The Savannah morning news., 1900-07-09
T MAY BE HIS LAST.
Continued from First Page.

- rresbvterian mission owns twenty i'm
60 native buildings, and where two
I,erirsu missionaries spend the most OF
- lime. Here the Boxers come to our
, doors to practice, and have person.
i, seen them at il twice. 60 Chang 10
St,,,ng CD Cheng Kuan Wing. (0 Shi
1-,an Wing 90 Tao Chung Tsi. ca Chu
Ton 80 Tsung CHA Tien. (9 Siao Sung
~ Cbuang OO Siao Tsui Ku Chuang
IN CHA Kuan Wing. Q9 Siao Koo
ier Chuang, where the American Pres
h,reIiAn mission has boarding school for
us and where there is also coated one
s,raign lady missionary evangelist. These
-,,ce4 are all in the neighborhood of Ling
e,ane our headquarters. G3) Pao I'll
us.en the county seat 100 Ii to the south
ao.t of this place, where we have had
native evangelist at work for over a year
A, This place great numbers of men (said
m be as many as two or three hundred
practice openly every day.
eft is only recently that open threats of
yioence have been made against the for
fau missionaries here and against the
rsrye Christians. but they are now at
most daily occurrence. For example, at
he sixth village mentioned above, Tsao
chung Isl. eight miles from this place
where every evening the people from sew
eral villages meet 10 practice the l. Ho
c5uan manoeuvres. On the 18th instant
Mr. Wang Ting Hsiang, one of the owners
Of the ground where the pracucing is done,
forbade one of our evangelists. who is
NAVE of that place, to come where they
we're practicing, saying to him. among
other threatening things, that they were
nrcp4rng to destroy the foreigners at
Ling shang and their followers, the native
Christians.
Furthermore, yesterday. May IA, when
Two of our native preachers went to the
san no yamen with a letter from me to
tbs official they were recognized as
Christian cvangelists and followed by peo-
Die 20 the Yamen and repeatedly threaten
I'D with death. There we're many calls
for knives TO kill them with.
The official was absent from the city,
so they did not see him. They actually
suffered no physical violence but that
was doubtless only because of their own
patience and forbearance.
An abou, us men are actively stirring
u9 feeling against us, saying that we are
poisoning the wells, and many villages
have already purchased native medicines
10 put into the wells to counterfeit the
effect of the supposed poison.
The recent rains which you have had
IN Pekn have not reached this part of
the country, and hence, as no farming
can be done, the people are idle and dis
traesed al having no crops and conse-
ouently easily misIed by the designing
men who are so actively propagating this
society.
The J. Ho Chuan is raging like wild
fire al lover the district. Where two
months ago il was practically unknown,
today there are scores of active societies.
which are rapidly becoming aggressive
oues and unless your eXcelency can Sc
cure the immediate and vigorous action
OF the Chinese government in suppressing
il and Furnishing a few ringleaders, il is
certain that 1t is only question of very
short time until there will be violent up
rising in all this district | believe tnat
il is not too late to suppress it if taken
hold of in earnest by the Chinese Off
Gals; but, in my judgment land l have
passed through several such experiences
in my ten or more years in China, there
is not a day to spare.
Praying your excellency's kind offices
in our behalf, l am your obedient servant,
(SigneO Charles A. Killie."