From Our Own Correspondent.
Hangchow, Nov. 11.
Professor Coulter, the great scientist and earnest Christian, is at present 1m Hangchow. delivered a very able lecture in the Y.M.C.A. Gymnasium to students on Sunday, showing clearly that science and religion did not clash, It was irreligious not to acknowledge the truth of science and it was unscientific not to acknowledge the truth of religion. Truth remained truth in spite of ignorant opposition. Professor Coulter was born in Ningpo where his father was a missionary and was the originator of the present Presbyterian Mission Press which has done grand and successful work in publishing and printing.
Bishop Molony, who is here confirming, preached the Armistice Sermon in the Hospital Chapel. There was not sufficient Christianity among the nations, who are forgetting the sacrifice of Christ and the Save of God, he said. There was too much pride, anger, grudging and the unforgiving spirit, while the spirit of love and forgiveness was lacking among the nations, and there was too little of the fear of God and love of man.
He advised us in our own sphere to work for peace, to get to understand each other, to forget old quarrels and misunderstandings and to pray for unity and work and wait for the Lord's return.
A lady doctor and two nurses from New Zealand have just arrived to join the staff of the Hangchow Hospital, much to the delight of the very depleted staff who have been for some years now very much overworked.
Dr. and Mrs. Maxwell, of For-mesa fame and now the Executive Secretary of the O.M.M.A., are here on a visit to see the work of the Hangchow Hospital, which, we are told, is very much in need of bandages. The British Women's Association hag generously sent some lately but thousands more are needed. Iv is interesting to seo the walls of the New Medical Schoo} gradually rising and it' hoped the roof will crown them by the end of the year. A new hospital for women lepers is being built and will be ready for oceupation in a few weeks. and the attempt to bring good luck and prosperity to the city.
The celebration was over in time luckily for the gorgeous doings to celebrate the fall of Chungking. Special holidays have been proclaimed and the flowing bowl. is very much to the front this week.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.