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THE DROUGHT IN CHINA.—A letter, dated Pekin, the 1st of August, says:

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 20, 1866

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 28, No. 25.

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THE DROUGHT IN CHINA.—A letter, dated Pekin, the 1st of August, says:

For the last eleven months there has not been, one may say, a drop of rain at Pekin nor in the surrounding country. The crops have been withered up while standing, and the cultivators are reduced to extreme distress. The absence of rain in summer, and of snow in winter, forms a real public calamity, which occupies the most earnest attention of the Chinese Government. In these cases, it is the custom of the Celestial Empire to ordain fasts, general prayer, and expiatory ceremonies.