Missionary XXIV, No. 6, June, 1893. Shanghai The Presbyterian Mission Press, In the opening article we have by a master mind a. subject w whilst of supreme importance to the missionary body, has an terest to all foreigners in the East in proportion as they realise the influence each inevitably lias, for better or worse, on the Chinese. There is a special appropriateness in the topic: How to preach to the Heathen," being taken up by Mr. Muirhead, as during the forty-five years of his missionary career in China, te has been particularly faithful and successful in hia weaching to the heathen, In this first instalment of Mr. Muithead's paper, the Jine of thought laid down is: " Adxptation to the Chinese in their moral and spiritual conditions." We have first pointed out to us the the ignorance and hopelessness of the Chinese, than their prejudices. With regard to the prejudice against what seems to them our foreign teaching, customs, and manners, it is well to point out that the Chineee "do net object to many things from broad, such as money, medicine, trade, employment, secular instruction some' extent, the priests and practice of Buddh m—an exotic and outside religion—ad to say, opium."
have next pointed out "their idolatries and superstitions," which are legion and bear ery department of life, in all the we sustain one to the other, the living and the dead, the past, the present, and the future,' One.course with regard to them is to expose their human origin, that they are the mere invention of and designing men. handed down from pas slightest ground or reason to sustain them, Their "history may be ao far traced and shown to have originated in n most unwary rantable manner, xt the instance of men who had no right to establish them, or as the result of ideas and expectations which they. had formed in ignorance or misconception of the truth, "Another point is to wow their utter inadequacy to effect the end in view."
Still further speaking of Chinese idulatries and superstitions, Mr. Muirhend points out the degrading influence of these iden on the moral character of those who practise them, and also notes the sin and guilt of this state of things, The first instalment closes with how the natural depravity of the Chinese may be brought forward as a ital point in the teaching of mis-'This in endorsed by a remarkable incident in Mr. Muirhend's own experience.
The Rev. 0. F. Wisner gives sume more "Thoughts on the Study of Chinese," the subject of this portion being "the written study Mr. Wisner recommends taking six Inngunge." With regard fo, methods months for gaining a gond foundation in colloquial, then going on with the Chinese books, One should always make his own commentary and book of notes on what he is reading, and so secure all that ho acquires for after reference. As soon possible, too, one should begin using Chinese dictionaries. They contain all and infinitely more than any Chinese English dictionary,"
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.