he will; and the utter
incommensurateness and the unsatisfying qualities of the things around
us, that yet are the only objects which our senses discover or our
appetites require us to pursue; these facts suggest that the riddle of
fortune and circumstance is but a form of the riddle of man, and that
the solution of both problems lies in the acknowledgement that the soul
of man, as the subject of mind and will, possesses a principle of
permanence and is destined to endure.

Evidences of Christianity! I am weary of the word. Make a man feel the
want of it; rouse him, if you can, to the self-knowledge of his need of
it; and you may safely trust it to its own evidence--remembering only
the express declaration of Christ himself, "No man cometh to Me, unless
the Father leadeth him."

Christ's awful recalling of the drowsed soul from the dreams and phantom
world of sensuality to actual reality--how has it been evaded! His word,
that was spirit! His mysteries, which even the apostles must wait for
the parable in order to comprehend! These spiritual things, which can
only be spiritually discerned, were--say some--mere metaphors! Figures
of speech! Oriental hyperboles! "All this means only morality!" Ah! how
far nearer the truth to say that morality means all this!

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CONFUCIANISM

THE LUN YU, OR SAYINGS OF CONFUCIUS

The so-called "Four Books" of Chinese literature are held in
less esteem than the "Five Kings," or "Primary Classics," but
they are still studied first by every Chinaman as a
preparation for what is regarded as the higher and more
important literature. It should be borne in mind that the four
"Shus," as these books are called, tell us much more about the
actual teaching and history of Confucius. The four books are:
(i) The "Lun Yu," or the "Analects of Confucius," which
contain chiefly the sayings and conversations of Confucius,
and give, ostensibly in his own words, his teaching, and, in a
subordinate degree, that of his principal disciples; (2) the
"Ta-Hsio," or "Teaching for Adults," rendered also the "Great
Learning," a treatise dealing with ethical and especially with
political matters, forming Book 39 of the "Li-Ki," or "Book of
Rites," the "Fourth Classic," (3) the "Chung Yung," or
"Doctrine of the Mean," more correctly the State of
Equilibrium or harmony, forming Boo