Recorder does not come up to the earlier standard, "J." contributes a paper on the rise and progress of the Manjowa(Manchus), which contains some curious information, but is less carefully elaborated than it desorves.—"' Hoinos" gives a narrative of a between himself and a Lama, ty, which certainly has the The wuccweds in putting questions which involve his interlocutor in some curious contradictions.
For instan L.—Wel end of people who clow about Jenu do not pray to Him. then?
on yourself aay #0, How about them
Ch.—Ayo; that's just, There's nothing for them but eternal woe.
Z.—Now then, God makes all these souls (your Ohristanity aay), these soule that go to hell;—these souls which Ho knows beforehand will yo to hell; how then in the face of all this can you make out that God ix good Ch.—You have asked a question that i often iscuased in Christian lands, Tean give mak it outatall. and know that God is of explain how goodness is consistent with creating souls who are known beforehand to be about to to nothing but misery. From the Bible Tknow that Goi is good; but Ldonot know how to reconcile goodness with,—as you suy,—creating souls that have nothing bat misery before them,—1 do not know.
Or, to take another conversation L.—Well now, supposing of wife and husband, one goes to. heaven and one to hell, would the one in heaven nob grieve?
.—And be quite hay Gerisinly ho (or abe) would.
Aad be g 'PPY L.—How could it be?
Ch.—I do not know.
No wonder the Lama bye-and-bye gets impatient, and exclaims, You do not know. You do not know. You do not know.
You always come to that, and stop. What is your sacred book good for, if it does not go to the bottom of everything and make it plain?" Christian's reply istoolongto quote it amounts simply to adeclarationof his own belief that the Bible is good and useful. Mr. Chalmers contributes a very statistical sketch of the Canton Protestant Mission.
Rev. N. J, Plumb narrates how he recently Jand of Hai-tan, and underwent the hardship of having to be carried ashore in his chair from an open boat, which got stuck on the mud at low tide; and how he asked the Mandarin to lend him a gun-boat to go back in, which the latter most courteously did—Canon McClatchie translates the inscription on the tomb of Chow-tze.—A number of letters follow on the "term for God."—Some miscellaneous items, and notices of recent publications close the number, @utports.
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