From Our Own Chengtu, June 19.
Sad, solemn, but full of inspira tion Were the services that preceded the last burial rites of Mrs. W.E. Sibley. "A soul had gone into the eternities carrying the halo of a martyr, A word-picture of a beautiful life was given before the group of Chinese and foreigners assembled in the W.M.S. hospital-home, Wednesday morning, June 9. Mrs. Sibley was the daughter of a pioneer preacher who travelled over the prairies of Canada's great middle 'West, before the long iron pathways with' their incoming immigrants were even planned. With almost incredible sacrifice he visited the remote settlements, and lonely homes of these intrepid settlers who had Toft the homes of their youth, enticed by the vastness of the great: West, and chosen to become fu a wild expanse of solitude and grandeur combined.
Mary Edith Harrison, daughter of Harrison, by willing sac-mea on the part of her parents and by her own endeavours, gradu: ated from one of the leading Universities of the Province of Ontario. Other traits were inherited that made the life of Mrs. Sibley a pecu-Var life, She was intensely fond of music, Music oozed from her finger tips. Mr. Sibley's nature in regard to, music 80 harmonized, that whether in their own home, or in the of their friends, a' musical Iways forthcoming, ful trait was a sense of hunwour that enabled a naturally:
ious mind to bubble with joy. The silver lining would appear when the shadows wore deepest. Arriving in China in 1906, for 20 years Mrs. Sibley. freely and unrestrainedly, devoted her life with its accom-pushments in behalf of the Chinese people who came within the range of, her influence,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.