The Archive · 1922

Clubs and Societies

THE MISSIONS TO SEAMEN

Annual Meeting: The Late Sir Everard Fraser: New Chaplain Coming Out Bishop I. J Molony presided at the annual meeting of the Shanghai Seamen's Church and Mission Society, held at Church House, last Friday, supported by Dean C. J.'¥.

ymons, Rev. C. E. Spencer (Port Chaplain), Mr. W. A. Willis (seeretary and treasurer) and a fair sized company.

The Chairman said: Shanghai lies under the shadow of a great sorrow, having lost one of her great men, Sir Everard Fraser, only a few days ago. Sir Everard Fraser was an optimist and I feel quite sure that he would say: "When I am gone, don't mourn for me, but just look up and go forward in the work that God has given you to do." So at this annual meeting we are going to be of good courage and look forward with faith and with hope.

We have lost' the old steam launch, the Sunbeam, and we are sorry she has gone, but we are going to have her replaced with a quicker and better boat and a new skipper to take charge of her in the Rev. T.

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