Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-12-01
AN AFFECTING STORY FROM
IOWA.

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There are altogether. not including
the soldiers. something like $500 Amer
leans In China, and Of these 100 are
| missionaries. Many OF them are Of
sterling ability and worth, and they
have, / believe, been doing much good
! They have colonies at all the ports and
| stations at many places In the interior.
/ Minister Conger visits them and aids
! them / have been told that he Is a
| Unitarian but his ideas as TO missions
| are strong enough 10 please the most
castlron Puritan. He makes a good
! missionary speech. intersperslng his re-
/ marks with anecdotes and personal eX-
| periences, one Of the latter which he
recently told Is affecting as showing the
heartfelt interest that some Of our
children have In the Chinese. when
/ left Brazil said the American min.
lister. TO come 90 China, / passed
through my old town Of Des Moines
and while there the good people gave
me a reception ] shook hands with
them and was hidden God speed on my
way To China. There were many chill
dren In the crowd that came TO say
good bye and among them sweet IT.
tie girl whose earnestness / shall never
forget. As she shook my hand she
said
Major Conger. 7 do hope when you
go 10 China you viii take Jesus with
you 10 the poor heathens
'Ahi my little girl said |, Il don't
need 10 do that. Jesus Is there already
lie Is there In the books your Sunday
school has sent. tie Is there In that
noble army OF men and women mar
tyrs the Christian missionaries, who
have gone out into that benighted land
that the poor Chinese may have the
light Of our Savior's loves" This story
had a great effect The skeleton OF Il Is
probably true, but as / heard II ! Won
dered whether Major Conger had not
padded the bones with little ora
torical flesh and blood for you viii
agree 10 was a rather long speech for "a
statesman TO utter TO little girl IN
the intervals OF hand shaking and baby
kissing.
DAMAGES FOR MINISTER DENNY.
Former Minister DENLY viii probably
have big bill Of damages against the
Chinese government for thar Injuries
20 the American legation Colonel Dem |
by owns the legation building SO ! |
understand lie bought q while he was !
AttfAAN''f'N A''N HN'H''H NAtN AAAn hNNiA 'llN"
ing 10 20 the government for a big per- /
tentagc on the investment
Colonel DENLY was our minister here .
for twelve years and as far as | can |
learn he was a good one. lie was popu-
lar with both foreigners and Chinese,
and at the close OF his first term there |
was a surprising unanlmity In the re-
quests which poured IN from an Glasses
20 President Harrison that this Demo
cratic diplomat be retained Every
and every business man,
American and English, seemed to be in
terested in DENLY II remember cor
rectly IL Hung Chang wrote a letter.
and one of the great Churchmen OF /
England. / believe 10 was the arch
bishop of Canterbury petltioned Harrl-
son on the subject The result was that
President Harrison retained Colonel
DENLY on account Of his undoubted eX-
rellenCe as long as he could Withstand
The protests OF the politicians. ana then
sent IN the name Of Blair OF New
90 succeed him The news
lf Blair's nomination reached Pekin. |
and &c Is said that with II came a
speech which Blair had made against
he Chinese in the United states SEN
iie. This speech. according 10 report |
colonel DENLY took with him aud called
Ipon IL Hung Chang, He presented 90
Il the fact that he knew DENLY but !
hat he did not know Blair and Blair !
vas undoubtedly unfriendly 90 the |
'hincse. The result was that the
sung-l-yamen intimated 20 our state
department. that Blair would be per.
ona non grata. and DENLY remained
don't know that the story told OF
'harles Page Bryan when he was
nominated Chinese minister stating .
hat he had said he expected 20 20 TO :
nina with the American nag IN one
and and the sword % Christ IN the