| Show TO jj EXTIRPATE CHRISTIANITY N WIT Plot to Destroy All Foreigners In China MISSIONARIES MASSACRED American tiro tho su Slit I by br b HIP llio Now Noll York April 10 The annual re report report port of ot tho tire Bible society ref rel relative to the tIre situation In China will contain tire the following Interesting state tate statement meat ment front from Its agent orent In iii China the Rev Hev te John Johll U It D D 11 There was a n deep deol cunningly laid haiti plot under Imperial sanction to extirpate Christianity expel all alt for Cor foreigners I eigners antI and destroy all nil foreign inter interests interests ests No one une divined tho the full tull extent of ot the iniquity which was wa deliberately contemplated In hr nil ISO isa lS Protestant missionaries Including sixty men wo we V V VV VV V V VV V VInca men Inca and children have been blen massacred With the exception of ot the massacres nt at Ku Ju Choo In Cue Clio In which winch eleven persons were killed at nt Heng Choo Chao In ii 11 flu Nan Nun all of these deaths occurred In the northern provinces The Tire question has hns been ral at home ns as ri to whether the Boxers uprising ing lag was wall or nry ary In Its character No doubt exists In the mind of ot any all well Informed per ir person irson son Ion In China The movement was un urn undoubtedly against foreigners tor h as ns such and tire tho crusade was directed against t everything of ot course Included Hsu China Ching Cheng and Yuen Chang two ministers of ot the tire foreign would not transmit tire the awful edict which reiterated the tire order to painful painfully ly Iy extirpate all nil foreigners but changed It sp ep S l as ns to read rent protect all nil foreigners and then iron sent it lying flying over the wires to 10 the remotest provinces They were sentenced to be bo cut In two Mission Missionaries Missionaries aries were the tire class that benefited by b this act net of at heroism Tire The tact fact that every een missionary escaped t from tram fourS four fourteen teen out of at the tire eighteen provinces would Indicate that hint the crusade was not specially In Ju In the tine provinces of ot Phi hi in LI II and Shan SI every school hospital chapel arid and dwelling was looted anti burned by bythe bythe bythe the Boxel or Imperial troops the tire only exception being the property In the for tor foreign foreign eign ehm settlement nt at Tien So com corn was the be demolition of ot property by b these mad fanatics that lint trot not a vestige I wu left lett to mark the tire site even tho tire foundations were dug up U and carried There was Also destruction of mission property In the provinces of Shan Siran Bl Si Hotan Hunan Kiang Klang SI Che Cite lining Klung and Kwang Tung Turig Tho The native MUe Christians have been tho the worst sufferers Those who sho escaped d the tire gen general general eral oral slaughter In the tire northern provo pros provinces inces laces lost absolutely everything and ant ninny of ot them thorn are perishing from rout cold colt i arid anil starvation The scriptures destroyed will gate gale ga Ie not less than volumes antI the actual loss to In It the th society will not be 10 less le R than titan or gold dollars Including the thc necessary expense eXIen C of ot getting workers to places of ot safety and back again to It stations All of ot our foreign superintendents were saved We Wo have hae to mourn tine the loss of ot many noble and am devoted native workers worker They Tirey were warned of at tho tire risk they were running but Jilt not a II man nina manof of ot the noble band baird of ot eighteen flinched Their reply was wag We go RO on a 1 tour dod Gorl will be done dorse dO e Only tour four of ot tho tire eighteen returned from that Journey Journe The Tue homes of or these theRe martyrs were looted and anti burned burnell and their families exterminated Those who es cs dillon to the tire mountains where tire tile suffered terrible privations and man managed managed aged oget to get back to PeRth after It was captured by b tire the allied armies Of Ot the colporteurs under trader missionary super supervision supervision vision vIlli on I 1 not heard heart of or one ono who escaped In some other ot er parts of ot Chi China China na colporteurs endured terrible perse perM and some omo of ot them are only now venturing out lut of hiding Mote More than native convert on verts Including Roman Homan l met death with n heroism worth ot tho the best age ge of ot the church While the tire total number of ot volumes volume of Qt the tire scriptures publisher published hed Is les less than the tire previous year the number o of pages nages Is In excess execs The num nurn her of ot pages printed In 1859 1899 was 76 this tiri year It WAS wius 77 6 o or about of ot n a million more This Is 18 the tile largest number of o pages pageR ever eer printed In one on year by b the tine China agency a enC and will 11 give gle some sonic idea of the tho proportions to which the work had grown when In common with all nil other forms torms of at Christian work vork It was Iud sud suddenly denly tInly Interrupted by the tho events of ot the tho Pat paM year Tire The number of or mandarin manufactured Is worthy of It special no notice tire tice There were vere received ll from froni tho the printers no Ic le less s than complete copies opleR were iere in on Dec flee 31 Ten Ton years ago ngo an nn edition of ot 2000 copes was waR thought to meet the demand dema nd for yearn earH This fairly Indicates the growth of ot tim tile native natle church during this thia period for tor It ItIs ItI i Is I from fronir native Christians that tire the dc tIe domann mann for tor these DillIes Bibles comes conies |
