The Archive · 1911

THE ENGLISH RATIONALIGT SOCIETY DESIRES OX BEHALF OF TO

or rose (7) missionaries.

Recently in England many rations list books of different kinds have been made.

One of them eays:—A man who bad Visited China looked upon the Roman Catholic and Protestant religions as superstitions and false. He met one of the Roman Catholic missionaries who] Dems) bad come from abroad to China and established " charch, and who said he had never learnt Chinese, bat yet coald lon be said that the Gab which comes the On another occa-out of the water could understand bim.

Sorely thie makes it clear that countries believe io thie man.

Yet another missionary eaid that be bad been in thet not geozinely believed also" Rassian who has lived twenty-five years la Peking and not a single Chinese has believed la bim.

A missionary asked Li Hong-chang. when be ing abroad it any Ohinese over believed in the Protestant religion, one who pessoas believed and Lireplied that there was not a single

faith io the Protestant rea former time, Christian Chinese they killed very many of them and burnt very many of the houses. Doge not this make it clear that the Obristian religion is " snperstitio and violent one? La foreign coun! those who did not believe in thie religion were massacred to the number of ten thousand million.

The Protestant charch by violent! methods has obtained " large amount of money. Daring the last 300 years the Pope of Rome, following the methods of the Protestants, obtained money from the Kings of France three times a year, Now the Roman Catholic, Jeburch has possessed itself of " large amount of money and has become ceedingly wealthy. Nowadays there foolish man in China to " (or the) Catholic missionary (or-ies) who ban (or bar) thos become exceedingly wealthy; thereafter the foolish man becomes poorer and poorer day by day be is traly " fool. Daring the Boxer troubles Chinese knew that the] Protestant ud Roman Catholic religious were petitions and tale and that th Chinese fellow-countrymen had no to get rid of these two religions; therefore they took their swords and massacred a large cumber of mission When the foreign countries heerd about thie they sent their troops here, and on these reaching Peking, China was afraid and fled. Ts not this utterly Remi Cathar and Protestant (2) © way to get rid of religions have now been translated Chinese who read them do not know that there are false pacsages in them.

(2) Secondly, " book has been made in England which says that the Protestant and Roman Catholic religions For, 24, 1911. are fall of defects, If a method is desired of getting rid of them, this English book can be translated into Chinese; then by readin, it, the Chinese may know the defects of the two religions, Anyone who is able to traneate this book can join the Society above-named.

This is " translation from " foreign per.

hen again took his seat, Mr. Phillips and the accused were in Court.

Mr. Phillips said that there bad been misunderstanding. He did not know whether he misunderstood what was intended, bat he thought that the Court had adjourned antu Thursday, and that it would only sit on Wednesday if he (counsel) desired to ask Mr. Harding any questions.

His Lordship said that the Court only took the case that morning because of the question of recogni Mr. Phillips said thet as "he had come to Court he would be glad of an opportunity of asking Mr. Harding one or two questions. regret that Mr. Phillips a not go The Crown Advocate expressed his

on with the case at once. It should only Rages a short time, cly to Phillips said that he was not ete by the Crown Advocate, Harding was then recalled, and the course of translating these do cam have you formed any oj as to whether this leaflet and the in the newspaper were written directly by " Chinese in the Chinese language, or whether they were " translation: Most obviously they were written by a Chinese at the dictation of " foreigner, is Lordship—In Engliab.

Witness consists io many cases of literal trans-ions of English words into Chinese combinations of characters which are cot in ose, There two or three caves of translations of English idioms, ive us one?—In the title, The word which is sionaries" is derived—a man who is cent by someone above him.

Apart from that and from the fact that it is apparently one from tion, can yon gather from the transla. tion the states of life of the Chinese who wrote it? Was it a scholar No. the man who wrote it was not a scholar, There are, I belive, some slight differences between the leaflet and the extract from the newspaper, but no differences in meaning?—No. The general scase of both documents is the same. There is no general difference in the sense. Both are attacks pon Chri, and the sentences generally are the same. verbal differences only,

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