FIFTY YEARS IN CHINE.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1013, 31 December 1910, Page 9

FIFTY YEARS IN CHINE.

... : : : A VETERAN -MISSIONARY. .' . The China hand'contam'ai account'of a 'farewell, reception to .Arch-' deacon and Mrs. Mpblo'on returning.home after a very dons spell of service'in China, in connection with the Church Missionary Society. It is fifty years since Archdeacon Moule received . his appointment. to Nirigpb, and but few months less smco he' actually arrived with Mrs. Moule in' Shanghai; Of late yearshis.labours have, kept_ him almost entirely to • Chekiang' The day the Archdeacon, and Mrs.' Moulo landed at Shanghai, August'-.; 14,'1861,'was the hottest day of'the''hot-'-test snmmer'eyer knowivin the East. voyage from England ' occupied foiir 1 months. He was told, by friends, on his. arrival that his wife would, live only a year, and that he himself would die in three! ;- , •• •' • At the time when Mr. Moule—as he tlien was—and his, wife first set foot in the. Middle Kingdom there were but. two stations occupied bv the. Church"-Missionary. Society in the' northern pflrt of ChinaShanghai and Nirigpo. The whole staff, amounted to but five actually in .the field, and there, were ,'oiily 140 Chinese Chris- . tians. _ Now the Archdeacon is -leaving. behind, in connection witli>fhe society, 103 congregations, with 4257 Christians" and--2182 Communicants. ~ Archdeacoij Moulo has all along been a very laborious. arid 7-»nlous preacher/ As a-writer in English and Chinese lie is' said to have, inherited the literary- power that rested upon niost membersiof his family.