, 1877-12-08
Christ and GOnfuCins.
REV. DIR. KALLoCH pILATEs UPON FRESH
ASPECT OF THE CHINESE QUESTION.

Rev. DIR. Kailoch's lecture at the Metro
politan Temple last evening, Wepresent
An abstract OF the discourse:
China is twice as large as this country,
and half the people of the globe inhablt
it. There are eighteen provinces in Chi
na each of which Is larger than great
and populous European States. There
are villages containing more people than
New York City. A Yankee can make IL
city out of blacksmith shop and corner
grocery. Nehemiah described one of
these western cities: "Now the city
was large and very great; but the people
were few therein, and the houses were
not vet buided" 1t is evident now that
we had very little idea of the consequen-
ces when we clamored so loudly for the
opening of China, and crowed $" Justify
when it was opened. What we are now
afraid of is, not China hanging back,
and shutting herself up, but China going
ahead and string around IN little too
lively manner for the rest OF us. For
eigners complain at present" says a saga
cious Chinaman, "that we are changing
too slowly, fifty years from now you will
make war upon US for going too fast"
That Mard arin is prophet.
ANTIQUITY.
There is no parallel to the antiquity of
China. 1t is 1000 years old--and how
much more we know not. 1t has Outlast.
ed everything. 1t has talked in the same
tongue for thirty centuries. Its great
wall, more than 1900 miles long, and
twenty feet high, was built 200 years be-
foIe the Christian era. 1t had canals,
aaueducts, artesian wells, centuries be-
fore they were dreamed Of elsewhere
Books were printed 500 years before
Gutenberg Faust was born. China was
nation thousand years before the
seige ofTroy.
PEcuLIAITIEs.
The Chinese are peculiar" They
differ from everybody They are our
antipodes. We are foot to foot. Find
out how the world does anything-it is
not their way. Their compass needle
points south, and they say westsouth !"
instead Of " southwest" etc. Their names
are wrong end foremost. They would
sny Washington George, instead OF
George Washington. They mount a
horse on the right side which is the
wrong side to the rest of the world.
Their left hand is the hand Of respect,
and the hat on the head is q sign Of res
pect, also. Their seat OF understanding
is the stomach--like Dutchman's. The
most ornamental article Of furniture is
she ceffin. They charge SO per cent
interest on money. But the difference
between them and the rest ot US on this
point is not worth nnticing---it is one of
ability and not of inclination. Who has
not heard of the epitaph on our old 80
per cent?
y" Here lies old thirty.fve per cent:
The more he had, the more he lent,
The mere he made, the morehe craved,
The more he got, the more he shaved.
Good God can such soul be saved I"
"He finishes dressing" our poet friend
Taylor, "where we begin. He advances
backward and retreats forward, and falls
upward and rises downward. He is the
animal man inverted, subverted, pervert-
ed, and anything but converted. He is
n problem that never got into Euclid"
coSFUciUs.
Kung.fa tse is . name as familiar to
Chinese as Jesus is to Christian ears
Three hundred millions bow down 10 It.
One. thousand six hundred and sixty
magnificent temples have been erected to
it--one Of them covering ten acres.ot
ground. His images are everywhere.
His writings are supreme. His works
are text bodss. Saoh vast influence 10
difficult OF explanation. He taught no
religion. he wpote 40 poetry. He was
no hero and no martyr. He lived quiet
serene and nndisturbad life. and came to
his death in good old age, full of days,
riches and honor. The only explanation
of his wonderful power is in tle Chinese
mind itself and the perfect adaptation Of
his works to its wants. Other philoso
pliers have written, hut MOTTO Cinnamon.
And other Chinese philosophers have
written, but they have failed to under
"A =