New-York tribune., 1901-04-11

REPORT OF ITS AGENT IN CHINA ON THE
MASSACRES OF THE CHRISTIANS.

The annual report of the American Bible Society
relative the situation in China will contain the
following interesting facts from It's agent in China
the Rev DR.. John r. Hykes:
There was a deep ana cunningly laid plot under
imperial sanction, to exurpate Chrlstlanlty: eNpel
all foreigners and destroy all foreign interfScS Is
deliberately contemplated ,,..,,-.-.,.
all, 1S3 Protestant missionaries. including sixty
td otei % ba as t vbether the boxer uprising
was anti-foreign anti-missionary in its charac-
formed person in China. The movement was un-
doubtedly against foreigners, such. and the
crusade was directed against everything foreign
Christianity. of course included.
Hau Ching Cheng and Yuen Chang, two ministers
OF the Foreign ONCE would not transmit me awtnl
edict which reiterated the order 70 phhIuny eN,
tirpate all foreigners but changed 1t so as to read
sentenced TO be cut in two Missionaries We're the
fact that every missionary escaped from fourteen
out of the eighteen provinces would indicate that
In the provinces of Chlh-fA and shan-si every
school. hospital, chapel and dwelling house was
looted and burned by the Boxers or imperial troops,
the only exception being the property In the for-
eign settlement at Tlen-Tsin The native Chris
tians have been the worst sufferers. Those who
escaped the general slaughter in the northern prov
nces lost absolutely everything. and many of them
perishing from cold and starvation
The Scriptures destroyed will aggresate not less
than one hundred thousand volumes. and the actual
loss to the society will be less than eight ten
thousand gold dollars All of our foreign superin-
tendents saved. We have to mourn the loss
of many noble and devoted native workers. They
We're warned of the risk they We're running. but
not a man of the noble band of eighteen hinched.
Their reply was. We go on colportage tour.
Gods will be done" Only four OF the eighteen re-
martyrs were looted and burned and their families
exterminated. Those who survived escaped 10 the
mountains where they suffered terrible privations
and managed get back to Peking after it was
captured by the allied armies. OF the colporteurs
under missionary supervision have not heard OF
who escaped More than forty thousand native
converts Gncluding Roman CatholicS) met death
with a heroism worthy of the best age of the
Church.
While the total number of volumes of the Script
ures published is 37,70o less than the previous
year the number of pages is slightly in excess. The
number of pages printed in 1899 was l6 ,20O this
year II 800. about three-quarters of a
million more This is the largest number of pages
printed in year by the China agency.
The number of mandarin Bibles manufactured
is worthy of special notice. There We're received
from the printers less than 16.5OO complete
Bibles and 5000 copies were In press on December
81 Ten years ago edition of 1000. copies was
thought sufficient to meet the demand for several
years This fairly indicates the growth of the
native church during this period, for 1t Is from
native Christians that the demand for these Bibles