We regret to have to notice the death of Mrs, Griilith John, of the London Mit at Hankow.
Shi China, having 1854. She American Episcopal Mission, South, At that time it was her earnest desire to devote herself to missionary work, and to be ul in any way she could in connection it. She was a woman of great natural endowments, with various accomplishments of high order, and of atrong, fervent, religious fe As opportunity offered, this was shown on.many occasions, and as she well fitted for a aphere' of 0 bearing of her lit Particularly we call to mind her labours at port on behalf of the sea-faring portion of the community. For many years she devoted herself to them, and by her ind and earnest demeanour, she gathered umbers of them around her from and was the means of effect mount of good amonget them.
fying to hoten to their experience of bredness to eve the hi Several years after the death of Dr. moved to Hankow as the of the Rev. Grifiith John of that place. There she carried out the practice of her ourly days in Shanghai, by doing what she could both for the benefit of the nati and of the sailors and others who wei Through her as formed there, to which such habit of going, pleasure they enjoyed there carried on, and the bei a sd. from it of time her health was thing was seriously till very lately. ical advice that could be had, she called away on Tuesday Inst, the 29ch Tu the course of her illu and serenity of her mind, while she seemed not only to an blessedness and beauty of heaven on which she was about to enter, but even to be realizing it asa matter of actual experience. Her friends around, though called to witness the sorrows of a dying hour, were sustained and comforted by the assurance that all ud her departure from this aeon of things er entrance into the joys and felicities of a better world.
Tt is seldom that we are called to bear testimony to the zeal and devotedness, the gentleness and loveliness of a character and life like that of Mrs. Grifith John, accompanied as it was by so many indications of usefulness and apprecia by hers was distinguished. held in high, honoured, and lasting remem-prance. Mrs, John stands asa foremost amplification of these, and xs she was ighly known in the circle of Christian d missionary labourers in Chi ery where regarded with the greatest esteem and affection, We lament her loss, and many sympathy ter. Only her long abide 1 women who h refit this great country in the truest sense, and who themselves for the spiritual advantage of those who come to it from other climes, Mes. John will ever be mentioned with love and respect. We could willingly testify to the effect which the deceased was enabled to produce in whatever sphere she moved, alike at home and abroad, by virtue of her strong religious sentiments convictions, endearing herself to many consequence, and anni ug of yeling of spread sorrow at her death; but we forbear for the present. We can only express our deep sympathy with her bereaved husband and her other relation The remsivs of Mrs. John arrived here on. the Kiangkwan from Hankow on Saturday, and the funeral took place at the New Cemetery in the afternoon, the ser: being impressively conducted by ead of the London dance of mission leceasod. The pall-bear the Rev. J. Stonehouse, Mr. Dalziel, Mr, E. A. Fabric, Mr. G. H. Fergusson, Captain Knights, and Captain McQueen." The coffin plate bore the intion "Jeannette John, aged fifty-two 'THE PRENCH-MAIL PAPERS, struct to read the utterances of turday Keview and the Spectator side by question of which both pa he moat bigoted of Tories canna! ick with the eminently fair-minded and philosophical tone of the Spectator, wu ity upon at the piament statements out of their obv meaning, to jibe and jeer at everything and everybody not identified with thei own narrow platform, and to impute th worst of motives to those with whom they may happen to disap he issues of these two papera now bef lo exemplifications of this fact, Take almost any one subject treated in both, and the truth of what we say will be at once apparent. Mr. Gladstone's utterances on the Disestablishment Question, and the result of the Armatrong trial, are onses int. On the former subject the Church is now doing, and of the less fibres which it has put forth to taelf to the hearts of the E id with his whol with which the 1'i There is not Church will gain Mr. of votes which he would have lost if he had not spoken it, not beau thought and acted di lent supersti that Mr, Gl always go farther than be would have misled the time trastfal among English Churchmen, Thora who know anything about Mr. Gladstone know perfectly well that the laet movement
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