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Term for Elohim and Theos.

approach of ordinary mortals; and have thought him to cendently great, glorious and powerful, &c., as to receive regard no petitions, and take no cognizance of any of cept through the appointed medium of vicegerents a Thus a people might worship myriads of objects, no! would be regarded as divine or a God. Such seem position of the Chinese, and there is a doubt whet himself be an exception. It is therefore asking too as a fact, that the objects worshiped by the Chines especially too, when intelligent Chinese themselv deny that they are so esteemed. They represent servants and agents of a great Supreme One, by w are appointed and act, to whom they are am tribunal they must annually appear. Hence of sending off all the shin on the 24th day of t of small moment how we regard their shin, important to ascertain how they regard them.

What then are the objects of Chinese wor own estimation? The Chinese have two : which religious worship is offered. Thes foreign and native. The former class system was introduced into China nearly has brought in a multitude of objects of w

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