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Show Grand Canal,-Between Linj£ Gliding and P*ang ehuang,China. June 10 tli, 1907* ' Hp tun" n '-' '.miInn \ .'••'..' No I am not swimming.We Lin CHing people are on a house-boat on our way to. Pang Ghuang for the summer. While it. is. only fifty, five miles between the two places by land ,it is much farther by this winding canal-ri^ er,aud since the wind is against us,will take fully two days,perhans .more, \ for the trip.We are comfortably settled in this roomy,clean house-boat,ana hope to make appreciable inroads upon our piles of unanswered letters.We seldom have a better chance -at? letters than tnis. J am sitting on the - ©dne of a canvas cot,and have my typewriter on a chair in front, of me#0$V#//W;[/and am ready to tell you about the trio from Pao Ting m as- I promised, in my last .Mr.Aiken had gone with us to the" train and staid uitil the train began to move.One such accident such as that of Mrs.Perkins**- &B one anxious and we were glag when we sa^ him walking quietly down .the platform,with none of his iQe}ryhers lacking. We were going second class. ' These French cars are very comfortable,differing from the first class chief* ly in th I ycxey are not upholstered^a difference that makes them preferable, in apt .weather.Our compartment was about six feet .square.Opposite" the door w werX two windows in front of trhicl|and between the seats on either side was a small taole.Above each seat foldea into the wall,was a wide shelf that could -be raised and. used, for a bed at night,and still higherrfiielves for nag- ape. The day was hot,and part of the time /*# there was a great deal of dUat',bttt 1 ^- ride wa Ve^y enjoyable.There was too much motion to allow aw /.tcii reading or writing,.too we .spent most of our time looking out of the - i e.n .By leavinn the door of our compartment open we could see some thing irom. both ..aides of the car. The wheat was not quite ripe , though turning .", .^ _Xhe corn-like kaohliang was just coming up.Irrigation is necessary in all fY .•- -a-i,and the water must be drawn from wells. In most places' this was done i 7 .a aater wheel,turned "ay a donkey, or a cow.The village., t$v*& much fm • ' - ' • x'^ tden cround Lin Ch,ingfand the land more sandy.We crossed-a M ' ' °{ •p-1t k? river'beds whore there was nox water, but tine ne rp stone hat- . die bridge m m m showed that the- gngineres who constructed the ro • i recognised the necessity of guarding against floods, .For hie whole of the hundred and. fifty miles, the mountains could, be seen on the n e s t p pm ti}Ites thi ' ! H .ft more than ten or fifteen miles m tj . le times they" tost mxanpo:nred orr the horizon. The sight of them did my e^es good. 'I enjoyed telxing Dr.Greeiie about tilings Chinese,especially' the thi that M nad^to do with our oton <"ouk»ie diiei me is chieflp interested, because nis visit aas_ iulte as much for the other Seattle-friends as for'himself. It is <f* • i °eynontn church,you know.,that supports the Ellises. The large ft cities alo.ng the . :y k >,X I vine stations built of brick and plaster with wide ercnes^ t e dinded ne of the old mission style stn.tien,e of the Santa Po. !ljHd'ty;k:'cer a r3-de of about six iours,ne reaches Shun Te ma t ere .,»..., ha.in ib*/~ S i K I >Ci.lln8 Y u a n a n d h i s *ife to .meet us. I was glad to see them,all four. J™^',**?-r 1 ? not looking so strong as when I saw h e r last summer.TBhe re is paa uk ,ox jieF having to go.-home.That .would be very hard indeed for her, . Lis Presnyterian station of Shun Te 3?u is in many ways extremely interest-in,;. Ohiair problems are very different, from oars,The entire work of the staf tion is supported by one wealthy church.The money aiven had. to be used for, new, work, anu so this new station nan openoeV! y i ve already built the no cp a tai , three houses and. a very pretty chat e .If a , d l a i for - o x n h we-wora. mere^are two ordained missionaries and a physician with their wives,a Jf0^11 .P^Fslcian and one single woman for evangelistic .work. It is two and a _ years sines the wo&k was begun,and since .most of the people were new '"kie ylatu& 0ijftx'at:U:i''> demanded a&eh tlan , .salts of* the work are not S2?t ?U0U'? *,J"?? -pf0?1? a r e krien.dly,and the**; Bunday congregations o:t a laur a u . i s , y me^ield there' are no church momoQrs, Just think how very ^ I";Ji ~5f . * • ltion« of our field.Ono ordained missionary and his wide, s i » kj y W M ^ * jj-^j to j. ,%, x4. i, x o .t e qa x$went oue L, riall pixru. wa tJ i 11 s en i j o. i . : .-••,.- .r-.- |
