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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 4, 1882

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 8, No. 18.

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Filial Love.

THE Chinese are a peculiar people, therefore their literature is peculiar, and none of it more so than the following anecdote, which would, without doubt, sink deep into the heart of a Celestial: In the Chow dynasty (about three thousand years ago) there was a man named Laou-Lai-tsze. When he was seventy years of age, he used to put on bright and many-colored clothes, and then he would play about like a child. Sometimes he would carry water into the hall, and pretend to stumble, and fall flat on the ground; and then he would cry, and run up to the parents' side to please the old people, and all to make them forget, for a time at least, their own great age.