"Superstitious Use" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL
In Engllsh law. when lands, tenements, rents, goods, or chattels are given, secured, or appointed for and towards the maintenance of a priest or chaplain to say mass, for the maintenance of a priest or other man to pray for tbe sonl of any dead man ln euch a church or else* where, to have and maintain perpetual obits, lamps, torches, etc., to be used at certaln tlmes to help to save the souls of men out of purgatory,—ln such cases the king, by force of several statutes, ls authorlzed to direct and appoint all such uses to such purposee as are truly charitable. Bac. Abr. “Charitable Uses." See Methodist Church v. Remington, 1 watts (Pa.) 225, 26 Am. Dec. 61; Harrison v. Brophy, 59 Kan. 1, 51 Fac. 883, 40 L. R. A. 721
I suggest that the Western impact, at least in nineteenth-century China, was overstated (and misstated) by an earlier generation of American historians. An especially egregious example of this, I argue, was American treatment of the Opium War, the objective importance of which was not nearly so great as we—and an almost unanimous corps of Chinese historians—have imagined.
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A church or chapel eudowed with lands for the maintenance of priests to say mass daily for the souls of …
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