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Hi Mrthday falls on the 30th day of the intercalary seventh inaath. Fuls so it does not often rieur. who are born on February 22 think that they have bad luck, but, since an extra seventh month is only added to the calendar once in many years, and, when it is added, may only have 20 days, "the chances" of Ti Teang. Wang having a birthday

are few.

When he does, his relatives travel down from Tibet and give him a bath-legend says that the idol is his mummified body-and take the bath water back with them to be

used as medicine for many ills. One does not break the rice-bowls Đi a thousand priests with im punity.

The last section of the Edict refers to licentious forms of wor ship, but just why the term 8 chosen is difficul to see. Some on the list seren very harmless. There is the fairy Chang, wership perd by the Macha women as the protector of their children. There are the three Taoist Nuns-Blue My Cloudy Sky, and Red Sky who were canonised after they had geen murdered as the Sung Tau Siang Siang, and whose he is besought in child birth.

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All the saine, as has been said above, the grandmothers of Han kow still will worship some of these. And what will happen if the ban on the worship of the Fox Fairy ie enforced) His shrine is not found in the temples, but there are very low amens in the land where

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it is not found in one of the attics. And the worship" is regular, too, for this little villain makes a habit of carrying off the official seals of the magistrates who neglect him.

Two of the very worst of the gods, will not suffer in any way by Chun Cheung Hing. being interdicted. They are not How On Lang found in temples, and the form of | 1347 - their idols is alt but unknown. 3141, 1344 They are Shi Chien and Sung Vim Chau Tim. 1628, 6179, Chiang, the gods of the robbers 6670, 7120, 3169, and pickpockets, and their inclusion 2464. 1645 shows the futility of the whole | Kochangheug movement.

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The attempt to repress idolatry 1129, 2639. 8781, 1645, 0234. and superstition will fail, just as recent attempts to suppress opium and prostitution have failed, until the hearts of men have felt the expulsive power of "new affec pioo.

LESSON SERMON.

Maran.

FARM-BOY MAYOR.

NEITHER SMOKES NOR DRINKS.

SETTING' A GOOD EXAMPLE,

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feet high in his stocking feet and has the healthy tan of the out-door life he has led. He greets visitors, foreigners and Chinese, with a serious smile, and apologizes for offering no cigarettes.

I do not smoke myself, and so I do not offer tobacco to my visi. tors" he explains.

The new mayor takes all his jobs very earnestly, As garrison core-

year, he has worked fourteen hoars

day keeping his soldiers in apple- Pi order. "He declares that he aspires to work just as hard and do just as much for the administration of the old capital.

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Mayor Chang was shocked by other items on his predecessor's ex- pense account, he declares. He cites as an example the mayor's electric light bill of $180 a month, although there were airy 12 electric

light bulbs in his house.

But Mayor Chang says he is more concerned about the future than the past. He has already made drastic redactions in the administrative expenses of the city, and hopes to cut them still farther. In fact, he believes that the old figure of $360,000'a month eau be reduced to

Fond of Boxing,

As a result of the high expenses, he points out, the city has not been able to pay many of its officials, The new mayor has discharged hun-

whose salaries have been in arrears.

Peping, July 5-å farm-boy from under of Peping for more than 830,000 a month or even leas. Shansi province who is the Chinese equivalent of "Puritan has been appointed mayor of Peping, the ancient capital, and has signalized his appointment by a campaign against smoking tobacco or opium, against drinking alcoholic liquora. and against entertainment at public expense.

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***Dutch Treat" for Stan, On looking over the accounts a his predecessor, Mayor Chang says he was dismayed to find that he had mayor, succeeds Mayor Ho Chian expense account of 8:00 a day Kung, a dynamic personality who stated emphatically that he would for entertainment.“ The "mayor suddenly disappeared after his patron, Marshal Feng Yu Hsiang; became persona non grate with the Nanking Government,

dreds of employees whom he con- siders unnecessary, and says he will pay those who remain on time every month..

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Mayor Chang is a firm believer in public officials serving as ex- amples to the rest of the com- munity. So he has asked his

entertainments except on the most staff not to gamble, not to drink alcoholic liquors, and not to give put in no such bills. He added moderate scale, and at their own that he saw no reason why the expense. He has made it clear that he would prefer them not to smoke mayor should entertain anybody at tobacco. public expense, and instead he will Youthful General.

hold luncheon once or twice n General Chang is a young man of month for his staff, which will be pleasing appearance, who stands six Dutch treat."

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The new mayor still looks the farm boy," although he has spent more than a year in the old capital. He is an ardent devotee of Chinese boxing.

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The Goluten Text was: Praise XX. Nrw waitoth for thee, O God, in Sion: Kyongiungwa and unto thee shal. the YOW LE Javasugar performed. U thou that hearest Ghuwaɑno prayer, unto thee ela all flesh Kathongeo come (PB. "65: 1, 2).

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Among the citations which com- prised the Lesign-Sermon was the following frein the Bible: "I wil extol thee, my God, O king, and I will less thy nazze for ever and ever. Une generation shall praise thy works to another, and shali declare thy mighty acts. They shall abundandy utter the memory of the great goodness, and shalt sing of thy righteousness. They shall The authorities at Varese, Italy, speak of the guy of thy kingdom, decided to blow up the top of and talk of thy power; To make Belvedere Mountain, which inter known to the sons of men his fered with the view. The inhabit. and the glorious ants of the neighbouring village of mighty acts, majesty of his kingdom. Thy king. Spra were warned to evacuate dom is an everlasting kingdom, and their dwellings. the dominion endureth throughout The explosion occurred at mid- a generations (Pg. 145: 1, 4, 7, day, and as an excessive charge of explosives was used-n ton and u 11-13).

half of black gunpowder and 400lbs, of dynamite the mountain transformed into a belching vol- ano, Enormous stones wrecked a number of houren, and trees were uprooted within a wide radius.

The Lesson-Sermon also incluid ed the following passage from the Christian Science text-book, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," by Mary Baker Eddy: "There is but one way to heaven, harmony, and Christ divine Science shows us this way, It is to know no other reality to have no other consciousnces of life than good, God and His reflec tion, and to rise superior to the so-called pain and pleasure of the senses" (p. 212).

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