under Presbyterian Board, 1902; founded the"Dendo Doshikwan," training school for evangelists, now located in Osaka, iu 1903; received the hon. degree of D.D. from Coe College, 1902. Publications:" Inductive English Lessons," 1890; " Atoms and Energies," 1901; "Studies for Personal Workers," 1905. Address: 22 Kawagnchi, Osaka, Japan.
MURRAY, George Sheppard (SINGAPORE), Manager, local brunch, Mercantile Bank of India; b. June 26, 1851; m. June, 1888, L. M. J. Dennys, o. d. of Dr. N. B. Dennys. Educ.: Hyde Abbey School, Winchester. Was a member of Legislative Council of Straits Settlements from 1888 (except when absent on visits to England), until May, 1906, when resigned. Clubs: Wellington; Constitutional; Sports. Address: Singapore, Straits, Settlements.
MURRAY, Rev. John (CHINANFU ), Minister and Missionary; b. Oct., 1846; m. Sept., 1876, Sadie S. Rue ( died 1902 ). Educ.: Monmouth College, Ill.; Princeton College, N. J.; Princeton Theological Seminary; graduated Princeton, N. J. Class, 1872. Arrived in China, 1876; chiefly engaged in evangelistic work " a steady course, nothing very momentous but ever growing in grandeur." Address: Chinanfu, Shantung, China.
MURRAY, Rev. William (SINGAPORE), M.A. Glas., Missionary; b. Jan. 22, 1864. Educ.: Glasgow and London. Ordained by Presbyterian Church of England, March 16, 1887-93; Minister at Penang, Straits Settlements, 1893-99; Missionary to Straits Chinese, Singapore, since 1901. Address: E.P. Mission, Singapore, Straits Settlements.
MURRAY, Rev. William Hill (PEKING), Inventor of the numeral type by means of which blind and illiterate sighted Chinese can learn to read and write well in three months, using only 30 symbol s, whereas the average Chinaman takes six years to master the 4000 ideographs essential to simple reading, and only 5 per cent, ever learn; b. June 3, 1843, s. of a blacksmith. Early lost his left arm by an accident; rural postman; in 1863 became a colporteur for National Bible Society of Scotland, by whom (1871) he was sent to North China; in 1879, adapted Braille's symbols for the blind to represent numbers, and numbered the 408 sounds in use at Peking (which are the standard for all Mandarin dialects); seeing the facility with which the blind acquired the power of reading and writing, illiterate Christians craved his help, and by substituting black lines for the raised white dots, he produced the simplest possible set of geometric forms; these are the printing-type with which the blind now print books for sighted persons; in the Boxer trouble his blind women were all martyred, and most the men and boys; he himself suffered so severely that he became totally blind in one eye and half blind in the other; but with
