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Page 62 - The great mountain must crumble ; The strong beam must break ; And the wise man wither away like a plant.
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 95 - Church of Christ in China. 1. This last and boot-tree maker of 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.
Page 78 - Those who attempt to represent God by images or pictures do but vainly occupy themselves with empty forms. Those who honor and obey the Sacred Writings know the origin of all things ; and eternal reason and the Sacred Writings mutually sustain each other in testifying whence men derived their being. All those who profess this religion aim at the practice of goodness and avoid the commission of vice.
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 65 - ... father, and filial duty on that of the son; gentleness on the part of the elder brother, and obedience on that of the younger; righteousness on the part of the husband, and submission on that of the wife; kindness on the part of elders, and deference on that of juniors; with benevolence...
Page 55 - ... the Chinese nation has not given up this most ancient form of worship; and the original worship of ancestors, like the older formation of rocks on the earth's surface, is strong as the everlasting hills, and, though overlaid by other cults, as the primary rocks are by other strata, 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 everyday acts and deeds....
Page 67 - K'ung, the ancient Teacher, the perfect Sage, and say, — 0 Teacher, in virtue equal to Heaven and Earth, whose doctrines embrace the past time and the present, thou didst digest and transmit the six classics, and didst hand down lessons for all generations...
Page 46 - Second, the farmer : because the mind cannot act without the body, and the body cannot exist without food ; so that farming is essential to the existence of man, especially in civilized society. Third, the mechanic : because, next to food, shelter is a necessity, and the man who builds a house comes next in honor to the man who provides food. Fourth, the tradesman : because, as society increases and its wants are multiplied, men to carry on exchange and barter become a necessity, and so the merchant...