Gospel drawn from Chinese Sources," rend The peper on" Tustrations of the by Mr. John Darroch at the meeting of the Association on Tuesday evening (2u inst.), was divided into four sections, as follows 1.-Ilustrations drawn from the section of Chinese characters.
2 Illustrations from the works of Confucius and Mencius.
3.—Ilustrations from Chinese novels and story books.
4—Ilustrations suggested by the customs and manners of the people themselves, Lack of time would not permit th: speaker to touch on the fourth division of his subject, but under the other three headings several: striking. steris and anecdotes were given, the translation of the opening chapter of "The Dream of the Red Chamber" and the "grucome" story of "The Magic Mirror" being specially interesting.
Tu the discussion that followed the reading of the paper, Dr Gilbert Reid gave several appropriate quotations from the Confucian Analects and the Works of Mencius. He mentioned. among other things, that on one occasion, being in town near the Yellow River, he found that descendant of Mencius was the most confirmed opium smoker in the place.
The Rev. S. I. Woodbridge remarked that he thought that Missionaries, generally speaking, made too much: use of illustrations drawn from foreign sources in their preaching, and they bad been criticised by intelligent Chinese fur so doing.
He "iso thought that creat care should be exercised in using illustrations drawn from the dissection of Chinese characters, The Rev. Dr. Eakins, in the course of his appreciative remarks on the paper, mentioned that about 30 years ago Dr. Legge and himself, when travelling from Peking had been cartied in their chairs who was a descen case of filial hoy of the Han Dynasty as affording a typical Chinese Mast he Rev. Dr. R. T. Br Fewretted that the speaker had not, be through Tack of time, to give sor drawn the m: ems of the In his own. experience he had found these to he the most efficacious The discussion was brought to 4 lose by a few remarks from Dr. Timoth Richard, who drew attention to the notabl prophecy contained in the 4 and Classic," that a. remarkable pronounced by the Rev. G. F.
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