In 1848 Rev. Josiah Goddard, grandfather of Dr. F. W. Goddard, came from Bangkok to Ningpo. Suffering from tuberoulosis Josiah Goddard was transferred to Ningpo as that port at that time was considered perhaps the most salubrious in the Far East. -The schedule of a man who had already suffered a severe haemorrhage is of interest "Here when the disease was already far advanced, and "his preaching voice almost gone, we Jearn from his. journal that his weekly schedule called for a morning service in Chinese with the family immediately. after breakfast, then on Sundays an English service across the river at nine o'clock followed by- preaching services in which several took art at the city chapel which opt him till nearly two p.m. In the afternoon he was again in the: chapel from 3.30 till 6.00.
week days he taught his
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