Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-07-24
JOURNEYINGS ABROAD.
An Enjoyable Ride Down From
London to Dover.


THE last Of these letters had the same date a,
The former through a typographical error Il
should have been dated four days before .-EDJ
Special Correspondence to the ARGUS:
ANTWERP, July 11.-For twelve DAYS
there was rain daily in London. and al
most necessarily. The ride down from
London TO Dover is through beautiful
country. Kent-one of the finest farming
countries in the kingdom. Here one sees
hop yards by the hundreds OF acres. and
cherry trees just now are full of fruit.
Strawberries are abundant and of euor-
nous size and very much cheaper in
price than with us; even in the poorest
quarters of London strawberries are ex-
posed for sale in great quantities. At
Rochester we visited the Cathedral. one
of the oldest in the kingdom. of Norman
style; it is still undergoing repairs as it
was seventeen years ago when | visited
1t. The old castle on the banks of the
river is In as good state OF preservation,
except OF course its roof and other wood
work. AT Rochester, too, one sees the
house of which Dickens writes in his
Christmas tales where the poor travellers
were lodged, and which his story no
doubt as was intended, helped to improve
in its hospitality.
Canterbury is full OF objects of inter-
est to everybody The Cathedral and
other churches abound in objects of in
terest to every student of history st.
Martens, the oldest church of England, has
still some of its early brick in the founda.
tions, /. e. before Augustine came here
In 59S. and the font in which Ethabert
was baptized by Augustine is still used
for the same sacrament. Here at Canter
bury is the great missionary college of
st. Augustine for the preparation of men
for missionary work in the colonies The
site is the old Augustine monastery, of
enormous size and very great Importance
even more so in its early days than the
cathedral itself. Mr.. BreesfOrd Hone. of
noble memory, purchased the property
(Which was being used for brewery,
erected the present buildings, etc., and
donated the whole for its present use.
The opening of the college was in 1s4S,
and in 1878 the writer came for a week
as the official representative of one of our
American missionary seminaries. The
college has sent men into every part of
the world, and the names of all the grad
yates are painted on the walls of
the cloister under their class date
and the diocese to which they were
with. The various dioceses of China,
Japan. New Zealand, Australia, india,
Madagascar, Ceylon. Canada, British
America, Turkey. Egypt. ETC., ETC., are
all represented on these walls, while in
the lovely crypt of the chapel, where
there is beautiful altar. and daily cele-
brations of the holy mysteries, the names
of all the graduates who have gone to
their rest are written in letters of gold,
and mentioned in the diptyches of every
festival off st. Peter. The museum of
the college is full of articles brought by
the students from their dioceses-idols
of wood and stone, household goods aud
utensils. etc, of every description. The
warden of the college received us most
kindly. and afforded us every opportun-
ity to see and lesrn-ln fact. the English
clergy everywhere are most cordial to
their American brethren, and even If