Sungkiang, Ksu. Nov. 21.
The Rev. W. B. Burke, who. has given Afty years of service to China, forty of which were spent in Sung-Kiang, left here this morning for the United States. He is to sail. from Shanghai in the President Lincoln on November 25.
Prominent men in the business and] official life of Sunkiang, together with hundreds of his friends and admirers, thronged the railway station to bid farewell to Mr. Burke, Although 73 years of age, he does his full days' work and often works well into the night.
On November 10 at a farewell meeting to Mr. Burke, the mayor of Sungkiang, Mr. Li Lung, spoke enthusiastleally and highly of Mr. Burke and of his many services te the people of Sungidang. It was pointed out again and again that her was a man who not only preached
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