should melt our hearts and make us return to God. He will receive us joyfully and forgive us our sins. Brethren: If God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. [The third sketch, which is by Jee Gam, to whom, during his recent visit to the East, many of our readers listened with great interest, must be deferred to another issue.—ED. MISSIONARY.] * * * * * CHILDREN’S PAGE. * * * * * A TRIP UP THE YANG-TSE-KIANG. REV. G. W. PAINTER. By the last mail, I wrote that I was in Shanghai for my health. Since then, I have been up the Yang-tse-Kiang to Hankow, a distance up and back of 1,200 miles, first-class passage $8. This included board for a whole week, and it may startle you to hear that we had genuine strawberries (the first I have seen during seven years’ residence in China), which cost the steward five cash each (half a cent), and shad at a cost of $2 per pair. We always had five or six kinds of meat, and several kinds of fruit. How this could be afforded was a mystery, but to me a charming one. The fare provoked even a sick man’s appetite, and the pure sweet river air conduced to sleep; the weather was fine, and the scenery, for one half of the route, superb. Part of the way the banks of the river were flat, and the view was cut off by tall reeds with which they were lined, but during the latter half of the upward journey the mountains rose, often abruptly from the river, not unfrequently to great heights, and it was true of some of these, what I supposed before coming to this country was true of all mountains, that they were terraced and cultivated to their summits. Much of the scenery was equal to that on the Hudson, minus the residences.