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Pan Demos, v. 1, issue 2, March 1949
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successes Chang continued to lead his usual holy life. Then on night he dreamed that another angel led him among beautiful halls and palaces, where he saw a personage sitting down who resembled Buddha himself. This personage said to him, "My son, your virtue is a matter of great joy; unhappily your term of life is short, and I have therefor, made an appeal to God on your behalf." Chang prostrated himself and knocked his head upon the ground; upon which he was commanded to rise, and was served with tea, fragrant as the epidendrum. A boy was next instructed to take him to bathe in a pool, the water of which was so exquisitely clear that he could count the fishes swimming about therein. He found it warm as he walked in, and scented like the leaves of the lotus-flower, and gradually the water got deeper and deeper, until he went down altogether and passed through with his head under water. He then waked up in a fright, but from this moment he became more robust and his sight improved. As he stroked his beard the white hairs all came out, and by and by the black ones too, the wrinkles on his face were smoothed away, and in a few months he had the beardless face of a boy of fifteen or sixteen. He also grew fond of playing about like other boys, and would sometimes tumble head over heels, and be picked up by his sons. Soon afterwards his wife died of old age, and his sons begged him to marry again into some good family; but he said he should be obligated to go to Ho-pei first; and then, calculating his dates, found that the appointed time had arrived. So he ordered his horses and servants, and set off for Ho-pei, where he discovered that there actually was a high official named Lu. Now Mr. Lu had a daughter, who when born was able to talk, (Note: Generally spoken of as an inauspicious phenomenon.) and became very clever and beautiful as she grew up. She was the idol of her parents, and had been asked in marriage by many suitors, but would not accept any of them; and when he father and mother inquired her motives for refusal, she told them the story of her engagement in her former life. 23
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successes Chang continued to lead his usual holy life. Then on night he dreamed that another angel led him among beautiful halls and palaces, where he saw a personage sitting down who resembled Buddha himself. This personage said to him, "My son, your virtue is a matter of great joy; unhappily your term of life is short, and I have therefor, made an appeal to God on your behalf." Chang prostrated himself and knocked his head upon the ground; upon which he was commanded to rise, and was served with tea, fragrant as the epidendrum. A boy was next instructed to take him to bathe in a pool, the water of which was so exquisitely clear that he could count the fishes swimming about therein. He found it warm as he walked in, and scented like the leaves of the lotus-flower, and gradually the water got deeper and deeper, until he went down altogether and passed through with his head under water. He then waked up in a fright, but from this moment he became more robust and his sight improved. As he stroked his beard the white hairs all came out, and by and by the black ones too, the wrinkles on his face were smoothed away, and in a few months he had the beardless face of a boy of fifteen or sixteen. He also grew fond of playing about like other boys, and would sometimes tumble head over heels, and be picked up by his sons. Soon afterwards his wife died of old age, and his sons begged him to marry again into some good family; but he said he should be obligated to go to Ho-pei first; and then, calculating his dates, found that the appointed time had arrived. So he ordered his horses and servants, and set off for Ho-pei, where he discovered that there actually was a high official named Lu. Now Mr. Lu had a daughter, who when born was able to talk, (Note: Generally spoken of as an inauspicious phenomenon.) and became very clever and beautiful as she grew up. She was the idol of her parents, and had been asked in marriage by many suitors, but would not accept any of them; and when he father and mother inquired her motives for refusal, she told them the story of her engagement in her former life. 23
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