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"OBITUARIES.many Christians who had heard the Gospelat this temple.XIfrom herMission work in Soochow will always be associatedwith the name of HAMPDEN COIT DuBosE, who died onMarch 22nd, 1910. Dr. DuBose was born in Darlington, S. C., September, 1845, of Huguenot ancestry, andcame to China, June 2nd, 1872, opening work in Soochow with the Rev. John L.Stuart, where for nearlyforty years he was indefatigable in the work of preaching the Gospel in street chapel, town, and country.Besides he did much literary work in English and Chinese. As president of the Anti-opium League in China,he lived to see his work almost finished.ERNEST JOHN EITEL, D.D., a distinguished graduate of Tubingen, after a brief pastorate in Germany,was sent to Canton, China, in 1862 by the Basel Missionary Society. In 1865 he transferred his connectionto the Londqn Missionary Society until 1879, when hebecame inspector of schools for the British governmentin Hongkong. The close of his life he spent as a minister in Adelaide, South Australia. While inspector hewas guided by the belief that true strength of characterlay in religious teaching. As a sinologist he wrote severalbooks on the Chinese : their customs and religion.Notonly did he perform to the full his duties as an official,but as a religious leader also he had the outlook of theChristian philosopher, comprehensive and far-reaching,combined in rare perfection with that simplicity of soulthat marks the devout believer."Miss AGNES GIBSON came to China in 1884, andafter teaching in Ku-chow-fu for about a year, she wentwith Miss Williams to Ho-kou in Kiangsi. By prayerand faithful perseverance they gradually overcame theprejudices of the people. Her winsomeness of charactersoon won for Miss Gibson the respect and goodwill of