Acquaintance with these iniquities at rst hand soon persuaded him that they could of be connected unless fellen were taken against. some the major figures In Shangha's polt= ties,"and' 0" he conceived. the idea of a mission to the poorest close in Shanghai—eloss which is. too often Vielimized and) made the scape-goat For offences it did not originate=to Dut a stop (0 pitiless explanation, it Matheson. resigned from. the Shanghai" Municipal Police In" 1011, fon. account of fil health, But i013" he" returned to"'Shanghat_ found 'n business of his own i pices {oods ud woollen goods and Stilute the Shanghai Mission to Rick Shawmen For some time he mein: fained the mission out of the prods Hofimade it of his er Subines, and' for twentyibree Years he gave ihe vest of his talents' and "energy this work, 'Phere are' stories without. number about the" adventure of George Matheson' in running ils mission Against almost Superciuman difieuls The Funeral In the presence of a large attendance of the older residents of Shanghai the remains of the late Mr. George Matheson were laid fo rest in Bubbling" Well Cemetery "on August 5. The chief mourner was the widow, Mrs, Anne Matheson, who was, accompanied by Mrs. OF. Hardman and Mr, M. Hardman, The service in the Chapel was conducted by the Very Rev. A. C. S, Trivett of the Cathedral while Mr. Stark of the China Inland Mission gave a short address in which he specially referred to the deceased being the founder of the Rickshaw Mission fand to the great interest he hat taken In the Mission ever. since. Those present included a large re-Presentation from the China Inland Mission, Mr. Gavin Wallace,
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