Speaking of praying for rain brings to mind what I saw shortly before leaving Nanking forthesummer. In going through the city, I one day noticed over the streets strings stretched from side to side with a number of pieces of yellow paper hanging from them. These strings could be seen up and down any of the streets. On these pieces of paper were written the Chinese form of prayer for rain. Not long after copious showers fell. We who believe in answered prayers cannot justly say that God, who holds the clouds in his hands, did not recognise the earvest plea, though it may have come from darkened and di-believing hearts,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.