'A Sturdy Figure in Stirring Days: The Passage from Old China tone 'From Our Own Coanenroxoext Mienchow, Ses, Nove 14: The -diocese in' west China has loss in the death William Wharton Cassels, DD, after 40 years ser-'Vice in'China, as already reported in your columns.
The time of his arrival in China belongs toa past ora. In 1885 this country was still clinging to the shreds of her ancient pr still trying to persuade herself that the old order was not changing: there had not yet been the China-Japan War, and the Boxer year was not dreamt of except perhaps by the inner circle of foreign observers. It has been given to the late Bishop to see in imagination the China that is to be, and none knew better than he that, if she can accept the new life that Christianity has to give, her future may yet surpass her past. Ancient China, which it eign influence has been at work, and it is not too much to say that has turned China's world up-ede down. For the whole of this time Bishop Cassels has been identified with what would by common consent be regarded as the most drastic of all the causes of change; namely, the impact of Christianit For although there are able and intelligent Chinese who speak alight. ingly of what the movement hi done, one has only to read the publications of the anti-Christian League in order to find out how pro: found a shaking the mind of China has received from that direction.
Bishop Cassell began his work in that have since acquired a halo of romance through the charm of the personality of Pastor Hsi, with whom he was timately acquainted. He came w wards and after a period of 10 years Was consecrated. bishop, in western China. His record up here in one of strenuous labour and self-saerifice, "He had is share of perils of all sort, including most of those tmentloned by St. Part to the Corin-la
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