The Open court . little doubt that thepeople who go out to China as missionaries in future will be ofeven a lower type than those now there. The missions will no $34 THE OPEN COURT. doubt be continued because it is a convenient way of pensioningthe pulpit failures and ignoramuses that every church has to pro-vide for. But really kind-hearted men and women will hereafterrefuse to enter the mission field in China after these disgracefuland horrible revelations, unless it were to try and undo the mis-deeds of Ament and his colleagues. And now that these have as-sociated American missions in Chine
The Open court . little doubt that thepeople who go out to China as missionaries in future will be ofeven a lower type than those now there. The missions will no $34 THE OPEN COURT. doubt be continued because it is a convenient way of pensioningthe pulpit failures and ignoramuses that every church has to pro-vide for. But really kind-hearted men and women will hereafterrefuse to enter the mission field in China after these disgracefuland horrible revelations, unless it were to try and undo the mis-deeds of Ament and his colleagues. And now that these have as-sociated American missions in Chinese minds with every kind ofdishonesty and cruelty and with their heavy losses and disasters, itwould be an idle effort for any benevolent man to try and win re-spect for missionary Christianity. :3:]. ... SEVEN. BY THE EDITOR. SEVEN is a sacred number in many religions, especially in theZarathustrian faith of the Zend Avesia and in the Mithrasreligion, but also among the Buddhists, the Jews and the The Seven Ighigs, or Celestial Genu. Appearing in the second row of an ancient bronze tablet. RepresentingChaldaean religious beliefs. Its sacredness is as old as history and dates back to the beginningof civilisation in both Akkad and Egypt. The ancient Babylonians believed in seven great gods, in J Reproduced from Lenormant. The original is in the collection of M. de Clercq. 336 THE OPEN COURT. seven celestial spirits, called ighigs, and seven spirits of the under-world, called Anunnaki.^ Bel Merodach combated and conqueredseven wicked storm-demons. Hell (the underworld) has sevengates; magic formulae must be repeated seven times in order to beefficient, and the great epic of the formation of the world was writ-ten on seven tablets, corresponding to the seven days work of thecreation account in Genesis, The seven great gods were associated with the seven planets,who were worshipped as the rulers of the world in the great Templeat Babylon, the ruins of which are now cal
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