THE su joined pages were translated as part of a course of study of Classical Chinese, carried on amidst numberless distractions incidental to the sole management of a steadily increasing Mission from 1872 to 1879. They were only presented to the public in the pages of The China Review and The Chinese Missionary Recorder at the special request of the respective editors, and not without hope that others might be tempted to make further explorations in the well-nigh untrodden fields of Chinese Philosophy. The greater our acquaintance with these, the better shall we be able to comprehend the working of the Chinese mind, and to sympathise with its literati in their difficulties and doubts when confronted with the Divine Philosophy of the Gospel. A comparative view of the Church Missionary Station at Honkong, at the periods of my arrival and departure, will serve to show that that Gospel is making progress in that as in other parts of China. To God only be all glory. During the past year fifty have been added to the Church by Baptism. The annexed cut represents our 'Fellow workers for the Kingdom of God" in 1879. EXETER, 1880. JA |