telegraphic announcement of the sudden death from typhoid fever of
Prof. Edward S. Hall, one of our Field Superintendents. Mr. Hall had
been one year in the service of the Association, and had already shown
himself to be a man of varied and remarkable capabilities--not only
skilled in the management of schools, but familiar in an unusual
degree with the practical work of building and repairing school and
church edifices. His services have been invaluable to the Association,
and it will be difficult to supply his place. As a man of noble
Christian character and consecration to the work entrusted to him, he
had won our highest esteem.

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DEATH OF LARMON B. LANE, M.D.

Rev. Larmon B. Lane, M.D., died at his home in St. Charles, Ill.,
Sept. 15, 1889. He was born in Tallmadge, Ohio, June 21, 1821. He
studied medicine at Cleveland Medical College, and afterward attended
Oberlin College and Theological Seminary, graduating in 1848. The
following year he was sent by the American Missionary Association as
missionary physician to Siam, where he labored faithfully, ministering
to soul and body six years. In 1855 a severe hemorrhage compelled him
to give up the missionary work. After a short rest he began his work
of preaching the gospel. He had successful pastorates in Illinois
and Ohio; afterwards he practiced medicine in Geneva and St. Charles,
Ill., at which latter place he died. He was successful as a physician
and continued to the end a loyal servant of Christ, was deacon,
treasurer and Sunday-school Superintendent, besides being always ready
to do with his might what his hands found to do.