Meeting of Two Celebrated Men.
Poor Kang Yii-wei! An exile from his own country, with a price on his head wore surely a hard enough lot to endure, but his visit to Zion City must have eclipsed all his previous privation What worse fate can befall a man than to have his portrait circulated broadcast in-cheap coloured prints, clasping the hand of the First Apostle, and Leading Prophet of the pork-tabooing city? It io hardly surprising that no smile adorns is features. When a man claims so high: a position as Dowie one would have thought that an exiled official would seem very small fry to him, but, on the contrary, we find him lauding Kang Yii-wei with a fulsome flattery which must even have struck that personage, brought up ina country where Being & little overdone, A special meet lite phrases are the order of che day, ing was cantoned in Zion City Tabernacle to welcome him on Wednesday, the 24th of May. The First Apostle preached a ser: mou on Kang Vu-wer's virtues, which was simply a string of pavegyrics, and the exile must lass blushed at the number "f virtues ascribed to him by his sycophantic friend. Possibly be was surprised to find how many virtues he possessed. But not only does the (according to, Dowie) ex-president of the Tsunyli Yamen come for hix share of praise. The illastrious virtues of the Chinese Ewperor are expatiated on inn way that would make his ears tingle, and some interesting jottings of the inner history of the Chinese Court are thrown in. We learn that the Emperor was deposed for bastinadoin, the Empress's favourite eunuch, an that when she heard of it she went and slapped his, the Emperor's, face. The quarrels of the Servian Court wore child's play to Dowie's sidelights on the Chinese Court. No name is too bad for the Empress, and after pulling her character to pieces the First Apostle indulges in an outburst of oratory which would have done credit tos stump orator in Hyde Park.
Listen, Empress Dowager!" he says, My voice reaches across the ocean! If you harm a hair of Kuang Heii's head, especially if you kill him, I will not lift 'a finger to keep the Chinese Empire Reform Association from marching on Poking, and forever sweeping away the Manchu Dynasty!"
We can imagine the poor Empress's feelings when this message reached hor. What sleepless night she must have Kang Yii-wei was evidently so overcome by Dowie's oratory, that he could only reply in 2 fow words—' ox-pressing appreciation of the Ability and Pioty of the First Apostle" the Zion official organ modestly puts it. Perhape,
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