“No, it is not the unknown!  No, I have already said it on another mournful occasion, and I shall not weary in repeating it, it is not darkness, it is light!  It is not the end, it is the beginning!  It is not nothing, it is eternity!  Is not this true, I ask all that hear me?  Such graves as this are proofs of immortality.  In the presence of the illustrious dead we feel more distinctly the divine destinies of this intelligence called man, which traverses the earth to suffer and to be purified; and we know that those who have shone with genius during life, must be living souls after death.”

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DR. GUTZLAFF, THE MISSIONARY.

CHARLES GUTZLAFF the famous missionary in China is described in the Grenzboten by a writer who lately heard him preach at Vienna, as a short, stout man, with a deep red face, a large mouth, sleepy eyes, pointed inward and downward like those of a China man, vehement gesticulations, and a voice more loud than melodious.  He has acquired in his features and expression something like the expression of the people among whom he lives.  His whole manners also, as well as his face, indicate the genuine son of Jao and Chun, so that the Chinese when they encounter him in the street salute him as their countryman.  We translate for The International the following sketch of his life and labors: 

Charles Gutzlaff was born in 1803, at Pyritz, a village of Pomerania.  His zeal as an apostle was first manifested some fifteen years ago.  He married an English woman, who was animated with the same aspiration as himself and who accompanied him on his voyages as a missionary.  His extensive acquaintance with the Chinese and kindred languages even then made deep impression on Robert Morrison, the founder of the Evangelical Mission in China, whom he joined in 1831 at Macao, and caused his Acquaintance to be much sought by the merchants.  In 1832 and 1833 he was employed as an interpreter on board ships engaged in smuggling opium, but turned this occupation, which in itself was not of a very saintly character, to his religious ends, by the dissemination of tracts and Bibles.  A missionary journey to Japan which he undertook in 1837 was without any result.  After Morrison’s death Gutzlaff was appointed Chinese Secretary to the British Consulate at Canton, and in 1840 founded a Christian Union of Chinese for the propagation of the Gospel among their countrymen.  His present journey through Europe has a similar purpose, the foundation of Missionary Societies for the spread of Christianity in China.