All this is very pitiable, when set in the eoramon daylight alongside of China's needs and aspire tions. The People's Convention had Tue engagement recently nounced between the Reverend Eustace Strong, 0.8.8, late British chaplain in Japan," and Mra? Charlotte Purington' will remind Shanghai readers of the earthquule tragedy, in which Mrs. Purington Jand Mr. Strong worked together rescuing) many from a burning hotel. Mrs. Purington lost hee husband and two children in that Joatastrophe and has since devoted herself to service for others, giving much time and money to the day nursery opened by the Women's Settlement in a new non-aleohulic public house, the Wellington, Canning Town, in which Mr. Strong has also been interested,
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