'A memorial service for the late Bishop of Hankow, the Rt. Kev, Jamex Addison Ingle, was' held yeste: day evening at 5 o'clock, in the Church of Our Saviour, Hongkew. The congregation was arse, many wei-known missimaties being present. The service, conducted by the Rey. T. James and the Rev. C. T. McRae, was a very impressive and solemn one.
The Ven, Archd-aeon Thomson, in the course of his eloquent und pathetic addr. s The farr-riching grasp of the Chris jan ides! comes to us m the season of deep sorrow or the hour of joy and gladness. The apostle tells us fo rej With them that rejoice aad to weep with them that weep." We are all brethren Christ. Wo mourn with others because they mourn, We mourn because one of our lewders iv the great fight has fallen. Wo have lost a noble man, " Bishop whose Ife was a promise of gest things to come, bat who, also, gave each diy 4 ation of his worth His was life of wise and strenuous notion, The press new of 10 many xorrowing friends on this occasion is no mere social ceremony, rath r te it the sincere and heartfelt expressim of the high esiceni in which the late Bishop was held. We mourn hin as a beloved fellow-worker; a highly esteemed friend; 98 man whos" splendid churxcter we a'l The Archdeacon, also, in a few chosen sentences, recounted how, in son measure, he had been iustramentsl_ in leading the late Bishop to devote his life to missionary work in China, At the conclusion of the brief address, several beautiful and appropriate hymns were sung by th: congregation, and the impressive servicer was brought t a close by the pronouncing of the benediction by Archdeacon Thowson.
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