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Page 98 - The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Ghost be with you all.
Page 74 - Now it is not good for the Christian's health to hustle the Aryan brown, For the Christian riles and the Aryan smiles and he weareth the Christian down ; And the end of the fight is a tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, And the epitaph drear : "A fool lies here who tried to hustle the East.
Page 117 - Man's nature is indifferent to good and evil, just as the water is indifferent to the east and west." 2. Mencius replied, " Water indeed will flow indifferently to the east or west, but will it flow indifferently up or down ? The tendency of man's nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downwards.
Page 8 - The principles of the Christian religion, as professed by the Protestant and Roman Catholic churches, are recognized as teaching men to do good, and to do to others as they would have others do to them. Hereafter those who quietly profess and teach these doctrines shall not be harassed or persecuted on account of their faith. Any person, whether citizen of the United States or Chinese convert, who, according to these tenets, peaceably teach and practice the principles of Christianity, shall in no...
Page 114 - 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.
Page 117 - ... the way in which the trees are denuded by axes and bills. Hewn down day after day, can it — the mind — retain its beauty? But there is a development of its life day and night, and in the calm air of the morning, just between night and day, the mind feels in a degree those desires and aversions which are proper to humanity, but the feeling is not strong, and it is fettered and destroyed by what takes place during the day.
Page 95 - There are ruler and minister; father and son ; husband and wife ; elder brother and younger; and the intercourse of friend and friend: — (the duties belonging to) these five (relationships) constitute the universal path for all.
Page 117 - By striking water and causing it to leap up, you may make it go over your forehead, and by damming and leading it, you may force it up a hill ; but are such movements according to the nature of water ? It is the force applied which causes them. When men are made to do what is not good, their nature is dealt with in this way.
Page 115 - Chung-kung asked about perfect virtue. The Master said, "It is, when you go abroad, to behave to every one as if you were receiving a great guest ; to employ the people as if you were assisting at a great sacrifice ; not to do to others as you would not wish done to yourself ; to have no murmuring against you in the country, and none in the family.
Page 122 - Tsz, the tail-ends of previous dynasties, and the devices by which slippery officials carry on their trade. Emphatically, it is not that mode of government recommended by our great sage. Confucian learning consists in the acquisition of extensive literature and the strict observance of what is right; in the profound and careful meditation of the old in order to understand the new; in the making of one's self the peer of heaven by means of perfect sincerity and thus influencing men in all things for...