Evening star., 1900-06-28
MISSIONARIES IN PERIL.
Cable Messages Received From the
Scene of DANGER.

Scene of Danger.
The secretaries Of the foreign mission
boards and the friends of the missionaries
now in China are getting more and more
bewildered as rumors multiply and cable
messages, more depressing than cheering,
come to headquarters
A dispatch from Chefoo sent by the
Rev Frederick Brown Of the Methodist
Church, announced the following mission
aries as safe with their families in Chefoo:
The Rev. G. R. Davis, the Rev. w. T. Ho-
II. II. Lowry, the Rev. w. 8. Ament, the
Rev. ]. H. Pyke. the Rev. ]. F. Haynes
the Rev. w. f. Walker, the Rev. G. W.
Verify, Miss Frances o. Wilson, DR.. Rachel
D. Gloss, Miss Frances b. Patterson the
Rev James H. ROBBERS. Miss Ada l..
Newell Miss Gertrude Gilman. Miss Ella
e: Glover. Miss Miranda Croueher. MISS M
Rev. Charles Ewing, the Rev. Robert H.
Galley and Mr.. Reid.
The officers of the Methodist Society said
that they believed the dispatch was correct
in all but one or two particulars. The Rev.
H. II. Lowry Is in this country at present,
and the name Of the Rev. Edward e. Low
ry should be put in its place Secretary H.
X. Carroll yesterday sent a cable dispatch
to the Rev. Frederick Brown at Chefoo
asking for verifcation of the report.
A letter from DIR. Edna G. Terry to her
mother, dated April %. and received yes
terday, said she would sail for home at the
earliest possible date. Mrs. Terry hopes
that her daughter is already on her way
to the United States.
The report from Chefoo gave the Presby-
terians some worry. Mr.. Garrison OF the
secretarys Office said:
Not one Of our missionaries is mentioned
in the list, unless it is the Rev: Mr.. Lowrie
Our Mr. Lowrie is the Rev. Walter, and he
has been at Pao-Ting-Fu, shut off by the
Boxers, we thought. We do not see why
our missionaries from Pekin We're not men
toned as well as those of the other denom-
nations Nor is 1t easy to explain how the
missionaries in Pekin escaped all the way
to Chefoo. over 100 miles. without an es-
cort of troops, at a time when Seymour and
the allies are hard pressed in that same
region. The only way they could have done
1t was by the help of the native Christians.
Perhaps these missionaries who are men
toned We're outside of the city at the time
they started for Chefoo. Then, too, all our
missionaries in Shan-Tung province were
ordered to port, which must be Chefoo
From the fact that they were not mentioned
we conclude that they nave not yet reacned
that city,
The Rev. DR.. c. c. Creegan of the Ameri-
can board of foreign missions said OF the
congregation missionaries who are re-
ported to be safe in Chefoo:
''Dr. w. 9. Ament is the superintendent
of the mission at Pekin. and when last
heard from he was in that city. His wife
and family are in this country: Miss
Frances B. Patterson is of the Pekin mis-
sion and the last we knew of her she was
there. The Rev. James H. Roberts was
stationed at Kalgan, in the far north Of
China, close to the great wall. We have
had great fears for him and his associates,
the Rev. P. Sprague and wife and the Rev.
Mark Williams
The Rev Charles E. Ewing of Pao-Ting-
Flu, has sent cable dispatch to his father
in-iaw, the Rev. Mr.. Porter. of Danvers,
Mass. 1t said simply, Safe
After giving this information DR.. Cree
gan said:
1--WE are getting more and more confused.
as these dispatches come in. But so far as
we have any knowledge no American mis-
sionary has suffered bodily injury. and
there is nothing yet to destroy our hope
that the life of each of them will be
spared. Our government seems to be doing
all it can DO. and we trust that the Lord
will deliver our brethren out Of the fiery
furnace in which they are placed. We as
sumo that all our missionaries are safe"
At the office Of the Christian and mission
ary alliance in New York city 1t was said
that there were thirty-two missionaries
north of Pekin, who could be reached only
through Pekin or Tien Tsin. None of them
could be in Chefoo, for upon their arrival
the headquarters in this country would be
notified