Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-01

primroses and lilies growing in pots at
intervals. At each cover was placed
souvenir consisting of a booklet, the
front page Of which was decorated with
picture Of Grace Church, the pioneer
church to open a mission for the Chinese
Of the city, while the other contained
the school motto, ''China for God" ana
the 10th verse of the third chapter OF
John in English and in Chinese char
acters. Interesting facts were set forth
in the interior concerning the Chlnese
mission schools OF the city. Grace
school was established in 1875 by Mr. Q.
H. Carpenter, with one pupil. the only
Chinaman in the city; Mr.. Carpenter,
Mrs. s. H. Moulton, Mrs. H. o. Hudson
and Miss Annie M. Wiley were super
intendents before Mrs. George l.. Hol-
den, the present superintendent, VINO
has filed this Office for IL years. The
second Chinese mission school to be
founded here was at Main Street Bap-
tist Church in 1898; Mr.. F. L. Durkee
is the superintendent. The youngest is
Trinity mission school, founded In 1885,
with Mrs H. e. Mitchell superintendE
ent.
Grace school has total membership
Of 80 with an average attendance Of so.
It seemed that all the 80 pupils were
early part of the evening was spent in
sociability, which was enhanced by
strains of Chinese music played on ma
tive Instruments Two hundred and
twenty-five invitations had been issued,
and nearly this number were present.
Among those who had been invited
were Rev, DR.. and Mrs. A. T. Conrad,
Rev. and Mrs. l.. B. Thomas, Rev. John
Chaffee Of Brookfeld, Mr.. G. w. Wood,
Miss Alexander, superintendent of the
Chinese Mission school in Marlboro,
Mr.. and Mrs. F. L. Durkee, Mr.. and
Mrs. Fl. E. Mitchell. The hosts of the
evening presented to all their teachers
lovely bouquets,
| At $50 o'clock short entertainment
was given Jesus saves was sung and
the Lords prayer recited by the school;
then Messrs. Chin Louie, Chin Look,
Chin Sing and Chin Tong sang 'BCing-
ing in the sheaves," and George
Gong sang Jesus, lover Of my soul"
Twelve verses from Matthew five were
recited; Pass me not' was sung by
Messrs. Ye Ged, Chin Len Ong, Moy
Wah Hong and George Gong. Ivy
Reed gave reading, and a male quar-
tet, composed Of Messrs. William Heal
ey, Walter Pierce, Charles Hastings
and Montague Hunt, sang.
Yeaw served the banquet of turkey,
tongue, escalloped oysters, chicken sal
ad, coffee, ice cream, cake and fruit at
o'clock, Rev. Thompson of Grace
Church invoking the divine blessing.
After the spread was finished but be-
fore any one rose from the tables, there
was an hour or more Of speaking, which
completed the evening. Mr.. Carpenter
was POSTMASTER. But before he accept
ed that position, there were welcomes
by Messrs. Chin Look, George Cong
Chin Len Ong and Coon Wong, and an
original paper was read by Moy r.
Dow. Then there were addresses by
Mrs. Holden, Mr.. Durkee and
Mrs. H E. Mitchell, c. w Wood and
Charles Delano superintendent of Grace
Sunday school, interspersed with sing
ing by the male quartet and finishing
with "God be with you till we meet
again." sung by the company, standing
Adieus and good wishes concluded the
evening.
Mrs. Grace Davis of Jersey City will
begin a two weeks series Of evangelis-
tic services at Grace Church this eve
ming at 7.45 o'clock. Mrs. Davis has
Just closed a successful month of even