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There lis been of necessity a long lull in anti-foot-binding work, Tt may" encourage others now once more to begin working to hear that there has lately been held a meeting in Amoy, the centre of the oldest work against binding, The meeting, as reported by Me, Macgownn, that veteran fighter against foot-binding, was enthusiastic, Another meeting of women (only has been held in Peking itself, where Mrs, Tewkesbury, taking advantage of the it of the organising Secretary of the Tien Tsu Hoi convened a recti Vhentre of " Ducal Imperial Paluce.
Sheflivid presided and served as for Mrs, Archibald Little.
Duchess, stid to be a favourite nice of the Dowager Emp revs, attended; for the rest the audience was almost entirely Chinese, som bound and some unbound. The school girls, a very fine-looking set of young women, ere all unbound, and no ner was the addrest concluded, than they al' gob up from the bottom of the Hal, aul walked up to the top, where in characters of good upon " violet clo h upon the wall were inscribed the mamvs of all these mem the congregation who had fallen victims to the violence of the Boxers during the past summer, al out 100 in all, women and children One virl was gazing upon the names of ber father, mother, and little sister, and all tood looking, as if irresistibly attracted. All these deul may not perhaps have been nut it was impossible to stand facings women, wud ne realive that every one there had been 1 very wen: Facing inartyedom for the ko of her faith. In pretry well every congregation, " few, a very few have saved their lives I'y aecanting. but the arent mass to whom the choice has been offered have died, and those tw whom the dreadful al trative was not, as it happened, actually offere.!, may yet have been quite prepared to die if it were, It seemed to take one back to the days of the early Christians to lock upon such x gathering of Eh wame, and remembering how ti mostly are, had been giv so how one would one elf have stond such an ordeal, which has been prevented to. Chinisr, it never would he to Europeans, for these last would not forswear their nationality whilst the Chinese would forswear their faith; and the fact that none have been spared, who did s0, shows that others too might have chosen life, if they had not for Christ's sake been realy to Amongst them were some who. still bound their feet, whilst at the Pehtang amongst the survivors in the childrens school ware three girls, who had before the siege lost both their feet through foot binding. Ir seemed a strange anomaly that those who nere ready to die for their faith should yet mutilate their bodies to win the favour of men, Perhaps after all a daily consistent Christian life is harder that just once dying.
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