A cycle of Cathay, or, China, south and north . the ripe grain had beengathered to disseminate in other fields. The dikes had notbeen broken down until the time came for pouring the fertiliz-ing waters over the face of the earth. Christian civilization,with all its grand results, had sprung from a Jewish root, andthe promise to Abraham was fulfilled that in his seed all thenations of the earth should be blessed. * * Thiee years after the date of this visit I addressed a letter to the ed-itor of the Jewish Times, of New York, embodying the observationshere given, and proposing the formation of
A cycle of Cathay, or, China, south and north . the ripe grain had beengathered to disseminate in other fields. The dikes had notbeen broken down until the time came for pouring the fertiliz-ing waters over the face of the earth. Christian civilization,with all its grand results, had sprung from a Jewish root, andthe promise to Abraham was fulfilled that in his seed all thenations of the earth should be blessed. * * Thiee years after the date of this visit I addressed a letter to the ed-itor of the Jewish Times, of New York, embodying the observationshere given, and proposing the formation of a Jewish mission. The appealexcited some discussion among the Jews, but produced no further result—if I except sundry letters in Hebrew, which I was requested to forwardto a people who had forgotten the language of their fathers. In my letterto the Jewish Times I said, and now repeat, that the rebuilding ofthe synagogue is indispensable to give this moribund colony a bond ofunion; and that, witlmut tliis, nothing can save it from OF TEKING. CHAPTER V PILGRIMAGE TO THE TOMB OF CONFUCIUS The Yellow River; its new course; periodic changes—Temple and sepul-cher—Outline of Confucianism—The state religion—The three creedsblended—The Grand Canal FROM Kai-fung-fu I proceeded in a northeasterly direc-tion as far as Kiu-fu, the Mecca of the empire, which Ireached after a circuitous journey of eight days, in which Itwice crossed the Yellow River, my route following the courseof ity new bed. The sepulcher of wisdom will detain us with tlie hoary past,the fierce and turbid stream carries our thoughts irresistibly tothe future. Spurning the feeble efforts of the natives, it waitsto be subdued by the science of Western engineers; and, toorapid for the creeping junk, it has rushed into the sea at amore accessible point than its ancient mouth, as if for the ex-press purpose of inviting steam navigation. When I first sawit I felt disappointed. The huge embankment,
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