The Spirit of missions . amereaches even here, and not its fame onlybut its power too, for at every streetcorner we find a stone tablet facing uson which are carved the characters: AStone from the Tai Mountain, Whodares come this way? This inscribed (8661 An Ancient High Place in China 867 fine is expected to deceive all evilFrits into thinking that the power ofi Mountain is at hand and thus forcetiin to retreat. [n China every high hill has its highj .ee with its pillars and Asherim, gen-( Ily surrounded with a pleasant grove( green trees. But from the earliestlies five peaks of from 3,000 to
The Spirit of missions . amereaches even here, and not its fame onlybut its power too, for at every streetcorner we find a stone tablet facing uson which are carved the characters: AStone from the Tai Mountain, Whodares come this way? This inscribed (8661 An Ancient High Place in China 867 fine is expected to deceive all evilFrits into thinking that the power ofi Mountain is at hand and thus forcetiin to retreat. [n China every high hill has its highj .ee with its pillars and Asherim, gen-( Ily surrounded with a pleasant grove( green trees. But from the earliestlies five peaks of from 3,000 to 5,000i t have been reverenced as the abiding].ces of the most powerful spiritual{3ncies. In the Book of History,jich was compiled by Confucius about(\) the Emperors progress throughh country is marked out by his arrivalf|: certain dates at the eastern, central,fjithern, western, and northern high]ices, these being mountains respec-tely in Shantung, Honan, Hunan,Mchuen and Shansi. The Southern High Place of China is. CHINESE MAP OF THE SOUTHERN situated about two hundred miles southof Changsha, the capital of HunanProvince; and though to the Emperor,who yearly sends his special representa-tive to worship and offer incense, it isbut one of five such high places, to thepeople of our province it is the highplace, and the home of the highest godsin their divine calendar. Across the river from Changsha is alow hill, about 500 feet high, coveredwith a sacred grove. This is indeed theoutermost of the seventy-two peaks in-cluded in the sacred territory of theSouthern Mountain. Whenever we hap-pen to visit this hill, we are sure to beaccosted by Chinese, who ask us whetherin our land we have such high hills andsuch large trees. You may imagine howa people who consider a five-hundred-foot hill high, would reverence a peakrising abruptly three or four thousandfeet into the air; still more when, com-ing from the treeless plain, they find itssides covered with majestic trees, meas-urin
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