The editor tries to sum up the net results of the Nationalist movement to date in the "Chinese Re-fe order," and does not find th analysis encouraging. He says "the mis-behaviour of some Nationalist Teaders and the unfortunate habit of Nationalist armies of occupying private homes, temples, schools and churches has caused a, wave of dit jonment to engulf the former wusiasm for the revolution," yet he believes that a substratum of progress remains and there is certainly a nation-wide consciousness Uuat there is something rotten. in state of Denmark® It is even beginning to dawn on the masses that she rottenes is in. the state and does not come from the outsld this is an encouraging symptom, As is the duty of a religious periodical, the "Recorder" endeavours to indicate the lessons Chris tianity should learn from the experiences missionaries have passed through during the Inst few months, quotes approvingly a remark that missionary work will never be the same again," and this is buttressed by a quotation from a contemporary magazine which pose tulares that "For the Christian movement one proposition should have a prominent, if not the primary, place of consid namely, that the welfare of human beings should take precedence over ideas, dogmas, organizations or nay other loyalties." We doubt if the readers of the "Recorder" will give 4 facile assent to this, When Jorus was on earth Judea was seething with political and revolutionary ideas, Some of his contemporaries would fain have von Him over their party. They would.even have taken Tim by force and made Him a king, but there is not a word: in. the New Testament to indicate that" He took any note whatever of the political or social controversies of His day, Had He acted on the principle suggested by the "Re: ord-when the people sought Him b; the Lake of Galilee, not because they saw His miracles but because they did eat of the loaves, he should have wrought another miracle and filled their bellies instead of pr ing to them about the bread of Li which is from heaven, But Jo came not to reform the world but to save it, and, if the missionary organizations cease to concentrate on the work of evangelization and become agencies for social reform, then, indeed, Ichabod is written on their gates" and they will well deserve the failure that surely awaits them, Dr, Hodgkin continues his article on the preaching of the cross in China to-day and contrast the Western ideal of rigid justice with the Chinese code which is. tempered by ren cling, "Humanity." But this is a dangerous argument, Ren ching as often means "favour humanity, and it is just this one element. that vitintes the course of justice in a Chinese court, We doubt whether those who applaud this characteristic of Eastern ideas of justice are doing those they wish to praise a benefit, A judge's duty iv to administer the law; it is, the prerogative of the legislature.to tailed way in which are described is methods of working, his ircumlocutions, his reticences speech, will delight the reader. The lumber merchant and his daughter Jearry much of the plot which is a mysterious one and the geomancer, with his, writing-beach, ce, hie "Book of Changes" plays a small but vivid' part One feels that the title has a rather vague and frail. connection with the tale. There is a sugges: tion that Mfrs. Scott income way embodies a spirit which is bringing Something from the past but, on the other hand, a definite impression is received of her deliberate machinations to. gain possession of the interest. and then the heart of Trent and that her hands are closed until the death of an inconvenient husband gives her the opportuni of opening them and taking what she wants, The author reveals the actions land allows us to see the minds of ris characters but me docs not 2 ral their heart: and in that way ives an impression of an insincere [and- shallow society which, perhaps, is what he intends,
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