who went to conduct a funeral the other day narrowly escaped being present at 'a marriage. The deceased whose home was ten miles away had been connected with the Obristian Church. The friends readily consented to the request of the native Christians for a funeral according to the rites of their Church. After the service in the home the party went to the grave and found that the ultra-Buddhist members of the clan were bent upon doing the best they know for their departed kinsman, The dead man was a bachelor of fifty and, fearing that his spirit would wander companionless in the world of shades, these relatives scoured the country-side for a dead maiden to mary to him and bury with him. A desirable bride had been' found some seven miles away and was encoffined and prepared for the double ceremony of marriage and burial. As soon as the Christian service was concluded and the missionary and his friends had left the other ceremonies began. Marriages of the dead by interested friends are common in Shansi. On the 8th of July
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