The Rickshaw Mission received the full support. of the Shanghai com= munity for many years, and, owing to funds subscribed locally, established itself in appropriate quarters in Chapel. Here hundreds of rickshaw coolies and "others in similar lowly station used to meet nightly, to hear the Gospel and the latest trail reulations of the Shanghai Munielpat 'Council—whieh, from. the point of view of the coolie, were nearly as important, 'Mr. Matheson was the main-spring of this work. "He founded a business, With an office in' Jinkee Road, which sold home-side material for clothes fo Shanghailanders, In this business he employed men whose spare time was devoted to the welfare Shanghai's under-dogs, His accoun-fants) wore the accountants of the Shanghai Rickshaw Mission; his salesmen were, in their spare' time, evangelists. for the greater work he was carrying on behind, The "North-China Dally News" was one of the first to realize the Importance of Mr. Matheson's work, and began "the Rickshaw Mission Christmas Fund, which has had wonderful support for many years from the local community, and has done much to relieve the distress meng that section of Shanghai's forgotten community, which" might otherwise have gone unrecorded.
George Matheson first came to China as: member of the Shanghat Municipal Police Force. To this, was inspired by an abhorrence of the iniquities he heard of out here,
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