[62] Chinese Characteristics, pp. 294 and 295.
[63] Also if she heard of General Chaffee’s remarks to an American Methodist audience in New York not long ago. While praising the work of the missionaries, he told his audience that he met many of the most prominent Chinamen while at Pekin, and he was obliged to say that he did not meet a single intelligent Chinaman who expressed a desire to embrace the Christian religion. (Reported in the Hong Kong Daily Press of May 9th, 1903.)
[64] The classical quotation commonly seen over the door of a temple is: “Worship the gods as if they were present.”
[65] Chinese Characteristics, pp. 299–300.
[66] Ibid., p. 305.
[67] Chinese Characteristics, p. 288.
[68] See p. 78 of Anti-Nunquam.
[69] See p. 164 of Science and Education Essays, by T. H. Huxley (Macmillan & Co.; 1895).
[70] The Christian Faith in Japan, pp. 42, 43.
[71] The Christian Faith in Japan, pp. 128–9.