Miss Lawrence, who is the English teacher to the Chekiang Governor's children, has asked the native pastor and evangelists tu 2 service every ovening at her own residence. It is stated that every evening the house is full of people. No definite church or chapel has been erected attheSettlement since it was maclean open port. Dr. Duncan Main, however, after consulting with his men in the hospi now sonds an evangelist to the brand hospital at the Settlement in order to hold a service. Some of the interpreters and clerks of the Customs are Christians. They go to the hospital every Sunda; Dr. Garritt has sojourned hero about sixteen years and is popular both with non-converts and Obristians. The climate does not agree with his oldest son, Stanley, and now, on medical advice, Dr. Garritt cannot but take him to his own country. On the 7th inst. he and Mrs. Garritt and children started for home. Foreigners and natives all came to say their good-byes to them on that day. Itis said that Dr. Garritt will leave his wife and children in America and come back to China in a year.
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