Dr. Chas. F. Johnson, our resident physician, Nour correspondent, in company with recently made a tour which took us through the wild mountain region of northern Isuei. En rode we passed through a mountain village known as Wangchuang which has been for a number of years the headquarters of the work of German Catholics in that region. We made bold to call upon Father Negler, who is in charge of the station. He received us hally and showed us over the establishment. There are two boarding schools for boys and a nunnery. In connection with the schools is an industrial department of modest proportions where spinning, weaving, and possibly other j handicrafts are taught. Connected with the mission there are about eight hundred Chinese acres of Iand, most of which is let jour to tenants. The buildings of the mission are in the ordinary substantial brick and tile style, with a few foreign touches in some places. "But the surprising feature of the place is the fine large charch, recently completed. It is about eighty feet long by fifty feet wide, built in trae Gothic style, of brick and limestone. The°groined arches in the interior rest upon pillars of stone perhaps a foot and a half thick and ten or twelve feet high. The windows are filled with plain coloured glass in simple designs. The glazing was done by the pupils. It is certainly a credit to the builders and when seen for the first time, rearing its decidedly foreiga-looking bulk among the stone huts of the village it is indeed surprising spectacle. Why it should be tucked away in the fastnesses of the Isuei hills is a question whose answer we cannot give. It is probably a matter of policy.
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