Dr. Eakins supplied to the Record. what is really, with some few Feservations, a very masterly pap considering the eatly date at whi it-was written, on Buddhism and Taoism; also, on page 317, a valuable note, warning "missionaries to think carefully in regard to their speaking of Confucius and of other names venerated. by the Chi Taoism is a homebred religion, based upon and developed from the wild theories of some pre-Christian philosophers. Tt has never taken the same The Rev. F. Woodin gives a story of a seller of opium und a gambler to whom, "in the Spirit of Christ" he said, "Elder Brother Six, as far as I can see, you must per are Hell's child' any passage in the New Testament is given for this method of dealing with sinners; but the result, according to Mr. Woodin, was ex: cellent:—"He left off his opium, shut up his opium-shop and gamb-Ting-den, and has been for several ars an humble, earnest Christian." Unfortunately for this and similar stories, there is the very awkward episode of Mr. Dukes, of the ablest, if not the ablest Missionary at Amoy; a good honest man, believing what he preached, possessing considerable culture, ete, ete." The whole story was told in the "China Mail" of January 8, 1878, where it is said that "the most serious charge against him is that, in a letter to the Board, he cast doubts on the veracity of the missionary reports; that he challenged the number of conversions, and questioned both the quality and sincerity of the converts; that he disbelieved the pretty little stories of aged, men coming to beg for the bread of life, opining that their real petition for cash to get ice, etc.; that he suggested missionaries should tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, ai ed tolerably strongly" his opinion that the publication of the present order of highly-coloured missionary reports was an obtain under false pretence: to go, "and has left, carrying with him & testimony to his worth igned by all classes of the com-token of a more substantial nature; and the community are left wrathfal and indignant."
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