Eureka Reporter | 1905-05-12 | Page 3 | Native Christians in China

native christians in china according to william greener au hor of A secret agent la port art hur the status ot a christian con ert in china is similar to that of aaby avowed atheists in this country his relatives plead with him and re 1 roach him the bulk of the people condemn him the officials despise am and are not ready to help him t persuasion will not win him back the conventions of the public his arnley try threaten th reates the rage of his nc estors at his apostasy the dis onor he has brought upon them and pon his living relatives such wicked bess as the gods will not allow to go he remain obdurate hey tell him of the fate of other christian converts and ask him it he bishes to be a tortured martyr then they say there is a strong lacret body of the orthodox faith the id true believers of china who mean to drive out the foreign devils and destroy all who believe as the foreign ers believe and have forsaken the sacred faith of their forefathers and mock the true religion the china man timid by nature is influenced at last terrorized by these hints he goes to the miss conary ath a story of a secret society of blood thirsty vegetarians the fearful who are plotting to murder the miss lonar ies and other converts this story in various forms comes from so many converts that the mis lo narles become alarmed and write to the consul it the consul has many such communications he too takes fright and requests the presence of a gunboat or some other drastic rem edy and at once you have all the in of an ugly international in aident