His trust in God was exemplified in his constant peacefulness and freedom from all concern on the question of supplies, no matter how unassuring the outlook happened to be.

The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on a certain afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track.[…]Their example was followed by others at a time when the master of Mohair was superintending in person the docking of some two-year-olds, and equally invisible.

The persons that attended funerals were the friends and relations of the deceased, who thought themselves obliged to pay their last respects to the dead.

In the chief City of Kingyang are three famous Temples full of Images. And in the Province of Xantung, in the chief City of Cinan, are ſeveral.