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WILLIAM ii. SCENARIOS TRAVELS AROUND
THE WORLD. Edited by olive Rlsley Seward.
with 200 Illustrations. New York d. Apple
ton q Co., 1873. Subscription book at the
Bardwell House.
This is a book of $50 pages. 1t is writ
ten in the form of n journal, beginning
August 9th, 1870. The substantial interest
of the volume may be judged from the fol-
lowing extracts We begin with an event
observed while crossing the Pacific Ocean
September 1871. 1t was mistake to pro-
nouncc our meeting with the America on
the 9Th, the event of the voyage A greater
one has Just occurred. Our last date is the
14th. This note is written ON the 10Th.
The former entry certainly was made yes
terday. The chronometer marked eight
o'clock at night at Greenwich, at the very
hour when our clock, which keeps the run
ming time, marked eight o'clock in the
morning We are half way around the
world from Greenwich. and have lost lust
half day. 1t is quite clear that if we
should continue onward making the same
discrepancy of time, we should have lost
whole day on arriving mt Greenwich. We
might postpone the readjustment of our
ships time until we reached Greenwich
but the scientific world has wisely decided
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every case by compromise on the 1S0th
meridian, and therefore, instead of striking
out halliday here, we strike out whole
| one
Under date of October Goth the author
describes a Chinese army which he saw at
Ten-Tsin
We saw an army Of ten thousand men,
infantry and cavalry, enter the city as we
passed the western gate. At distance the
array was imposing, but, as we ncared it,
we discovered a woful lack of uniformity,
as well in dress rs in arms and equipments.
The infantry arm varied from wooden
club of three feet long. to matchbox
with seven-foot barrel the music was
thoroughly dscordant, but the yellow ban
ncrs were frequent, gay, and gorgeous
The march was as struggling and disorder
" as the return of the troops from Bull
Run to Washington.
OF Confucus we have the following
Open any Chinese book, ask any Chi
nese statesman or scholar, and you will
learn that Confucius is worshipped. Push
the inquiry further, and you will learn that
he is worshippcd not as deity, but as a
person of divine perfection. The absence
of the customary symbols of worship in
the Temple of Confucus confirms this
view. The Chinese ambassadors at Wash
ington refused to recognize one of their
young countrymcn who had been educated
at Fairfax Theological Seminary for the
Christian ministry. He pleaded as an eX-
cusc for his conversion, the divinity of
Christ They eeplicd 'Why do we want
another Christ? We have a Christ of our
D own, Confucius" A Chnaman, whom
. we met here, when pressed by one of our
y | parin a. n hn Of
D Christ as the gift of God to man, replied
0 "Why is not Il Christ born in China as
D good as "A Christ born in the United
d States /?
0 This national habit of comparing Confu
D cius with the Saviour undoubtedly result.
from the similarity, in many respects, he
q tween the teachings of Coniucius and tn,
e Christian morals. The Chinese reformcl
2 teaches no dogmatic theology, either OF
u materialism or mysticism. He tolerates al
such, however, while his code of moral
r and manners is adapted to all classes anC
conditions of society, and to all forms OF
q religious faith. The worshippers of HEAVIER
q and earth, the sun, moon, and stars, car
accept the system of COnfucius, because il
does not interfere with any principles Of
" their own. The Buddhists entertain nc
l. jealousy of it. 1t fails, however, to re
generate the empire; it is of the earth
earthly" "As is the earthly. such are the,
also that are carthy,a las is the heavenly ,sucl
are they also that are heavenly" The mo
60 tive of duty to our fellow-mcn must hav
its most effective spring in the sense o
duty to God. No human being can hav
that sense, unless he has accepted til
truth that God is one, and that he is
Spirit to be worshipped in spirit and il
}. truth.
In the Bay of Bengal, February 4th, MI
Seward thus soliloquiscs:
: Now at noon, while the captain is tai,
ing his daily observations, Mr.. Seward
pencil in hand, is making up his reckoning
- Captain, think we must he near tn
9Sth meridian of east longitude, which wi
be half my voyage around the world.
The captain answered, THAT lght-shir
sir, which YOU see ON our right, marks til
line you are inquiring for"
Little do our friends at home, in thei
midnight slumber, dream that we are sit
ing, wide awake, directly over their heads
But we have faint idea that this reflectiO
has been made under similar circumstance
before"
M OF elephant-ridng there is the followin
&c under date of Puttecla, India, March 31st
Y, When the compliments We're ended, I'll
uShtu MT. StNuIu Ill NDlN
manner he would prefer to make his el
trance into the capital whether he woul
go with him in his coach, or whether
would he pleased to make his entrance @
the back of an elephant Mr.. Seward, di
iidcnt perhaps of his skill in the latt,
T., mode of travel, or acting under convi
es ton that modesty hest becomes visito
accepted the offer of Il seat in the coacl
The maharajah, taking his seat at NJ
Stewards left, made rapid advance towal
the city. The ladies, like MIR. Sewar,
being complimented with the same choi'
of manner of entering the city, decided lii
Mr. Seward in favor of n coach-and-si
IIereupon halt and barley ensued betwee
Captain Horsford and the princes mast
of ceremonies. In the course of this d
bate, it appeared that, while the prime
excused Mr.. Stewards declination of Il
oi honor of the elephant on the ground OF h
years, the ladies, who could offer no sue
plea, would give offence by claiming Il
same Indulgence. Sixty elephants stoo
by the roadside, richly caparisoned in clol
of gold and scarlet, all ornamented wit
gilt earrings and necklaces. There was l
Dr.. more to be said on that question. The el
lui plants kneeled, silver ladders were plac,
no against their sides, and, in less time than
'ss takes to describe the action, the two ladic
not venturing to ride alone were seated I
gether with Captain llorsford, in the sp
. cious gilded and velvet howdah. The el
plant arose with motion like that of h
surge on the coast of Madras, and the ladi
found themselves in the upper air.