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OBITUARIES.Xllland London. After ordination as a minister, he studiedmedicine, and soon obtained a high standing in thisprofession. In 1887 he came to China, and began torebuild an abandoned medical work in Hankow. Bycaution, sound judgment, and skill, Dr. Hodge continuedthis work for twenty years in such a thorough mannerthat his hospital became one of the best organizedand equipped in China. He was always a strong supporter also of the Medical Association of China. As apreacher, too, he had more than ordinary ability, andwas always a strong and wise leader.H. MINERVA JENKINS, of the A. B. M. U., Shaoshing,was educated at a district school in Lewis, N. Y.,and later at the Academy of Leonville and Ladies Seminary at Whitestown. In 1859 she came out to China tolabour with her husband. Her especial work duringalmost forty years of service on the field was with thewives of the students whom she faithfully taught toread the Scriptures and other Christian books until herdeath on the i8th of October, 1907.After a long service of 52 years in connection withthe Basel Mission, China, the Rev. R. LECHLER died inKornwestheim, Wurttemberg, on the 29th of March,1908. This missionary veteran was born in 1824 inHundersingen, Wurttemberg. At the age of twenty heheard the call of God to China, and then entered theBasel Missionary Training School at Basel, Switzerland,and in 1844 was sent out to China. Here he workedamidst many trials and difficulties among the Hoklosand Hakkas until the war of 1856 made work in theinterior impossible.Then he engaged in hospital andschool work in Hongkong. His greatest service illChina was that of founding, establishing and directing the Basel Mission for forty years until it obtained a leading place amongall the missions in SouthChina.