The Sun.
London, England, 1853-08-03 00:00:00

are not a fighting people, but commercial, persevering,
and enterprising. The more I see of them, the more I
admire their ability ; but I must admit them to be the
most unexceptionable liars I have ever seen ; beyond
pilfering in accounts (what we call at home a per-centage)
they are honest as a nation—very much so—but in all
accounts they will strive and squeeze wben they can."

PROCLAMATION BY THE INSURGENTS.

THE TRIMETRICAL CLASSIC.*

The great God
Made heaven and earth ;
Both land and sea
And all things therein.
In six days,
He made the whole :
Man, the lord of all,
Was endowed with glory and honour.
Every seventh day worship,
In acknowledgment of Heaven's favour :
Let all under heaven
Keep their hearts in reverence.
It is said that in former times,
A foreign nation was commanded,
To honour God ;
The nation's name was Israel.
Their twelve tribes
Removed into Egypt ;
Where God favoured them,
And their posterity increased.
Then a king arose,
Into whose heart the devil entered ;
He envied their prosperity,
And inflicted pain and misery.
Ordering the daughters to be preserved,
But not allowing the sons to live;
Their bondage was severe,
And very difficult to bear.
The great God
Viewed them with pity,
And commanded Moses
To return to his family.
He commanded Aaron
To go and meet Moses:
When both addressed the King,
And wrought divers miracles.
The King hardened his heart,
And would not let them go ;
Wherefore God was angry
And sent lice and locusts.
He also sent flies,
Together with frogs,
Which entered their palaces,
And crept into their ovens.
When the king still refused,
The river was turned to blood ;
And the water became bitter
Throughout all Egypt.
God sent boils and blains,
With pestilence and murrain;
He also sent hail,
Which was very grievous.
The king still refusing,
He slew their first born ;
When the king of Egypt
Had no resource ;
But let them go
Out of his land.
The great God
Upheld and sustained them
By day in a cloud,
By night in a pillar of fire.
The great God
Himself saved them.
The king heardoned his heart,
And G
led his
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armiesrin pursuit;
But
And displayed his majesty.
Arrived at the Red Sea,
The waters were spread abroad :
The people of Israel
Were very much afraid.
The pursuers overtook them,
But God stayed their course ;
He himself fought for them,
And the people had no trouble.
He caused the Red Sea
With its waters to divide ;
To stand up as a wall,
That they might pass between.
The people of Israel
Marched with a steady step,
As though on dry ground,
And thus saved their lives.
The pursuers attempting to cross,
Their wheels were taken off ;
When the waters closed upon them,
And they were all drowned.
The great God
Displayed his power,
And the people of Israel
Were all preserved.
When they came to the desert,
They had nothing to eat,
But the great God
Bade them not be afraid.
He sent down manna,
Fur each man a pint ;
It was as sweet as honey,
And satisfied their appetites.
The people lusted much,
And wished to eat flesh,
When quails were sent,
By the million of bushels.
At the Mount Sinai,
Miracles were displayed ;
And Moses was commanded
To make tables of stone.
The great God
Gave his celestial commands,
Amounting to ten precepts,
And breach of which would not be forgiven.
Ho himself wrote them,
And gave them to Moses;
The celestial law
Cannot be altered.
In after ages,
It was sometimes disobeyed,
Through the devil's temptations,
When men fell into misery.
But the great God,
Out of pity to mankind,
Sent his first born sou
To come down into the world.
His name is Jesus,
The Lord and Saviour of men,
Who redeems them from sin,
By the endurance of extreme misery.
Upon the cross
They nailed his body ;
Where he shed his precious blood,
To save all mankind.
Three days after his death
He rose from the dead :
And during forty days
He discoursed on heavenly things.
When he was about to ascend,
He commanded his disciples
To communicate his Gospel,
to ;
And proclaim his revealed will.
Those who believe will be saved,
And ascend up to heaven ;
But those who do not believe,
Will be the first to be condemned.
Throughout the whole world
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The TTwhhi eet lia.cgeurhu• ieistantoeu nsLsel
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ages
Were regarded by God ;
Together with foreign states,
They walked in one way.
From the time of :Pavan-koo (1)
Down to the three dynasties (2)
They honoured God,
As history records.
Thang of the Shang dynasty (3)
And wan of the Chow (4),
Honoured God
With the intentest feeling.
The inscription on T'hang's bathing-tub
Inculcated daily renovation of mind ;
And God commanded him,
To assume the government of the empire.
Wan was very respectful,
And intelligently served God ;
So that the people who submitted to him
Were two out of every three.
When Tsiu obtained the empire (5),
He was infatuated with the genii (6) ;
And the nation has been deluded by the devil,
For the last two thousand years.
Suen (7) and Woo (8), of the Han dynasty,
Both followed this bad example ;
So that the mad rebellion increased,
In imitation of Tsin's misrule.
When. Woo arrived at old age
He repented of his folly,
And lamented that from his youth up,
He had always followed the wrong road. (9)
Ming (10), of the Han dynasty,
Welcomed the institutions of Buddha,
And set up temples and monasteries,
To the great injury of the country.
But Hwuy, of the Sung dynasty,
Was still more mad and infatuated,
For he changed the name of Shang to (God)
Into that of Yuh hwang (the pearly emperor) (I 1)
But the great God
Is the supreme Lord
Over all the world,
The great Father in heaven.
His name is most honourable,
To be handed down through distant ages :
Who was this Hwuy
That he dared to alter it ?
It was meet that this same Hwuy
Should be taken by the Tartars ;
And together with his son
Perish in the northern desert
From Hwuy, of the Sung dynasty,
Up to the present day,
For these seven hundred years,
Men have sunk deeper and deeper in error.
With the doctrine of God
They have not been unacquinted ;
While the King of Hades
Has deluded them to the utmost.
The great God displays (12)
Liberality deep as the sea ;
But the devil has injured man
In a most outrageous manner.
God is therefore displeased,
And has sent his Son (13),
With orders to come down into the world,
Having first studdied the classics.
In the Ting-yew year (1837)
He was received into heaven,
Where the affairs of heaven
Were clearly pointed out to him.
The great God
Personally instructed him, •
Gave him odes and documentts'
And communicated to him the true doctrine,
God also gave him a seal,
And conferred upon him a sword,
Connected with authority,
And majesty irresistible.
He bade him, together with the elder brother,
Namely Jesus,
To drive away impish fiends,
With the co-operation of angels.
There was ono who looked on with envy,
Namely the King of Hades ;
Who displayed much malignity,
And acted like a devilish serpent.
But the great God,
With a high hand,

* Each line containing, three watlE, and each varo four