University of Nanking - Linguist Yearbook (Nanking, China)

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110 THE LINGUTSTH We remember the story of jesus going to raise the boy from the deadg I-Iow the crowd was so great that llc could scarcely enter. The Bible often speaks of the wailing for the dead. As we draw still nearer we can hear the women weeping. Only those who have heard the Oriental woman wail can quite understand these Biblical ex- pressions. V The day is now far spent and we are weary with the slow travel- ling. We too, come to the village well where all the villagers come at some time during the day. We sit on the stone curb, which today is furrowed deep by the constant rubbing up and down of the ropes of the water buckets as they supplied for centuries the water for which men thirst again. While we are refreshing ourselves, the village folk come out to see us. How often they bring a sick child to us and ask for help or medicine. If we are friendly and talk to them or are able to help them with the medicines that we always carry with us. they too will return unto the village and. tell them all things that we have said and done to them. So that soon the whole country side knows about us and is eager for our return. . I' -- ,z ,gs ittartgfff ' 1 r -- . sa .ff...- .,,.-.-..v,,, .1 ,r ,.v .3 This iS nQt l'lalziarn.'bnt, the burrow might be his ass.

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SEEING PALESTINE IN CHINA 109 My host goes to America this summer with his wife and baby. I wonder il he will linil in my America thc same charm and courtesy that I found in his home. Asl lclt. lie said My people like you very much. They say you are not proud. Proud? who are we Americans that we should be tooproudto be friendly? It's small wonder that we win them so slowly to Christianity. RUTH L. MYERS. i A good catch: Fishermen after a haul in a large pond in the interior of China, Ponds are very numerous and serve the twofold purpose of water sup- ply and meat supply. SEEING PALESTINE IN CHINA. A journey from Jericho to jerusalem in China today will bring before us in reality the scenes and customs that we have long visua- lized in our imaginations only. In China, away from the railroads, we travel a day's journey. We start with the dawn, either on foot or on donkey in order to reach our destination while it is yet day. Otherwise we shall arrive to find that there is no room in the inn and shall have to accept such shelter as can be found. As we pass through the country immediately outside the city wall, we see the swine herders tending their swine among the tombs and graves. Soon we come to the fields white unto harvest. Here and there the men are at work on the threshing floor, while some distance away the poor folk from the city are gleaning after the farmers who are laboriously cutting the grain with sickles. Some fields are already harvested and in these the oxen are plowing with the same cumbersome wooden yoke and plow of two thousand years ago. As we travel on in the early morning we are interested in the fisher- men who are fishing with nets in the ponds and streams. As we near a farm house, we notice how the people are crowding around it.

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SEEING PALESTTNE IN CHINA 111 Who has ever travelled much in China and not seen over and over again the crowds which gather so quickly at any unusual eventg Or has not seen the doorways so crowded that if one were to enter, it would have to be by way of the roof. VVe can easily understand why laccheus had to climb a tree in order to see jesus. How eagerly do the Chinese sit or stand for hours to hear some preacher speak with a message. The Oriental has no thought of the time if he is eager to hear or to see. No wonder jesus could not send the people away but fed the multitudes where he was. We can more clearly understand how, after Peter's powerful sermon, more than three thousand were added to the church in one day. The Orient seems full to overflow- ing with children, and always where jesus was, the children too, would gather. How natural it was for jesus to cal-l a child to him and bless It or use it in his parable. The next day is a feast clay. For just as in Bible times there were Special feasts days and various gods, so in China today. As we draw nearer to the city the crowds increase. We notice some dusty weary travellers, dressed in a different garb. Upon inquiry we find that they are famine sufferers from the north, and like Ioseph's brerln-en are coming south with their asses to take back food and grain for their families. All along the crowded way are the beggars, the halt, the lame, the maimed and blind, and here and there a demoniac, all reaching out their hands for help. Of course Jesus' great svmpa- thetic heart went out to them and He healed them before He preached to them. How apt was Jesus' story of the good Samaritan. for here travellers pass by on the other side and leave those who are in trou- ble or need, to their own fate. H . -, ra ,at I 1 'XG gil A well which has furnished water for centuries We are now within sight of the great wall of the city of our destination. We enter by way of the water gate which is muddy and slippery from the hundreds of buckets of water which the people have carried into the city during the day. We pass by the great city temple. Here in the Orient the temple and court is a noisy market place. It must have been such a scene ashthis which aroused the