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vessel. Protestant Christianity, on the other hand,
gives you an individual canoe to paddle, and
only by your own efforts will you ever get to
Heaven. A congregation is simply a fleet of
these little canoes keeping together for
mutual encouragement and led by a prolet
who knows how to lay a course for heaven.

- All above is by Ross Am. J. Soc. Jan 1920.

Ming Dynasty Bank Notes

Found at Hsiang Shui Pu 响水堡 Shensi
70 li north of Great Wall, in temple of God of
War in image of Kuan Ti astride the city walls.
in December 1920. Our preacher Han
Tsung Ch'i was there when they were found -
7 in all. One was sent to Peking and sold
for $12 to an Englishman. Two were sold to me
by Mr. Han. They are dated in era of Hung
Wu 1368-1398 and are made of the
paper mulberry 桑楮皮 and so were
called 楮錢, or 楮幣 bank notes
or bills of exchange. Money made of this
kind of paper was commonly used at worship.
The notes are in Chinese inches 10 x 8 as
Tzu Yuan says "長一官尺，橫八寸". The
man who sold the bank notes to me thru
Han Shan Ch'i the preacher is a Mr. Hu 胡

The Kang Hsi Dictionary contains
44,449 distinct characters... The
nine volumes of the Chinese classics
contain only 4601 different characters
- The Real Chinaman Chester Holcane.

Mr. F.H. Dart 227 E College St. Oberlin told me
in 1922 that when he was a boy about the year 1856
he often saw the grocer in Ilion N.Y. cut one
cent into halves or quarters in order to make exact
change for sale of [goods]. The Chinese method of clipping
silver from a [shot?] to make payment.