A cycle of Cathay, or, China, south and north . withwasting years in disputing about the name for God before at-tempting to convert the heathen. Such, however, was not thecase: each mission went to work with its own chosen terms—and the Spirit of God appears to have shown no marked pref-erence for any, converts being as readily gathered by the useof one term as by another. The controversy has fortunatelyceased without the intervention of a pope; but uniformity ofusage has not been attained. Will not the native church set-tle it some day by using all three of the disputed terms? SirJohn Bowring
A cycle of Cathay, or, China, south and north . withwasting years in disputing about the name for God before at-tempting to convert the heathen. Such, however, was not thecase: each mission went to work with its own chosen terms—and the Spirit of God appears to have shown no marked pref-erence for any, converts being as readily gathered by the useof one term as by another. The controversy has fortunatelyceased without the intervention of a pope; but uniformity ofusage has not been attained. Will not the native church set-tle it some day by using all three of the disputed terms? SirJohn Bowring, to meet the difficulty, suggested that the lettere, used in Greek MSS. as an abbreviation for T/ieos, might beemployed as an expressive symbol, the inner stroke represent-ing unity and the circle eternity. It would, he said, be in har-mony with the picture-writing of the Chinese, and each partymight pronounce it according to its own shibboleth. But thesuggestion fell to the ground, hke a flower plucked from itsstem, and died without .M-SMUGGLER. CHAPTER II VOYAGE UP THE COAST Amoy—Opening of a new church—Fuchau—Buddhism—Civil-service ex-aminations—Ftingshui, or geomancy—Missions—A glance at themap ON the yth of May we embarked on the lorcha Macao,Captain Jose Maria, along with a goodly company ofmissionaries, who were bound for different points on the little craft was less than a hundred tons burden ; but thatwas her least fault—smaller boats have sometimes weathereda storm where larger ones have foundered. She was old androtten; but, as we were to keep near the shore, there was rea-son to hope that in case of accident we might all escape toland on broken pieces of the ship. Providentially, no seri-ous harm befell us, though we were once dismasted, and onceor twice in imminent danger of being cast away, for want ofa pilot who knew the coast. With pirates we happily did not come in contact, though theseas were infested with them. These lorch
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