载于1947年8月19日《字林西报》上的《王树德牧师离开去加拿大》的一文，首先介绍了王树德牧师在担任英国圣经公会驻上海总部的秘书长的十一年之中，为圣经在中国的出版、发行所做出的贡献。其次，文章介绍了王牧师自1909年到中国西南“川滇黔边区”的少数民族(苗族)中传教，为他们的圣经翻译和出版都贡献了自己的力量。同时，也为苗族培养了从华西协合大学毕业的大学生。一战时他被英国政府派往在法国中国劳工团中帮助他们，并被授予英国陆军上尉军衔。1932年，王树德牧师成为循道公会西南教区主席，1936年离开石门坎，前往上海英国圣经公会任职。1942年中日战争中被日本人抓走，1945年战争结束才被释放。
王树德在上海的期间，加入了该地的扶轮社。扶轮社是一个国际性组织，旨在为世界和平做出自己的贡献。王牧在扶轮社的许多次会议中讲述了他在西南地区的传教以及其他。
最后，该文介绍了王树德牧师夫妇离开中国的一点日程，他即将前往加拿大——英国圣经公会多伦多总部继续他的工作。
Rev.W.H.Hudspeth Leaving For Canada
The North-China Daily News,Sunday,October 19,1947.
The Rev.W.H.Hudspeth,M.B.E,general secretary of the British and Foreign Bible Society for China and Indo-China,is leaving today for a similar post in Canada and Newfoundland.
During his eleven-year term as general secretary of the local organization,with headquarters in Shanghai,the Rev.Mr.Hudspeth has supervised the translating,printing and publishing of the New Testament and the Bible for distribution to the Chinese,Mongols,Tibetans the tribesmen of West China and the Indo-Chinese.
In 1940 alone,the China Bible House printed and published 158,000 copies of the Bible 23,000 of the New Testament and 2.800.000 portions of the Bible and distributed some four million of them.
Studied Chinese
A graduate of Queens’ College Cambridge the Rev.Mr.Hudspeth came to China in 1909 .After studying the Chinese language for year,he went to North-East Yunnan into what was then known as tribal country where he worked as a missionary among the Miao Chia,aborigines of the region.
In 1916,he spent six months in Japan during which time he was engaged in translating and printing the New Testament for the Miao Chia. These tribesmen had no written language,but the missionaries had devised phonetic symbols on which the spoken language was based and taught them to the tribesmen.
When the Chinese Labour Corps were sent to France in 1917,under the Treaty of Alliance between China and Britain,the Rev.Mr.Hudspeth accompanied them as liaison officer appointed by the British Government.There he served as a deputy assistant adviser in China affairs with the rank of staff captain in the British Army and was mentioned several times in dispatches.
Taught Tribesmen
He returned to China in 1921 and for many years in North-West Kweichow and North-East Yunnan he directed educational and religious work among the Chinese and the tribal people.Several of his Miao Chia pupils passed the final graduation examinations in West China University,Chengtu.
In 1932,the Rev.Mr.Hudspeth was appointed chairman of the South-West China Methodist Mission,and four years later came to Shanghai as general secretary of the British and Foreign Bible Society for China and Indo-China.
He was interned by the Japanese in the notorious Bridge House on October 29,1942 and transfer red to Haiphong Road Camp on January 28, 1943 where he remain- ed until he was taken to Feng Tai,Peiping in July1945shortly before he was released when the war ended.
Active Rotarian
The Rev.Mr.Hudspeth has been a member of the Shanghai Rotary Club for many years,during which time he has delivered lectures and helped to enliven Rotary sessions.
A farewell tea party was given the Rev.Mr.and Mrs.Hudspeth by the China Bible House on Friday at the Foreign YMCA Chinese members of the Rev.Mr.Hudspeth’s staff also gave a farewell tiffin in his honour yesterday.
They will leave by air this morning for Hongkong,staying there until Wednesday when they will board a BOAC plane for London headquarters of the worldwide organization. After a short stay in London they will leave for Toronto,Canada, the Rev.Mr.Hudspeth’s new headquarters.
