The Archive · 1934

Memorial Service in Shanghai

Special prayers were said on Fri day'at the China Inland Mission Sinza Road for the late Mr. and Mrs. John Cornelius Stam, and for all of their fellow missionaries stationed at dangerous posts. Between fifty and seventy members and friends of the young couple gathered, for un~ Questionably they were among the better Known missionaries in the field. Mr. and) Mrs, Stam were married at the home of Dr. and Mrs. Charles Ernest Scott, in charge of the missionary station at Tsinan, Shantung, on October 25, 1933, and their wedding was an outstanding event in missionary circles, continu tug a romance which began at the Moody Bible Institute "at Chicago, TI, where Miss Elizabeth Alden.

Scott, with her B.A. from Wilson College, Chambersburg, Pa, frst met Me. Stam.

Mr. Stam, who was 27 years old, was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Stam, formerly of the Netherlands, and" now resident at 146 North Seventh Street, Paterson, N. J. He is survived by ye brothers and two sisters.

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