Mission Photograph Album - China OP #1 page 0031

Mission Photograph Album - China OP #1 page 0031

1900-1930

Board of Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church

Missions

China

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The General Commission on Archives and History of the United Methodist Church

44019 The Gospel of the Cigarette. A long lone of 23 wagons unloading at
the warehouse of the B+A Tobacco Co. directly in front of the Methodist Episcopal Mission
Compound in Peking. This scene is on Hsiao Hsun Hu Tung, our outlet to the
Hatamen great street. The gatehouse and front gate of the mission are seen
in the background of the picture.

43361 An almost daily view taken from the front gate of our Mission. After
having seen the enormous qyantities of cigarettes unloaded at this one
warehouse all the past winter it is easy to believe that the motto of the
B+A Tobacco Co.: "A cigarette in the mouth of every Chinese man, woman, and
child", is being realized.

The magnificent gateways of Peking are defaced by the omnipresent
cigarette sign. This is the Yung Ting Men gate, at the southern end of
Chien Men Street, just south of the Temple of Heaven.

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