Echoes From China: The Story of My Life and Lectures (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from Echoes From China: The Story of My Life and Lectures

Book of Revelations, because the dragon has done much mischief in China too.

It was at such a dragon feast my great grand father's nephew killed a man during the fight. My great grandfather offered to suffer punish ment instead of him. Now in China courts of law are not well organized, and the officers and yamen runners take advantage of such Opportunities to squeeze the people, especially if the arrested one is rich. When he was in prison the yamen runners would privately threaten to beat the prisoner and treat him in many cruel ways. The only way to escape such treatment was to pay bribes. My great grandfather had to sell his house and fields, and in fact all his properties to bribe officers and yamen runners in order to help his nephew, and at last he died in prison in Wuchang.

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Excerpt from Echoes From China: The Story of My Life and Lectures

This is no attempt to be an author or to write a book in English. During my trip in Sweden and America I have delivered many speeches and have some of these in manuscript. Some friends have read them and asked me to publish at least a few in permanent form together with a sketch of my life. At first I rather hesitated to do it. Then I thought that if this can be done for the glory of my Savior and can aid the cause of bringing salvation to my beloved land, I shall be more than glad to do it. Now I send this forth with the prayer to God that He may bless the reading and the readers to the attaining of the object of this little missionary enterprise.

I wish to express my special thanks to Prof. A. S. Wallgren for his help in reading the manuscript and the proof for me, and to Miss Agnes Hjerpe for her stenographic help. This was written originally in Swedish and is published in Sweden.

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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.