Authentic Memoirs of the Christian Church in China
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p. 192. Lond. 1681. Op. Cardwell's History of Con- ferences, p. 380. Oxford, 1840.) 3 Wall, ii. 239. * Renaudot (^Aneiennes Relations, p. 237. : Remarks on the Ancient Accounts, p. 43.) conjectures, but not upon grounds which satisfy the Jesuit De Premare, that Nan-kin was formerly called Cumdan. (Vid. Lettres edifiantes et curieuses, xix. 423. Moshemii Hist, Tartar. Eecl. Append, p. 28.) The Chinese have utter4y lost the name ofthe chief city of their empire in the eighth and ninth centuries. ...Their vaunted Annals contain no allu- sion to the fact, that Christianity once prevailed in their country. (See Renaudot's In- quiry into the origin ofthe Christian Religion in China, pp. 106-7.) Hence we are com- pelled to conclude, that all that is genuine in the history of China, so far as it at present is known, has some reference to events which occurred since the time ofthe erection of the Nestorian Monument. (Cp. Wall, ii. 244. iii. 349.) s Here there are only two words in the original, " soul" and " tranquil." The " bonse memorise" of Assemani and Mosheim must therefore be at once refused; and Kircher's " requies sit animae ejus" is not indubitable ; for the meaning ofthe clause may merely be, " son of Millesius, one tranquil in soul." At all events, pious Aspirations on behalf of the departed are not to be confounded with Prayers for the dead.
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