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Title: The Spirit of missions
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Episcopal Church. Board of Missions Episcopal Church. Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society
Subjects: Episcopal Church Episcopal Church Missions
Publisher: Burlington, N.J. : J. L. Powell
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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reate complexdifficulties. The men and women whogo to the District of Shanghai have nolight and simple task. The temptationsthey have left behind them they willfind again, and new trials of their Chris-tian faith and character. They cannot,by coming to Shanghai, leave the worldbehind; they will find it there, and in itand not of it they must live. That thisis no easy thing to do is a poor reason for gift of young manhood or young wom-anhood to make to the mission field; ofmen and women in many of our citiesand towns and country homes, to whomgreat wealth has been entrusted, freelygiving large sums each year for the largework that is waiting to be done. Among the mountains at Kuling is aquiet grave where lies the body of theteacher at St. Johns who gave his lifeto save his fellow. By the gate of theUniversity the building is rising thatbears his name and is his memorial. Itis a fitting memorial, but it will give tothose who carry on St. Johns still morework to do. They already have too
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THE SPIRIT OF MISSIONS AN ILLUSTRATED MONTHLY REVIEWOF CHRISTIAN MISSIONS Vol. LXXIV. JWarCj), ipOp No. 3 THE PROGRESS OF THE KINGDOM ONCE again St. Johns University hasgraduated a class of young men,and has therefore added to the steadilyr 7 * increasing number John s of Chinese qualified University and Its to lead their ownGift to China people into a largerand better life.The commencement exercises were pre-ceded by the dress parade and battaliondrill on the campus. Later in the after-noon the assembly room, known asAlumni Hall, was crowded with studentsand guests. Dr. Pott presided, and withhim on the platform were Bishop Graves,His Excellency, Yen Euh, Captain S. A.Ransom, of the Shanghai Volunteers,and the foreign members of the univer-sity faculty. Addresses were made byH. E. Yen Euh, on How an EducatedGentleman Ought to Live; by Mr. T. Z.Sung, on The Growth of the NationalSentiment in China, and by Mr. V. Y.Zee, who emphasized the importance ofthe study of law in China. Such st

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