We regret to record the death of the Rev, K. D. Chen (Chen Chi-doh) which took place at his home, 444 Cheh Chin Lee, Woosung Road, at 7 o'clock on Wednesday evening in the presence of his family. Death came a sur} Pastor Chen having apparently been in his usual good health and having preached at his old church on Sunday morning and afternoon.
The Rey. Mr. Chen, who was 67 Of age at the time $f his death one of the oldest Anglican ministers in China, h ing been ordained at his native place, Ningpo, nearly 40. years ago. He was a student of the late Bishop Mou Trinity College and, while quiet and unassuming, as a member of his church "most upright and conseientious." After serving at Ningpo
to Shanghai and was appointed for some s, Pastor Chen earns ter of St. Paul's Church s accommodated in the old foreign church building in the Shantung Road Cemetery) in sue-cession to the Very Rev. Archdeacon Moule.
From a small church of less than 100 members, depending upon the support of the Church Missionai ciety, the Rey. Chen increased the membership until it became self-supporting and its strength was more than 500 when he passed away. When the Chung Hua Sheng Kung Hui (the Anglican or Episcopal Church in China) was established in 1918, the church became immediately affiliated, the arrangement being agreed to by the Church Missionary Society. The head of the Shanghai diocese of the Chung
Rev. Bishop F. Graves, D.D.,
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