On New Year's Day his Tsnom Commissioner of Well mode's for the North Chi 1999, to the affesrs and mon of the Chinese Resiment Rev disband mont, and reduction have pielieailly. to diminish the rks of thaes wha thrash the trouble. ary hat till og raat went mrasont ed <ann the periment as it ete Sastre atten the lows:—Maior Bru percentage considering that
jy ame there: the ress deserved of the ems arely anit hal to undergo its lnption aly refeels the greatest Sours responsible for the trai men themselves that the regiment was not able to hold its own with old vet 1 the use of arms, but that them-and against their own countrymen. It Tas ist a fashion to sneer at the British officer. Arm-chair criticism is net often of mich At any rate, the Our long have aatCerant to create a Chinese who had the opportun-ug. of seine this rade, could not 1 sarnrised by has been accomplish so well in so space of time, The history of the resiment is short, but its record is one nent marist inez as one Tam emmilert tha, whenever yo. it. will prove itself has tone tr th mast, t vis, and will add fresh las vorshipof Confucius. He is not described nseription on his tablet makes him "the "host holy of the ancient sages." Honour ey his memory as China's greatest teacher that the rite signifies—notw hstandthe zrovelling and abject form of the This view is confirmed by comparison vith another vite, which must be admitted to be purely of mean the worship of he tablet of the living Emperor. This is Jone by the assembled mandarins in pavilions or temples erected for the purpose in all quarters of the Empire. I have seen them Rnosland rise to the-sound of the Arum, as do the worshippers in the temples of Confucius. Yet that is precisely the form through which a mandarin. must go on being presented at Court at Peking.
However little we may admire this sort of man-worship, it is man-worship and_not the worship of God, It is not. forbidden to a Christian official; nor is the worship of the sage forbidden.
The papacy, as I think, made a deplorable blunder in condemning it, and protestants have made a blunder in following the papal usage If protestant missionaries would take an independent stand and reconsider the question with philosophic candour, I have no doubt that most of them would to the conclusion at which I have arrival. They might then teach their fucius urite. The conscience xts to look on. the worship of Con-
of our Christians would at once be.set free and one of the greatest barriers to the spread of Christianity would be taken out of the way. those matais tael ay, Tat aver anoad edt the pepiest with the Regiment I feelings tame that Tow avail myself of this ame that {hose f.eings are hoor inpeieatedl From the officer camman tine tthe mest junior ofieor, T regard von all as fried, and it starts me rear pleastire to present those aficars wha ha: 1 dnenrved them the medals which, by their deeds of valour, they have won, Tam also urand. as the representative of the Danondeney, to pre out soldiers, who have fower in hi royal taken of his Wai n handed personally exe' recipient by his LIT mour, who took ving a fow words of uuragement to each 7 dojrein Yemour of the prod station of his Mijesty King Edward VIL as Emperor of
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