University of Nanking - Linguist Yearbook (Nanking, China)

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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

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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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'H 'M going to pretend, Said Alice, 'ithat this looking-glass leads into real China. I never Shall understand China Until I get in there where Gwrything goes by op- P0sites. Then I suppose it won't seein opposite for it will he the natural way 1t's very for it no be. mixing. I wish the glass soft like 'gauze so that I could get through. lVhy, lllg into a sort of mist now! Would get all it's tur11- H She was pushing aside tllfb bottles and trays on h0I' dressing table as she Sllolie, and in another mo- ment Aliee was through U10 glass. U They don't keep this 'l'0oin as tidy as the other, Aliee thought, as she llflfieed several Blah .longg tiles down on the hearth 'am0I1g the cinders. Q - 'V 'if ,7 sx- K . x- - ' as A Q . I l 'N 4.53: J A W Q .... el ,X-in Z, V ., f' ' ll get ll ass yi, M v 1-'Hy . f til , x fx . X' V . PM- ' , - i 1 'infix 1 1- .. ' . 'fat .vw-,, '--n rw ' ' AL, y , , -Q A Y SM?--:rr r ,r They are dragons, whispered Aliee to herself. I wonder what I 'ought to do! Another Green Dragon was hopping graCCfUllY down the hall on his tail. HI I- 1- I-1 , - , - I ,A -, lgimnee said Aliee rather t llll X l follon hun, at quite a safe f -S 1 i Ileliously, for she had never been very intimate U1tl1d1flg0ll5- 'JIU llild -U0 soonCI' Sboken than she found herself walliillg arm In arm Wltll U10 Green ,Dragon who was saying to her, C359