Show OP OF Th The Transcript re ro reports ports to The American Hoard of ot For lor Foreign lorella ella eign tt tons from the Caroline Carolina Island Islands ands and containing complaints against an ar American missionary and native nathe con can converts converts verts vert The ht charge Is disloyalty to 10 the German government It that one day last lust Decem December December ber her a German Orman warship ar anchored off oft the gouth point of nf Uella Ulla The next day Hev fles ne tho American mission minion missionary I ary aH all a ordered on board to answer I Up w n s charge of o disloyalty made against four tour boys bays rill was brought It tt peem by some pagan traders who w were r hostile to o the tho mission Mr Ir Stimson received very ory scant cour courtesy tesy tea IH on un board the ship situ Ho no was or ordered dered derail about ns nil It If he lied had been under accusation himself He lie was not even oven permitted to speak to tho the boys boya so M It appears that lint the tine only reason why ho he jUI summoned t to the ship was liS that tho the to show him ns nil much sy as os foe Ie dared to He lie claims that the tho charge charle Is 18 false und rind malicious The further relates that one one dOY ay a 11 mock mok trial vas me 08 held by hy tine the captain Tho Tine boys he says were vera ar or arraigned arraigned anti they denied the charge char e Then Thea twenty heathen hoot hen men man servants of ot the trader r and adherents of ot his hl testified fled fied against thorn and against Mr SUm Stimson son to the effect that ho he and they con preach against tho the German government A man who Vho went wont to the tine ship and wished to speak to the tho captain In their defense wn wO driven away Ilay so 80 he hea a with a 1 gun Testimony for tor the de do defense tens fens offered under oath was wall refused ed Another report agrees with the tho state stale statement ment mont of Mr Stimson Miss Jennie D Baldwin says Bays These Thene The e boy boyA arc are anxious to preach the lie gompel l and ami mouths ago begged bes Dermis permission ion sion to hold services on Sabbath morn mann morning mornIng ing lag at villages u 1 few mites miles distant A heathen chief a n heathen white whit mon milan worn ver opposed to tn tin efforts and the chief chirt would not penult him to preach In Ms hils village Work Worle was WM thon then started In Ina ina a II village where they the were wel yel welcome come corned l nail anti nearly n a hundred people dithered to hear henr the tine Word Won The Th powers power of oC darkness seemed determined to hint blot out ut this work and whon tho the warship arrived tine the two men previously mentioned men mentioned charged theao boys Ilos with preach preaching ing lug that the tho American Hoard Boord was a n pent rent factor In iii theme theno e quarters and that the German government occupied an nn in III position A trial was held where nil all and ami missionaries were ruled out of ot course courso it was waR not in Jn a 0 heathen laud land to obtain false witnesses So far for as sin we 1 heat hear the tine toys boy are arc guiltless 11 II IM The people testify te lIh that hoy 1111 preached simply lImply morn from the tho Hook Book The boys realized that it was wa wap persecutiOn p for tor the Ih faith rind and told my ny m sister liMo when she sine visited them that It w was lIS s because of ot the tho name of ot Jesus The rhe Germans have hae at times proved that they value ti a 1 mis missionary very er highly We AVe believe bellel a 1 Urge larre piece of ot Chinese terri tern territory tory was Willi taken as M an nn equivalent for tor forone one ape a f tim w yule years ago An American cannot C bo be worth loss than other oilier millenaries and alit they should therefore bl be treated with courtesy even It If accused by enemies of o disloyalty Then the stan etory points mounts Join III a n moral It proves that tool when people desire to they will 11 always flail find some rame excuse for tor it It is II even een easy OU to false witnesses when n a 1 false charge chargo has to be bc sustained The Lat Int da Saints mace hoc but too often orten ex ax experienced tints this They too have hoop boon falsely tal ll couNd of disloyalty disloyalLy and end that not by Our stale 11 has bas asked for tor nn flu explanation of ot the mutter and end that thatis is II I well for far labor lebor should not be lewi lews I free roe under German rule than It was wan under the Spanish regime The ex explanatiOn no doubt will 11 be 00 forthcoming ing but hut it devolves devolve upon th tin govern government merit ment nt to Me se e to It that the explanation r l or eUe that an apology U Ii I tendered |