On Thursday afternoon at 5.30 Sir Everard Fraser presided st the annual meeting of the Mission in the Cathedral School. The claims of those who go down te the sea in ships have always been recognized by the Church, and Shanghai is not behind other ports in foreign countries in doing something for the spiritual and bodily refreshment of sailors and seamen The work locally goes back to 1857 when the first floating Bethel wae opened for Divine Service. A barque named the Euphrates was the second church afloat, and then followed the old Seamen's Church at Pootung. St. Andrew's, Broad. way, is the successor of these earlier churches. The church has no
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