North China has sustained a great loss through the death on the 9th instant of the Rev. Watts 0. Pye DD. of Fenchow. Dr, Pye. had zelurned from furlough in the United fates but two months before hi death, He was born in Minnesota, U.S.A. on October 20, 1878, and received his education in Carleton College and Oberlin. The:
Seminary. He arrived in Chis October 1907 and had worked it Fenchow, Shansi, ever since hi arrival, except for two furlough periods, Among the younger miss-aries supported by the Congrega._ tional churches of the United States the Into Mr. Pye was one of the known and most distinguished, was also widely known throughout North China. Mrs. Pye, formerly Miss Gertrude Chaney, and a little gon survive him, Wrrnt funds all spent, nine of the higher educational institutions Peking suspended work on Monday.
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