Opium-growing will not destroy opium-smoking." (Missionary Conference of 1888, _Records_, ii., 546.) "Yet the awful guilt remains," said the Ven.

Archdeacon Farrar on a recent occasion in Westminster Abbey, "that we, 'wherever winds blow and waters roll,' have girdled the world with a zone of drunkenness, until I seem to shudder as I think of the curses, not loud but deep, muttered against our name by races which our fire-water has decimated and our vice degraded." (_National Righteousness_, December 1892, p.

4.) And this patriotic utterance of a distinguished Englishman the Chinese will quote in unexpected support of the memorial "On the Restriction of Christianity" addressed to the Throne of China in 1884 by the High Commissioner Peng Yue-lin, which memorial stated in severe language that "_since the treaties have permitted foreigners from the West to spread their doctrines, the morals of the people have been greatly injured_." ("The Causes of the Anti-Foreign Disturbances in China." Rev.Gilbert Reid, M.A., p.

9.) Forty li from our sleeping place we came to the pretty town of Shachiaokai, on some undulating high ground well sheltered with trees.
Justice had lately been here with her headsman and brought death to a gang of malefactors.

Their heads, swinging in wooden cages, hung from the tower near the gateway.