Clarence C. Hall Passes Away
JUST as we are closing up this issue of the paper, a cablegram from Japan announces the sad intelligence that Brother C. C. Hall is dead. The cablegram gave no particulars. The last mail from Japan brought cheery letters from Brother Hall, telling of his earnest activities in the work in which he was engaged. Therefore we conclude that his death must have been very sudden. He was a young man of great promise; for although he was only in his thirtieth year, he had had a wide range of experience that had specially qualified him for useful labor in that needy field of Japan. When he was a boy, just coming toward manhood, it was his privilege to spend three years in Jamaica when his father was there in charge of that mission field. The mother died, and was buried in Jamaica. The father returned to the States, and was again married, but he also died in 1904. On returning from Jamaica, Brother Hall connected with the Pacific Press, and was with us for some twelve years. He became proficient in the printing work; and when an urgent call came from the Foreign Mission Board, something like two years ago, for a young man and his wife with experience to go to Japan, Brother Hall and wife volunteered their services. Sister Hall, who had also been connected with the Pacific Press, in the periodical department, was peculiarly fitted to render valuable assistance to her husband. Our Foreign Mission Board readily accepted these trained young people; and on March 20 of 1915, in the vigor of young manhood and womanhood, they, with their two bright little children, sailed from San Francisco for Japan. Brother Hall was made secretary and treasurer of our Japanese mission, and manager of our mission press in that field. These duties, of course, filled his hands and his heart with earnest labors. Elder Porter, in charge of our Asiatic Division, reported that Brother Hall was more than making good in his work. And all concerned were happy in the bright prospects that were before him and his good wife, as manifested in the development in usefulness that they were showing in that growing and needy field. Brother Hall leaves a wife and two children, four brothers, and two half sisters, as well as other relatives and a host of friends, to mourn his loss. One of his brothers, H. H. Hall, for more than twenty years has been the efficient manager of our book department in the Pacific Press. Another brother, Prof. A. E. Hall, is a successful teacher in our Pacific Union College. E. W. Hall is farming near Hanford, California; and J. M. Hall is connected with the Pacific Manifolding Book Company in a suburb of Oakland, California. The half sisters, Nellie and Pearl, are with their mother in Kansas City, Missouri, where she is engaged as one of our Bible workers. The announcement of Brother Hall’s sudden death not only brought deep sadness to his intimate friends who had been so long associated with him in the Pacific Press, but the people generally in this community where he was so well and favorably known, expressed their deep sorrow. The warmest sympathy is extended to the young widow and the dear little children.