ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses that Chinese eat their religion, sleep their religion, walk their religion, talk their religion, and work their religion. It discovers that the Chinese have neither made a religion, nor an idol to worship. All men have reason and an intellectual nature which links them with things; a conscience and a moral nature which links them with their fellow men; and faith and a religious nature which links them with God. Chinese, after the introduction of Buddhism, began to substitute idols, by the worship of which they hoped to avoid the calamities of nature's laws or their own neglect. The chapter explores Chinese has special kinds of worship for illness, for special sorrows, for childlessness, for deliverance from plague, or at wells, at shrines, at trees that have ch'eng shen, become divine on account of their age; or they worship the fox or the dragon.
