Massacres of Christians by heathen Chinese, and horrors of the Boxers; containing a complete history of the Boxers; the Tai-Ping insurrection and massacres of the foreign ministers; manners, customs and peculiarities of the Chinese .. . acres of Kinfao was seized by the Tai-ping secret society in itsrebellion, the temple, the palace and the contents were all grave of Confucius was very close to the temple. Not farfrom the temple grounds is a cemetery by the small town of Tsin-hien, which for twenty-two hundred years has received the remainsof all the descendants of Meng
Massacres of Christians by heathen Chinese, and horrors of the Boxers; containing a complete history of the Boxers; the Tai-Ping insurrection and massacres of the foreign ministers; manners, customs and peculiarities of the Chinese .. . acres of Kinfao was seized by the Tai-ping secret society in itsrebellion, the temple, the palace and the contents were all grave of Confucius was very close to the temple. Not farfrom the temple grounds is a cemetery by the small town of Tsin-hien, which for twenty-two hundred years has received the remainsof all the descendants of Mengtze (Mencius) the most renowneddisciple of Confucius. It is said of the Chinese that they are the most pious, rever-ential and formal people in the world. With them the past is notdead, but continues to live in the ancestors whose place of burialis surrounded with religious cult; it demands reverence for them 164 CONFUSION OF RELIGIONS EXISTS. and tolerates no hurtful critics. The wisdom of the ancestors isprotected against any attack as the word of the parent is againstany opposition by the minor children. This natural dispositionin the people is much developed and strengthened by the teachingsof Confucius. A pupil asked him :. SALE OF PRAYERS IN A CHINESE TEMPLE. How shall the spirits be served ? Confucius replied: You do not even know how to serve mankind, why shouldyou know how to serve spirits ? While he was dying, Tsze-lu, one of his pupils, asked Con-fucius if he should pray for him. The wise man met him withanother question : Would there be any sense in it ? CONFUSION OF RELIGIONS EXISTS. 16; Confucius did not die the martyrs death for his teachings,like Jesus and Socrates died. He was a sober man without anymystical views, as well as without the insatiable desire for thespread of enlightenment which brought the great Athenian firstinto conflict with the religious views of his countrymen and subse-quently before the death tribunal. His wisdom was always withinthe limits
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