'A couple of years ago the management of the "Shanghai Mission to Rickshawmen was handed over to the Salvation Army, which had already been doing a good work in that section of "Shanghai's poor. The late Mr. Henry Lester had founded a fund for the Interests of the mission, and this fund is at present adminis fered in the Interests of the mission and the Salvation Army by a small board of trustees, The work is being carried on. But nothing, in the minds of those who have been associated with the mise sion for many years, can compensate for the influence individually exercised by Mr. Matheson. For so many years he was the mainspring and eneral handy-man of the mission that his Joss, even though for some time his shire in the management of the mission had been Little more than nominal, Jeaves a gap. which sonnet be filed.
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