INDEX TO THE RECORDER. PAGE. Book and Tract Society of China 251, 350 476 38, 118, 155, 208, 277, 355, 102, 139, 478 China's Need, Conversion or Regeneration Chinese Authors, Agency of, in Preparing Christian Literature Question in America, a Memorial to the Presbyterian General Assembly, 201 Answer to Memorial of General Assembly. Christianity Advanced by its Antagonisms and Confucianism, Ethics of, Compared Rev. D. Z. Sheffield. 365 Future Attitude of China Towards ... Rev. J. Edkins, D.D, 391, 405 36, 75, 117, 151, 203, 272, 350, 397, 436, 471 Diary of Events in the Far East 41, 81, 121, 161, 211, 211, 281, 324, 361, 401, 414 37, 79, 153, 206, 210, 275, 354 Editorial Notes and Missionary News, 39, 80, 119, 159, 299, 212, 279, 320, 357, 403, 411, 479 Ethics of Christianity and of Confucianism Compared Rev. D. Z. Sheffield. 363 Extracts from the Prei-wen Yin-Fu Flag Stones and Conglomorates of Ning-kong Jow, Thos. W. Kingsmill, Esq. 85 Future Attitude of China towards Christianity ... 9 PAGE. 237 361 238 151, 261 205 Rev. A. H. Smith. 455 118, 260, 316, 316 42, 83 401 53 73 272 Rev. J. Edkins, D.D. 326 Rev. G. W. Clarke. 269, 294 498, 442 357, 397, 436 16 236 Rev. R. H. Graves, M.D., D.D. 380, 411 41, 77, 81, 161 Rev. T. Yates, D.D. 35 442 363 Rev. Henry Blodgett, D.D. 445 Rev. V. C. Hart. 463 Rev. H. D. Porter. 178, 213 361 Rev. George Owen. 285 82 Rev. W. A. P. Martin, D D. 125 H. A. Giles, Esq. 416 Rev. J. H. Johnson. 261 Rev. A. W. Williamson, D.D. 348 Dr. Macgowan. 45 Rev. A. H. Smith. 187 39 Rev. J. Edkins, D.D. 246 Rev. C. R. Hager. 335 352 122, 356 360 Rev. H. D. Porter, M.D. 164 Rev. H. C. DuBose, 228 213 Rev. G. Reid. 338 158 Rev. J. Edkins, D.D. 306 ... ... By Rev. D. H. PORTER, M.D. “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. m. 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 men. 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. 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, |
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