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CHINESE OLYMPUS.

BUREAU OF SOCIAL AFFAIRS DEFIES THE IMMORTALS.;

GOD OF WAR AMONGST FEW NOT BANNED BY EDICT.

SUPPRESSION OF GRANDMOTHERS KITCHEN GODS.

SACRED HILLS AND RIVERS DOOMED.

The Bureau for Social Affairs at Hankow has put out a notice which is typical of its belief that morala can be reformed by Act of Parlia- ment and superstitions repressed by edicts, writes a special corrcapon- dent of the .-U. Daily Newv. The constant zeal in doing things which do not need to be done and the persistent failure to grapple with really serious problems fodi- cate that such thinking ag is done in the Bureau is done by vision.

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Turning from this list of sages; The first character of, his name one notes that only four religious denotes one of the small banners leaders are found worthy of men auch as were carried by the Man-

The cult of Zoroaster seems chy Bannermen and the tion. to have lost the bold it had for a denotes the ong bacnere carried time in China and the distinction at a funeral, but how and why he between Moses and Jesus, as the got this name seems a mystery. founders of Judaism and Christian. He is worshipped each year on the ity, respectively, is ignored First day of the descent of the frost. comes the one who whole-heartedly about October £3, in the Chekiang cared for the people and lightly Gui esteemed the objective existence. Shakyamuni

Next to him stand? Lao Tzu, who

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To Stop Pilgrimages.

To overturn ta, idol may seem

To attempt to dethrone some of is credited with laying the foundausible, though it is not easy to the most popular gods in the Chi tions of wisdom by writing the overtura that for which the idol stands, but these iconoclasts, wish nese Pantheon by force is a mistaks 5,000 words of the Canos of Tao to take away the legendary fame which even a superficial acquaint-The edict says that he usually is

of mountains, and rivers as well. the.. "Most

Ancient ance with the history of morals known would have enabled the authorities Worthy." Mohammed cores third, The ve sacred mountains--Tai in the Shantung, Heng in Hunan, Hwa in to avoid.

but is dismissed curtly as founder of the pure true religión" Shensi, Heng in Chibi, and Sung and Jesus comes last as Jewish in Hona-are to cease to be the teacher who constantly emphasised objectives of pilgrimages, equality and universal love. beads of the bureau evidently see nothing in religion except a basis for philanthropy and socialisms

The edict begins by specifying the gods and reagious leaders upon whom no ban is placed. It avoids referring to the gods as such, but calls them the first sages." a dis tinction which is not likely to diminish the superstitious worship of these mythical and historical worthies, Fu Hsi comes first, as be taught the people to hunt and fish, to keep flocks and herds, and to propare written documents.

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PLETE REPORT woman sage, Lei Tsu, who is well-pox may not be propitiated will be who controls the noxious insects, cnown as the Goddess of Bik-greeted as sheer madness.

and the three Kwan, who regulate What, too, is one to say to a body affairs in heaven, on earth, and in worms. She is followed by Ts'ang Chich, who invented writing: Heu of young men who meet and, whilst the water, alt are discarded. Chi, who taught the people to leaving the God of War intact,

long one, 50 would take from the women the sew grain and raise vegetables; and the great Yu, the engineering or goddess they love! Is it con will only mention three more out- One of the eight genius who saved the country from ristent that the statues of the standing gods.

sweet-faced Goddess of Mercy will amortale, Yu Chou, is the god of an overwhelming food.

Of the more strictly historical be torn from their shrines while the workers in silver and brass. figures, the first two naturally are the malevolent grin of Yo Fei is to and one knows what happened Confucius, who edited the "odes. I be retained because he beat the when St. Paul damaged the trade of the silversmiths. Tien Shi is settled the ritual and revised all Golden. Tarters?

But to the ist, for it will inter-attacked, and he is the controller existing worka on literature and science and Mencius, who explain. est' many a render just to con the of all evil spirita. He is regarded ed the nature of man.

names of the popular goda. First as the spiritual head of the Taoist To this is added the modern comes the Sun God, the King of religion, and even called the Taoist) touch, for Mencius also is eele the East, whose place is by the side Pope. It is possible to leave Lao- brated as one, who held the em of Buddha in the temples. With tzu on his stand as a sage and to perors in light esteem and exalted him must go the Moon God. whom cast down his leading satellite!

God of Few Birthdays. the rights of the people. Alongside the women all treat as a goddess these scholars stands a working and whore blessing they seek on, all mar, Kung Shu Pan, of whom Con marriages, Even the old match- Finally, just to lustrate the fucious poke so highly as the making cronies are the Ancients vested interests which have been one of the teacher of the people in the use of the Moon." The God of Fire is threatened, note that of clay and wood. Kwan Yure to be dethroned, but what may he idols mentioned in the list is T tains bis rank as the God of War, not do if he is? The chief star in Tsang Wang, known perbaça very though he is to be reverenced as the Northern Dipper, canonised as slightly in Hankow itself, but "re- an incorruptible, fearless military K'wei Hring, and his colleague the garded so highly in Kiangnar that leader. By his side stands Ye, God of Literature. Wen Chang, are his central temple supports a Fei, saved from oblivion by the both to go, and they will be accom. thousand priests. In the days of fact that he delivered his country from the domination of the Golden

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