The funeral was held on the afternoon of July 30 in the chapel of the International Funeral Directors. and interment later at Bubbling Well Comotory of Miss Ting Shu-ching, General Secretary of the National Young Women's Christian Association China, whose death at the Great Western Road Nursing Home on Monday morning caused a profound shock in Christian and educational. circles throughout the country, Miss Ting Shu-ching was born in Linching, Shantung, on February 17, 1690. "Her mother, a capable leader, was active in the American Board Mission Church In Linching, and when Shu-ching was ready for higher Primary school, she sent her to the mission school in 'Techow, For her middle school work she went to 'Tungchow, (an old noted city a few miles east' of Peking), travelling by sailboat on the Grand' Canal—a long fearsome journey of two weeks, for small girl of twelve, But the same spirit of adventure and, broad Inferests reaching out beyond horizons has ever been characteristic of Miss Ting as in later life she has journeyed not only to every part of her own country, but to many countries both in the East and the West, her several trips around the world.
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