As the rebuilding has progressed, the gentry of the city and surrounding country have frequently asked that they be permitted to give 2 house-warming when finished. "Accordingly congratulations began on 26th September with the presentation by the Chou Magistrate of a fine laudatory tablet to Dr. Sheffield and Mr. Tewksbury, who had arranged the multitudinous dotal's of the indemnity for those brewed and plunde-ed by the Boxers. As a compliment to their evenhanded justice, the tublet bore the two characters, kung and tao. The united civil an! military bodies of the city brought in person silk scrolls with the inscription, Beauty hay returned again." Tu the afternoon an open air meeting was held for the many villagers who had come from afar, at which addresses wera made on ©The purpose of go-pel preaching. The benefit of it to Tangehou," ete. Then followed a series of Chinese entertainments, such as gymnastic exhibitions on the horizontal bar, fencing, stick and sword play, stilt-walking, bowl-turning, etc. In the evening the college building was illuminated. The Chinese dragon flag floated from the tower, and the Stars and Stripes from a staff in the residence compound.
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