Walter G. Hiltner, who died from cholera at one o'clock on Sunday morning, were held at the Bubbling Well Cemetery. the same afternoon, Bishop L. J. Birney of the M. E. Church officiating. Two favourite hymns were sung by a quartette made up of Mrs. Richard Vanderburgh, Mrs. L. E. Me-Lachlin, Mr. H. H. Cameron, and Dr. W. W. Peter. There were no pall-bearers and no service at the grave, as the body is to be cremated.
A large number of friends attended and. the floral tributes avera beautiful and profuse. Seats had been placed outside the chapel and were filled, with as many more people stand ing. Bishop Birney's address dwelt on the three great verities, the wochanging God, the Father of all; the inviolability of life, and the assurance that all things work together for good to them that love God: The quartette sang "Sunset and Evening Star' and "Still, still with Thee."
Mrs. Hiltner had been in China over ten years and was well known both in Nanking and Shanghai. A background of university training
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