Dawn on the Hills of T'ang, Or, China as a Mission Field |
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Page 142 - Why should ye be stricken any more ? ye will revolt more and more : the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it ; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores : they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.
Page 151 - And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it unto one of these my brethren, even these least, ye did it unto me.
Page 100 - It is in addition permitted to French missionaries to rent and purchase land in all the provinces, and to erect buildings thereon at pleasure...
Page 49 - A child but a foot long requires three feet of cloth" for its earth-trousers. Yet they gladly endure their added cares ; for " What fastens to the heart-strings and pulls on the liver are one's sons and daughters." As children advance in years, remember the saying, " If you love your son, give him plenty of the cudgel ; if you hate him, cram him with dainties.
Page 135 - And he showed me a river of water of life, bright as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb, in the midst of the street thereof. And on this side of the river and on that was the tree of life, bearing twelve manner of fruits, yielding its fruit every month : and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
Page 65 - The ancients who wished to illustrate illustrious virtue throughout the Empire, first ordered well their own States. Wishing to order well their States, they first regulated their families. Wishing to regulate their families, they first cultivated their persons. Wishing to cultivate their persons, they first rectified their hearts. Wishing to rectify their hearts, they first sought to be sincere in their thoughts. Wishing to be sincere in their thoughts, they first extended to the utmost their knowledge....
Page 64 - Ceremony epitomizes the entire Chinese mind ; and, in my opinion, the Li Chi is per se the most exact and complete monograph that China has been able to give of itself to other nations.
Page 55 - ... is still at the foundation, nearly all the other methods of worship being later additions and accretions. The worshipping of ancestors thus underlies most of their religion, and many of their every-day acts and deeds. ' Social customs, judicial decisions, appointments to the office of Prime Minister, and even the succession to the throne are influenced by it.
Page 58 - As nearly as one can describe it, Tao seems to be " (1) the Absolute, the totality of being and things ; (2) the phenomenal world and its order; and (3) the ethical nature of the good man and the principle of his action.
Page 95 - Newcastle-uponTyne journeyed from England to China via America, and during his early career lived with the Americans at Canton. Morrison had been planning to go to Timbuctoo, but in being sent to China God had answered his prayer that He "would station him in that part of the missionary field where the difficulties were the greatest, and, to all human appearance, the most insurmountable.