Several times your correspondent has received extraordinary letters from some Hunanese gentleman, in which ho put forward the claim to be a reincarnation of one or more of the ancient sages, but his epistles have been so curiously worded, that even my Chinese teacher, who is a "hsiuts'ai," could make nothing of them, To-day this gentleman called, and I found him to be a mild-looking old scholar of about sixty years of age. When asked for particulars, he said: "Do you or do you not know what I hinted at in iny letters?" On receiving a negative answer, ho said: " Well, you shall all know it will all be revealed."
ble to got a lit mysterious visitor, and it was to the effect that, some months ago when in the city of Piingloh, one night he saw heaven openett and there appeared to him a celestial being who said that Jesus Christ had come again to the earth, and was at that time in Oh'uenchou ' (Kuan, one visitor said ho had i ion, and was appointed his helper, and he is uow going about to tell the people of this mysterious man, and to announce that he is to be the King of China. Some of our people put him down as a lunatic, but one of them, por-haps, truly said: " Well, he does not look: like ouo, but soams to be a wily agitator, going about stirring up a rebellion, and ing the Gospel story as a cloak," "It is difficult to say who our visitor is, but certainly as a visitor ho is something out of the ordinary.
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