The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-07-05

THE ADVANCE WARNINGS.

PHILADELPHIA. June g7.-Mrs. oliver
CuHord. who. with her husband. Is con-
nected with the Presbyterian mission at
Tieu-Tsin. writes under date Of May 10Th 4
to her brother in this city as follows:
1--WE sleep now with our firearms close I
at hand. oliver and each have brace
Of pistols under our heads. always
have two vailses packed ready to fee at
any moment. and the entire foreign pop
ulation IL anxiously watching for the first
1 sign of an uprising. Last Monday morn
ing. when the people awoke in the city.
huge placards were found posted on the
walls and fences. reading az follows
The heavens are displeased at the pres
ence OF the foreign dogs in China. The
gods have decrecd that there shall be no
more rain in me whole kingdom until
they are all expened.'"
MISSION BOARDS BEwGLDERED
NEW YORK. June 1.-THE secretaries
of the foreign mission boards In this city
and the friends OF the missionaries now
Ia China are getting more and more be-
wildered as rumors multiply and cable
messages more depressing than cheering
come 10 headquarters
a letter from Dr. Edna q. Terry to her
mother. dated April 18th. said she would
sail for home at the EARL ~ possible date.
;; Mrs. Terry hopes that her daughter Is
I | ~ Nar a.
The report from Che Foo, giving a list
Of missionaries safe there. caused the
Freshyterians some worry. AIR. Garrison
. Of the secretary's Office said:
: Not one Of our missionaries ls men,
: toned In the list. unless u ~ Rev SIR.
4 Lowry. our Mr.. Lowry IL with the
: Rev. walter. and he has been at Pao
= Ting Fu. shut OF by the Boxers. We
thought. We DO not see why our mis-
sonarics from Peking were not mentioned
az wen as those Of the other denomina-
> tlona. Nor II II easy TO explain how the
missionaries In Peking escaped all th'
way To- Chez Foo. over 200 miles. without
" an escort of troops, at n tine when Sey
mour and the allies are hard pressed IN
the same region. The only way theI
could have done II was by the help Of tn
J. native Christians. Perhaps these mission
aries who are mentioned were outside o
= the city at the time they started for CHI
Foo. Then. too. all our miss onarics II
, shan Tung province were ordered 20 port
which must be Chee Foo. From the fac
:. that they were not mentioned We conclud
!, that they have not yet reached that city.
- Rev. Dr. g. g. Crogan OF the American
Board Of Foreign Missions said Of tn
Congregational missionaries who are re
; ported 90 be safe In Che Foo:
- "pr. W. = Ament " the superintendent
- - the mission at Peking. and when las
- hS.y~Vi from he was IN tnat city. His wifi
ma family are In this country. Miss Fran
~ H. Patterson is Of toe Peking miss o
and the last we knew % her she wa
III there. Rev James W. Roberts was sta
toned at KanRan In the far north Of Ch
nn. close 10 the great wall. We have ha
he great fears for him ana his associate
m, Rev. y. SpraEue and wife and Rev. Mar
e. williams"
In REV. Charles Y. Ewing OF Pao Ting =
ed has sent n cable dspatCn 20 his father-ir
ny law. the Rev. Mr. Porter OF Danver
IL Mass. n said simply Safe
~. After giving this Information Dr. Crl
ds gan said:
20 1--WE are getting more and more confu
he ed aa these dispatches come In. But
far as we have any knowledge. no Amer
M can missionary has suffered bodily intui
he and there is nothing 20 destroy our hol
"" that the life % eacn of them VIII
,rd spared. our Government seems 20 be n
his ing an n can and we trust that the Lo
rb- viii deliver our brethren out of the fe
m furnace IN which the are placed. v
Ike assume that all our missionaries
sp- safe"
'st. AZ tho once OF the Christian and Nj
,ck sionarv Alliance IN this city u was sa
Ing that there were thirty-two rnissionarr
north OF Peking who could be reach