Organized by John Fryer (1839-1928) in 1895 in Shanghai上海, the “New Age Novels” fiction competition sought effective ways to purge Qing China of the social vices of opium-smoking, the eight-legged essay and foot-binding. The discovery of the corpus of unpublished manuscripts in 2006 promises to fill in an overlooked yet crucial chapter in the history of modern Chinese literature. The worth of these works goes beyond the mere reflection of the cultural landscape and socio-political trends of the late-Qing period. Quite a few writers conducted original experiments in terms of literary approaches and religious poetics, and hence introduced new narrative elements into the creation of late-Qing Chinese fiction. One of the 162 manuscripts, Zhang Tianshu's 張佃書 Wuming Xiaoshuo 無名小說, manifests distinctive features of religious narrative, especially in a traditional Chinese shidiao (popular tune) that demonstrates rich intertextual relations with The Pilgrim's Progress. It integrates Chinese literary techniques with Western rhetorical devices, while adopting Confucian, Buddhist and Daoist elements to express Christian themes and thoughts. With a focus on an analysis of this shidiao, the present paper commences by examining the literary origin, form, content and function of the shidiao, followed by an analysis of the hybridity of its multiple religious expressions.