It will interest all readers of this paper to learn that the Rev. C. E.* Darwent has just entered upon his 15th year of, contributing sermons to our columns. The story of how he began only recently came to our knowledge and is worth telling. One Sunday in September 1908 he preached, at Union Church, Shanghai, a sermon on Tubal-Cain, the father of all them that work in iron, and he had the inspiration to entitle his sermon "tha first. engineer." On the foi-lowing Wednesday, Mr. Montague Bell, the then editor. asked for the
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