state, and the Penal Code, both take cognisance of this matter, and lay down all the rules for doing homage to the inhabitants of the invisible world, whatever their rank or condition, whether celestial or terrestrial, superior or inferior. According to these rules, if any of the common people arrogate to themselves the right of worshiping Heaven or the Ruler on high they must suffer eighty blows or death by strangulation!

ART. IV. List of Protestant Missionaries at the several Ports of China, with the names of the Societies to which they belong. The following tables embrace it is believed the names of all the Societies, and of the Missionaries in their employ, now engaged in publishing the gospel to the Chinese.

S.

NAMES OF THE MISSIONARY SOCIETIES, AND THE PERIOD WHEN THEY FIRST SENT LABORERS TO THE CHINESE

1. The London Missionary Society, 1807.

2.

3.

The American Board of Commissioners for For. Mis. 1829. The Rhenish Missionary Society, (Barmen, Prussia,) 1832. 4. The American Baptist Missionary Union. 1834.

434

The Church Missionary Society, for Africa and the East. (England.) 1836.

6. The Morrison Education Society. (China.) 1836.

7.

8.

The Board of the Prot. Episcopal Ch. in the U. S. A. 1937. The Board of For. Mis. of the Presb. Ch. in the U. S. A. 1837. 9. The English General Baptist Missionary Society. 1845. 10. The Evangelical Mis. Soc of Basle. (Switzerland.) 1846. 11. The Board of For. Mis. of the Southern Baptist Convention. U. S. A. 1846.

12. The Mis. Soc., of the Sabbatarian (Baptist) Ch. U. S. A. 1847. 13. The Mis. Soc., of the Methodist Epis. Ch. in the U. S. A. 1847. 14. The For. Mis. Soc., of the Presbyterian Ch. in England, 1847. The Netherlands Missionary Society, in 1827, sent out the Rev. Chas. Gutzlaff; his connection with it was dissolved in 1835. It has had no other missionary to the Chinese.

"The Medical Missionary Society in China" was established in Feb. 1838. Its sole object has been to afford to medical missionaries "hospitals, medicines, and attendants," without " remuneration" for their services.

support of

PROTESTANT MISSIONARIES LABORING FOR THE CHINESE, WHEN SENT, AND IN CONNECTION WITH WHAT SOCIETY.

CANTON.

Rev. E. C. Bridgman, D. D. and fam., 1829, Amer. Board Com.

Mr. S W. Williams, absent,

Rev. Dyer Ball, M. D. and fam,

1834,

1838,

(Dispensary)

Rev. P. Parker M. D. &c. &c. and fam.* 1834, (Hospital)

Until 1847 Dr Parker was connected with the A B. C. F. M.

Mr. A. Wylie,

1847,
1847,

"

Rt. Rev. W. J. Boone D. D. and fam., 1837, Am. Epis, Bd.

American. English. In China. Swiss. German. Total.

Societies engaged
Missionaries

"

Missionaries now absent

ART V. Journal of Occurrences: relations for protection of foreigners; Ki ying ordered to Peking; arrival of missionaries; chaplain at Whampoa. THE following regulations, lately agreed upon by the British and Chinese authorities are quoted from the China Mail.

REGULATIONS.

1st Twenty policemen, whose naines are registered at the British Consulate, have been appointed to be in constant attendance at the principal guard house in Old China Street (the Consoo-house), with the understanding and for the special purpose that, on Foreigners desiring to make excursions for recreation into the surrounding country, the special officer on the station and the assistant magistrate of Nan-hae are to appoint two policemen and a linguist at the requisition of the Consul to accompany each party, if there should be two or three, or perhaps more of them in one day, to the respective places indicated in such requisition.

2d On Foreigners going out, the Consul, in order to prevent mistakes, will give previous notice thereof, and state the particulars to the special officer at the Guardhouse, who will appo:nt the requishe number of Policemen and Linguists to proceed to the Factory where, and at the time when, their services may be wanted.

3d. If any of the Policemen should give rise to troubles, the special officer will, as occasion may require, exchange them for others and give information thereof to the Consul.

4th. The Policemen are to receive a daily allowance from the District Magistrates in food and pay, and have no right, therefore, to demand the smallest extra remuneration for services. They are to be distinguished by official caps and dresses and by waist-badges, in evidence of their authority.

5th. The Policemen and Linguist so appointed will, on accompanying For. eigners by water, go in the boats of the latter, as they might fall behind or go astray if embarking in separate vessels.

6th. It is expected that the Policemen will be well treated during their at tendance on Foreigners; should the former, however, be troublesome, or fail to do their duty and to maintain the laws, the Consul will give information thereof to the special officer on the Station, who will instantly disiniss them and substitute others in their places

7th. The Policemen and Linguists employed upon this service, are to be especially instructed by the local authorities that Foreigners are entitled to roam in the surrounding country to such distance as may be traversed either by land or by water in one day out and ho ne; that it is lawful for them to shoot game in places apart from the villages, and to fish in the rivers and running waters; but that their entering the villages and other inhabited places must be carefully avoided for the present.

8th In order to prevent misunderstanding and disputes, the Policemen and Linguists as well as the persons availing themselves of their services, are to he furnished, the former by the local authorities, and the latter by the Consul, with printed copies of the present Regulations which are to take effect on the 15th February next, corresponding with the 11th day of the first Chinese moon. F. C. MACGREGOR.

His place

Kiying, it is announced, has been ordered to leave for Peking. is to be supplied pro tempore by his excellency Sa Kwangisin the present governor of Kwangtung. His excellency Yeh, commissioner of Finance, is to fill the office of acting governor of the province

The following are the names of missionaries who have recently arrived in China; the Rev. John Johnson and family, now residing at Hongkong; the Rev. Henry Hickock and Rev. R. S. Maclay, who have gone to Fuhchau The Rev. G. Loomis, chaplain for the seamen at Whampoa has also recently arrived.

THE

CHINESE REPOSITORY.
REPOSITORY.

VOL. XVII-MARCH, 1848.-No. 3.

ART. J. An inquiry into the proper mode of rendering the word God in translating the sacred Scriptures into the Chinese language. By W. H. MEDHURST,

IN discussing the proper mode of rendering a word out of one language into another we should first ascertain, from lexicographers and standard writers, the meaning of the word which is to be translated; and then, by means of the same process, the meaning of the word or words proposed as the representative of the idea, in the language into which we are translating.

On this principle we shall,

I. Shew, from Hebrew and Greek lexicons, the meaning of Eluhim and Theos, pointing out how the words were used by standard writers in these languages.

II. Shew, from Chinese dictionaries and classical writers, the Imeaning of the term or terms which have been proposed for translating the same.

1. Meaning of Elohim and Theos.

1. Elohim.

Knapp derives Eloah from the Arabic root Aloh, to worship and venerate; from which it is inferred, that the being or beings referred to by that name, were supposed to possess qualities and attributes which led their votaries or dependents to worship and revere them. Hence, he says, it was applied to kings, magistrates, judges, and others to whom reverence is shewn, and who are regarded as representatives of the Deity upon earth. He renders the singular form Eloah by Augustus, in the positive degree, and the plural Elohim by Augustissinus, in the superlative.