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GLIMPSES INTO CHINESE HOMES.

One of the little pupils of a home school was told by her mother to buy incense for this ceremony, but she stoutly refused.

"I have learned in my book at school" she said, "that it is vain to worship idols, and that the Lord Jehovah has said, 'Thou shalt worship the Lord, thy God, and Him only shalt thou serve.'"

And these children, perched upon the platform before us, are learning from the books that are open before them of the Way, the Truth, and the Life, of which salvation the prophets have inquired and searched diligently.