Dr. Winnington Ingram's Coming Visit to the Far Eas'
Probable Stay at Shanghai: His Wide Activities and Great Personality Shanghai gets a goodly share of the distinguished visitors of the world, but it is doubtful whether a more prominent one that the Bishop. of London, the Rt. Rey, Arthur Foley Winnington Ingram, x.cxv.0., ever paid a visit here. Dr. Ingram expected to preach in Shanghai on the Sunday before Christmas. at the Cathedral, and preparations for his visit while in the Far East are now in the hands of the Bishop. of Hongkong.
The present Bishop of London has been in charge of his diocese since 1901, through one of the most dificult periods in church history. He reently celebrated the 25th anniversary of his office and now at the age of 67, an unusually active: and extraordinarily energetic man, he} is making a trip to the Far Eas The respect and almost affectionate regard and confidence in which Dr.
Ingram is held by church-goers and non - church - go alike indicate haps more than.anything else the emin.
success he has had during these 25 years, including the strenuous days of the World War.
The Bishop leaves London this month. He has been invited by. American bishops and the heads of several American Universities to give a series of lectures in the [United States. He will go to Canada Jard while there will lay the foundation stone for the new cathedral at toria, Vancouver Island, In' November he will' sai for Japan, His China _visit will include Peking and Hong-Kong, and it is practical fished, Shanghai, also. He mind, moreover, mi Australia and New Zealand on his way home, and will touch also at Colombo where a former chaplain at Fulham Palace, the Ven. Guy Vernon Smith is now archdeacon. Going thence to Marseilles he will -ravel overland to England, returning probably in the late spring-of 1927.
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