OBITUARIES 



unpiane his companionship was as fragrant as the heather 

 of Scotland. What made him such a man 

 I,, his youth high ideals and hardness of cir- 

 cumstances framed his character. In manhood he set before 

 | mil a t a || tunes devotion to his duty and the years of his 

 fortified by a strong religious faith. 

 , oe of the best and most accomplished students 

 | ( Language. His knowledge of this literature 



[de and his researches many. It is unfortunate for 

 students thai Sir Everard Fraser did not publish more 

 than he did. Possibly his modesty and reserve on the one 

 hand and Ins high standard of scholarship on the other 

 hand prevented this. 



SAMUEL COULING, M.A. 



Samuel Co.uling was born in London in 1859, the 

 youngest child of a Nonconformist minister who, though 

 of scholarly tastes, could not give his children many early 

 advantages, through straitened circumstances. The lad was 

 put into an Insurance Office at fifteen or sixteen; but after 

 two or three years, having decided to follow his father's 

 calling, he was entered at Bristol Baptist College. Here 

 he took a five years' Divinity course, with Arts classes at 

 Bristol University College (now Bristol University); here 

 too, he first became interested in Mission work in China. 



In January 1883, he became minister of the Baptist 

 Church at Totnes, Devon. His brief but happy ministry 

 there came to an end in June 1884, owing to the fact that 

 the Baptists Missionary Society had asked for fourteen 

 volunteers for China. The young minister offered himself 

 and was accepted : his people regretfully acknowledged the 

 prior claims of the Mission field, learned to regard him as 

 their representative in partibus infidelium, and lovingly kept 

 his name on the church roll all his life. 



He arrived in China in December 1884, and was de- 

 viated to Ch'ing Chow foo in Shantung, where — after 

 studying the language — he was put in charge of a newly- 

 established Boarding-School. The boys were picked boys 

 and all from Christian families; all instruction was in 

 Chinese, English not being taught at all: for those were 

 earlj days. 



He soon realised that for his work's sake as well as his 



he ought to have a degree; and after using any leisure 



he could gel from other work' and other studies in the field, 



md utilizing two furloughs in the necessary preparation, 



