The foreign community wax shocked to hear of the death this morning from heart failure of Mrs. Ursula J. Stanley, wife of the Rev. C. A. Stanley, 0.0. of Hsika, her husband came to Tientsin in March 1863—forty-five years ago—and have been identified with the life of that important port ever since. There one now living in North China whose arrival was not many years Inter. At that early day there was only a potential foreign settlement and life was begun in the phenomenally unwholesome surroundings of the (hinese ity. Some years Inter a house wax in what ix now the French Municipality, but a few years ago the great changes necessitated w removal to a new st Mrv. Stanley was a woman of exceptional gifts and races, hospitable howe wan centre ut varied influences for good, both to the Chineve in whose behalf she came to China, and to others also. In the early dave she was a mother ty man tions of seamen on the numer vowels frequenting the Prilo, and likewise to many a young man in the com munity which was at that early day swell and destitute of many of the later tractions, The Union Church was many ways wuch indebted to her for help, advice, and inspiration. Io more recent years she wax a promiveut figare i and expec Society, an appealed ts by people of many nat ies for many different forms of assistance. In casson of wer ions illness, per Tientsin was willingly and lovingly given.
Had Mrs, Stanley devoted herself to ature, she might have mad ark, for she had a ready pen and a and cultivated intellect. A wide circle of friends I regret to hear of her too carly transfer in the 69th year of her age to, we know not what, wider activities. There are three surviving children Mr. Mary E. Gammon of Shanghai Mrs. Gertrude Wilder of Teangchow and the Rev. (. A. Stanley, Jr., of!
P*angehuang, Shantung—the two last being connected the American Board Mission.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.