The Chinese Recorder And Missionary Journal Vol 16

Excerpt from The Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal, Vol. 16: January February, 1885 Grave robbery is punished with summary decapitation. This signifies that the man is what we should call a 'jail-bird.' 'a poor god, a ruined temple, and a stinking thief for a priest, ' W m g, g a g This is a collective vilification of a number of persons, signifying that they are at once poor and vicious. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.