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THE CHRISTIAN CHINAMAN

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 1, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 13.

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THE CHRISTIAN CHINAMAN.

A Chinaman applied for the position of cook in a family which belonged to a fashionable church. The lady asked him:—
“Do you drink whisky?”
“No, I Cistian man.”
“Do you play cards?”
“No, I Cistian man.”
He was engaged, and was found honest and capable. By and by the lady gave a progressive eucher party, with wine accompaniments. John did his part acceptably, but the next morning he appeared before his mistress.
“I want quit.”
“Why, what is the matter?”
“I a Cistian man; I told you so before. No workee for ’Melican heathen!”