. Fifty years in China : being an account of the history and conditions in China and of the missions of the Presbyterian Church in the United States there from 1867 to the present day. fficultyhe gathered around him a number of Chinese boys,to whom for a part of his time he taught the ChineseBible. One day a missionary quoted a maxim of Con-fucius as follows: S:s che so iKwan che so yiu,Tsah che so an,Ren yen sheu tsai,Ren yen sJien tsai. Watch him now, and see what he does, observe thebasis of his belief and the motive of his life. He can-not conceal his real character. The incident was for-g
. Fifty years in China : being an account of the history and conditions in China and of the missions of the Presbyterian Church in the United States there from 1867 to the present day. fficultyhe gathered around him a number of Chinese boys,to whom for a part of his time he taught the ChineseBible. One day a missionary quoted a maxim of Con-fucius as follows: S:s che so iKwan che so yiu,Tsah che so an,Ren yen sheu tsai,Ren yen sJien tsai. Watch him now, and see what he does, observe thebasis of his belief and the motive of his life. He can-not conceal his real character. The incident was for-gotten by the missionary. A few years afterwards hereceived a letter from his Confucian friend -whichread somewhat as follows: T have followed your ad-vice and done what our Confucius enjoins. I havewatched the missionarys life at his home and amongour people. He is true and I know he seeks the the Chinese. I believe in Jesus Christ and want tojoin the Church. He not only entered the Church,but was afterwards called of God to preach the Gospelto his countrymen. Thus a rule of Confucius becamethe schoolmaster to lead this man to the One who cansave as well as
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