On the last day of January, two of us planned to visit Hangchow College Taking the one o'clock train, we reached Zahkow about half past two. The weather was quite agreeable. There we had new kind of scenery. Below the mountains there was the river which looked like a long ribbon binding the edges of the mountains. The green patches here and there added to the beauty of the place.
As we climbed the hill, we saw the grand buildings of Hangchow College. There I felt that we had entered into another world. I sympathized with Peter, when saw the glory of Christ, and did not want to go down from the mountain. Wonderful? Lovely, These are not the proper words to describe the beauty of that place. The bigness of the water, and the vastness of the sky, made one fee the smallness and insignificance of the ant like men. Seeing the beautiful scenery, one could not but be inspired by it. "Those who study in this college ought to be saints," was my final expression of the inspiration I received. As we could not linger any longer on that beautiful spot, we left it was darkness fell. That was another red-letter day on my calendar for 1928, Beautiful Lin Ying It is a nice day. Why can't we visit Lin Ying to-day?" said our hostess joyfully. "All right; why can't we?" answered one of us int 'a jolly tone. At half past one the excursion began. Three of us foci the automobile "bus and one wert by riesha. After we reached the temple grounds, the procession be-'Our hostess was the leader It is indeed true that Lin Ying is the most beautiful and interesting place I have even seen. As far as one's eyes could reach here were images and idols—hundreds and thousands of them. There were larger ones and smaller ones, younger ones and older ones, pretty ones and ugly ones. At' Lin the Da Hsiung Bao Dien is the most beautiful temple I ever saw in China. The woodwork and the carved work show a great deal of the artistic taste of the Chinese people.
Fortunately is was the time for worship, so we had the chance te see a Buddhist service. It was quite an experience for me, because I had never before seen the monks worshipping their idols. It was over, and we went home.
Ina word, Hangeho isone of the most beautiful places in the world, Hangchow will not fail to show her beauty to her visitors in any of the seasons of the year. To our foreign friends, who have never been to China, let me say that Hangchow is too good to miss. If you ever come to China, you must not fail to visit Hangchow. To i! Chinese friends, let me say thal. Turge you to visit Hangchow as soon as you can. I can. promis: you that you will be a different tice and which we printed were correct up to the end of March of this year, singe when no startles, changes have taken place.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.