—China spends $150,000,000 annually in ancestral worship.
—Japan has set an example that might well be followed by some continental nations. The government was requested for permission to hold a lottery in order to dispose of such articles as remained unsold at the national exhibition. They refused on moral grounds, and went to the expense of purchasing all the goods themselves in order to avoid the risk of an immoral example.
CHINESE FUNERAL PROCESSION.
NEW APPOINTMENTS.
1881–1882.
The following list presents the names and post-office addresses of those who are under appointment in the Churches, Institutions and Schools aided by the American Missionary Association, among the Freedmen in the South, the Chinese on the Pacific Coast, the Indians, and the Negroes in Western Africa. The Berea College and Hampton Institute are under the care of their own Boards of Trustees, but being either founded or fostered in the past by this Association, and representing the general work in which it is engaged, their teachers are included in this list.