The colleges and schools have once more become hives of industry for the many seekers, after knowledge among the youth of Wenchow. The Methodist College bids fair soon to have over 200 students on its rolls, 194 having already enrolled in spite of strict tov regulations, and-other's are yet to come in. are living' in, necessitating ti buying of over 20 extra beds besides extra forms for the chapel. It is. a really splendid sight lo see the wimest crowded chapel of the College filled every morning for the opening service with-bright-eyed youths from 15 to 25 years of age, whose eager faces and often close atten-tien make it no little-pleasure to address them. The acting principal takes the opportunity of addressings this gathering himself every morning, and finds pregnant occasion to deal from the Christian standpoint with current questions such as the Japanese boycott and i stakes—the boycott _has been suspended—the Jap-earthquake, the chaotic ndition of th native country, international relations, false prophets, ete. 4
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.