spel to all the East. China and India have
already felt the influence of his military and political progress. Let
us, by pouring in the light of Christianity, make him also their leader
in true religion!

II

A WEEK-END IN CHINA

Hongkong is a city wonderful for situation and for trade. It has a
landlocked harbor encircled by precipitous hills and large enough to
float the navies of the world. It is the second largest port on earth
for exports and imports, over six hundred million dollars' worth in a
year. It is a meeting-place of the East and the West, a fortress of
Britain in China, a conglomeration of people, a center of influence for
Japan and for India, an object-lesson in sanitation, education, and
municipal government. The dominating religion is that of the Church of
England, and the Hongkong University, though endowed in part by wealthy
Chinese, follows English models and has a staff of English professors.

I mention Hongkong only to make more clear my description of Swatow, its
northern neighbor. The situation of Swatow is very like that of
Hongkong. A noble harbor encircled by steep hills, it is one of the
chief ports between Hongkong and Shanghai, and only a single night's
steamer-ride from Hongkong. Its attraction to us lay in the fact that it
is more Chinese than Hongkong, a principal seat of Presbyterian and
Baptist missions, and not so dominated as is Hongkong by the Church of
England. As Hongkong is an island, so our Baptist Mission Compound is on
an island, separated from the city of Swatow by the bay on which
hundreds of sampans and fishing-boats with lateen sails are always
riding, and at whose wharves many a great steamship is loading or
unloading freight. When our vessel arrived, we were quickly surrounded
by a multitude of smaller craft, manned by clamorous tradesmen selling
wares or seeking employment. The commissioner of British customs, who
was our fellow passenger, most courteously invited us to share his
motor-launch, and when we had landed on the other side of the bay he
sent us up the hill to the mission compound in two of his sedan-chairs,
each one borne by two stout men in picturesque uniform: and wearing the
insignia of the customs office.

A word about the English customs may be interesting. To satisfy English
creditors, and later, to pay interest on indemnities for the Boxer
uprising, China mortgaged the larger part of her duties on foreign
imports. Sir Robert Hart was app