thom a house of their own. wife for his son, and tried to got The next day the cow was #pretty young girl who lives a returned and the calf in the stable fow miles from my home. She chosen. refused the offer of marriage,
When the caso reached this stage it was brought to my notice, and I asked all the parties con- corned to come to see me. That was why I land-no'many visitors in my front room. The fathers evidently hoped that I should allow the divorce to stand.
Wo began at first with some preliminary talk. Had the people boen Chinese wo might havo spent half an hour inquiring into ench other's pedigroo and discuss ing the customs and manners of
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