On Thursday evening (22nd), at the hall of the Young Men's Christian Association, fairly good number of people assembled te hear an address delivered by the Rev, EH. Faber, on "Famous Men of Chiva." In the absence of the President of the Association, the Ven. Archdeacon Moule, the chair was occupied by the Rey, Dr, William: eon, The usual preliminary business hi ing been gone through, the Chairman introduced the Rev. E. Faber, who, although somewhat handicapped by having to deliver his address in an alien tongue, contrived to keep the interest of his audience on the qui-throughout. Inthe course of hisinteresti instructive remarks, the lecturer eviewed the characteristics and peculiarities of the worthies of China, buth modern and ancient. As may be expected, Confucius and Mencius, with iheir remarkable pos-humous influence on society, constituted the feature which claimed most of the time of the lecturer; yet he rapidly reviewed, with characteristic method and aptitude, tot China's sons of genius who for and attained unto an eminence of no mean order as poets, statesmen, painters, musicians, generals, caligraphists, ete. The lecturer deemed the posthumous influence exercised by the writings of Confucius and Mencius to ye detrimental to the best welfare of the Chinese, and recognised in it the almost insurmountable barrier to the more rapid spread of Christianity in China. The lecturer in an interesting manner alluded to the canon nisation of certain worthies of antiquity, particular reference being made to the dis tinguished military officer Kuang Ta, whose popularity rivals that of Confucius. He is esteemed as the Chinese Mars, and is all over the land worshipped as the God of War. China, like America, furnishes more than any other country instances in which personal merit alone has enabled its possessor by dint of perseverance, resolution, and fixity of purpose, and a determination to surmount difficulties, to achieve the highest positions obtainable—the sceptre itself having been again and again wielded. by those who once occupied very common-Jecturet pointed out, between the two coun lace positions. The difference though, the tries alluded to above should not be allowed to pass unnoticed. In the latter, all that was best and noblest alone in human nature enabled the aspirant to attain to the highest honours; while, alas, in the fernier, analogous positions were attainable, often,
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