Taere are many European ideas on which cross lights are thrown by the practices and beliefs of. China,' Often, of course, we find that the idea. now prevalent in this country, is an idea which has been long ago exploded, Europe; but occasionally we find an existing trace of some custom in the West which ties on the China of to-day to the France, England or Germany: of the past, ina wonderfully suggestive way. his remark is prompted -by reading the various accounts that: have recently appeared in the home papers, of the Ober Ammergan Play, There, in an obscure corner of Europe, the bustle and inrmoil of this doubting nineteenth century. suddenly confronts'a spectacle: that Belongs: absolutely to the -Agex of Faith. In this one strange bye-way:
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