Twice in these colums within the last few days the name has appeared of Mr. Nie Loh-ssu, native pastor of the Foreign Christian Mission. First his death, among the victims of the terrible Onto disaster was mentioned, and then the recovery of his body; asad solace to those who could thus caro for his loved earthly remains.
On Thursday we stood amid a numerous Peiehe open grave.' To any present who thering of mourners, native and foreign,
might have witnessed a Chinese heathen funeral, with its gruesome gauds, its tinsel trappings, its grotesque material symbolism, its half pathetic, half perfunctory, wails of despair, the service held in the West Gate Chinese burial ground must have presented a striking and most suggestive contrast; the quiet company of true mourners; the widow well-nigh " overwhelmed, but supported and soothed by a kind' Christian friend, the Chinese matron of the Hospital close by; the orphaned children, the brothers, sisters, and other kinsfolk, all connected with Christian churches—sorrowing indeed but not as those without hope.
Mr. Nie Loh-ssu was about 30 years of age. Hiss father was for some years before his death pastor of the London Mission Shanghai congregation; the son, from his boyhood, received much careful. teaching and train ing for mission work, from Dr. Muirhead. Day by day he was thus instructed, and two other youths with him; both of whom are now trusted and useful preachers to-their countrymen in connection with the London Missionary Society. Mr. Nic
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