Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1900-07-05
FEAR FOR MISSIONARIES
Conflicting Dispatches Leave Friends
in Sad Suspense.
Christian Chinese May Have Aided Them 10 e.
capped Element Of Improbable In Many
Reports From PekGe 10 CbeIoo,

New York, June 2I.-The secretaries
of the foreign mission boards in this
city and the friends of the mission
aries now in China are getting more
and more bewildered as rumors multi
ply and cable messages more depress-
ing than cheering come to headquar"
ters
A letter from DR.. Edna G. Terry 20
her mother, dated April Goth, said she
would sail for home at the earliest pos
sible date. Mrs. Terry hopes that her
daughter is already on her way to the
United States.
The report from Chefoo, giving a
list of missionaries safe there, caused
the Presbyterians some worry. Mr..
Garrison of the secretary's office, said.
Not one Of our missionaries is men
toned in tn elist, unless II is Rev. Mr..
Lowry. Our Mr.. Lowry is with the
Rev. Walter, and he has been at Pao
Ting Flu. shut off by the Boxers, we
thought We do not see why our mis-
sionaries from Picking we're not men,
| toned as well as those Of the other
denominations. Nor Is 1t easy to ex-
plain how the missionaries In Picking
escaped all the way to Chefoo, over
200 miles. without an escort Of troops,
at a time when Seymour and the allies
are hard pressed in the same region.
The only way they could have done IL
was by the help Of the native Chris
tians. Perhaps these missionaries WHO
are mentioned were outside OF the city
at the time they started for Chefoo.
Then, too, all our missionaries in Shan
tung province were ordered to port,
which must be Chefoo. From the fact
that they were not mentioned we con-
clude that they have not yet reached
that city"
Rev. DR.. c. c. Crogan of the Ameri'
can Board of Missions said of the Con-
grcgational missionaries who are re-
ported to be safe in Chefoo:
DIR. W. 5. Ament is the superintend'
ent OF the mission at Picking and when
las theard from he was In that city
His wife and family are in this coun'
try. Miss Frances b. Patterson Is OF
the Picking mission and the last We
knew of her she was there. Rev
James II. Roberts was stationed nj
Kangan In the far north Of China, clos'
to the great wall. We have had grea
fears for him and his associates, Rev
p. Sprague and wife and Rev. Mari
Williams"
Rev. Charles L. Ewing of Pao Tin.
Flu has sent cable dispatch to hi
father-in-law, the Rev. Mr.. Porter o
Danvers, Mass. II said simply safe.
After giving this information DR.
: Creegan said:
I'VE are getting more and more con
fused as these dispatches come In. Blu
Q so far as we have any knowledge, n
American missionary has suffered bodi
ly injury and there is nothing yet 1
destroy our hope that the life Of eac
}, of them will be spared. Our Govern
ment seems to be doing all 1t can an
= we trust that the Lord will deliver OH
brethren out of the fiery furnace |
n which they are placed We assum
that all our missionaries are safe"
n At the Office of the Christian an
I Missionary Alliance in this city 1t wa
said that there were thirty-two mis-
v sionares north OF Picking who could i
reached only through Picking or Tie
Tsin. None OF them could be in Oh,
foo, for upon their arrival the heat
quarters here would be notified"