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EMPEROR OF CHINA

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 26, 1879

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 54, No. 1.

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EMPEROR OF CHINA.

Sir G. Staunton related a curious anecdote of old Kien Long, Emperor of China. He was inquiring of Sir George the manner in which physicians were paid in England. When, after some difficulty, his Majesty was made to comprehend the system, he exclaimed: “Is any man well in England, that can afford to be ill? Now I will inform you,” said he, “how I manage my physicians. I have four to whom the care of my health is committed. A certain weekly salary is allowed them, but the moment I am ill, the salary stops till I am well again. I need not inform you that my illnesses are unusually short.”