Show It H Numerous reports hav com coni from tram China Chinti to the effect that the tM minion ml ln aries there or lr sonic flomo of or them been teOn engaged In looting under I tory And nd so t have these thell rumors been he n that th h lire re I In Is Isa n a 1 strong public demand In Iii this thil outi try for tor a II thorough Investigation ot ol o tho ho IO facts acts i Sir Hobert Hart stated In a London magazine that some missionaries took such a n lORding loadIng part In spoiling i tint the Egyptians 1 for tor tho greater glory o iou that a n bystander was heard tb to i say ay For n a to conic como Chinese con converts verts verta will 1111 consider looting and van vun un Christian virtues Another AMther witness Thomas F P 1 Millard that the missionary expeditions tlona called by tho the army tribute ex cx I Combed the country countr with a n alino lino tooth and were productive of ot noth nothing ing log but loot which was vas the tho real ob object obJect object On the strength of or a 1 report to tM th New York Sun that a 11 Mr tr Ament had hod compelled full tull payment for nil destroyed property belonging to missionaries and assessed fines be Le besides beSIdes sides allies amounting to thirteen times the entire ant lUre re Indemnity ty Mark i ark Twain scourged the tM Chinese millenaries with his cutting satire brings gut pt an Dr explanation In the tho Northwestern Chris Christian bris Ian tian Advocate This paper says the th Sun Hun dispatch contained d an lit error It should V read lead that ue were In excess of ot the Indemnities Instead of ot thirteen times 9 the amount making lOoking a difference of ot over a n million dollars The rhe Advocate adds that Mr ir Ament ment In several villages collected money for tor the actual losses suffered by b native and ana additional toward the support ot of or orphans dad and widows This collection however was done dono without force forc by simply appealing to the tho peoples tense of or justice on behalf of ot their suffering neighbors Whether this this explanation covers the ground Is a It question If Ir the Chinese people voluntarily contribute money for tor tho the support of or widows willows and an orphans of ot murdered rell Christians they are not the pagans they ther are lire to tu be b According to a n letter In III tho the Missionary Herald the tho voluntary of the collee collection tion lion WaS ns not strongly marked The Th writer says saysA A man toan named Pao Io who had put off oft flight last hut Julie Juht until too to late saved his life lito by n a recantation und nod payment nt of or After Alter tile tho fall of ot lekin ho hJ Ventured to Visit tho the church chulch In lieu Tien and anth was killed a aday adny aday day or two utter after his return home by bythe bythe bythe the who huo also Ilso killed his wire wife and anti tried to catch his hla son ROn The brought tho thu news to tu Dr Porter who ho reported it Il to the thu Tita rain provisional government A punitive expedition was formed by b the Italians and anu the tho village burned One Ono man supposed to be the th son eon of ot one of or the murderers was caught tad executed This affair so terrified the Inhabitants of ot the tho neigh neighboring neighboring boring villages that they sent u to de lie deputation ta to Tien Ilen reIn to make male their peace pen co with the Christians ChrIstianA who ho had been heen plundered in hi that region As a te vs suit our preacher Cheng Yen ren rung fens went Vent out secured the Indemnity to the full Cull value of ot the Ih losses l s os There are arc nine temples given over oer to Us with all their contents Two of or these am ao said ald to be usable as they stand The Theion Th ion la t will be valuable chiefly as fur tut material for tor rebuilding thi th mined houses houss of or the members With tho the temples templo are arc some gome English acres neres of ot tillable land The Th deeds 1015 for tor this have been bren gIven Iven and the rental will gradually reimburse the th losers ot or prop orty t In l addition Is Ie a good deal ot or grain and money It Jr this Is 19 true tru the tha voluntary contri contributions consisted of or buildings anti real estate In ift addition nd to grain and ind money mono turned turnell over oer after ler the tho vII vil village lage had hll 1 been destroyed by Jy Ore lire and 1011 perhaps a II number of ot persons killed hut Dut the tho 10 Advocate mists insists In that hat Mr Ament has hns been misrepresented and that IhM Mark Twain should shaul II make an apol opel apology ogy og It If It Is true that the tho reports from China Chinn about the missionaries there give erroneous Impressions garbled accounts of their nets acts may tony we not n a little more discrimination Ion tion nod sound judgment on the part ot of the religious press In Iii this country countr In regard to the rumors anti represents represent lions by which Mormons anti Mormonism Mor or monism arc made the objects of lit crill criticism cism As s 9 a 1 yule rule nil such rumors are taken for tor granted Anti And yet et It U Is II a awell l lwell awell well known fact that the Gospel of ot the I latter In days Is opposed by night b by br day dab Incessantly ruthlessly by those who for tor various motives hate It 1 If Christian missionaries in China who wh have the support anti and sympathy of or r a 4 large part hurt of ot the tho world can be so mis inia misrepresented represented entell that they appear nr In the tM public press no better than thieves the they and nn their friends should hould not ac ae accept accept as true every rumor about an nn un on unpopular popular people that i Is Started ll by an enemy and anu reechoed by n a misinformed press and Rn prejudiced pulpit It Is 19 bet better better ter cr ta to hear both sides side before betoN final Is k pronounced |