The ceremony of breaking the, around, for the erection of the new China, Baptist Publication Society, building sri, Yuen Ming Yuen Road took place, on September 11" in the presence. of a large number of nigsionary avorkers and their friends, After a brief statement of the purpose of the. gathering by Mr. SSU; Zauand a prayer and scripture reading by Pastor Fong and Dr. T. C. Bayi, brief addresses were delivered. by Dr, Herman.C, E, Liv, President: (of Shanghai College, and Mr. J... Williams, of the Southern Baptist Mission, My, Williams said that the new building would house the various Baptist, organizations which are at resent scattered throughout Shanghai.and. thereby. facilitate the work of spreading. the, Gospel through the printed. page. The Baptiste. in Ching,.Me,, Williams added, had ted. thais workin a dark-tittle chapel: in Canton, from which it was a fax cry ta.the highly modern structure which would shortly. spring. up. om..the ground which had Just been broken., He regretted that Dr. ROE, re,.to, whose enterprise, vision,, and, generalship was mainly due the.2ocessful, outcome. of the efforts to erect. the. new building could not be present, at the ceremony as.chbe: had: returned. Homo, in ill health: after labouring for 90. years inthe. Christian, cause, The ceremony. proper was perform [ed by, Mine. Willie. Kelly. and Mr.
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