Departure of Rev, Mr, Waidtlaw of Danish Mission By the German steamer Trier says the "Manchuria waily Newsy the first non-Chinese resident of whole of Koantung Peninsula, Rev. Mi Waidtlaw of the Danish Lutheran Mission is going to leave these regions for good.
Inv, Waidtlaw came to Manchuria in 1808 and after some fow months! wang, then the only Manchuria, he rented a house and settled down at Port Arthur early in 1896, just after the Tapaneso had restored the fortress Ching after the first war, He the entry of the Russians in 1898, and he, as a missionary, felt more than anybody else the iron-hand of the oh! Tsarist Government, which, according to its laws, for: bade all preaching of the Gospel the Chinese. So the home boar seriously considered the question of removing the Mission to another part of China, When the war broke out between Japan and Rusela, it was with the keenest interest that Mx, Waidtlaw followed the events of the war and saw the Russians evacuate Port Arthur and being driven back farther by the Japanese army, Ik docs not fall into the lot of many people to see so great changes and material improvements as Me. Waidtlaw has' seen in South Manchuria since the Japanese came in. Dairen was only an insignificant nucleus of a town, and Mr. Waidtlaw hus seen it grow up under his very eyes, and in 1908, he removed to Dairen to start Mission work amongst the Chinese. Mr. Waidt=
Taw has not only seen great material improvements in these short years, but, he has also seen the mission' of which he has been the leader nearly all the time, grow faster than expected: In ' 1896, there were only three Danish Missions, and now there are about 80 of them scattered all over Manchuria, and when he, in 1897, Vaptized the first Chinese in the mission, he never dreamed to leave about 4,000 of them when he says good-bye to Manchuria.
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