Book Description

On Friday evening, about 7 o'clock, November 24, 1893, died at the Mission Residence in Peking, China, the Rev. Leander William Pilcher, D.D., President of the Peking University and missionary of the Methodist Episcopal Church. During a period of ten weeks, he had been acutely ill from the effects of multiple abscesses of the liver, the sequel of a chronic ulcerative disease of the intestines, which the exposures and diet attending more than twenty years labor in North China had occasioned. Against this disability he had struggled for some years; the urgent demands of the developing work in Peking had, however, kept him there long beyond the time when lie should have taken advantage of a return to the United States for his health, and he was still planning to continue his work on the field for another year yet before leaving it, when the final catastrophe of his disease occurred.