SHERRING, Matthew At more

[s. 686] : Born at HalEs sex, England, September 26, 1826; studied at University College, London, and Coward College; ordained December 7, 1852; sailed as a mi ionary of the LMS the same year for Benares. He took the superintendence of the Central School, with which he was identified during much of his life; also engaging in bazar preaching and itinerating, and the pastorate of On Sunday, August 8, 1880, the native church. he went through his usual services in Hindu stan i and English in apparently good health. At 2 o’clock Monday morning he was attacked with cholera, and on the 10th pa ed gently away. The same evening native Christians carried his body to the grave, among them his first convert, baptized twenty-four years before, a Brahman, and now vernacular headmaster in the institution at Benares. Combining high culture and strong common sense with a gentlene of disposition almost womanly, Mr. Sherring endeared himself to all with whom he came in contact. “I make it my rule,” he would say, “to try to please every one if po ible.” In the twofold work of high-cla education and of preaching in the vernacular he found ample scope for his superior talents. stead, SHERSHEL: A town in Algeria, situated 60 miles W. S. of Algiers. Station of the North Africa Mi ion (1890), with 2 women mi ion The French aries, 1 Sunday school, 1 dispensary. spelling of the name is Cherchel. W SHIGAR: A town in Kashmir, India, situated about 110 miles N. E. of Srinagar. Station of the Scand in avian Alliance of N. A. (1895), with (1900) 1 mi ionary and his wife, 2 women misaries, 1 day school, and 1 industrial institute. A settlement in German East situated on the S. side of Mt. Kiliraa Leipzig Mi ionary Njaro. Station of the Society (1900), with (1903) 2 mi ionaries, 1 place of worship, 1 day school. 686