Three cups of tea were put on the altar on that day as an offering to the Trinity.

They celebrated the communion once a month by partaking of a cup of grape wine.

Every one admitted to their fellowship was baptized, after an examination and confession of sins.

The following was the form prescribed in the "Book of Religious Precepts of the Ti-Ping Dynasty":--[25] _Forms to be observed when Men wish to forsake their Sins_--"They must kneel down in God's presence, and ask him to forgive their sins.

They may then take either a basin of water and wash themselves, or go to the river and bathe themselves; after which they must continue daily to supplicate Divine favor, and the Holy Spirit's assistance to renew their hearts, saying grace at every meal, keeping holy the Sabbath day, and obeying all God's commandments, especially avoiding idolatry.