Cost Of Idolatry In China And Christendom

A single item of expense for the suplort of ídolátry in China, viz: incensé m'rnt befare iciols, ís stated by llev. Mr. De;:r, a Baptist Missionary, tó be 300,K)0,000 per nnnmn; equal to one dollar Por each inhabilantof the Empire. Tt is rne of the many marks of human depravty,tHát men give llieir money mucli more freely for the support of a false than the true religión. The intense burnt to the henthen god Mars every year in Christendom, costs ihe people of that enlightened región nbntit 1,000,000.000. Sixteen of the Christian riaiions of Europe, are in debt to the amount of more thah Ten Billtoxs of Dollars, for incensé oflered to that blood-thirsty god during tfie last wo centunes. This is but "a single i7e?n" of ihe dost of this idolatry. The same altar I as boen lavisoii with enough of Christian bíood to fill the Ganges, within the same period; whereas, before Christians forced their bales of poison within the bounds of China, that poople, agins, had not shed or lost a drop of blood in war for 200 years.