Why I make the fortune-telling game, Gong Hee Fot Choy?

My study with the pleasing, refined old priest began. I never knew a man could be so close to God. I learned the art of concentration and learned not to think evil and all the other fine teachings that went with this religion. He taught me that one of the most beneficial things was not to hate anyone, for hate is a deadly poison.

In the course of my studies with the kindly old priest, Lee Ming, I learned many things that I shall never forget and also acquired a philosophy that money cannot buy. He would sit on my big porch in the warm summer evenings sipping tea and tell me of the things that were to happen in the next hundred years, warning me to look out for this or that which was to happen. He remained at my home for three months. Upon leaving he would not accept a penny from me so I insisted on making a donation to an orphanage with which he was closely connected; also to his temple.

Later, during a trip to the United States, I bought some American dolls, dressed them myself, and sent them to him for the children in his orphanage. Afterward I went to the orphanage and saw the little Chinese children cherishing those same dolls. It would have made anyone's heart jump with joy to see the happiness a foreign doll could bring to one of those little children.

When I returned to America I never forgot Lee Ming's teachings, and now, in our troubled world, I will try to pass his teachings along.

The reason I was inspired to make the fortune-telling game, Gong Hee Fot Choy, was to give the American people a little of the fine philosophy of the ancient Chinese race.

While I studied with the priest Lee Ming, I compared our Christian religion with his teachings, and found our teachings are somewhat similar to his. Lee Ming said that if there had been but one kind of Christian religion taught in China by one church, the Chinese by now would all have believed in Jesus Christ. But there were too many creeds sent to China, such as the Seventh Day Adventists, the Catholics, and all the others too numerous to mention, and they all taught differently. And so the Chinese say, my mother taught me one way, your mother taught you another way, and so many foreign religions another way.

Who is right?

Mr. Ming said the reason Jesus-Christ manifested himself to the white race instead of to the yellow, was because he knew the white race would never believe in any religion of the yellow race, and that the Chinese being older and wiser and believing all good things possible would be more apt to embrace the Christian teachings.

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