OnThursday evening, (4th) inthe Municipal Hall, there. Dr. William Muirhead was presented with an Address and a number of articles, upon the occasion of the completion of fifty years' ministerial work in Shanghai, There was a large attendance, representatives of every section of the community, including many ladies. Mr. C. Throne presided.
The Chairman, in opening the proceedings, annouiuced that he had received from the Rev. Dr. Stevens a letter regretting inability to attend, and expressing the heartiest sympathy with the object of the meeting. He then went on to remind those present that Dr. Muirhead had been engaged in missionary work in Shanghai for " period of over fifty years. Not only had he done great good amongst the natives of Shanghai and around, but amongst the foreign community. i sary of Dr. Muirhead's arrival in Shanghai, the 26ch of August last, an address was presented to him, but as the weather was 0 hot then it was thought advisable to Enter "The address was as follows thone the public gathering to a later Tae Rev, Wma Mormua, v.v.
Dear Dr. Murrmean,—Your friends and fellow-citizens in Shanghai cannot allow such a unique occasion to pass as your completion of fifty yenrs of faithful "service in the work of the Evangelisation of China without offering you their hearty congratulations. We desire to thank you for your work and to express our eatuest hope that you will be spared for many micro years of useful labour; knowing that continual work is more to your taste than the honourable retirement which you have fully merited. The whole fifty years on which you can now look back with so much pride have been devoted by you to the emotion of the moral and spiritual welfare of your fellow-beings, native and foreign; and in that you have never wearied and never faltered.
Your special task has been the Evangelisation of the Chinese. Notwithstanding all the labour involved in this, you have made time to interest yourself in and to promote where you could every good work and every praiseworthy public function among the foreign community; and -your clear judgment, energy, and ripe experience rave been constatitly found of the greatest value whenever called upon. W learnt from those who have been privileged to know you longest what good you did from your earliest days here, especially, ethaps, during your 12 years' pastorate of inion Church from 1896 to 1868, and since, to your poorer fellow-countrymen, in a quiet, unostentatious way.
Your counsel, advice and assistance wore willingly given to all, whether clergy.or laymen; many a young man has found in you a sympathetic adviser and a true friend; how many a British seamen and soldier stationed in Shanghai in the troublous Sixties remembers with pleasure and gratitude your uniform kindness in trying to help them and make life pleasant for them, The fountain of your Kindness and helpfulness has never Ween sounded it flows as deep and full in 1897 as at did in 1847... We can testify to, though we are hardly competent to estimate, the full value
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