The Chinese Eighth Month is the great month for pilgrimages to famous shrines, That in Hunan in Nanyoh, a mountain group 4,000-ft. high. For the two previous years the number of pilgrims has been much due to the effect of the Revolution, but this year saw a return to previous conditions. For several weeks all roads leading to Nanyoh were crowded with pilgrims, who chant in a shrill squeal as they march along, while everyone holds a burning joss-stick in his hand, Several hundred thousand must have been present in all. The Christian forces in Hunan have not been slow to seize this opportunity for evangelistic purposes, and a band of 85 workers were engaged in distributing Christian literature anon the pilgrims. This is only en to pilgrims as they leave Nanyoh, and who are willing to receive it, but 65,000 books were not enough to mest the demand.
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