The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-12-28
FATE OF MISSIONARIES.

, NcSlCI y OHtlld - Cblnlub " ti6ht. i'
tale Is grievous and the details sal
and sickening. The unfortunate teach
ers OF the Christian religion and thei
fiocks have experienced almost every
cruelty and tortu. @ that have ever beer
known and practlsed by a callous
hearted race. Neither youth nor ag'
nor sex has been spared. The limo
cence of childhood, the helplessnes'
Of womanhood, the white hair of the
sentiment Of pity, ore feeling of com
passion in the minds OF the Boxers
and their official patrons. The man.
date had gone forth that they were
to STAY and spare not. ard the Boxer:
had no bowels OF compassion 20 bC
moved, While the mard rims who gave
the orders seldom Tad the courage tC
see them carried out, and closed thpil
ears to any appea. for aid or f)l
mercy. There were exceptions among
the officials, it is true, and the people
also in some Instances. to their honor
be it said, succored the hapless vic
tins of prejudice and fanaticism,
sometimes saving their lives at great
personal risk. But in most cases there
were none to deliver; amid the crowd
of hooking faces not one expressed
pity at the fate of the prosecuted. The
story of this latest nineteenth century
massacre is not quite unrelieved in all
its dark passages OF blood and cruelty,
but IL is dark, doleful, and dismal to
a degree. In this most sordid empire
chivalrous feeling and tender solicit
tude for the weak and suffering is not
looked for, but on the other hand such
a reyel in bloodshed was certainly not
expected.
The records of the dark deeds done
in this last year of the century will
long be a stain on China. They were
in defiance of treaty
rights, in teeth of the fact that the
Chinese government had engaged to
protect the foreigners, and despite the
promptings of that natural feeling of
which should govern the
entire race, irrespective of color, race,
or religion. The savageries practised
by the red Indians were not more re-
voting than the barbarities inflicted
I,n ri nd hai
yerts in North China. Bishop Hamer,
the founder of the Belgian Mission,
and Bishop of Western Mongolia, who
had for nearly thirty-tive years labor
ed in Shansi-practcally giving his
life to the work-waS seized while Gel
ebrating mass, bound, and marched
through the city, and, because he
counted his beads as he went along,
had his hands chopped off, and was
Three days later he WAS brought out.
wrapped in cotton on which kerosene
was poured, then set alight and burnt
to death. With him persisted five
thousand converts, and every church
and building connected with the mis-
sion was destroyed. Another devoted
priest, Father Herman, was taken
with a confrere. Father Mallet, to 4
place called Huiwacheng, where the
former was cut into four pieces and
MS heart taken out and nailed TO a
rec. What fate overlook his com
)anion in misery is not yet known. At
-achoukeOu, near Jehol, in Mongolia, |
mother priest, Father Sagers, after
having been carried for a distance, |
Bound Ike a pig on Il bamboo, was
hen thrown into ditch and there
buried alive, unless a blow given him
IN the head with mattock as he |
;trove to rise first secured for him
from further torment. An
'ther terrible case, also in Mongolia,
vas that where II Swedish Protestant
with their wives and
hildren sought refuge with three Bel
ian priests at Houpa. The Catholic
lission was attacked by the mob, and
II the missionaries, both Protestant
nd Catholic, We're burned to death in
he building. Mr.. and Mrs. Green and
Hiss Gregg of the China Inland Mis-
ion at Huolu, in Shansi, who escaped
nth their bare lives after almost in
redible sufferings and hardships, to
'hich their little daughter succumbed.
ave been telling the story of their
1uney to Paotingiu and deliverance
here, They left their home at Huolu
II the 9th of July with the intention
( proceeding 10 Tientsn and after
unning the gauntlet OF several dan
ers, arrived at Tsing-yuan, where
hey were betrayed To a party of Box
rs by youth who had hypocrItlcaly
recessed sympathy with their forlorn
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