and to all intents and purposes were Chinese. The most of them, about 400 families in all, have joined the Mobammedans, Their synagogue fell into a rai ous condition and during one of the sieges to which the city was exposed the poor destitute people sold the timbers of their sacred edifice, called li-pai-see. The sect is known among themselves and in Kai-the liao chin chiao or the sect that pulls out the sive," in evident allusion to the sinew that shrank on the thigh of one of the patriarchs. Both speakers spoke jokingly as if Dr. Forke hind purposely omitted all reference to the Tows from his Anti-semitic feelings, Mr. O'Conor asked how the Nestorians and Jews had entered China, The President replied at some length de the former coming through Tarkestan and entering China by the Kiuyiikwan, the pass at the extreme western eud of the Great Wall, and of the existence in churches of the Nestorians in the time of Moron Polo, and of the opposition they met with from the Mohammedans, The Jewa, he said, came from India and entered Chinn some centuries before the Christian era. Dr. Forke spoke defending himself against the charge of having failed to extn the existence and ion of the remarking that the mark the site of their church mentioned by Dr. Martin so many years ago were probably not now existing. In the paper it was noted that the roof put up to cover the Nestorian tablet had been blown down last year.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.