| Show I ji 1 J JILBERT ILBERT REID who bids fair to go IO down into his history history I GILBERT C f tory as the looting ini missionary has another nother de defense fEuse of f his hi a position iu the December F Tir Vr Reid last summer wrote some in which he stated his belief that it i was as all aU right to loot the homes of the Chinese Chine e who had engaged in in the Boxer raids S Doubtless his bear bE ar testimony to his belief beliet S The treatment north China Clina and aud especially Pekin Pek lf received after occupation to me me writes fr ff frid B id jd to have been in the m moderate and nd if f the is taken into account that wh iu p has been termed looting and wi trin h m ILL iu all aU ll the larger forms form wa wai officially conducted condu ted tedor or 01 permitted w ws 8 a punishment more mild than was de dt IIi n j vad lighter r than titan had already been Doen metod m out o t at ha the kinds of tIle tie Chinese themselves is interesting in in view f the Statement t made d dby by Dr Hee Ne a Asiatic traveler tr veler In it I ite a recently e published interview in Dr Nev n n visited t ti fter the tb siege was JM raised railed He lie says sy s he saw W sq few s g of the lie destruction for which he be had h prepared hf ind t that at he made some seine inquiries of one of the tie ministers ter beat Groat was his astonishment when jie he learned lt gf Ue legation ti hoe had never sever ben been b n upon al si th the Chinese C had every opportunity to do so eo sorio He rio learned further furt er that not a single member of the besieged party paty was w killed or died of disease disse di se throughout th tIt Doable What mat then does Missionary Reid mean when ho lie 1 the tI ti looting was not Dot in proportion to the injuries inflicted by bT the hc Boxers Boxe He must certainly allude to toJI his s injured It is hardly h becoming in a man mui duty it is to io preach peace and good will to give G v ut i terance to the doctrine If Mr Reid look took through the New Testament Te he will vill find that the tho good I forgives ves his enemy seventy times seven seven may ay have been too much pillaging of xeal iel friendly friE Mr Reid R id admits but there was also so so if anything too little confiscation of the prop property property property erty of those not lot only active in the war but responsible fot too awful to imagine but too serious to tob b f Such statements as these those are aro not n t apt loi p 1 o M eide cause To steal from ones ons enemy is isas isas isas as as b lq S QS to t Mel from ones friends particularly dall if tho h jg of f being i in il that country is IS tO te and Christianize him hun It is i one of the hardships of war that the t e conquered furnish subsistence for its conquerors but rn t beyond that warfare doesn t go No ITo amount of ef justification tion from Mr will condone his Ilia offense off nee he ha must always be considered an unworthy ex ox orf ef the noblest n blest of causes Certainly his useful usefulness ness W t lm H has reached its limit n |
