Mr. Darlington Conducts Evangeistic' Mission Here Meetings were held during flits week at the Free Chistian Church conducted by Rev. Darlington, we hac just return ed from holiday in Chefoo at the Children's Special Service Misdion and will spend a fortnight in thiy city before a returning ut river, Mr. Darlington, who has behind him considerable experience both at Home and abroad of special mission work, is surely one of the best known missionaries in Szechuan, and more especially at Wanhsien ' where has been stationed for a period of over 18 years, Although he neted for many years as the honorary chaplain to. the Upper Yangtze Patrol, thereby gaining many friends among the Mercantile Marine, Mr. Darlington's chief work in this' country een connected with Wanhsien, where te has achieved some wonderful results. these days of ambiguities and un fainties and excuses for being religious at all it is refreshing to find aman with a plain message and fearless delivery, straightforward and dogmatic, and that his methods and work have been appreciated by his converts is best shown by the fact that during the recent troubles all the members of the Chiness Church at Wanhsien remained true to their faith and in every case loyal to the missionaries and, mote-over, entirely free from any antiforeign sentiments, The church there now is largely self sispporting but the members of it one and all assure a hearty welcome to their priest when he shall shortly return. to them, 'THe proposal that the Japanese share of the Boxer indemnity be devoted to educational' work in China has aroused the hostility of the Kiangsu Educational Association in Shanghai, on the ground that it will mean the' training of Chines students along Japanese lin in a strong protest on the subject to the Peking Government.
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