Every Day Religion from Ransom, Kansas • 1

i1! And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And ha him that heareth i say, Come. And let him that is a- 'M thirst come. And whosm-ver will, let him take of the water of life 'j. freely.

LVr. 22: 17. ft: Every branch in me that beareth l. not fruit he taketh away: and erery bvundi that beareth fruit, he j. jiurK'Pthit, that it may bring forth more fruit.

Si. John 2, "Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith the Lord of hosts." Zeci. 4: 6. Volume 2. Numberr 16.

KAUOPOLIS, KANSAS, OCTOBER, 1901. Subscription 50 Cts. a Year. high. On the brw of this rock stands a pagoda which has defied the tooth of time forover four hundred years.

Last year it was to be rebuilt, but the building is indefinately postponed because of an accidetnt two men falling from the scaffolding. That a structure which should bring fortune should itself be the cause of misfortune greatly confused the minds of the people. the southwestern slope of the mount stands a THE HEW LIFE. Old sorrows tGi at sat a.tthe heart's scaled gate. Like sentinels 'grtrimnd sad, While out in nightrdamp, weary and late.

The King-, with a great, Waited to anml-oe melad. Old fears HhaiLTnaing lik-e a changing cloud, Over a sunuHess Old burdens -tihal keptithe spirit bowed, Old wrongs 4ih ait rankled or clamored loud They havf passed ltke a dream away. In the worklwitbout.and the world within, He makelh Ihe old tilings new; vacuate. The pernicious work of these rebels is-still visible through all these parts of China. The nature of the people is well depicted in Captain Loch's Narrative of Events in China, when he says that "while the party of volunteers were approaching the camp they passed through the small hamlet on the hill; the village had not been deserted, some of the houses were closed, while the inhabitants of others were standing in the street, staring at us in stupid wonder; and although thev were viewing a contest between foreigners and their fellow-countrymen, and in danger themselves of being shot, they were coolly eating their meals." That is the important thing about Chinkiang.

Calloused indifference to things spiritual is a special characteristic of all classes. Extreme riches and extreme poverty are seen side by side, but even the beggars seem independent. As it has been a strategic point from military survey, so it is an important center for evangelistic and medical work. From no city in Central Jlargc Buddhist monastery, housing at certain Reasons three to four hundred monks. The Tern- ple is supported by imperial grants.

It has a well whose water is said to he only second to the best iiin the. empire for swettness of taste and healiiv properties. The abbot is said to be in possession of a girdle more than a thousand years old, inlaid The touch of sorrow, the stain of sin. Have flel fremi the gate where the King came in. From the night's damp and dew.

Anew in the Leavens the sweet stars shine, On earth new blossoms spring, The old life last in the life divine, Mv will is Thine, Thy will be mine, The song winch the new hearts sing. -AW. with rubies and diamonds, containing miraculous power. The idols are of colossal size, and, decorously gilded, looking down upon the worshipers with power and dignity; but the monks are chiefly opium smokers, weak and degraded characters. unina is it possioie to reacn a METHODISM IN CHINKIANG.

By Ciias. F. KrPFKR, Phi. Superintendent of Centre! China Mission. The city of Chinkiaiig was opened to foreign commerce ft larger number of different peo-pie than fr om the streets of Chin-fj! kiang.

Merchants come from distant parts of Ki-ang-su, An-hui, and Shang-tung for trade, and the poor for winter shelter fj! and charity soup kitchens. For the establishment of a strong church, Chinkiang is haps one of the most difficult in China; but for reaching )) the remotest recesses in these by the treaty of Tentsin, by Lord Elgin in the temple at -ij Tentsin since called the Treaty provinces no better situation can Temple, or Lord r.igin joss House-on June 20, 1858. It is situated on the southern bank of the Yang-tse-kiang, about one hundred and sixty miles from the coast. It is a perfectural ritv. in the rich and peculiarly L.

p. tl fl! ft 1 be found. Could we afford ten men to preach daily in the thor-oughfaresof this metropolis, who were willing to "cast their bread upon the water" and patiently wait for returns, the results would soon be felt in distant towns and hamlets in this and other provinces. However, neither the churches at home nor the missionaries on the lield have patience enough to be satisfied with this kind of work, and hence the effective workers at this center have been comparatively few consider! ng shaped province of Liang-su, and is surrounded by a high wall four miles in circumference, but the suburb is much larger and richer than the city within the wall. This is entirely the result ty.

foreign trade, which also ac- for the rapid increase of it population, now estimated at .350.000. OOI.DIOX ISLAND PAGODA AND MONASTKKY The houses are built on a level, ijK ilv a few feet above the high 1 anlv The history of Chinkiang also possesses some features of interest. The translation of its name implies "Kiver guard," the town havingonce been of special military importance when all the rice the greatness of the field. In the spring of 1881 the superintendent, V. Hart, sent Marcus L.

Taft to open work in Chinkiang. He lived in a rented house in a foreign settlement, and held his service in a room of his house, working under great difficulties for several years. The following year he was reinforced by G. W. Woodall, who gave five years of faithful service.

From the arrival of Brother Taft till my appointment in 1891 Chinkiang was a kind of a rendezvous for newly arrived missionaries. By looking over the records I found that ten men had" preceded me, in as many years, and only two of them are now members of the Central China Mission. The appointments made by the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society proved much more satis factory. In 1884 Dr. Lucy II.

Hoag and Miss. Mary C. Robinson were commissioned to open work at this point. Untiringly have they held on to their trust, with the exception of one year on much-needed furlough home, and both are at present as hopefully at work as ever before. In water mark, but the situation in tlae rear of the city is beautiful, having hills of considerable elevation.

For miles these hills are covered with anciient and modern graves, chiefly of the peasant claxw. Five miles above the city the Grand Canal comes in from the north and passes to the south, close to the wall of the western side. On the northeast is a bluff hill, upon which is erected a large temple, with elaborate Confucian tablets, built b- Tso Tsungtan, Pin Yu-ling, and other great men of Central China. The Silver Island, one mile below this bluff, in the midst of the Yang-tse; the Golden Island, above the city; the Consular Bluff, overhanging the foreign settlement, and the hills in the background, present a prospect more varied and cheerful than any scenery in the lower Yang-tse. Ocean steamers, loading rice, beans, and peanuts; river steamers, carrying all kinds of commodities; lorchas, junks, native gun-boats, and sampans of all descriptions, present most interesting views of Chinese characteristic of life and activity.

The Golden Island should receive more than tribute from southern provinces was transported to Peking by this route. During the first opium war the British captured the city, in July, 1842, cutting off all southern supplies from the central government. This had its desired effect it being the key to the country in respect to transport for the treaty of Nanking was signed one month later. The manchu general, Hailing, finding the city taken, seated himself in his office and wrote his last communication to the emperor, assuring him "that he could not have done otherwise than use his whole heart and strength by endeavoring to pay a small fraction for the many favors he had received from the government;" and then set lire to his house, "making it his funeral pyre." In April, 1853. the all-destroying Taiping rebels entered the city, and continued to hold the situation until 1857, when British and Americans assisted the imperial troops and forced them to e- (Continued on page 5.) passing notice.

It is a great rock, eighty or ninety.