| Show TO EXTIRPATE CHRISTIANITY I Plot to Destroy All Foreigners In China MISSIONARIES lu Society odet the Slim ifa tl lull ml ii m mid ii ii d ru by the New York April lO The annual re ro report report port of ot the time American Dible Bible society ty rel rei relative rd to tIme thu situation In China will contain the time following interesting state statement ment float tram front Its agent In China Chinn the Hev John Johll 11 It Hydos I n I 1 There was a deep deel and cunningly laid plot under Imperial sanction to extirpate Christianity expel epol all for tor foreigners foreigners eigners and destroy de tro all nil foreign Inter Interests interests ests No one aile divined tho the full extent of ot the iniquity which was as deliberately contemplated In lit all Protestant missionaries Including sixty men ilien III en vo 0 NV men and ond children have hn ve been massacred With the exception of lit time the massacres at nt Ku Iu Choo Chao in Che Cime Kiang Klang Ilan In which eleven elevon persons were killed and at Heng lieng Choo In Hu lIu Nan all nil of oC these deaths occurred In the thu northern provinces The question has been raised at nt home as to whether the Boxers Doxer uprising uprising ing was wan or anti missIon miry nry or In Its character No doubt exists In the mind of at any well Informed per ocr son eon In China The Time movement was WIlS un on undoubtedly undoubted doubted against foreigners as such audi and the tho crusade was vas ill reeled directed against everything foreign Christianity of course COUlse Included Hsu Bau Ching Cheng and Yuen Vuen Chang two ministers of oC the foreign n ollice would not transmit the tho awful edict which reiterated the order to painful painfully ly Iy extirpate all nil foreigners but changed It FU so ux Uti lu to read mood I d protect all and then sent It hying over the wires to time thu remotest provinces They were sentenced l to be cut In two Mission Missionaries aries arles were the time class that benefited by Jy this act net of at heroism The fact bet that every missionary escaped from rain lour four fourteen teen out of the eighteen provinces would Indicate that the crusade was not specially In the provinces of or Chi LJ U I and Shan Shari SI 81 every eer school hospital chapel and dwelling was looted orni burned by bythe b bythe the Boxers or Imperial troops the time only exception being the property In the for Cor foreign or eign settlement at Flea Tien Taimi So 80 corn com complete piete was wa the time demolition ot of properly by these mad lunatics fanatics ann tiC that Mint not n a vestige ethe I was left iett to mark marlc the time site even en the tIme foundations foundation wore ere Irl lug dug up and onI carried away There was also alan destruction of ot I mission property prop In Iii time the provinces of ot Shan Shami SI HI Hunan SI 81 Chic Che he Kiang 1 und and Kwang wang Tung rung Time The native Christians have bei ben n the time worst waist sufferers suN who imo escaped the time gen gell general eral oral slaughter in tho time northern provo provinces inces lost host absolutely everything nail and many mB 11 of it them are perishing from rain cold and starvation The lime scriptures will aggregate aggregate gate not lens ices dma thon volumes and the actual Ions to the time society will not be le less leR a than or gold go III dollars ollars Including the time necessary expense of nf getting workers to places of at safety and bark balk agaIn n ln to their stations All II of ot our foreign superintendents superintendent were saved saI Wo Wl have to mourn tho time loss of ot many noble and devoted native They Thc were warned of time the risk they the were vere running hut but not a n man manof manIt of lit It the band of eighteen flinched lunched Their reply was nH We go on all a tour GodlI Goda will be done dono Only tour four of ot the tho eIghteen returned from rain that Journey The Thie homes homeR of these martyrs wem vere looted and burned and their theli families exterminated Those who es escaped escaped to 10 the mountains where they the terrible privations amid man managed aged to get back to Pella Pekin after it was captured by b the allied tithed armies Of Ot the time under missionary super supervision supervisIon vision I lon I have not heard of one who ho escaped In some tome other parts of or Chi China China na me colporteurs endured terrible perse persecution cution cation and tome some of ot them mire are only now venturing out omit of at hiding More than Ihan native Including Roman Catholics met Inet death with a heroism worthy of ot the bent beet age of oC the church While the Ihn th total number of ot volumes of the th scriptures published Is less than Ihan the tho previous year ear the number of ot pages It is I slightly slight In excess The num number number ber her of ot pages s printed In 1599 was Waa 70 iO 00 this year It was wall 7 or about of ot a n million more This Is IR the largest number nUm el of at pages ever e r printed In one year by b the time China agency and will rive some sonic Idea of the th proportions to which the work hail had grown when In common with oP an other forums forms of ot Christian work It was sud suddenly denly denh Interrupted by the events if the past year A r The rime number of or mandarin Bibles manufactured Is worthy worth of ot special no notice tire tice There were ere received r from Crom the time printers no less than complete camp let Bible BIbles nod copies were In prese on Dec nce 31 11 Ten years ago ao an nn edition of ot 2000 copes was wan thought sufficient to meet the demand for tor several years This Thill fairly Indicates the time growth of ot the time native church during durin this period for It ItIs ItI Is I rain Chr that tho the de Ill demand mand for tor these Bibles comes |
