The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-09-22
TIE TIENESIN MAsSACRE.
of the Protestant Mission"
.arIes for the Martyred Catholics.

Ar extra supplement to the China Mail, OF
July l3, which furnishes us with the first de-
tailed intelligence about the fearful massacre
of Christians at Tentsin last June, states that
the Protestant missionaries Of Shanghai, i'm
mediately after the massacre, sent TO the eur
viying Jesuits the following
LETTER OF coNDoLEScE.
We. the undersigned Protestant clergynen
and missionaries residing at Shanghai, lose no
time in writing 10 assure you OF our profound
and sincere sympathy on the present occasion:
At time like this one unanimous feeling OF
common sorrow fills our hearts. The loss OF
the devoted men and women, who have been
so barbarously sacrificed at Tientsin, is loss
to all Christendom. Deep and terrible, how
ever as is the calamity, we cling to the pro
mise of our Lord Jesus Christ, that He will be
with His people to the end OF the world, and
we are comforted by the teaching of ecclesias-
tical history, which assures US that "the blood
of martyrs is the seed OF the church." We
pray that full reparation for the past and bet
ter protection for the future may be secured
for those engaged In the spread OF the religion
of Christ throughout the Chinese Empire.
Shanghai, July 5, 1870.
Thomas McClatchie, N. A., Canon Of St. Johns
Cathedral, Hong Kong, and Missionary, OF
Henry Butcher, N. A., Canon Of st. Johns
Cathedral, Hong Kong, British Consul
lar Chaplain, Shanghai; william Murhead,
George S. Owen, James Thomas, members
Of the London Mission; ]. W. Lambutl:
Young I. Allen, member Of the Wesleyan
Episcopal Church Mission, U. 8. A.; ]. ". NJ.
Farnham, American Presbyterian Mission;
American Protestant Episcopal Mission.
Shanghai; E. W. Seyle, Seamen's Chaplain;
John Wherry, American Presbyterian Mis-
sion. Shanghai.
REPLY.
To the Clergynaen and Members or the Protest
ant MISSIONS Residing at Shanghai
GEyrLENEN-In reply to the letter which you
have had the goodness to address to US jointly,
Yesterday, we have the honor to inform you how
far we have been moved by the token of your
sympathy. and how far again We have appre-
ciated the high sentiments on your part that
prompted it. Your mark OF sympathy has
been double pleasure to US, since we had
been painfully grleVed by some correspon-
dence published in the papers, the character
of which is not less to be deplored for tne
ialseness of the recital than for the lll-Wlll ds
played and for the insinuations contained. we
might have Immediately re-established the
truth against perverslon, and justified inno,,
common sense of the public, and feeling sure
that truth must come out under any
circumstances, we had preferred keeping
silence, however bitter is our sorrow. yet it IS
no small consolation for US when We renect
that God, who ever knows how to bring Sooa
out of evil, knows also how to change for his
greatest glory those present lamentable occur
rences so saddening to every heart. No doubt
the blood of so many innocent victims, so bar
barously shed, must rise I'D to the Altar OF the
Lamb, and cry loud on our behalf, till it OBJ
,ains for us the sole vengeance we wish for,
viz. The better spread Of the true light on
these people now living under the shadow Of
death; the greater freedom tor the better exeT-
else Of works Of charity towards the suffering,
and principally towards the little ones who
were, for our Divine Saviour, objects Of such
singular affection.
A. AYMERl, petre Lazariste.
Fl. BAsUlAN, g. J.
E LEMoSSIER, Procurator Q!
Missions Etrangeres.