THE

CHINESE RECORDER

AND

MISSIONARY JOURNAL.

V

VOLUME XVII.

SHANGHAI:

AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN MISSION PRESS

1886.

PAGE.
Dr. Macgowan. 140
Rev. C. R. Hager. 112
Rev. J. Edkins, D.D. 149
120, 121, 276
281, 350
476

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Table
38, 118, 155, 208, 277, 355, 402, 139, 478
China's Need, Conversion or Regeneration
Rev. W. W. Royall.
Chinese Authors, Agency of, in Preparing Christian Literature

111

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...

Rev. C. W. Mateer, D.D. 93
Question in America, a Memorial to the Presbyterian General Assembly, 201
Answer to Memorial of General Assembly.
Rev. G. W. Woodall.

111
197
401
210

Rev. D. Z. Sheffield. 365
Rev. J. Edkins, D.D. 391, 405
E. H. Parker, Esq. 11
36, 75, 117, 151, 203, 272, 350, 397, 436, 471
44, 81, 124, 164, 211, 214, 281, 324, 361, 401, 411
Rev. F. Ohlinger. 265
Rev. R. C. Mateer. 51
A. Foster. 192
322
...203, 272
Rt. Rev. G. E. Moule. 53
145
37, 79, 153, 206, 210, 275, 354

Bamboo, Square
Basle Mission...

99

...

Bible, Mode of Printing
Work ...
Book and Tract Society of China
Text Book Series

93

"9

Chingkiang, Troubles in
Christ, Name of, in China
Christianity Advanced by its Antagonisms

and Confucianism, Ethics of, Compared
Future Attitude of China Towards ...
Corea, Military Officers in
Correspondence
Diary of Events in the Far East
Dog-headed Barbarians

300

Easy Wenli New Testament...

Fatshan

Foochow

39

39

53

Echoes from Other Lands

VOL. XVII.-1886.

...

Editorial Notes and Missionary News,

Education in China
Ethics of Christianity and of Confucianism Compared
Emperor, Prayer for ...
Extracts from the P'ei-wen Yin-Fu
February 21st, 1866-86
Final K and T out of T and K

...

Action of Amoy Missionaries.

Correspondence

Griffith John's

Flag Stones and Conglomorates of Ning-kong Jow,
Folk-lore Society

Future Attitude of China towards Christianity

Geometry, Dr. Mateer's, A Review

Hospital, Canton

Corea

39, 80, 119, 159, 299, 242, 279, 320, 357, 403, 441, 479
R. C. F. Kupfer, 417, 453
Rev. D. Z. Sheffield. 363

329
137

263

Rev. J. Edkins, D.D.
Rev. Mark Williams.
Rev. J. Edkins, D. D.
Thos. W. Kingsmill, Esq.

...

90
85
362
Rev. J. Edkins, D.D. 391, 405
Dr. Martin. 314

121, 211, 360
361

239

240

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International Missionary Conference

James V: Verse 5

Japan, News from

Jesus Christ, Name of in China
John's, Rev. Griffith, Testament
John, Mrs. G., In Memoriam
Johnson, Murder of

Journal, Missionary

Li Ki, Translated by Dr. Legge
Mahometanism, Introduction into China

Medical Association

Congress

Missionary Work by Ladies in China
Reports of

99

Methods of Missionary Work ... Rev. J. L. Nevius, D.D. 24, 55, 102, 166, 252, 297
Mission Work, Some personal Reminiscenses of Thirty Years'...

Rev. R. H. Graves, M.D., D.D. 380, 411
Missionary Conference, International, Rev. A. H. Smith. 55, 102, 166, 252, 297, 455

41, 77, 81, 161
Rev. C. W. Mateer, D.D.

32
35

Rev. T. Yates, D.D.

442

363

Ministry
Pastors

19

Nestorian Tablet

99

Müller, Geo., in China

Music, Chinese, Notes on

Native Agents, May they be Supported by Foreign Funds?

53

73

272

44, 84, 124, 164, 212, 244, 284, 324, 364, 404, 444, 480
Rev. J. Edkins, D.D. 326
Rev. G. W. Clarke. 269, 294
498, 442
357, 397, 436
16
236

Religious Sects in North China

Rhenish Mission

New Testament, Parallels in the Four Books

Ningpo Presbytery, Resolution of
Northern Barbarians in Ancient China
O-fang, Pleasance of ...

Pictorial Representation of Christ...

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Poisonous Fish, and Fish poisoning...

Proverbs and Common Sayings of the Chinese

Reviews of 1885

Sanitary Salvation

Schools in Hongkong...

11

of M. E. Mission in Shanghai
Secret Sect in Shantung
Secularization in Kiangsu
Singapore, Mission Work
Spiritual Life of Missionaries
Tract Society, Central China Religious
The Three Words, I Hi Wei...

...

SECRET SECTS IN SHANTUNG.

BY REV. D. H. PORTER, M.D.

men.

"THERE is an inexhaustible fascination in the study of the religions of the world." Thus opens a brief but brilliant review of Mr. Samuel Johnson's "Oriental Religions," Vol. I. Persia. The succeeding sentences may serve as the text of the following study. "Whether Mr. Herbert Speneer is right or not in asserting that all religion had its beginning in the worship of 'ghosts," it is certain that there has never been anything in our world more real than has been the power of the religious instincts over the faiths of This it is which, more than any other one thing, has awed and charmed, mastered and moulded the human heart and life." 'Comparison, insisted the great Cuvier, is the lamp of science." If this be true of the great world religions, some of which have been studied so profoundly by modern investigators of comparative theology, it is no less true of those more local and little understood systems of religious life which prevail among men. It is from the myths and mythologies of Greece and Rome that we discover a deeply hidden theology. It is from Folk-lore and Fable that we discover the springs of superstition. By the ever widening collation of the facts of human experience we build solidly a Social Science, or an Ethical Science, or a Science of Religion.

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It is the fascination of the study of life, especially of the study of the spiritual life of men, so exhaustless in variety and yet so common in its passions and needs, that gives occasion and excuse to the present endeavor. "The fortress of time-honored customs and supernatural beliefs," says Mr. Robert West, "in which the soul of the heathen is, as it were, entrenched, must be explored and studied: if any atom of adamantine truth has survived it must be respected,