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Image 1 of China and California : their relations past and present : a lecture ... CALIFORNIA PAST AND PRESENT A LEGTUEE IN CONCLUSION OF A SERIES IN RELATION TO THE CHINESE PEOPLE DELIVERED IN THE STOCKTON STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH SAN FRANCISCO JUNE 28 1853 REV WILLIAM SPEER...- Contributor: Speer, William
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Image 2 of China and California : their relations past and present : a lecture ... AND CALIFORNIA THEIR RELATIONS PAST AND PRESENT A LECTURE IN CONCLUSION OF A SERIES IN RELATION TO THE CHINESE PEOPLE DELIVERED IN THE STOCKTON STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH SAN FRANCISCO JUNE 28 1853...- Contributor: Speer, William
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Image 3 of China and California : their relations past and present : a lecture ... ч гNOTICE This Lecture is printed in consequence of numerous requests to that effect from highly respected friends and gentlemen interested in the Missionary cause who have desired thus to have a...- Contributor: Speer, William
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Image 4 of China and California : their relations past and present : a lecture ... CHINA AID CALIFOEIIA The honor of having discovered and populated this New World has been as much disputed as the birthplace of Homer The Jews the Phenicians the Nortihmen the Welsh the...- Contributor: Speer, William
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Image 5 of China and California : their relations past and present : a lecture ... 4 ed with extracts from poets two thousand years prior to Chaucer and philosophers perhaps as much earlier than Pelagius many of them merchants of wealth erect with the aspect of intelligence...- Contributor: Speer, William
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Image 6 of China and California : their relations past and present : a lecture ... opposition of the tradewinds A case is still recent where the wreck of a Japanese junk was drifted the entire distance to the Sandwich Islands with its surviving crew thus completing nearly...- Contributor: Speer, William
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Image 7 of China and California : their relations past and present : a lecture ... 6 the Yuenkienluihan a Chinese Encyclopedia is a specimen of the accounts supposed to refer to America It is contained on the 44th and 45th pages of the 231st volume or hook...- Contributor: Speer, William
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Image 8 of China and California : their relations past and present : a lecture ... 7 Reeds or watergrass are abundant they have peaches also There is no iron but they possess copper They do not esteem gold and silver When marriage is contemplated the lover goes...- Contributor: Speer, William
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Image 9 of China and California : their relations past and present : a lecture ... 8 the assumption of the right to educate the youth So the Chi nese might justly have classed the Aztec priesthood with the Buddhist that before the fifth century had extended their...- Contributor: Speer, William
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Image 10 of China and California : their relations past and present : a lecture ... 9 medley of the most homely commodities and the elegant super fluities of luxury it is singular that no mention should be made of silver the great staple of the country in...- Contributor: Speer, William
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Image 11 of China and California : their relations past and present : a lecture ... 10 fanlike folds would have confirmed his delusion And how Would he have accounted for some things still more confounding such as that remarkable usage common to the Chinese and Aztec em...- Contributor: Speer, William
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Image 12 of China and California : their relations past and present : a lecture ... 11 according to their own computation about 25000 residing in this State There are many that will not welcome the Chinese It is a serious question how we shall receive this new...- Contributor: Speer, William
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Image 13 of China and California : their relations past and present : a lecture ... 12 Now that the course of events has brought the American peo ple into nearer easier cheaper and more advantageous connec tion with the Celestial Empire than England Holland Portu gal Spain...- Contributor: Speer, William
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Image 14 of China and California : their relations past and present : a lecture ... 13 It is to be remembered that the toiling millions of Europe that have found their way across the Atlantic to the Eastern States built our railroads dug our canals tunneled our...- Contributor: Speer, William
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Image 15 of China and California : their relations past and present : a lecture ... 14 they are allowed fair play Why may we not be enriched by the splendid products of Chinese art 1 Why may not the costly porcelain of Kiangsi or Fuhkien he manufactured...- Contributor: Speer, William
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Image 16 of China and California : their relations past and present : a lecture ... 15 And then new and unanticipated stores of submarine wealth will be developed by those who minister to the luxurious appetites of the Oriental world An illustration of this point is afforded...- Contributor: Speer, William
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Image 17 of China and California : their relations past and present : a lecture ... 16 American supervision of the golden harvest gathered by our own citizens And another consideration is that the great mass of the slow earnings of these people must be expended here It...- Contributor: Speer, William
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Image 18 of China and California : their relations past and present : a lecture ... 17 warmly invited and favored a Chinese immigration Ever since their subjugation to the Tartar yoke two centuries ago they have been ready to leave their country in large numbers Wherever their...- Contributor: Speer, William
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Image 19 of China and California : their relations past and present : a lecture ... 18 Hindu to their astonishment they recognized the scenery of their own familiar homes and heard the accents of their native tongues The correct ethnologist wishes to see this still new and...- Contributor: Speer, William
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Image 20 of China and California : their relations past and present : a lecture ... 19 regarded Again many of our diplomatists and politicians will in time come here to acquire the Chinese language This holds in Asia a position similar to the French in Europe It...- Contributor: Speer, William
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Image 21 of China and California : their relations past and present : a lecture ... is that entitled the Middle Kingdom by S W Williams L L D an American missionary at Canton the best com mentaries on Scripture are by American missionaries and in deed when...- Contributor: Speer, William
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Image 22 of China and California : their relations past and present : a lecture ... 21 will here how down and worship them instead of Him who is God over all blessed forever But why has the Most High who divideth the nations their inheritance and sets...- Contributor: Speer, William
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Image 23 of China and California : their relations past and present : a lecture ... 22 stitutions of their country A Chinese statesman by the assist ance of missionaries recently compiled a work of several Vol umes on foreign geography and history The character above all others...- Contributor: Speer, William
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Image 24 of China and California : their relations past and present : a lecture ... 23 a stones cast the tombs where generations of kings and nobles were buried and the valley whose soil was gray with bones and ashes of infants burned as sacrifices to Moloch...- Contributor: Speer, William
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Image 25 of China and California : their relations past and present : a lecture ... 24 Son of man standing on the right hand of God to welcome them to the realms of everlasting bliss It is a delightful thing to look forward thus as we may...- Contributor: Speer, William
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Image 26 of China and California : their relations past and present : a lecture ... 25 tivity is the pure Hebrew spoken in the city of Jerusalem Be hold forty millions of Bibles scattered through every important nation under heaven and their pure doctrines proclaimed as by...- Contributor: Speer, William
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Image 27 of China and California : their relations past and present : a lecture ... 26 pyramids that crowd the historic sands of Egypt until they were led to observe within distinct circumscribed lines the name of the King by whom each was built These characters formed...- Contributor: Speer, William
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Image 28 of China and California : their relations past and present : a lecture ... 27 We live in a portion of our country seemingly appointed by God as the spot from which the chief influences tending to the civilization and Christianization of Eastern Asia shall flow...- Contributor: Speer, William
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Image 29 of China and California : their relations past and present : a lecture ... 28 irresistible influences until the West looks into the Eastuntil the Star of Christianity and civilization in its westward course shines into the old places of wealth population and commerce In the...- Contributor: Speer, William
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Image 30 of China and California : their relations past and present : a lecture ...- Contributor: Speer, William
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