is characteristic of a Chinaman is his filial piety.  This filial piety was admired in all ages.  It was inculcated in the old Hebrew Law and enforced with weighty considerations.  It was a virtue among the Greeks as well as other peoples of the Gentile world; and I wonder not that when the heroes who captured Troy saw Aeneas carrying his aged father Anchises on his shoulders and leading his son, the puer Ascanius, by the hand, out of the burning city, they cheered him and allowed him to escape with his precious burden.  A Chinaman is taught by precept and example to venerate his parents and to give them divine honors after death.  Should a Chinese child be disobedient he would be punished severely by the bamboo or other instrument, and he would bring on himself the wrath of all his family.  This strong sense of filial piety has done more for the stability and perpetuity of the Chinese Empire than ought else.  It is a great element of strength and it leads to respect for customs and to the observance of maxims.  Especially are burial places held in sacred esteem, and as they contain the ashes of the fathers they must not be disturbed or desecrated.  In this respect we might emulate the Chinese, for they are a perfect illustration of the old precept, “Honour thy father and thy mother,” which, in a busy, independent age, there is danger of forgetting.  But we look with no little interest on the Joss above the altar, the Chinese god.  His name is Kwan Rung, and I am informed that he was born about two hundred years after the beginning of the Christian era.  Such is the person who is worshipped here.  That he may not be hungry food is placed before him at times, and also water to drink.  It is a poor, weak human god after all, a dying, dead man.  How different the Creator of the ends of the earth, Who fainteth not neither is weary!  The Chinese have no conception of the true God.  They cannot conceive of the beauty and power and compassion of Jesus Christ until they are brought into the light of the Gospel.  But what is Chinese theology?  What do they teach about the origin of the world and man and his destiny.  The scholars tell us that the world was formed by the duel powers Yang and Yin, who were in turn influenced by their own creations.  First the heavens were brought into being, then the earth.  From the co-operation of Yang and Yin the four seasons were produced, and the seasons gave birth to the fruits and flowers of the earth.  The dual principles also brought forth fire and water, and the sun and moon and stars were originated.  The idea of a Creator in the Biblical sense is far removed from the Chinese mind.  Their first man, named Pwanku, after his appearance, was set to work to mould the Chaos out of which he was born.  He had also to chisel out the earth which was to be his abode.  Behind him through the clefts made by his chisel and mallet are sun and moon and stars, and at his right hand, as companions, may be seen the Dragon, the Tortoise and the Phoenix as well as the