Rural China, to-day, with its communal_wells, its winnowing "floors, oxen grinding. the corn, Its Patriarchal system of government, is Uso near the Palestine of 1,000 years ago, that, to these so recently converted ones, the miracles performed there did not seem by any means the legendary improbabilities that they have come to be regarded by tHe workaday Western world which measures time by hours and minutes and not by dynasties and centuries. Father Onesimus was also simple soul. He had that childlike faith that is' shared by saints and young children. He assured them that with God all things were possible.
"Would he pray with them?" He would and did. And they returned home comforted. 'This new Western God of thlrg whom they had lly worshipped through the ages had become strangely real to them, He must help. And yet! "And Tang 'Hsiang, the second' son, had voleed the uneasiness of them all. "Sup-ose He does not hear us? Suppose He does not think we have served Him Jong enough to deserve his Intervention?™
They had to be certain, It was either pay on New Year's Eve or bring dishonour on their ancient Jname. Whatever happened, that must not be. To a Chinese in whose breast there remains even a spark of the traditional national "conception of honour, there is only one way to [Wipe out debts that' one is unable to pay and that is to remain no Tonger In the same world as one's credi-for.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.