The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1901-04-19
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HAD IMPERIAL SANCTION.

Society Shows How sohInese
Numbering Was Directed
Against Christians.
The annual report Of tho EAmsfiesn
Bible society relative to tho situation
in China will contain the following in
toresting statements from It's agents in
China, the Rev. John r. Hykes, ID. d.:
''Thcro was deep, aG,A 81. 5sganlng!y
laid plot, under imperial sanction, to
oxtirpate Christianity, expel all foreign.
ers and destroy all foreign interests.
No ono OWNED the full extent Of the
inquity which was deliberately contem.
plated.
I'm all 1873 Protestant missionaries,
including 60 mon, rs women an 48
ohildron, have boon maasaored.
With tho exception, OF the masaaores
at iKu Ohoo, in Chinese Khan, whero l |
persons wore killed, andsat Hong Ohoo.
in HUMAN, all Of tho deaths occurred
In tho northern provinces.
Tho question has been raised at
homo al to whether tho Boxor uprising
Was anti missionary in its character.
5 No doubt exists in tho minds Of any
woll.informed person in China. Tho
movement was undoubtedly against
foreigners aB suoh, and tho crusade was
directed against everything foreign,
Christianity, Of oourso, included. Hsu
Ching Ohen and Yuon Chang, two
ministers Of tho foreign office, would
not transmit tho awful odiot which
reiterated the order to painfully {.
tirpate foreignors, but changed it SO as
to protcct all foreigners, and thon sent
itrhying over tho wireB to tho romotost
provinces. They wore sentenced to bo
cut in two. Missionaries were tho GLASS
that benefited by this act Of heroism.
The fact that evory miasiohary escaped
from ID out Of the l8 provinces #ould
Indicate that tho crusade was not
specially anti-missionary.
I'm the provinces Ohih Ii and Shan
81 every school, hospital, chapel and
dwelling WAS looted and burned by the
Boxers and imperial troops, tho only
exception boing the property in the
foreign settlement at Tien Tsin. So
complete was tho demolition 4. Of
property: by these mad fanatics that not
q yestige was loft to mark the site; oven
the foundations were dug up and carried
away. There WAS also destruction Of
mission property in tho provinoo Of
Shen 81; Hc. Tan, Hu Nan, Hupe
Chang 81, Che Kiang and Kgan Tung.
Relative Christians have been tho
worst sufferers. Those who escaped
the general slaughter in the northern
provinces lost absolutely everything,
and many Of them arc periahing from
cold and starvation. S !, s1, s8
1.-The Scriptures destroyed will az.
grcgate not less than 100 volumes, and
the actual loss to tho society will not sba
lees than eight or ton thousand gold
dollars, including tho necessary OK pense
Of gotting workers to places Of safety
and back again to their stations. All
OF our foreign superintendonts were
saved. We have to mourn tho loss. sof
many roblo and devoted native workers.
They were warned Of the risks they
were running, but not % man Of the noble
band Of Si8 aflinched . Their reply vast
we go on q. ,colportsge tour. God 8,
will will be done.' 81 Only four Of the,
il returned from that journey. The
homes Of these martyrs wore looted
and burned and their families cxtormj-
mated. Those who survived escaped to
mountains, whore they suffered terrible
privations and managed to get back to
Fekin after it @as captured by Tho
allied armies. Of the colporteurs I'M der
migsiOrarv annarviaion haua not hoard
Of one that escaped. Some other parts
OF China complain bitterly Of tho Same
treatment. 8
"More than 40, 900 native converts
(noluding Roman Oatholioe) mot death
in heroism worthy Of the bost ago Of
the church. "a,
While the total number Of volumes
the Scriptures published is $500 less
than previous years, the number Of
pages is slightly in excess. The num
bor Of pages printed in 1899 was 76,-
932. 200; this year it was 77;6i6, 700 or
about three quarters Of a million moro.
This is tho largest number Of pages
ever printed in one year by the China
agenoy, and will give aome idea Of the
proportions to which the work has
grown wheD, in common withral other
forms Of Christian work, it was sudden.
iy interrupted by the events Of the past
year. Tho number of mandarin Biblos
manufactured is worthy Of bptocial
notioo. There We received from tho
printers no less than 16,b00 complete
Bibfos and 5000 copies were in press on
Deoombcr 81" !>,. 4