"Many of the members of the Sikh community have good cause to member you for the great services you have done them.in the past, It is with very earnest feelings, therefor that we have gathered here' to-day, and have asked you to meet us and accept from us a small token of our gratitude and esteem, "Your departure from Shanghai will be a great loss to this elly, and it is poor consolation to us that some others are about to reap the benefit of your presence, We do hope and pray, however, that wherever you and Mrs, Smith may decide to make your home, you will find congenial work, and happiness and health your' surroundings, We now hope {that you will agree to take there with you this religious emblem, as representing the very real, deep and last Ing sense of gratitude and regard of ray compatriots in Shanghai for a noble doctor, philanthropist and friend."
'Those present included the following—Dr. A. C, Bryson, Dr. F. J. Ra son, Dr, and "Mrs, A.D. Wali, Di Gerald Chambers, Dr, 'W. R. Johnson, Sasjan Singh, Indar' Singh Pardesi, Kehar Singh, Tndar Singh Mari, Ishar Singh Rajpal, Navaim Singh, Gurbax Singh, Chet Singh and Hazava Singh.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.