All over China one finds them. Take a step off the crowded pavement up a litttlo alley and you will find an arch and candles burning. 'I'he native hospitals have little recesses and pictures or images of the gods along their entrances. here are no temples in the railway stations, as in Russia, but of course every home has its sacred images and tablets.
is easy to understand these altars where people are coming and going, where many worship-pens may pass in a day or where the household never fails to pay daily homage; but to come upon them on country trails, on unfrequented paths, in nooks which the explorer feels he is almost the only one to discover, forces one to wonder at the universal spirit of worship thus expressed.
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