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 the ring, and to run the gauntlet in full tilt. For as yet there is no peace among the belligerents. The two rival armies are still in battle-array against each other, and still eager to shout in the fray: "Io triumphe!" "We will fight in defence of 'Shin' or 'Shang-Te'!"

Sad, indeed, it is that it should be so. For, in truth, one might expect that every man engaged in the solemn undertaking to translate the Word of God, and to give it to the heathen in its purest form, would let that all- important object outweigh all other considerations; and that he would at once lay the freewill offering of his learning at the foot of his Saviour's cross. We must, however, conclude from the pamphlet before us, that, apart from convictions, the result of conscientious research alone, private judgment, if not, party feeling, have at times taken the place of calm discussion; and they seem, at last, to have brought men, at home, conscientiously to hate one another for the love of God; and, in China, to fight angrily by way of seeking peace. And in such a cause, too! when—

they still prefer—

As it was in Ceylon some years ago, when the