The Savannah morning news., 1900-07-28
SOUTHERN MISSIONARIES SAFE.
Those of the Presbyterian Church
in China All Accounted for.

in China All Accounted for.
The Southern Presbyterian Church is as
sured of the safety Of all of it's mission
aries and teachers in China through a ca
blegram recently received in Nashville by
the Executive Board of Foreign Missions
In all. this branch of the church has in
China seventy-one missionaries. either
regularly ordained ministers, or men and
women who have given up their lives to
teaching, and to the practice of medicine
at the mission stations All Of these
workers are accounted for in the cable
gram which says that sixty-seven of them
in pursuance to the instructions issued by
the Board of Missions have gathered in
Shanghai, while the other four are still at
their stations in the neighborhood of Can
ton, which they refuse to leave, as they
consider, everything being quiet, that
there is no danger.
The immunity from harm that these
missionaries have so far had is accounted
for by Rev. DR.. j. Y Fair of this city
on the score that all of the stations of the
Southern Presbyterian Church are stu
ated in the southern part of China, where
the Boxer movement, if it has penetrated
at all is in its earliest sta es and there
fore not as yet dangerous.
The fact that the mission stations Of the
Southern Presbyterian Church are estab-
lished only in the southern provinces of
China is by an arrangement among the
Evangelical Protestant churches. which is
practically the same the spheres Of in
fiuence agreed upon by the great politi-
cal powers, though, of course, on smaller
scale. In other words, 1t has long been the
custom of missionaries not to settle in
community where there is already estab-
lished a mission, even though that mis-
sion be under the charge and direction of
ministers of another denomir alton; but to
seek out new fields with view of spread
ing as wide and as far as possible the
seeds of Christianity. This arrangement
has proved so satisfactory that the need
for its continuance was especially empha-
sized at the recent Ecumenical Missionary
Council, held in New York
In accordance with this understanding.
therefore, when the Southern Pres byterian
Church entered the mission field shortly
after the Civil War. and its own separa-
ton from the Northern Presbyterian
Church, finding the missionaries of other
denominations scattered throughout the
northern part Of China. it devoted IT'S
energies to the southern provinces and
particularly 10 that territory in the neigh
borhood of Canton, whence it has grad
ually spread out to the surrounding dis
tricts.
ne independent presbyterian Church
or Savannah has one missionary in Chi
ma, Rev. w. H. Hudson, who, until he
received the order to go to Shanghai was
stationed az Ka-shing, an old feudal town
OF 10000 Inhabitants, on the Grand canal.
about thirty miles from Canton. Here
Mr.. Hudson, with his wife. and DR.. Ven
able. conducted mission school. named
in honor OF the late Rev, DR.. /. S. X.
ANson Of this city, the Arson Mission
School.
1t has not yet been decided by the Exec
uuve Board what instructions will be sent
20 the missionaries al Shanghai If {s
quite possible that some of them will 60
to Japan either to continue their work or
70 rest preparatory TO resuming their la
bors in China should circumstances per
nit within the near future.