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Show vuR AND THE MISSION, Where They Are located and the Po7M Banger to Them. Every one interested in mission work In eastern Asia will watch with concern the war which haB just broken out, f anxious lost any personal friends ba in ' danger ani mission enterprises be seri ously hampers! THq fact that all three countries involved are mission fields and that the prominent cities il are occupied with a greater or less force of missionaries makes it necessary to look it the situation fairly and candidly In Korea the Presbyterian board cupies Seoul, Fusan and Gensan on tha east coast and Pyeug-Yang in the in terior. Of these Fusan and Gensan are j the only places liable to injury from j the Japanese fleet. But the work in both places is comparatively recent and not so well established as at Seoul. The Methodist board has little established Work outside of Seoul and has "withdrawn "with-drawn all its missionaries from the interior in-terior stations to that city. The Society For the Propagation of j the Gospel, Church of England, ha; aorue missionaries at Seoul and Chemulpo Che-mulpo In Seoul the missionaries ar practically 6afe, being under the cara of the United States legation and the protection of United States soldiers from the 6hip-of-war at Chemulpo, the port of SeouL So far as Korea is concerned, con-cerned, therefore, there need be no groai anxiety. . In Japan the principal port that ma? fear attack from the Chinese fleet is Nagasaki, occupied by the Reformed (Dutch) church, the Methodist Episco-oal Episco-oal church and the Church Missionary society of England. It is probable, however, how-ever, according to the latest reports, that tho foreign fleets will protect this city, and thus the missionaries ther need fear no attack. The same may b ' aaid of Yokohama and Tokyo, where almost al-most all of the missionary boards are represented. Attention will be especially attracted to China, for there, ido from th& danger dan-ger of injury from the Japanese fleets, there is the still greater danger of injury inju-ry from the hostility of the people. The action of the foreign governments in enforcing the neutrality of the ports of Amoy, Canton, Ningpo, Chin-Kiang, Fuchau, Shanghai, Hankow and Tientsin, Tien-tsin, all of which are mission stations, relieves the situation very much, as there are very few other cities along tho oast that might suffer from an attack, I almost the only one of importance b&- i ing Chefu, where the Presbyterias ! church and the China Inland mission ! have a large force of laborers and con 6idcrable property. The greatest danger, however, to the i missionaries, as we have said, is not from the Japanese fleets, but from the i hostility of the Chinese to all foreigners without drawing distinction between I Europeans and Americans on the one fcand and the hated Japanese. Iiid i pendent. . ' 1 fl |