| Show 10 TO EXTIRPATE CHRISTIANITY I Plot to Destroy All Foreigners in ill China Cl lna MISSIONARIES ES MASSACRED I I American III tI Society 01 Jive ic thu lit Sla IIa l ll I iii I ii r ii ii I 15 ii ni I n nb bi br b thu Iho Hi Iut it NoV Ne York ork April annual re report reo report port ot of the American BIble rid rel relative to the situation In China will contain the following state lale statement inept ment from frum its agent In China Chinn the Rev flay John Juhn 11 n D D There was a n deep ond cunningly laid plot under un r imperial sanction to extirpate Christianity expel ox all for nail destroy all foreign Inter Interests interests ests No one divined the thu full tull extent of or the iniquity which Willi wai deliberately contemplated contern plated In lii all nil Protestant Including sixty men amen wo 0 J men and children have been blen massacred With the exception of at the massacres at Ku Choo In Clue Che Kiang Klang laM laMIn In which eleven persons were killed and at t Heng lIeng Chine Chao In Hu Ilu Nan NUll all nil 01 of at these deaths occurred In the northern provinces The question has hils been raised at home as liS to 10 whether the Boxers uprising uprisIng ing lag was WIlS or ary nry ar In Its character No doubt exists In the thu mind of or any well Informed per ver eon con In China The Thu movement mo was un tin undoubtedly undoubtedly against foreigners as liS such and the tM crusade was directed against everything foreign Christianity of at course coure Included H lImu u Cluing Chins Cheng and Yuen Tuen Chang two tto ministers of at the foreign office would not transmit the awful edict t which reiterated tho the order to painful painfully ly h extirpate all foreigners foreigner but hut changed It s en o as liS to tl read rea protect all foreigners and then sent cent It flying over the wires to the remotest provinces They were sentenced to be cut In two Mission MinIon Missionaries MissionarIes aries arles were the benefited by b this act of I r heroism The Tho fact tact that I I every missionary escaped from four tour fourteen fourteen i teen out of oC the th eighteen provinces c would Indicate that the crusade was not specially In the provinces of ot Chi Ll IA and Shan Shiun SI every school hospital chapel and dwelling was looted and burned burn cd by lIy bythe bythe the or Imperial troops the time only exception being the property In the tho for tor foreign eign ehn settlement at nt Tien THin rein So corn com complete pleto was the demolition of ot property by these the e mad mall fanatics fantie that not hot a n awns vestige was loft Ie to mark tho the site sit I j even elen lbs ilIA foundations were vore dug duff up and carried away There was waB also destruction of ot mission ml slon property In the th provinces of or Shan SI Hollin Hunan nunan Kiang SI 81 Die Clue he KIting and Hwang Tong lung The he native Christians have havo been I en the tho worst sufferers Those Thoe who escaped the tho gsa Ren en oral Iral daughter In the northern provo provinces inces Ince lost absolutely everything and many litany of them are arc perishing from tram cold collI and starvation The Th scriptures d troy d will ante not less than titan Volumes and the tho actual loss lops to the tIme society will 11 not nol I Iho bo ho lets lees le than or B ld 1 dollars Including the thu necessary of ot getting worker to places of or safety and bark bank n aln to their stations All ll of or our foreign superintendents wore saved We have to mourn the lie thelow low lo of many and devoted native workers w They The were iere warned of ot the rItti they were running but not n a man mann manof mannor of or the lie noble nohle land bind of or eighteen flinched Their reply wait WM We w go on omi a tour Gods will be done Only four I Io of o the eighteen returned from that I Journey I Tho The homes hOnts of martyrs were I looted anti burned and their families I exterminated Those who es eA escaped coped to the mountains where they suffered terrible privations awl arid man managed aged nied to get Iet bade bacic to lekin after It was captured by hy the tho allied armies Of at the colporteurs under missionary super supervision vision vl lon I have not heard of or one who escaped In III some other parts ot or Chi China Chian na nil colporteur colporteurs endured terrible porse ami some fome of them theft are only now venturing out of hiding More oro than native converts Including Homan Catholics met death with a 1 heroism worthy of tho the best age of or the church i While the total volumes of At Of the scriptures publish Is less lees than the tM previous year the Iho number of or pages Is hi slightly slight In excess II The Tue num nurn number her ber of pages printed In 1899 1199 was 70 76 this year lar It was wall or about of oC a 1 million more morl This Is the largest t number of or pages es ever eer printed In one year earh by the China agency ogency n and will rive nyc some Idea of thin the proportions to which the work had grown when In common with all other forms Corms of ot Christian work It was tR 1 sud stid suddenly denly Interrupted by U the events cents of or the past pl t year The Time number of ot mandarin Bibles manufactured is 19 worthy of nt epochal no notice notice tice thee There were werl received from the printers no less leM le tItan than HMO 1500 complete and nud copies were In press presson 1 on Dee Dec 31 3 Ten years ago n onn an edition MIlian of at 2000 copes capel as thought to 10 meet the demand for years This fairly Indicates atA the growth of or the native natho church during durin this period for Cor It ItIs itis Is III from native Christians that t the de do mahd for tor these Bibles comes |
