Religion in China: Containing a Brief Account of the Three Religions of the Chinese, with Observations on the Prospects of Christian Conversion Amongst that PeopleJ.R. Osgood, 1878 - 260 Seiten |
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Seite iii - RELIGION IN CHINA; containing a brief Account of the Three Religions of the Chinese ; with Observations on the Prospects of Christian Conversion amongst that People.
Seite 185 - ... each floral bell that swingeth And tolls its perfume on the passing air, Makes sabbath in the fields, and ever ringeth A call to prayer. Not to the domes where crumbling arch and column Attest the feebleness of mortal hand, But to that fane, most catholic and solemn, To that cathedral, boundless as our wonder, Whose quenchless lamps the sun and moon suppl j ; Its choir the winds and waves — its organ thunder — Its dome the sky.
Seite 200 - It is not for you to know the times and the seasons, which the Father hath put in His own power.
Seite 48 - Some of them [Taonist temples] are called Kung, palace; and the endeavour is made in these to represent the gods of the religion in their celestial abodes, seated on their thrones in their palaces, either administering justice or giving instruction: " recalling the Greek idea of Hades. That like ideas prevailed among the early English, is curiously shown by a passage Kemble quotes from King Alfred, concerning the permission to compound for crimes by the bot in money,
Seite 71 - Commissioner Yeh, in a conversation with Mr. Wingrove Cooke, said " Tien means properly only the material heaven, but it also means Shang-te, * supreme ruler,' * God,' for, as it is not lawful to use his name lightly, we name Him by his dwelling-place which is in Tien.
Seite 94 - With regard to creation, they know of no law but spontaneity and self-development in the construction of the existing universe. They consider that all things have come to be as they are of themselves. They do not conclude, from the marks of design and contrivance which are exhibited in nature, that there must have been an intelligent Contriver.
Seite 123 - If a man having such faults," says the Blessed One, " does not repent, but allows his heart to remain at rest, sins will rush upon him like water to the sea. When vice has thus become more powerful, it is still harder than before to abandon it. If a bad man, becoming sensible of his faults, abandons them and acts virtuously, his sins will day by day diminish and be destroyed, till he obtains full enlightenment.
Seite 59 - Buddhists are known to be nothing but f1ctitious impersonations of some of these ideas. The Buddhist worship is not reverence paid to beings believed to be actually existing; it is a homage rendered to ideas, and it is only supposed to be reflex in its effects. Their worship is useful as a discipline, but not effectual as prayer.
Seite 57 - ... of the Emperor. The readiness with which new religious ceremonies are received among the people has allowed the three religions to interact very extensively on each other. It will be worth while to point out instances of this interaction, and also to show how they co-exist harmoniously. This will be interesting to all students of the religions of the world, as well as to those who have at heart the Christianisation of the whole human race. China is the only instance of a country where three powerful...
Seite 221 - a steep mountain, or any mountain at all remarkable, is supposed to have a special local spirit, who acts as guardian.