New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-06-26
LETTERS FROM MISSIONARIES.
WRITTEN BEFORE OUTBREAK THEY D,
NOT MENTION FEAR OF DISTURBANCE.

LETTERS FROM MISSIONARIES.
WRITTEN BEFORE OUTBREAK. THEY DO
NOT MENTION FEAR OF DISTURBANCE
The Rev. DR.. Arthur J. Brown. secretary Of the
Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions Yesterday
sent a cable message 10 the Rev w O. Elterich Of
Chefoo informing him that the Board gives
discretion to all the imperiIIed missionaries in
North China. The secretary explained the dispatch
as follows:
It is impracticabIe for us in New-Yorh to take
any action about affairs in China a. this time We
nave only imperfect knowledge Of what Is going on
missionaries, They arc Intelligent devoted men
ana women, It is our wish not 70 hinder them in
to abandoning their stations
DR. Brown yesterday received letters from four
missionaries in China Not one mentioned any dis
turbances which is interpreted as evidence that
no trouble anticipated time OF writing
Two OF these letters however. came from Patting-
fu, which Of the first places TO be cut off
from communication Ten Presbyterian mission
aries were stationed there. The two letters came
from the Rev. Dr. Cortland Van Rensselaer, Hodge
and the Rev. J. w LOwrie and they dated
respectively May 10 and May IA Another letter.
dated May 6, was from the Rev. V. F Partch, at
Chinanfu, Province Of Shantung. The remaining
letter, which dated May 10. from Mrs.
Rebecca Miller. at Tengchow. Shantung.
The secretary said these letters. because they
contained nothing about the Boxers the dis
turbances showed that the writer's expected no
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more or less disorder in that district for two
years. but evidently it thought that no IN
usual disturbance to be feared. The cable
message received by the Board last Saturday said
that all the missionaries in Shantung had been
ordered TO port, and that meant DIT. Brown ex-
/ planned, TO Chefoo, Isl Tan Shanghai
Guy NJ Walker. lawyer. Of No lis West Ninety
fOurth-st this city called at the Methodist head
quarters yesterday afternoon to tell the secretaries
of his getting postal card from his father, the
| Rev. ". F. Walker Tien-Tsin. The card
dated May H. and told the of his fathers ar
rival in the city cut off May Il It said
that he was the guest of the Rev. J. H. Pyke and
! that he would stay in Tien-Tsin until after the
conference which was to be held May 30 to June g.
| Mr.. Walker said a local newspaper had printed
/ dispatch saying the Rev. Mr.. Pyke had been
/ killed This Mr. Walker believed, not true.
! The Rev. DR.. Carroll, who in the absence OF Dr.
Leonard is in charge of the secretary's office OF
! the Methodist Episcopal Missionary Society said
that there had been no word from the missionaries
| from any source. He said:
We are now in a state of conjecture. Ihere Is
nothing else left US VS. ea fra2 T fe
ing OF the rescue OF three MISSIONARIES WuaE ~
! become Of the others. While do not know
mat mat f they aTe not not now Safe Why they t lien
I or h2T gb have gQt b 9 TO TO e w to the Pow
/ ers Of the danger of their fellows in the city. !
vices, with ali the consuls and systems Of com
mHnleauon5 gunpo3bL G9u t5,n and The time
for the "Trip should be short for the distance is not
sages from che-Foo now This Church has never
before had TO meet such Danger among us I Ms
TAPPING rebeIIions.
The Rev c. L. Rhoades, of the Baptist Mission
airy Society, said yesterday:
This crisis in China is not the work Of mission
/ aries I am sorry to see that many newspapers
are giving space TO that theory Inc Iact IS lt1l
pected that it Would some day come to this, and
am glad that the trouble is near tne SGaIS Oh IN
terror If it can only confined to the cities and
fRe open 1 this antforeign war viii be easily
/ down The trouble has risen over coHlnerClaiS S
and that the natives find, of course in the cities
The missionaries are thrust into the interior "a
! opposition But missionaries almost without eX-
eePon do not 60 into business 6 W." 5src s6ms im
| ago What he said is Of importance to-day he
befwa al. the American and the European mission
aries The Americans go 70 China. ne SAID, 10 40
! good. power or money or territory No
Japan had TO meet the same conditions
A letter was received yesterday at the local office
OF the American Board of Missions of the Congre-
gationaI Church from the Rev DR.. James l. Bar
ton one of the secretaries Of the American Board
at Boston. Dr. Barton deprecated some rather
aIarmisr views which were reported as having been
expressed at Methodist Mission headquarters. IN
this city. the other day He said:
The situation Is indeed critical in the extreme,
and we cannot but entertain graz gea neerthe
less until have positive evidence that InlSsCIi-
1hnv are living We owe this only to the
friends of the missionaries in this country ana 10
the cause but. TO sound reasoning
There are five representatives of the International
Committee Of the Young Mems Christian Associa-
+tou stationed in China. They are D Willard Lyon
| Picking: Robert r. Galley, Tien-Tsin; +. ; BROCK
| man Nankiug; Robert E Lewis, Shanghai, ana
| Walter J. Southam. Hong Kong Richard =
! Morse the general secretary Of the committee at
! No West Twenty ninth-st.. has received caole
dispatch from Mr. Lewis, dated Shanghai June
| %. II is as follows,
| War is not likely 10 affect Shanghai. Lyon on
/ vyav 10 Japan; Brockman way 10 Shanghai
/ This Is all the news that has been received ana
! the relatives OF Mr.. Galley who was at Ilen-Islh
when last heard from, are especially anxious
| ND T 9 TERRY WRITES FROM TSUN-HUA-
Mrs A G. Terry of Mourn Vernon. on Monday
received a letter from her daughter. DIT. Edna u
| Terry at Tsun-Hua. May 0. She does not speak or
any trouble but was attending to the duties or the
/ Jisnsnsary which she the first TO eStabHSh
there Miss Croucher. her associate, was at ROCKY
/ Point She saws she has only a rev moments 10
! write and is well
SHOT BOY FOR STEALING FLOWERS.
Otto Heun. nineteen years old. caught some small
! bovs in his flower garden yesterday AT One-hun-
| -forty-sixth-st. and Walton-ave. and or
| dered them out. He says the boys defed him and
! threw stones at him. He into his house and
! nd this pursued the boys 10