Within these past few days we: have heard of the passing of three friends. william Darwent, father of our: late pastor, at the age of 96. For tional minister facing the many problems and responsibilities came to him in the course of work, His joyousness of spirit was reflected in the hymns he sent us regularly at Christmas.
Miss Johnston, who, after her college life at Girton, came to Shanghai in the Y. W. C. A. She devoted herself to winning women and girls to Christ, and to the improvement fof their social conditions. Suddenly, the midst of her work, at the age. of 39 she passed within the veil.
And Robert Kenneth Evans, who, after a successful career at' Ox: ford, where he had already gai 1 lectureship, came to China in the London Mission and served, always seeking the dificult task, both in Central China and Peking. Few men were ever more loved by wenes, but his health with the Labour Battalion, and two years ago he had to return to the homeland. Just as hopes that he might soon come back to China were growing bright, suddenly, while on holiday in Wales, hie met his death by drowning.
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