What has been the fate of this great teacher? And where is his Church? For two centuries his in-Avence lasted, and his Church grow, that he rivalled in influence: Confucius himself. Then the unity the had so strongly enjoined on his followers was broken, and there wae contest for the Papacy between thros rivals, From that time little has boon heard of the Church of Me Tzu, whose division was ite undoing. For the preservation of ithe works of Mo Can we are in. Jdcbted to the Taoists, whose inter. fest wat mot in the social, moral Jand religious teachings of the saga, but in some alchemistic teachings which occupy but a very trivia place in his works, Tt has been re-
ito rescue him from oblivion, to edit his works, and to find the el served for modern Chinese ce) to the interpretation of the jig-saw puzzle which an unintelligent com-poriter made of one of his writings.
ig still reserved for someone to make his works accessible to western readers, and to prepare aw interpretation of the sage which shall enable them to appreciate his greatness. It is greatly to be hoped that Mr, Williamson will make a beginning by publishing the mnsterly paper read before the Tsinan Literary Society. for the night, the boat man having promised to go at dawn, when we were surprised by the arrival of three young fellows, one of them in jsoldiors uniform who inquired who} we were and what we were doing.
went to the prow of the boat to) interview them and what followed a long story.
Suffice it to say that after being kept in great suspense and no little danger for two days with our boat ed up to the river bank we were taken inland to a small town where we ran the greatest risks from a very anti-foreign crowd.
A "trial" took place in the central Yamen of this town and had it [gone contrary to the wish: s of the lerowd it would have meant the oid of us, a little company of foreigners as we were cut off from all help.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.