An interesting event in the life of the China Inland Mission took place yesterday afternoon at the Mission's buildings in Woosung Road when the Rev. J. W. Stevenson was at home to receive the oon-gratulations of his many friends the completion of fifty years missionary work in China.
The whole of the half century the Rey. Mr. Stevenson has spent with the China Inland Mission. Mr. Stevenson was practically one the firs to join the Mission, being preceded by Mr. and Mrs. "James Meadows who sailed for China in June 1562, Mr. Meadows' ministry in the field lasting for more than fifty-nwo years, In 1865 several new workers sailed for China including the Rev. and Mrs, Stevenson who arrived in February, 1866. Dwenty years later, 1896, when the work in China was consolidated by the formation of a China Counci and the appointment of Provincial Superintendents, Mr.
Stevenson was appointed Deputy Director in China, a position which he held ever since, Mr. Stevenson arrived in China before his twenty-second birthday and is now approaching seventy-two years of age.
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