OBITUARY 245 



priest ; and in 1882 he followed that brother, made Bishop in his place, 

 to China as Archdeacon. 



The next thirteen years, broken by a short furlough, were spent at 

 Shanghai, where the Archdeacon won for himself a position among 

 both English and Chinese which will not soon be forgotten. A serious 

 break-down of health compelled him to return to England in 1894, and 

 it was not until 1902 that he was able to come back to China. He 

 then settled again at Ningpo, and pursued his beloved work of preach- 

 ing the Gospel with a zeal and physical energy which many a younger 

 man might envy. In 1908, however, he accepted the living of Burwar- 

 ton in Shropshire ; though still to pay one last visit to China in 

 1909-10 ; and indeed he was ready to go back there if necessary until 

 the return of his illness in 1917. Old age had compelled him to resign 

 his living in 1915, and the last years were spent with his youngest son 

 at Weymouth, with many journeys at first to speak and preach for the 

 missionary cause, and long visits to another son at Damerham Vicarage 

 in Wilts. It was in this latter house that he peacefully passed away 

 at noon on 26th August, 1918 ; and on the 29th he was laid to rest in 

 the churchyard there within sight of the woods of his loved Dorset 

 and of Wiltshire Downs. 



No account of Arthur Moule would be at all just which did not 

 praise his wife, his absolutely inseparable companion and never-failing 

 helper in his work and in his home, in sickness and in health, through 

 fifty-seven years, and his children too, of whom six sons and three 

 daughters survive him,- — Walter, principal of Ningpo College and 

 Archdeacon in his Father's room, Arthur (the eldest son) and Willie, 

 famous at Shanghai as missionaries and cricketers, Horace in the 

 translating and editorial department of the Bible Society's House in 

 London, Herbert, Vicar of Damerham, and Ernest at Weymouth 

 College, the two last formerly in Japan, and their sisters well-remem- 

 bered in Shanghai. For those who knew him no words are needed and 

 for those who did not know him no words are really able to describe 

 his eager manner, his kindliness and humour, his way with little 

 children, his look, his walk, his smile. 



The Archdeacon was for some years a member of our Society, but 

 did not contribute to the Journal. Though a fluent and able speaker 

 of Chinese and a contributor of many hymns as well as commentaries 

 and other books to Chinese Christian literature, he never did very much 

 in the way of technical or antiquarian Chinese study. In English he 

 was a most eloquent and persuasive preacher and speaker, and a 

 prolific writer both of verses, of which he published several small 

 volumes, and of the most readable and valuable books on China of 

 which several are quite certain long to survive their author. 



