Ox Monday last, on the occasion of the annual speech day of Medhurst College (L.M.S.), when an address was given to the students by the Rey. A. N. Rowland, a..., an interesting event took place. The Rev. E. Box handed over to the College a life-sized portrait of the late Rev. J. Edkins, p.p., which has been presented to the College by Mr. G. T. Edkins, of Hongkong. It will be remembered that the late Dr. Edkins left an endowment fund for an Anglo-Chinese College in. connexion with the London Missionary Society. Medhurst College derives six scholarships from this fund, and the fine Edkins Hall, in which the portrait is now placed, was also erected by funds from the same endowment. The portrait will serve to keep before the students and friends of the College the memory of a great scholar, who gave a life-long service to China, and also of his keen interest in the educational work of
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