CHAPTER XI.

Ti-ping Polygamy.--Ti-ping Women.--Their Improved Position.--Abolition of Slavery by the Ti-pings.--Its Prevalence in China.--Moral Revolution effected by Ti-pings.--Their Religious Works.--Their Conduct Justified.--Jesuit Missionaries.--Consul Harvey's Despatch.--Apathy of Missionaries.--Its Consequences.--Chinese Antipathy to Christianity.--Christianity of the Ti-pings.--Their Forms of Worship.--Ti-ping Marriages.--Religious Observances.--The Ti-ping Sabbath.--Its Observance.--Their Ecclesiastical System.--Forms of Worship.--The Mo-wang.--Ti-ping Churches 300