Hangchow, Nov. 25, Yesterday at the home of the Rev.
Gaunt, the C. M. S. missionaries met together to bid farewell to Dr. and Mrs. Main, who are shortly leaving China for' good, and to present them with a cheque, a small silver plaque, and an album containing an illuminated address and the names of all the members at present in the Chekiang mission.
Bishop Molony very aptly expressced the antiments of all in the mis-ion, educational, medical, ie, when he said that Dr.
Main would not be remem, dered so much by the buildings that they were instrumental in'erecting, but by the loving deeds, the helping hand, the kind, cheery and soothing "word, their thoughtfulness for the comfort and happiness of others, whether it were sending flowers or appetizing food the sick, or a hundred and one other things that only the eye and heart of love could' discern these together with the outpouring of themselves in the service of others were what they would be for ever} remembered by.
When handing the present to Dr. and Mrs, Main the Bishop express-the hope that the cheque would be spent in buying a piece of furniture to which the silver plaque would be fixed. Dr, Main rose to thank the missionaries for their surprise party and nice presents, and said that he had come out to China with the idea ixed firmly in his mind that all the people wore in a pit, and that he must stretch out a helping hand, and land them on a firm foundation, and urged upon the other missionaries to put Jesus Christ first in all their work. "Mes, Main thanked the friends for their kind and appreciative words of what she had done for} them, and said when she came out to China a young bride how kind and helpful Bishop and Mrs. Moule had been to her. The Bishop closed the farewell meeting with a pray-
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