A" VEGETARIAN" PLACARD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5119, 2 September 1895, Page 2

A" VEGETARIAN" PLACARD.

i • | Theßev. H. M. Eyton-Jonos, of Full Ning, South China, wrote recently as follows in the Church

Missionary Gleamr :—Somo idea of tlio way in which the people are being incited against the Christian religion may he gathered from the following translation of a placard, numbers of which have been affixed to the walls of Full Ting, city (near Full Ning), where a few of God's little children arc making a stand : In Full Ting all say " in former days before this doctrine came, all was peaceful. Its origin is unknown. Christ's teaching was evil. His followers were unwilling to confess how ovil it was. Confucius's teaching, unlike Jesus', was good. Followers of Jesus became akin to the beasts, their conscience is dead, their lives hccoino injured, thoir bodies are maltreated. Their eyes arc torn from thoir sockets, their hearts from their bodies, and their kneecaps wrenched off. Tlio foreigners who do this hide their evil deeds. Their goodness they blazo abroad. There is neithor rest in life nor ponce in death. Children aro taught to bo untilial, subjects disloyal, and men to treat their relatives as strangers. Uur maidens aro led astray by the foreign clergy. Their vices forbid enumeration. Our forefathers will not protect such bestial ones; who destroy the worshipping of our ancestors and idols, sever husband and wife, and prevent maidens from marrying, and alter our customs. Thoy aro tho laughing stock of all. Thus we aro all on the high road to evil. Christ was a wicked man. Be firm. Burn down his church and his books when ho (Mr Eyton-Jones) comos again. Woo tp the landlord who rented him a house, Townsmen, fight to the bitter end. We heap insults and abuse on Jesus' head/ I call heaven to witness. Lot him avenge himself and punish ns if ho can. Let Fuh Ting city witness. We stand to our words. Wo hate with bitterest hatred, Let all take knowledgo of this."