University of Nanking - Linguist Yearbook (Nanking, China)

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Dr. Reiehelt in his most unique of mission enterprises, welcomes all Buddhist and Taoist monks to his halls of hospitality. Here they may Wash their scarred heads, and rest their tired feet, drink till they thirst no mere, and eat the simple fare. With this seine are satisfied, and after three days depart. But some, for all their wandering on saered hills and up and down the land, have found. no end in their hand, a thirst assails them. In the ' M . if . ' -we gt, f,21i.,.2 V ,ff J.-r-:L - . - I ,S s J. clk - tufts! l 'lf -n'i7'.4El!'i'l-fl ,I ' -A 1 i ffl P5 'x , A l l. J I' ri,-Q 8 i up 1 ' I 1 4' .- N-il llllp l , f Q uik I l I 'fy l ll l t .il l 'V ' X x :I I t a wt . +4 . 0 , ' ' -' f, ' i 014 -'-li 1- 7 1 'f-- 4. , BL!- 5 'I0' PLVHIU'-4 the Word i' is written above the altar. Of this of seeking. When the eup is days of their priestly ordina- tion, candles burned low on their heads, and guttered out in blood. Those wounds have healed, yet they have found no ease for the soul's burning. Sueh men tarry on in fellowship. Dr. lleiehelt and his helpers wear the pattern of their enterprise, wrought in silver,-a cross springing from the lotus. They know how far above the lilth and slime of men lies the lotus flower of Buddhisnfs purest conception. Above, they place the cross, for the age-old yearning of men after God has found fulfill- ment in one Man and in this Sign, 'J In the beginning was word all men know a syllable. They do not know it was made Hesh and dwelt among us. ,ln the tiny quiet chapel, while the bell intoms, they hear and meditate upon this t33l

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32 SIDE LIGHTS ONTHE CHINESE had eaten his own son's flesh. The shoek killed the old man. It also killed the sons faith in priests, and prepared his heart to receive the Christian message. On the day of his baptism he showed me the scar proudly, for God had used his saerifieial offering to bring him to the Savior. THE PROFESSOR EX PLAINS She's on the other side of the world, And the world, you know, is round: S0 her head is down in the air, my dear, And her feet are up on the ground. Thats why in China so many things ' Are the other way around- For their heads are always down in the air , And their feet are up on the ground. So their books begin at the baek, you know, And read from the top-side down, And the footnotes stand at the top of the page, And new paper is yellowish brown. But t-he brains of folks must be somewhat awry, And their judgement not quite sound, When they walk with their heads straight down in the air, And their feet away up on the ground. But perhaps in China they think of us As soberly walking around With our own heads down in the air, 1ny dear, And our ow11 feet up on the ground. So our books begin to read at the baek, And our top-notes are down at the foot, And our words may be written with twenty strokes, But the writing has never a root. We don't know the rules of politeness, my dear: Our ignorance is profound 5 - i It's because our heads are down in the air, And our feet are up on the ground.

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34 MISSION TO BUDDHISTS truth. Carven on the altar is His sign, the cross of sacrifice. There also is the sun of righteousness, the fire and water of the spirit's cleansing. The fragrance of the incense sticks rises spirally, the symbol of aspiration. From time to time a boy whose parents have given him to the priests, is released to Dr. Reiehelt. In his small school, in daily eontaet with men of grace and scholarship, these boys learn, that they in turn may .lead the priesthood of the land along the Way to Light. i Hr