. In brightest Asia. ina, with pagoda-crowned rocks and promontories on the south bank, often glowing with the autumn tints of themaple and the tallow tree, or purple with the sparse herbage, and with the thickly peopled flatlowland on our north bank, despite all the thrill of novelty and pleasure which the experienceaffords, I, too, grieve that I can only send my yearning, prayer-laden glance up the gorges andover the mountains to where the dear brother in isolation courageously toils on for Christ atSui-fu. Like one of old, I am only permitted to scan the borders of the land, but may not ent
. In brightest Asia. ina, with pagoda-crowned rocks and promontories on the south bank, often glowing with the autumn tints of themaple and the tallow tree, or purple with the sparse herbage, and with the thickly peopled flatlowland on our north bank, despite all the thrill of novelty and pleasure which the experienceaffords, I, too, grieve that I can only send my yearning, prayer-laden glance up the gorges andover the mountains to where the dear brother in isolation courageously toils on for Christ atSui-fu. Like one of old, I am only permitted to scan the borders of the land, but may not have at least knelt in prayer at the hither base of the great mountain range which separates usin person, while by faith we have met. It is at least a satisfaction, beyond all power of words toexpress, to have traversed even thus far the course over which these past and future pilgrims forCentral Asias evangelization have devoutly come, and will come until He whose right it is shallreign universally and THE CITY OF SUI-FU, WESTERN CHINA. Ike Southern China ^lission. 75 CHAPTER X. Jl^i^ ^Q)ii\\)<^xv) C^l^iQa fT\issio9. )-ior7(5Ko9<?- November i8. WE are entering Hongkong Harbor. The high hills are on every side, in a vastmountainous amphitheatre. Stately chalk-white European buildings rise on all theslopes, some of them alabastrian in beauty. The smoke of numerous shops andmanufactories shadows some of the slopes, but for the most part there is a sort of aNew Jerusalem-like whiteness and beauty about the whole place. Would it were so morally! Hongkong is an English colony. What there is of Chinatown is obscured or by no meansprominent. A noble English cathedral rests on one shoulder of the mountain ; and on the verysummits, reached by cable railways, are great hotels, villas and country seats, baronial insplendor and spaciousness. European merchants and army and customs officials do not come outhere to live in huts or in native fashion. Great steamships are
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