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CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS.
" Among the charitable institutions they had
founding hospital established in many cities,
almshouses for old men and for widows, who in
common with all aged people, we're treated with
the greatest respect provident or relief institu
tons for the halt, the lame, the manned, and
the blind educational charities for poor schol-
ars, medical dispensaries, blind hospitals, eper
hospitals, and vaccine Institutions The Prac-
teal Benevolent Society at Ningpo, was an in
stitution having no less than nine objects-to
take cast-off children, to provide raiment for
the weather-bitten poor in winter, to give collins
to the poor when dead, to bury those found
dead, to gather the scattered bones found in
grave yards, and to take care of what were call
ed charity hills" where the unclaimed dead
were inferred, to dispense medicine to the sick
poor, to provide the poor with tea in summer,
and, in accordance with a superstition, to gath
er all pieces of paper found in the street and
burn them. Mr.. Milne denied the charge of
infant:cide brought against the Chinese, and as
serted that it was as true of England as it was
of China. The number of founding hospitals
might be regarded as some argument against
the habltual prevalence of the crime"
RELIGION.
"The religions of China are the Confucall-
list, the Tawist, and the Buddhist The former,
the political religion, was established in the
sixth century before the Christian religion, by
Conlucius who, after spending fifty years in his
countrys service, died, aged so years; and con-
sisted of a number of trite sayings, truisms, and
proverbs, arranged, and over the whole the sane.
ton of antiquity was thrown, Its propounder
was now worshipped as the Supreme. Tawism
originated at the same time and was, in a great
measure, system of mental abstraction, with
much of alchemy interminged. The Buddhist
came from the northwestern provinces of India
and taught the entire absorption after death into
Buddh. These had, by an unnatural coalition
worked their way, and now held in thraldom the
minds of the people of China"
ANTIQUITY or THE CHINESE EMPIRE.
C He said there was burning curiosity to
ascertain whether in that distant and wonderful
country, China, under all the rubbish in which
they were buried, any resemblance could be
found in the details of the Mosaic revelaton,-
Some time since the lecturer had undertaken TO
study the subject. The Chinese divided their
history into three parts--authentc, traditional
mn D1vt holN al = tho hon had
amongst them very correct and distinct mode
of counting their historical periods by cycles Of
fifty years. Now, looking at the authentic Pc
riod, and taking the cycles at the present time
and reducing those cycles to the entire number
of years since the commencement of the authen.
tic history, and the time at which the first real
character sat upon the throne, he found that that
individual mounted the throne 1890 years be.
fore Christ. This was l39 years after the flood
and about the age of Peleg in whose days, ac.
cording to the Mosaic record, was the earth d.
vided Compared with Scripture chronology
that gave us the thirty-second year after the dis
persion or confusion, as the date of that empe
ror, Yu, sitting upon the throne, which was jus
time enough for such an increase of family a.
to admit of immigration. The lecturer ther
gave a brief sketch Of the traditional and my
biological period, showing the coincidence o
many Of the events related, with the statement
given in the Mosaic record, and proving that thu
first king of China must have synchronlsed witt
the immediate descendants of Noah. TIL,
Chinese empire was founded 1900 years beior
the Christian era, and was contemporary witt
the establishment of the Babylonish and the Z
gyptian monarches. China had seen the ris
and fall of fourteen dynasties, and 236 rmpe
rors had swayed the sceptre over the people o
that empire.