During the morning service. at. Union Church on Sunday sympathetic reference was made to the passing of Dean Symons, in the course of which the Minister, the Rev. E. F. Horst-Smith, said:
When we spoke last Sunday evening of the news that had just reached us of the serious fiiness of our honoured friend, Dean Symons, and asked your prayers on hhis behalf, we deeply hoped that he might be spared to us for some years to come, Those hopes.were encouraged by messages we received over the telephone for the following two days and so the news of his passing came with some of the suddenness of a shock.
By his deota the whole of Shanghai has been bereaved, and the bereavement is more grievous than of us has realized as yet. When the first shock: has worn off, the depth of our loss: will gradually dawn upon us. His activities were 80 manifold that there: is hardly any sphere where his gracious precence will not be missed; for he was a familiar figure, not only in Church and society, but also in school and home, in hospital and even prison. And into each of howe spheres be carried the charm, of gentleman. Our thoughts of htm can hardly' be ox-pressed better than by isolating from its context a phrase that occurs in the Book of Daniclman greatly beloved." If I were asked for a quotation that might serve to epitomize his career here in Shanghai, that would be my suggestion. Or might we not say of him, as of his Master, about doing good"?
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.