MISSIONARY BISHOP DEAD.

Auckland Star, Volume 23, Issue 23, 28 January 1926, Page 6

MISSIONARY BISHOP DEAD.

DR. CASSEXS OP CHINA. RECORD OF DEVOTED SERVICE. (Dy Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) DUNEDJN, this day. News has reached Dunedin that Bishop Wiliiam W. Cassels, D.D.. died at Paoning. in the province of Szechwan. China, on November 7 last, and that Mrs. Cassels died t>n November 15, each after a brief illness of typhus fever. Bishop Cassels was world-wide known as a member of "The Cambridge Seven" I who joined t lie Rev. Hudson Taylor in the work of the China Inland Mission in ISSS. He v-as then known as the Rev. W. W. Cassels. n graduate of Cambridge University, and late curate of All Saints' i hurch, South Lambeth. England. In j I*-!'.") a new diocese in Western China was funned, and on his first furlough Dr. Cassels was consecrated bishop of it. and for more than ;10 years exercised episcopal oversight, continuing to act as superintendent of the work of the China Inland Mission in Eastern Szechwan, to which position he was appointed in 1800. with a seat on the council. He accomplished a great work and left a noble example. By his removal at GO years of age the China Inland Mission and the Chinese Church in Western China have lost an able, devoted, revered nnd beloved leader.