"FILIAL DEVOTION" IN CHINA

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Issue 51, 21 September 1878, Page 3

"FILIAL DEVOTION" IN CHINA

The following remarkable memorial is translated from tlm Poking Gazette: Tin" I’ao-clmng, Governor General of Sezehtwan, reports tlircc cases of filial ami conjugal devotion, ami solicits the bestowal of marks of Imperial approbation upon the persons who have tints distingnished themselves. The first case is that of a poor man in the l”cng-ki District, whose jarents were both over seventy years of age. His father was striken with paralysis, ami for live years had not risen from his bed, during which time his son had tended him with the utmost devotion. One day the old man expressed a wish to have some liver for his dinner, hut there was none to he procured in the village in which they lived, so the son, anxious to display the sincerity of his affection, made an incision in his i stomach, about throe inches long, and cut a piece o(V, his own liver, which ho served up to Ins father, who promptly recovered from his sickness. The bowel protruded from the incision in the son's i stomach, but the wound has now healed, ( leaving a scar to testify to his devotion i which calls forth the admiration of all i who seo it. The second case is that of j I a poor man, also in the same district, I whose widowed mother was dangerously t 11. Tim mod lei lUS she took living of no i avail, after silent and earnest prayer, ho i cut a piece of He.-h three inches long from 1

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