bly-room and an institutional church, and that Doctor Lesher asks
for a hospital building to facilitate his medical work.

I made an address to those eighty boys that evening, as they stood at
attention before me. Half of them were still heathen, but their fathers
had sent them to this Christian school, believing that they needed a
better religion than that of Confucius or of Buddha. I urged them to
become soldiers of Christ, and to follow him as their Commander. I did
not conceal from them the fact that such following might involve
opposition and earthly loss. But I promised them that, if they suffered
with Christ, they would also reign with him.

We returned from Chao-yang very sober and thoughtful, for our visit had
been a revelation of appalling needs. Swatow seemed a paradise after
such a visit. The smiling faces of so many Christians, and the signs of
a truly Christian civilization, inspired me with new hope for the
future. But our time had come for leaving China, at least temporarily,
and India was at once to be visited. Our departure from Swatow was
almost as spectacular as our entry into Chao-yang. There was no military
guard, and there were no firecrackers, but there was a fine brass band
of academy boys, to lead our procession of sedan-chairs, as we passed
through the long lines of scholars who had gathered with their teachers
to bid us farewell. The schools were all represented. First came the
little kindergartners, then pupils of the grammar school, the girls'
school, the women's school, the Bible-women's training-school, the boys'
academy, and finally, the theological seminary. They numbered more than
three hundred in all. Some of the teachers accompanied us to the
steamer. We parted from them with regret, but we were thankful that they
could remain to prepare the way for a new religion, education, and
civilization in China.

My week-end in China leaves me with a new sense of the vastness of the
heathen world, and of its absolute dependence upon Christ, as its only
possible Saviour. The question whether the heathen will ever be saved if
we do not give them the gospel, is not so serious a one for us as the
other question whether we ourselves will ever be saved if we do not give
them the gospel.

III

MANILA, SINGAPORE, AND PENANG

Each of these cities might seem to be the New Jerusalem, if you were to
see only its European part and the dress of its inhabitants. Their
European residents are al