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a further period of two years, the number of pupils increasing from year to year.
"In May 1902, the new building at Ma-tau-kok, Kowloon, was first occupied. Here, under the care of another lady, Miss Reinecke, who recently joined Miss Postler as colleague, thirty-eight blind girls are to-day cared for and taught.
"Such in brief is the history of an institution of which the esteemed lady, whose death we are called upon to chronicle, was the founder and the first superintendent. Her best monument is in many young lives, redeemed from a fate that is worse than blindness or death, to be happy through the acquisition in an atmosphere of patient love and ready sympathy, of a knowledge which, whilst it makes for self-support and self-reliance, confers at the same time a large share of human happiness.
"To have thus ministered to suffering child life during eight years is to have wrought lasting good. In the home for the Blind the Chinese see Western benevolence at its best. The 'Blindenheim,'
The 'Blindenheim, Hongkong,' ever to be associated with the name of Miss Postler, is one of those charitable institutions that do most credit to a Christian Colony.
"There is a singularly pathetic side to the story of Miss Postler's death. She was amongst the passengers by the s.s. Aieten, which left Hongkong on June 24 last. Miss Postler's excellent health at the time of sailing was a matter of congratulation among her many friends and well-wishers. When the voyage was half accomplished Miss Postler was taken ill. Leaving the ship at Genoa she travelled overland to the residence of her sister in the little town of Hoechestadt-Main, where on the third day after arrival, death took place. The end came when Miss Postler was on the eve of re-union with an aged father who is a Lutheran minister in the town of Schonebeck. He and the other kindred of this accomplished and devoted lady will be the objects of much sincere sympathy."