Wuchang, June 22.
Chinese and foreigners alike have lost a true friend in the passing of the Rev. E. F. Gedye, M.a., who, in the early Church phrase, "went/ away to the Bright Land" on Tuesday morning last.
Mr. Gedye had been connected fats educational work in Wuhan Greate University in 1893, he or 30 years. On leaving
was appointed Principal of Wesley College, Wuchang, in succession to Dr. Barber. Whilst at Cambridge he won high distinctions—_ in mathemati some of hi giving his time to the service of a great: friend in serious illness.
During the following score of yours Mr. Gedye was in charge of Wesley College and saw it develop from its tiny infancy on the Long Street, in the heart of. Wuchang, to its present proportions outside the Great East Gate near the} Hungshan, where he now lies. In those early days, he busied himself with every side of the school
and adapting all that was best in life and slowly succeeded in using
the Leys, Cambridge, to build up the mreaitions of his old school of a healthy Chinese Public School
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.