Word: china
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Buddhism has been often over and underrated. While the inhabitants of Japan and China are in a way Buddhists, they are also Confuscians. The evolution of the religion is a long story, running back in unbroken records to the Vedas...
...results of foreign missions in this century justify their continuance. A. In heathen lands.- (a) Africa (Century, Feb. 1896, article by H. M. Stanley).- (b) India (McClintock and Strong's Cyclopaedia, pp. 344-382).- (c) Japan (International Journal of Ethics, Jan. 1896, pp. 202-304).- (d) China (N. A. Rev. Jan. 1896, p. 28).- (e) South America (J. H. Dnnis, p. 160).- (f) Islands of the Pacific.- (1) Sandwich Islands.- (2) New Hebrides (J. H. Dennis, p. 90). B. On Christians at home.- (a) They emphasize the essentials of Christianity.- (1) Universality (Bishop Littlejohn, sermon...
...trust in God. In our own day genuine Christian faith is at once a vision and a venture, yet, although its visionary character leaves room for possible doubt and makes it seem perhaps fantastical, history has shown, as in the case of Rome before Christ's coming and of China today, that when men lose this visionary trust a low moral state is the inevitable result. With Christ returned the vision of God and the possiblity of redemption. Today the things that keep us most from practical faith in God are engrossing worldly occupations and unrestrained passions. There is also...
JAPANESE Photographs and Harvard Souvenir China in every variety at Olsson's Art Store, Harvard Square...
...result of the recent war between Japan and China, a university and preparatory school are to be established at Tien-Tsin. Plans for the university were begun ten years ago, but the whole scheme was in danger of falling through, till the recent war finally brought it to a successful issue. The university will be under government control, and will have a competent corps of foreign professors. Mr. C. D. Tenney is the first president. He was formally a tutor to the sons of Li Hung Chang. The latter, with other officials, has donated money with which a building...