Shanghai, Mar. 9.
Miss Mary Jane Irvine, a resident of China for the past 40 years, passed away at the Country Hospital on March 7. The deceased was bor 1853" near Kingston, Ontario, Canada. where her parents of Irish extraction resided. She was the second of six children and received her early education in a market town /some twenty miles away from her home. She became a teacher and gave herself to this profession with devotion and love for those under her instruction, her work being characterized by her spirit to inspire youth to apply themselves ju pre-aration for the stern duties of life.
Under the inspiration of DI. Moody, a new vision came into her fe, of the need of giving others the way to Salvation, Miss Irvine went Miss Mary Jane Irvine, A photograph taken many years ego. in for special training for Christian service at a school under the auspices of the Woman's Branch of the New. York City Mission.
After five years of devoted service jas Pastor's assistant and tenement house visiting there, she offered her~ self as a candidate to the Woman's Union Missionary Society of America which at the time, was seeking an Evangelist to do follow-up work in connection with the Margaret Wile Harrison Hospital, which was being 30 ably conducted by Dr. Elizabeth JRelfsnyder. In this capacity, Miss Irvine served for 48 years, of which 40 were spent in China.
Until the outbreak' of hostilities here in 1937 she was connected with the Bridgman School in Nantao, but since then, had taken up residence ju the French Concession, where. to the last, she continued her work for the salvation of souls with untiring. devotion and enthusiasm.
When, in view of the poor state! of her health, she was recently asked to retire, the deceased answered: "T must do the work for which T came to China."
The deceased was well-known in [Shanghai and throughout China and her loss will be deeply felt in the ireless in which the sphere of her
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