The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-07-09


 C'Huan tor T Uam is in active opera.
 ton until I could verify beyond question
 the statements heretofore made con-
 cering the same. I am now prepared
 with proof to show that the members
 of that organization practice Qien) ev-
 cry day in each of the following places: CD San Ho city, the county seat; CD Ling Shan, village thirty-fve Lii north of San Ho city, where the Pres byterian ministry owns twenty inn proved native buildings and where the American missionaries spend the most of their time. Here the Boxers come to our very doors to practice and I have personally seen them at 1t twice. (3) Chang xo Cfsuang; (4) C'Heng Kuan 1 Ying; (5) Shi Kuan Ying; (6) T'Fo Ching Tsi; CD Hu T'Ou; G) Tsung Chia Tien (9) Siao Sung Ko Chouang; | G0) Siao T'Sui Chouang; CID Chia Kuan Ying; G2) Siao Roo Hsien Gnu ang, where the American Presbyterian mission has boarding school for girls and where there Is also located one for eign lady missionary evangelist
 "These places are all in the neighbor- hood of Ling Shang (our headquarters, 1S). Pao ri Hsien, the county seat, is one hundred Ii to the southeast of this place, where we have had a native evangelist at work for over year. At this place great numbers of men (said to be as many as 200 or 3OW practice l openly every day.
 l. "It is only recently that open threats | of violence have been made against the foreign missionaries here and against the native Christians, but they are now almost of daily occurrence. For exam- pie, at the sixth village mentioned above, T'Sao Chuang Tsi, eight Ii from this place, where every evening the people from several places to meet to practice the I Ho manouvres, on the 18th inst, Wang Ing Hsiang, one of the owners of the ground where the prac- ticing takes place, forbade cue of our evangelists, who is native of that place, to come where they were practice ing, saying to him, among other threat ening things, that they were preparing to destroy the foreigners at Ling Shang and their followers, the native Chris tians.
 
 when two of our native preachers went to the san Ho Yamen with letter from me to that official, they were rec ognized as Qgistian evangeists and followed to the Yamen and repeatedly threatened with death. There were 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.
 "Ali about us men were actively stir ring up feeling against us, saying that we are poisoning the wells, and many villages have already purchased native medicines to put into the wells to coun- teract the effect of the supposed poison. The recent rains which you have had in Pekin have not reached this part of the country, and hence. as no farming can be done, the people are idle and dis tressed at having no crops and conse- quently easily mIsldd by the designing men who are so actively propagating their society
 'The I Ho C'Huan is spreading like wild fire over this district. Where two
 
 months ago 1t was practically unknown, to-day there are scores of active socie- ties, which are rapidly becoming ag- gressive ones, and unless your excellen- cy can secure the immediate and vlgor- ous action of the Chinese government in suppressing it and in punishing a few rlngleaders, it is possible (humane- ly speaking) that it is only a question of very short time until there will be a violent uprising in all this district I believe that 1t is not yet too late to suppress 1t, If taken hold of in earnest by the Chinese officials, but in my judg- ment (and I have passed through sev- eral such experiences in my ten or more years in China) there is not a day to spare
 Praying your excellency's kind of- fees on our behalf, l am. your obedent servant
 (Slgned) Charles A. Killie,"