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I have only one other remark to make in regard to opium consumption there and loay, where, and that is - I am amazed that any honest man can use the mouth or the hand that God has given him to utter a word in its defence.
John Chalmers London Mission. Trong phong
H
14 December 1893.
RECE
C.O. 2956
(Rs. 19 F 94
Important Evidence on Chium.
194
A few days ago eighteen Chinese young women from different classes of the Hong Kong community were brought into a room and put down at separate desks with pencil and paper. Then, without any forewarning or special preparation, they were told to write each a letter to an imaginary elder brother exhorting him against becoming addicted to the opium pipe. The words of fifteen of these Chinese girls are here translated with faithful literality. The other three contented themselves with remaining the briefest word of exhortation as required.
Hong Kong
January 7th, 1894
John
"In the opinion of your little sister, those opium smoking people are the lowest of the low, and, more than that, their visage gets so shrivelled and dried up by this habit that they look just like a (shell of) thunder-god. Wrapped up on their couches day and night, they are in a fair way to become inert sleeping Buddhas! They take no care of their business, they have no solicitude for their wives and children, and they themselves, you may be assured, will suffer in the end many no ordinary...
Waterloo and what preceded and
How does that feeling followed
Sometimes by
mas by bary plaint speech and actifu
و
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John Chalmers London Mission. Trong phong
H
14 Decetuber 1893.
RECE
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(Rs. 19 F 94
Important Evidence on Chium.
194
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