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revenue. The result has been £ niore commercial spirit at Vladivostock, which has been assisted considerably by the access of the railway bringing it more iuto contact with the rest of the world.
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A SINOLOGUE'S " DISCOVERY.”
phecy.
important Later both poverty and
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likenesses, neither do we (as did an early missionary) attribute them to the cunning of Anti-Christ. It is beginning to be understood, moreover, that there is no need for either side to suggest derivations, one from the other. Both cults quite possibly evolved frodi earlier ones, one Hindu, the other Chaldean. The startling resembl ances between modern Buddhism and primitive (Catholic) Christianity are based on features older thau either, at least one of which is well known to the devouter
districts was none of Russia's own seeking; and that it has come about through no forethought or intention on her part, but actually in spite of all her efforts to the
(Daily Press, 22nd April.) contrary. Governor HARTMANN, a German
MAYA, the mother of GAUTAMA, was, like gentleman from Courland, who administered
Now no one of these things has of itself MARY, the mother of JESUS, declared the province some thirty years ago did been sufficient to bring about any vital immaculate. Each birth ensued on pro- indeed make some advances towards change in the condition of the Russian |
Each infant bat introducing agriculture and agriculturists, provinces in northern Asia, yet it is not to visitors, Philosophers or Chiefs. but St. Petersburg quickly gave him to be denied that there has been a slightly preached self-abnegation, understand that it was not for such pur-improved tendency, and that, tendency has chastity. Both fasted; both were tempted poses, the coast lands had been acquired;, been to show that Siberia, if left to work out in a wilderness; both prophesied their he was soon recalled in favour of a military her own salvation, has a not inglorious,
return to earth; both underwent traus Governor, and since his time militarism has, future before her, but that to develop this figuration; both wrought miracles of heat- reigned supreme. As a secondary, though rest is needed. Hitherto Siberia, and Asia ing at the demise of both there were by no means foreseen result of the construe- generally have been serious drags on the remarkable convulsions of nature; both tion of the Siberian Railway, Siberian finances of Europeau Russia,-too much, in
were charitable toward sinful women; both farmers commenced to find their pro luets, fact, for the country to support in its im were Lights; both emphasised the worth- largely in demand; the Russian Govern- poverished condition. The wiser statesmen lessness of riches; both proclaimed the ment saw that for her conquest of Japan; of Russia, then, are beginuing to discover Golden Rule. These are only a few of the and China, which had been the sole reason that Siberia, co far from being a burden on parallels known to students of for ber construction of the line of railway,
the Imperial Exchequer, is really capable religions; there are numerous other simili- a larger army than at first was contemplated of bearing her full share of the necessary tudes, as scholars like EDMUNDS have was needed and as armies require to be fed, expenses of government. Gradually, but
shown. Yet we do not now marvel at such and European Russia's grain resources were surely then, the aspect of St. Petersburg earmarked to pay the interest on her towards her territories in Eastern Asia enormous debt, it became necessary to is undergoing a change, and the Imperial encourage production in Siberia. So railway Government and its satellites are coming and other facilities were offered, and the round to see that they can be made better settlement of Scandinavian instructors en ase of than simply as access ries in the couraged. On the disastrous termination of conquest of China and the terrorisation the war with Japan, Russia found these, of Japan. A few years ago the wealth of supplies most useful, and as freight for the China was the cynosure for which watered line was in her state of shattered finance a the greedy mass of Russian statesinen; matter of importance, the facilities before the truth at last is beginning to dawn ou offered for merely military purposes were them, that the still virgin soil of Eastern now continued for revenue. The result of Siberia is capable of yielding a much richer these various causes has been that agricul- harvest to the exploiter thau the already ture, and especially dairy farming, in Siberia exhausted realm of China. It is this, and is becoming an important industry, very not any likelihood of binding Russia by the much to the advantage of the peasut most solemn of promises, that leads to our proprietors, who find their lot incom viewing with satisfaction the recent pro- parably better thau that of their gress of Siberia. Russi is indeed begin- fellows in the more southern governments ning to discover that while her home of European Russia. The towns, too, in provinces are suffering from congestion, and Siberia are growing rapidly, and education cannot much longer staud the strain to which there is spreading far more rapidly than in they have within the last three quarters of the European provinces, so that on the a century icen subjected through the greed whole, even under the depressing influence; of her rulers for more territory, she has of Russian government, there is more incen- within her own hands, in her Eastern live to industry than on the western side territories, enough to satisfy for hundreds of the Urals. Under these conditions, the of years her most exalted ambitions. One Siberiap has been coming to assert himself. of the great incentives to Peter the Great's The country never was cursed with the ambition was to have what he called an infliction of serfdom, in the first instance i outlook on Europe. The policy which this because with the sparse ppulation it was; inaugurated carried on, as it has been, with impossible to keep the run of one's serfs, out judgment, bus already brought the home- but the fact has had the effect on the people lands to the brink of destruction. By an who are naturally more independent. It is, thus that they have in late years commenced
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unforseeu dispensation of Providence, while the ruin of European Russia was proceeding by leaps and bounds, she became possessed
in Asia of one of the finest territories on the face of the earth; this she has at last dis. covered, not through any wisdom on her part, but through what at the time she considered her greatest of misfortunes,-the defeat of her overvaulting ambition for the destruction of her Leighbours. If Russia take advantage of the opportunity thus offered her of advancing her easteru lands, she may yet become not only the richest but the most powerful and respected of nations. This is the reason why, with the rest of those who have studied the situation on the spot, we welcome as a guarantee of future peace the recent industrial ad- vances of Eastern Siberia.
to settle in the extremely fertile castern lands, and that these settlers from mid Siberia make much more profitable residents than emigrants from European Russia, Politically this is having its effect on the government. Til the war with Japan, the newcomers were mainly confined to Koreans. physically fine men, but without any idea of bettering their condition, or Chinese who were merely temporary visitants during the summer, returning to China with the cold weather. The few Russians who took up their residence were quite as ignoraut as the Koreans themselves; knew nothing of agriculture, and were too debased for trade. The war induced some of the more active of the Siberians to try their luck at catering for the wants of the army, and finding the climate wild, and the soil pro-luctive, wany On the night of the 1st instant the family of these took to farming. These new settlers residence in Kinkiang of II. E. Li Sheng to, at have proved themselves far superior to present Chinese Minister in Brussels, was visited their predecessors, and momentarily, the by a body of bandits armed with swords, etc, lust for mere occupation of territory having and spoil, to the value of over Tis, 300 was been checked by the result of the var and carried away. A report was sent to the Prefect the events succeeding it, the governmcat of the Magistrate of Tehuabsien,
of Kiukiang the doxt day, as a result of which, iu whose the sea-board province have welcomed the jurisdiction the robbery was committed, has settlers who have brought an accession of 'been relieved of his post.
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Parsecs. Nevertheless, we regard the following-letter from a fokyo Instructor of English. in the Naval College there, as sufficiently important and interesting to deserve reproduction. It was addressed by Mr. ARTHUR LLOYD to the Japan Mail, on March 28th. He wrote:
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It has been my good fortune during the last few days to make a discovery, alung my special line of studies, of so great importance and interest that in spite of its somewhat technical character I feel myself justified in communicat- ing it to the public through the daily Press. I hope it will be interesting to some. I even dare to hope that it may put it into the minds of some of your readers to send me
a little pecuniary help for the further prosecution of very interesting and promising line of investigation.
Near the end of the second century A.D. there came to Rome a learned theologian of Greek, or, possibly, of Oriental birth, nimed Hippolytus. He interest d himself very much in combating various heresies of the type known as Guostic. This Hippolytus had a long-standing fead with the Pope of his day, Callistus or Calixtus I. (A.D. 218-223). If all that Hippolytus and
some other writers have said of Callistus is true, the Pope must have been, to say the least, a
Modernist.
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lmost contemporary with Hippolytus was` Origen a native of Alexandria, who spent much of his life in Palestine, aud, like ippolytus, interested himself in the refutation of heresies, Crigen (4dr. Harr. IX) has a long exposition locates at Rome, and describes as a man whose of the peculiar tene's of Callistus, whom he character
was
this is a controversy into which I need not not quite trustworthy. But
enter.
Origen, however, goes on to say that the followers of Callistus gained a powerful ally in a mau named Alcibiades, who arrived in Rome, with a book, which he said had been given to a. man named Elchasai, who had banded it to a man of the name of Şobiai, who handed it to Alcibiades. But he said that the book had origiually come from an angel or celestial Being of
immense stature (Origen gives the dimensions), and that it purported to announce A new Baptism for the remission of sins which had been announced to men in the 3rd year of Emperor Trajan (A.D. 101). This book saysa Origeu, came from a
culled Scree Parthrium, which, considering that the Chinese were called Serce by the Greeks and Romans, inust have been somewhere on the froutiers of
Lown