we have shown before, one of the first rules of internationdł law.
In our opinion the French Government would do very wong if it attempted to retain thereligious protect rate which is alpping from hands; France has done much for the Catholic Church and Catholic Missionaries in China, and none of the' powers interested in the querian would But grudge grateful acknowledgment theisto. the attempt to retain protection over the subjecta of other powers against the express will and declaration of these latter, must end in failure: it is based neither upo right nor upon reason, and while it will very likely contribute to ambitter the relations between France and the other powers, it will prove to China that under French protection the Catholic Missionaries in the Empire might become the instruments of political-aims, and therefore a dang r to the safety and the peace of Chine. And that such an impression ought to be avoided seems to us to be as much in the interest of all the foreign powers at in that of the Catholic Church, sad also of the Missionaries themselves.-From the Chiness Times of 9th Fer, 1889.
TAIWANFOO.
(FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.).
ANPING, 28th February, 1889. Since my last communication nothing of importance has occurred, in fact things have Eeen unusually quiet.
One of two steamers have loaded for Shanghai from this. The Dougins Co.'s steamer #lafphong took a full cargo from Takow for Yokobaina
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the woman inducing her to eat of the forbidden fruit. We are naturally inclined to ask whether the Paradisical serpent:could speak, ressos, and argue ! If this be answered in the affirmative, we would again ask-What motive could have induced this animal to sedace Eve into a dis-
abedience of the order given her by the Creator?
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was the emblem of healing wisdom; while to the Phoenicians it became the symbol of eternity, from its habit of ceiling itself into a circle. (p. 336) Sharpe, "Egyptian Mythology" says
The serpent of evil, the great enemy of the human race, plays an important part in all
next world,
(Egyptian) pictures and sculptures relating to the
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When it is pierced through | palatable,it can be readily taken by the most. the head by the spear of the goddess Isis, we see sensitive stomach, and will never fail to give the enmity between the woman and the serpent, relief and comfort to the sufferer. Any Chemist spoken of in Gen. III. It is always conquered can supply it.-A. S. Watson & Co. (Limited), by the good, sometimes pierced through its folds agents in Hongkong and China.~[Advi, by a number of swords, and sometimes carried away alive in the arms of its conquerors in sided in Egypt for long years under captivity, that triumph." If we recollect that the Hebrews re
Moses, their lender, was well versed in Egyptian lore, and that Genesis and the law were written offer the Exodus, we shall be able to trace the serpent legend of Genesis to its true source. That the serpent symbolized the principle or author of evil is no argument in favor of the plausibility of the story of the Fall of man; for, as we remarked before, the true author of the sedaction should have been punished, and not his irresponsible tool.
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The woman is sentenced to suffer the pains of childbirth: Colenso appropriately remarks: "There is no reason to suppose that the pain of childbirth has really been increased to the con-woman. It would arise from the natural conformation of her body, if she was to bear children at all; and the Elohistic command to fructify and multiply, I. 28, implies that she was meant to do so from the first. So, too, the mention by the Jehovist of a man 'leaving his father and mother," il 24, shows that in the view of this writer, also, the idea of parentage was entertained as existing, even in Paradise. before the Fall. In tropical countries, indeed. the birth of a child seems often to be attended with little more pain and disturbance than the birth of a beast. It is merely the imagination f the Hebrew writer, which ascribes the pain of childbirth, and the natural subjection of the In an Entirely, New Topical Song written by n female to the male, (which also is not peculiar to man amongst animals,) to her being foremost In sin."
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The animals in Paradise are alleged to have been under man's control and subjection. What prompted the subtle serpent to start on an errand of rebellion ? The general explanation oven is that the serpent represented the levil, who jealous "of man's prerogatives, attempted his ruin. The devil being the imper- sonation of the evil principle, it may not may be Asked when he was created; been created, whether he, or evil itself was co-eternal with the Creator? Genesis does not mention either the appearance of evil, or the existence of the devil before the serpent became a tempter. Yet in the book of Wisdom it is expressly said that the devil himself tempted the first pair (17. 23, 24). Might we not suppose that this is the exact counterpart of the Persian legend, in which the serpent is mentioned as the first creature through which Ahriman' corrupts the first created land of Ormuzd? The argument used by the serpent is also worthy of note.. He tells Eve that the penalty of death which was to follow the infraction of the order will not take effect, that on the trary, her eyes shall be opened and she shall *e a god knowing good and evil. Wi are led to understand that Adam and Eve were created in a state of perfection. From the context of the above passage, it must also be inferred that they did not know good from evil, vix, that they were so pure as to be strangers to sin. Con sequently they could not have erred; to err is to choose between good and evil, embracing the latter. A being created in the state of perfec- tion, cannot fall from it. Take an infant as an example; it is not responsible for its actions, because it does not kow good from evil. The serpent clearly states that the partaking of the forbidden fruit would bring about a knowledge of good and evil. Fve and Adam had con- sequently no choice between good and evit previousto eating of the forbidden fruit; therefore The ground also shares in the punishment; We were much gratified last month by the they were not responsible for their acts; if not it is cursed for man's sake; man is sentenced arrival of H. M. S. Espoir, said to be the responsible, they could not have fallen, and to eat of it in pain all the days of his pioneer of a new regime, or rather the resumpthey deserved no punishment. A fall is a thorns and thistles are to sprout every tion of the old system by which a gunbpit | descent from a higher stage of perfection to a where. Had the earth any share in the crime, stationed at Amoy was to visit South Formióra | Jawer degree. As Adam and Eve became like to be bound to participate in the penalty? once a month.
God, as they acquired a superior knowledge to Geological evidence is abundant showing that the that which they previously possessed, by eating earth was as fruitful before as it was after man's of the forbidd a fruit, they cannot be said to appearance. Had the curse taken effect, a violent have fallen, on the contrary, they must have change in the vegriation of the carth would have ascended on the scale of perfection.
taken place, the briars and thorns substituting the fruit trees and other useful plants ;- and their fossil remains would have convinced any one of the fact. As regards the penalty of labour imposed on man, there cannot be any doubt that man was meant for labour; the remains of the most primilive inhabitants of the earth show them to have been equally constituted, physiologically and morphologically, as our selves, for labour and exercise. A life of toil, far frim being a penalty, is 2 blessing. Work is in communication with nature, if the whole inanimate and animate world are engaged in perpetual work, why should man be exempt from it? Labour in the source of health, wealth, and the parent, of all meritorious acti and virtues.
In past years the sugar to Tientsin and the North hai chiefly been conveyed by sailing ships, this year the st amship Companies art making a determined effort to secure the freights for their vessels, especially to Tientsin, and no things look now, it appears bighly probable that they will eventually succeed in doing so. There seems, however, to be still room for the few sailing ship available on the cast as several have come over here and to Takow, getting higher freights than that demanded by their steam competitors.
We heard that her pisce would be taken by H. M. S. Merlin, Tessel of similar siz, I notice that allusion has been made in the papers to this diase of gun vessels as being obsolete and useless; this may be true, and probably is, for general purposes, but the requires ments of the China Station are peculiar, several ports demanding a light draught craft, and all that is necessary of these is that they are capable of acting as carriers for a certain armament; thus vessels drawing over ten or eleven feet would probably find themselves shut out from one or two important places, notably Tientsin.
During the sixties' we all know the immense use made of those little forty h.p. and sixy h.p. gunboats, built for the Crimean operations, and which but for the sphere of usefulness discovered, for them out here would in all probability have lain and rotted in Haslar Creek.
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The Americans also finding the necessity for having at least one or two light draught floating forts have adhered with praiseworthy pertinacityscious of a guilt for which they were hudly res to the old Pales and Monocacy. The former during the past winter has been stationed at -Tientsin thus doing a duty which none other of
that fleet is capable of performing,
The moral of all this is that the new types of gunboat by which it is proposed to substitute the old (and which for most parts of the world have been most perfectly advocated as being infinitely better suited and more is accordance with, the requirements of modern times), are by their deep draught rendered almost useless for many details of the peculiar duty required of guard vessels on this station.
H.M.S. Rattler, one of the new type, has first arrived here, and of course has to lie at a great distance off the shore. This no doubt would be the case with any vessel coming to Anping, but as Takow is the port generally visited by men. of war, and where the Consul resides, if ships not drawing over 11 jeet 6 inches were detached for this duty they could enter and leave the harbour whenever they liked, or at least do so during nine months of the year, and in any case avoid the knocking about and discomfort which must be experienced while lying at anchor in the roadsteads of Asping or even Takow, to say nothing of the risks which they would thus run if lying off either port in the three dangerous month of the S. W. Monsoon,
It is to be hoped therefore that further consi dération, may, in the interests of those ports, riverine and others, that would be in future deprived of naval supervision, lead to the reten tion of one or two light draught boats which though useless elsewhere would, an occasion arising, prove the sole means of rendering okensive and defensive assistance.
Your new Commodore, having had perhaps the longest consecutive experience of this station over afforded a single naval officer in command, and so being intimately acquainted with all the detalls and contingencies of its various divisione, will be well able to judge whether what I bave now ventured to submit is worthy of attention. H.M.S. Rattler leaves to-morrow for Amøy, We are, of course, glad of even this distant view of the flag, and though all her splendid new type appliances and improvements would be of little avail to un were her fighting powers required, still we are not the less pleased to know that such would be available, and effective in other cases where geographical obstacles to their use do not exist.
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The Consequences—The first consequence of partaking of the forbidden fruit was that Adam's and Eve's eyes were opened. They at once acquired the knowledge of good and evil, and, according to the language of the serpent,—' Ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil (Gen. lii. 5), confirmed by God's own saying-Behold the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil' (Gen. ill. 22), they must have assumed higher degree of perfection than that which they formerly possessed. How this event could be construed into a fall, we are it a loss to understand; the less so, since, as we remarked before, Adam and Eve not having possessed the knowledge of good and evil previous to partaking of the fruit, could not have known the evil that lay in the partaking of it. As if con-
pansible, they hide themselves from the presence of the Lord, and when called, confess their shame waying they were naked, v. to, having previously-in v. 7—*sewed fig leaves togeiber, and made themselves aprons! Adam, on being questioned, throws the whole guilt on thewoman, the woman, in, her, turn, blames the serpent. Probably Adam based his defence on false interpretation of the original command; he had been told not to ent of the tree; he may bave thought that he was not to pluk the fruit from the tree. As Eve first plucked it Adam thought he had not broken the command. His defence bears such an innocent character that it clearly shows his irresponsibility. Eve's defence is still more characteristic; she states that the serpent beguiled her, and she did eat of the fruit. We I suppose that a couple of prisoners who are arraigned on a charge of theft, adopt a similar defence to that of Adam and Eve, before a Judge. Prisoner A pleads not guilty on the ground that he did not. steal the article in question, though he tacitly admits having been a receiver. Prisoner B also pleads not guilty because an outsider, C, lured her to take the thing, informing her that it was not a theft at all, but a meritorious act, in feet, an advance. ment on the scale of moral perfection. Suppose that the law made no provision for a case of seduction or temptation, and that the culprits charged with its infringement knew nothingofile evil nature, bad never been tempted, had never been told to guard against the tempter, and that they only discovered the heinousness of their crime after they had committed it, for only then their eyes were opened. Could they be convicted of gufit? Would not their very pleadings have been so many proofs of their innocence?
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Reserved Seats to be had at Messrs. KALLY &' WALSH'S, LD, ..
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Hongkong, 8th March, 1889.
FOR SHANGHAI,
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Entimations
THE HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT AND AGENCY COMPANY, LIMITED.
PPLICATIONS for the POST of
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A SECRETARY to the above Company will be received until the zoth instant. "Such applications to be addressed to the CHAIRMAN DITCH CAM The construction the Company at the Offices No. 7, Queen's Road Selangor Governnient. Tenders should be sealed and should be addressed to the British Resident, Selangor, via Singapore, to reach Selangor not later than noon on the rat May, 1989.
Further information may be obtained from the COLONIAL SECRETARY at Hongkong.
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HONGKONG HIGH LEVEL TRAMWAYS COMPANY, LIMITED,
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WING to alterations in the Machinery at the Upper Terminus, NO CARS WILL RUN, on MONDAY NEXT, the 11th inst.
MACEWEN, FRICKEL & Co. Hongkong, 6th March, 1889.
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THE CHINA AND MANILA STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LIMITED,
HE SIXTH ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS will be held at the OFFICE of the Company, Praya Central, on SATURDAY, 23rd March, at 12
O'CLOCK NOON, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the General Managers, declaring a Dividend, and electing a Consulting Committee
and Auditors.
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The TRANSFER BOOKS, of the Company will be CLOSED from 9th to 23rd instant, bath days inclurive.
RUSSELL & Co.,
General Managers.
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Hongkong, 2nd March, 1889.
THE HONGKONG ROPE Manufac- TURING COMPANY, LIMITED,
THE
HE Fifth Ordinary General MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS will be held at the Orrick of the Company, Praya Central, an MONDAY, 25th. March, at Three o'Clock in the Afternoon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the General Managers, declaring a Dividend and electing a Consulting Committee and Auditors.
be CLOSED from the 11th to the 25th Instant, The Transfer BOOKS of the Company will both days inclusive.
RUSSELL & Co". General Managers.
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American Atlantic Ports, and at Ports North and South of the Pacific.
LAND VERA CRUZ Connecting at
Three monthly departures, on the roth and goth from Cadiz, and on the 20th from Santander,
F. A. SWETTENHAM, British Resident, Selangor. Kuala Lumpor, 25th. January, 1889.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.........¿
HONGKONG ROADS..
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ON and after the oth March; a junks will be anchored on KELLETT'S DANK, and visible all round the horizon, and having a range from her, a bright white light will be exhibited
of about 5 miles,
Position 6 cables N.N.E. from Green Island. All vessels are recommended to pass to the Northward of the Junk, but if passing to the Southward of her, she should not be approached nearer than 3 cables.
R. MURRAY RUMSEY,
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HONGKONG RIFLE ASSOCIATION.
SPOON
COMPETITION.
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Kneeling. Penalties on previous Winners at this NEXT SATURDAY, the 9th March, at 4"
O'CLOCK PM Position-Standing or
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ORIENTAL BANK CORPORATION IN LIQUIDATION.
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Return trip leaves Habana the 5th, 15th, and A 6TH DIVIDEND of 6 / ca all claims
25th of every month.
LINE OF COLON.-Connecting with Pacific Ports, North and South of Panamá, with exten- sion to Mexico and transhipment at Habans. A steamer leaves Vigo on the 30th of every month, vid Puerto Rico, Habana and Santiago de Cuba. LINE OF THE PHILIPPINES. Extension to Iloilo and Cebu, connecting with the Persian Gulf, Eastern Coast of Africa, India, China, Cochin-China and Japan,
Thirteen annual trips, leaving Barcelona every fourth Wednesday, commencing on the 1st of January; and Manila every fourth Saturday, commencing on the 5th of January
against the Hongkong Branch of the ORIENTAL BANK CORPORATION, which have been approved by the Court of Chancery will be paid at the Offices of the NEW ORIENTÁL BANK, CORPORATION, LIMITED, on and after MONDAY, the 18th March next.
Creditors are requested to apply to the Bank" for their Dividends and to produce the letter they hold from the Official Liquidator admitting their. claims le order that the payment of the 6th Dividend may be endorsed thereon.
PAYMENT OF FINAL DIVIDEND IN,
'ADVANCE UNDER DISCOUNT.
of which it has been made is no penalty; it is requested to send them in to the Undersigned, leaves every two months for Rio-Janeiro, Mon- with the Assets Realisation Co., is prepared
Man is finally sentenced to die, of to return "unto the ground; for dust art thou, and unto dust shalt thou return" (Gen. iii. 19). As a reason assigned for the introduction of death, it is hardly necessary to say that this is a very feeble one. Adam is not to die because he hai sinned, but because he was made of the dust The returning of a substance to the element oui in many cases a law of nature. Disintegration and death go along in all forms of organismi, all living cells are constantly dying and being renewed. Death had existed in the animal creation ages before man appeared on earth, The fossil remains of plants and animals are so many witnesses of this lact. As man had not bee, promised immortality when he was made and placed in Paradise, death cannot be considered a penalty. The allusion made in v. 22 to the possibility of Adam partaking of the free of life and acquiring immortality is a clear proof that he did not possess immortality before the Fall. If he was by nature mortal, and his eating and drinking, his sleeping and recreation clearly prove this, how can death be considered penalty inflicted for the commission of a crime ?. No mention is made in the 'sentence of an exist ence beyond the grave; and in this respect Genesis is in perfect accordance with many other books of the Old Testament, where death is distinctly stated to be the end of all.. The Psalm of Hezekiah, in leaizḥ xxxviii 10-20, is a
which date no claim will be entertained, on or before the 15th instant, at 4 F.M., after Subscribers to the Ball who may not have. Offices or places of Business in the Colony, will greatly oblige by forthwith sending the amount of their Subscriptions the Hon. Treasurer, Mr. W. H. GASKELL at the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, as collection will be greatly facilitated thereby..
ALF. WOOLLEY, Hon. Sec., Masonic Ball Committee. [310
Hongkong, 8th March, 1889.
Auctions.
PUBLIC AUCTION
or
HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE
THE Undersigned has received instructions
to Sell by Public Auction,
TO-MORROW,
very clear exponent of the Scriptural views of human mortality. We, who rely on many pass- ages of the Bible for our notions of is mortality, should not forget that there are passages equally the numerous where the all-ending power of death is clearly inculcated. The following passage in Job, like the one of Isaiah, should be well pondered over by believers in the inspiration of the Bible: "Oh remember that my fe is wind: mine eye shall no more ce good, The eye of him that seeth me shall behold те по моте. Thine eyes shall be upon me, but I shall act be. As the clund In consumed and vanisheth away, so be that goeth down to Sheol shall come up no more, He shall return on more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more." (fob vil. 7.10). Compare also Job, x. 20.12; Eccles, iii.39.22- For that which befalleth the sons of man befalleth beasts, even one thing befalleth them. As one dieth, so dieth the others yea, they have all pas breath, so that man hath no pre-eminence over a beast. All go unto one place, all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again." See also Mathew x. 28 ; xxii, 33, and xix, 29.
9th March, 1889, at 4 P.M., at " Dunford"
**the Peak, "late Residence of
THOS. E. CANDLER, Esq.,
THE WHOLE OF THE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE,
-Comprising:-
DRAWING ROOM SUITE, MIRRORS, TABLES, FICTURES, FENDERS, &c
DINING ROOM FURNITURE, CROCKERY, GLASS WARE, PLATED. WARE, &
BEDROOM FURNITURE, &c., &c. The above will be on view on FRIDAY Rext. TERMS AS USUAL --Cash on delivery..
G. R. LAMMERT, Auctioneer. *Hongkong, and March, 1889,
PUBLIC AUCTION
or
LINE OF BUEÑOS AYRES —A steamer tevideo, and Buenos Ayres, leaving Cadiz every eight week, commencing on 31st January.
LINE OF FERNANDO PO-Calling on the West Coast of Morocco. A tri-monthly trip, leaving Cadiz on the 30th March, 30th June, 30th Septeinber and 30th December.
AFRICAN SERVICE.-NORTHERN. COAST.
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A fortnightly service, leaving Cadiz on the 16th and 30th for Tangier, Algiers, Ceuta and Malaga, returning from Málaga on the rath and 25th, calling at the same ports.
NORTH-WESTERN COAST,-A monthly service from Cadiz to Larache, Rabat, Casablanca, Mazagán and Mogador.
TANGIER SERVICE.-Three, trips every week: from Cadix to Tangier every Sunday, Wednesday and Friday; from Tangier to Cadiz every Monday, Thursday and Saturday.
These Steamers carry cargo on the most favorable terms. Passengers are very comfortably
accommodated and treated with the greatest
attention, the Company's reputation in this line
being unequalled. Deductions are allowed to families, also conventional prices arranged for luxuriantly furnished state-rooms, Allowances made for return voyages. Passages are granted to Manila at especial prices for artisan emigrants, with gratuitous return, within one year, for those who have failed to find work.
The Company undertake to insure all goods skipped in their boats.
IMPORTANT NOTICE.-The Company notify all merchants, farmers, and manufacturers that they will receive and forward la destination all samples and prices-current which may be
entrusted to their care.
The Company receive cargo and issue passage tickets to all parts of the world where regular lides exist.
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· HOUSEHOLD, FURNITURE.
THE Undersigned has received instructions
- to Sell by. Public Auction, on
MONDAY,
the Ifth March 1889, at a P.,, at the Residence of C. SEIMUND. Esq., Praya East. THE WHOLE OF HIS
HE Official Liquidator, by arrangement
bo pay in advance to Creditors willing to receive such payment, IN FULL DISCHARGE OF THEIR CLAIMS the Dividend of 5% payable in the year 1890, UNDER A DISCOUNT OF
TWELFTHS PERIGENTARA DA C
FIVE
of the Final Dividend, less discount as above Creditors who are willing to accept payment
are requested to communicate with the Under signed BEFORE THE END OF THE CURRENT
MONTH.
E. W. RUTTER,
Agent for the Official Liquidator, Oriental Bank Corporation, in Liq 2, Queen's Road, Hongkong, 6th February, 1889.
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Yet they were held to be guilty, and sentence was first passed on the seducer. The serpent, an irrational and irresponsible being, la curted above all cattle, and above every "beast of the field". If the serpent represented the evil principle, if the devil spoke and tempted through the serpent, why was not the devil punished? "If the serpent spoke for itself, if it could resson and be responsible for its actions (and the words of the curse imply this) why was it reckoned among the beasts of the field? Can beasis of the field influence man's actions? The serpent is also sentenced to go upon its belly," to feed on dust, to be woman's enemy, and to be bruised It is to be hoped that the monthly visit will not by her heel. in order that the first sentence be given up, especially under the present state should have been fulfilled the serpent must have" of affain apparently existent all over China, and previously stood on its legs, or possessed an erect The inconsistencies found in the remaining consequent on that apathy and neglect which bus structure. Some of the Fathers of the Church portion of the 'sentence' are very ably detailed by prevailed at our Legation daring the past years, and Josephus entertained the opinion that the Dr. Burnet in Arch. Phil. p. 293, quoted by leading to a belief in the native official mind serpent's form was changed for having been Colen-o-"The text says, v. 7 They sewed that all chance of interference or protest from instrumental in seducing Eve. But geological together fig-leaves, and made to themselves there may be treated as a "quantité negligéable." evidence is abundant showing that long before girdles. Here we have the first step in the art Sach sentiments only too readily percolate from the appearance of man on earth, the serpent's of sewing. But whence had they a needle, the Yamen to the outside, public, and eventually form was exactly the same as it now is. As whence a thread, on that first day of their culminate in demonstrations such as have been regard the serpent's eating dust, Kalisch notes creation 7 These questions may seem to be too lately afforded at Chinking and which four, that the great scantiness of food, on which the free: but the matter itself demands that wo year ago would certainly have been impossible, serpent can subsist, gave rise to the belief, eater act freely, when we are seeking the naked When, however, they had made to I do not mean to imply that the Chinese tained by many Eastern nations, and referred to truth. #entente" has deteriorated whatever hur hap. ↑ in several Biblical allusions, that they feat dust!' themselves girdles, God gave them besides pened in other quarters, for on the contrary we Mic. vil, 17, 18. ixr. 15. Sil. Ital, vil. 449, costs, made, forsooth, cut of the skins of the are entirely 'dependent on it for any pence or firventi pastux arend while the beasts. But here again we run into difficulties. comfort we enjoy. As this has not been long Indians believed them to feed upon wind. To soften the matter, let us substitute in the enough established and as control is not entirely As to the enmity put between the serpent place of God an angel. An angel, then, slew would perhaps use it in our favour, so, in the Kalish, quoted by Colenso, further adds: "Is from innocent and living' animals [which had| ENGRAVINGS, COTTAGE PIANO, by after absence of other influences, explosions many Eastera religions, the extirpation of the just been created). But this is the business of KIRKMAN (Iron Frame), DINING TABLE List of their Contributions for the year ending may be expected, when, and where; no one can reptiles, and especially of the serpents, was a slaughterer, or butcher, not an angel. Besides, SIDEBOARD, WHATNOT CHAIRS 31st December, 1888, in order that the Dis ray, and however little the Minister may Carn, enfoined as an important duty. Among the through this slaughter, whole races of animals CROCKERY, GLASS, and PLATED WARE,,ibution of Bonus may be arranged. Returns a e nevertheless apt to become objects of interest Persinos, it was considered as équivalent to the would have perished; for it is not believed that | &C., &C.
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