Canton, Feb. 10.
One of the best loved of the Chri tian workers in South China leaves for her home in Canada in the Em-'Mrs. P. W. Robertson, the message of Christ, hopes that the racing alr of her hotheland will re~ new her health go she may return to Canton.
'Until two and a half years ago, 'Mr, and Mrs, Robertson worked hand in hand in the Sunday Schoo! and in teaching English and the Bible, Then sunstroke laid low the husband, Who never recovered, and is buried Canton. He had' preceded Mrs. Robertson to Canton by a year, and while she was taking Bible courses couver he got the work on nicely started. To-day sbout 250 in her Sunday School.
"The seeds for this Christian service was planted In Edmonton in 1906, where the Robertsons organized night-school classes, and made many friends among the Chinese whom they welcomed to their home.
Later in Canton they were met by some young men whose teachers they had been In far-away Edmonton, and these former students enthusiastically widened the circle of acquaintance, and rave a helping hand in interpret Ing before the Robertsons had learn-Cantonese.
No church financed Mr. and Mrs. Robertson, but they carried on their only the support of their friends, That they have been supported by Chinese friends how-fever, Is evidenced by the fact that when they were about to leave Canada these friends insisted on putting up a monument to mark the Brave of Douglas, thelt son, and now, fon the eve of Mrs, Robertson's departure for home she has been showered with its, and many dinners were given in her honour.
She will stop off for a month in Shanghai, to visit with friends there before resuming her journey.
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