Church at Home and Abroad, The (Jan - June 1895) . here is no service more ineffectual thanthat which attempt in a dogmatic way to superim-pose stiff and inflexible Western ideas upon a time-honored cultus which is assumed to be too trivial towarrant any effort at adaption. The Chinese mindviews almost every subject from a different anglethan that occupied by an American. Mr, Smiths delineation of Chinese customs would 1895.] BOOK NOTICES. 75 sometimes stir a little resentment perhaps in themind of an intelligent Chinaman who had pridedhimself upon the glories of the Celestial Empire, butin ot
Church at Home and Abroad, The (Jan - June 1895) . here is no service more ineffectual thanthat which attempt in a dogmatic way to superim-pose stiff and inflexible Western ideas upon a time-honored cultus which is assumed to be too trivial towarrant any effort at adaption. The Chinese mindviews almost every subject from a different anglethan that occupied by an American. Mr, Smiths delineation of Chinese customs would 1895.] BOOK NOTICES. 75 sometimes stir a little resentment perhaps in themind of an intelligent Chinaman who had pridedhimself upon the glories of the Celestial Empire, butin other passages he does full justice to those virtuesin which the Chinese excel all Western mutual relations of the three religions of be called a religioD, is weak indeed. The seemingtoleration with which all the faiths treat each otheris not the result of charity so much as of indiffer-ence. There is a lack of moral earnestness withrespect to things Divine which allows a Confucianistto consult either Buddhist or Taoist priests as occa-. China,—Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism, arebriefly but truthfully presented. The polytheism ofthe lower masses and the virtual atheism of the edu-cated and philosophic classes, both show, however,that the moral force of anything that can properly sion may require, though only with the same kind ofinterest with which Westerners are wont to trythis or that quack medicine. Yet to the high ethicalprinciples taught by Confucius, Mr. Smith, followingDr. Wells Williams, Dr. Medhurst, and others, pays 76 BOOK NOTICES. [January, a high tribute, and he thinks that the influencewhich those teachings have exerted upon the Empireof China has been great and lasting. The book should be in all libraries that aim tosecure a full list of the very first class of missionaryor ethnological literature. The Student Volunteer Movement, like the Inter-Seminary Missionary Convention, seems to havebecome a permanent institution. Its plans undergomore or less c
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