Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-04-10
TIE COURT WAS GUILTY
Agent Of the American Bible
Society Reports on China
Massacre.
Thinks Uprising Was Anti.For.
eiln Rather Than Anti.Mis.
sionary in Nature.

lFOrty.tive Thousand Native Con.
verts We're Killed.. .Situa.
tion In Porto Rico.
New York. April 10-The annual re-
ative to the situation in China will con-
tain the following interesting state
ments from its agent in China, Rev.
John r. Hykes, d. D.:
There was deep and cunningly laid
plot under imperial sanction, to extir-
pate Christianity, expel all foreigners
and destroy all foreign interests. No one
OWNED the full extent of the iniquity
which was deliberately contemplated.
In all 1873 protestant. missionaries,
including sixty men, seventy-five wo-.
men and forty-eight children have been
massacred.
With the exception of the massacres
at Ku Choo in Che Kiang. in which
eleven persons were Killed, and at Heng
Choo. in Human, all the deaths occurred
4 in the northern provinces. The ques-
! tion has been raised at home whether
/ the Boxer uprising was anti-foreign or
+ anti missionary in its character. No
doubt exists in the mind of any we'll in
| formed person in China that the move
ment was undoubtedly against foreign
ers as such; and the crusade was di-
! rected against everything foreign,
4 Christianity, of course, included. Psu
/ Ching Cheng and Yuen Chang, two
ministers of the foreign office, would
not transmit the awful edict which re-
liberated the order To painfully extir-
pate all foreigners. but changed 1t so as
to read protect all foreigners and then
sent it flying over the wires to the re-
mctest provinces. They We're sentenced
! to be cut in two. The missionaries were
the class that benefited by this act OF
heroism. The fact that every missions
arys escaped from fourteen out of eight
cen provinces would indicate that the
crusade was not especially anti-mis-
| sionary.
In the provinces of Chihf and Shan
4 ST. every school hospital. chapel and
dwelling was looted and burned by the
boxers or imperial troops, the only ex-
ception being property in the foreign
j settlement at Tien Tsin.
so complete was the demolition OF
property by these mad fanatics that moi
La vestige was left to mark their site.
Even the foundations were dug UP and
sIcarried away. There was also destruc-
tion of mission property in the provin-
4 ces of Shen ST, Holan, Human, Hupeh.
1Siansi, Che kiang and kwan Tung.
i Native Christians have been the worst
Isufferers Those who escaped the gen
lera! slaughter in the northern provinces
Host absolutely everything, many OF
them perishing from cold and starva-
ton. The scriptures destroyed aggre-
s|gate not less than 100000 volumes. The
lactual loss to the society will not be less
sIthan $4,000 or $4,000 in gold. including
the necessary expense of getting work-
|ers to places of safety and back again
Ito their stations. All our foreign super
i .lintendents We're saved. We have to
4 mourn the less of many noble devoted
4 native workers. They We're warned of
the risk they were running, but not a
Imam of the noble band of eighteen
4 tlinchee. Their reply was: We go on
1.-THE colportage tour. Gods will. be
Idone. Only four of the eighteen returned
4 from the Journey. The homes of these
4 martyrs We're looted and burned and
iltheir families exterminated Those who
i sIsurvived escaped TO the mountains
4 where they suffered terrible privations
and managed to get back to Pekin afte,
lit was captured by the allied armies. OF
I.he colporteurs under missionary super
4 vision have not heard of one who es-
4 capped. In some other parts of China the
sloolporteurs endured terrible persecu-
tion, some of them cnly now venturing
out of hiding
More than 10000 native converts Dir
Guiding Roman Catholics) met death
i With heroism worthy of the best age
of the church. While the total number
of volumes of scriptures published is
/ $1,000 less than the previous year, the
number of pages is about three-quarters
of n million more than last year.
This Is the largest number of pages
i ever printed in one year by the China
agency and will give some idea of the
A proportions to which the work had
|erown, when in common with all other
forms of Christian work is was sud.
denly interrupted by the events of the
last year
II The number of Mandarin Bibles
manufactured is worthy of special no.
tice. There was received from the
4 printers no less than 16,5oO complete BIZ
4 tles, and 5000 copies were in press on
I Dec. 81. Ten years ago an edition of O.
,000 copies was thought sufficient to
meet the demand for several years. This
fairly indicates the growth of the ma.
tive church during this period, for it is
from the native Christians that the de.
mand for these Bibles comes"
Conditions IN Porto Rico.
Boston. April 1o.-Following in an alb.
stract of the report of e. S. Tead, q,
somerville Mass, Who with Rev. A. F
Beard. of New York, went to Porto
Rico AS the representative Of the Amer.
lean Missionary Association abou. 81,
weeks ago.
In some towns where the Creates
poverty exists, Spaniards live who ar;
worth all the way from 100000 to ST..
600. 900, but they ere not touched by thi:
condition of the poor, nor are efforts
made to alleviate the distress. Besear,
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