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“...20
(?t summery haze, early dispelled by brilliant sun-
shine, preluded a morning of exceptional beauty
on the China Inland Mission Compound, where all was in
readiness for the event to which so many had looked for-
ward—-the marriage of Mr. Stanley Gordon Martin and Miss
Frances Heather Moore.
The Memorial Hall, which was most tastefully de-
corated with cinerarias, geraniums and blossom, was com-
fortably filled with the girls and boys of the C.I.M. Schools
and with many friends, when the bride arrived punctually
at 10.30 a.m. Escorted by the Rev. A. Lutley and closely
followed by the bridesmaid, Miss K. Macnair, the bride
walked down the aisle to the strains of Wagner’s Bridal
Chorus, and at the beautifully decorated platform met the
bridegroom, who was attended by Mr. S. Houghton as
groomsman.
The bride wore a beautiful dress of hand-made lace
over oyster satin. Particular interest attached to the lace,
which had belonged to her great grandmother, and to the
veil made by the bride’s...”
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