Our small foreign community is again complete, al M kanshan visitors hing re urned und settled down once more for another ten months.
The Rev. D.C, Rankin, D.D., _Editorin] Secretary of the American ian_ Mission, has paid us a hurried visit. He is visiting the stations of his church in Japan, China, and Cores. His position as editor of missionary periodicals for many years has given him opportunity to become one of the best-informed Americans on all questions inthe Far East, and any one who talks with him'can soon see that he has taken advantage of his oppertunit Ho sys the North China Herald" is a weekly visitor which he could not dispense with, A Birthday Celebration.
Perhups the event which most interested our foreign community during our absence was the celebration of the sixtieth (according to Chinese reckoning) birthday of Mr. J. Macphail, for nearly thirty years connected with the Imp-riat Maritime Customs and for more than four years the head of the Customs service here. Without his knowledge the employees of the Customs prepared to have him spend an afternoon with them on a fine houseboat out on the picturesque little South Lake. Th- gentle men of the Cas*-ins staff were al! invited and the entortanment was quite a success and much appre ated as a sign of the esteem in which Me. Macphail is held by those under his authority.
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