Memorial of Leander William Pilcher, president of Peking University and missionary of the Methodist Episcopal Church to China . A MEMORIAL OF Leander William Pilcher PRESIDENT OF PEKING UNIVERSITYAND MISSIONARY OF THE METH-ODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCHTO CHINA LOVINGLY INSCRIBED BY HIS BROTHER LEWIS S. PILCHER PRIVATELY PRINTEDI 895 Tkr F. at ,01001 of t^^ Leander William Pilcher, 1848=1893. OIS Friday evening, about T oclock, November 24,1893,died at tbe Mission Residence in Peking, China, theRev. Leander William Pilcher, , President of thePeking University and missionary of the Methodist Epis-c
Memorial of Leander William Pilcher, president of Peking University and missionary of the Methodist Episcopal Church to China . A MEMORIAL OF Leander William Pilcher PRESIDENT OF PEKING UNIVERSITYAND MISSIONARY OF THE METH-ODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCHTO CHINA LOVINGLY INSCRIBED BY HIS BROTHER LEWIS S. PILCHER PRIVATELY PRINTEDI 895 Tkr F. at ,01001 of t^^ Leander William Pilcher, 1848=1893. OIS Friday evening, about T oclock, November 24,1893,died at tbe Mission Residence in Peking, China, theRev. Leander William Pilcher, , President of thePeking University and missionary of the Methodist Epis-copal Church. During a period of ten weeks, he had beenacutely ill from the effects of multiple abscesses of the liver,the sequel of a chronic ulceiative disease of the intestines,which the exposures and diet attending more than twentyyears labor in North China had occasioned. Against thisdisability he had struggled for some years; the urgent de-mands of the developing work in Peking- had. however, kepthim there long beyond the time when lie should have takenadvantaije of a return to the United States for his health,and hememorialofleande00pilc
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