The Hawaiian gazette., 1901-01-22
Terrible Atrocities OF
the Boxers.
A MISSIONARY WRITES
Rev. {. w. Thwirg Told Of The
Church in China Last
Night,
1From Monday,s paIlyl


w. Thwing last night at the Chinese
Church Taking his text from the
Romans, xii :S5, and from recent letters,
he told of the prosecuted church in
China, and the peril which has come
before the native church of that coun-
try. Mr.. Thwing said that among the
Congregational churches just outside
of Peking. out of membership OF 'OO,
over $50 Christians were killed. PAU
ID. Bergen, a missionary, writing from
Peking under date or September Sd,
says:
San Ho Christians are coming in.
They have been hiding in the noun
tains and caves. They lived on leaves
and any wild fruit they could find.
Nearly all our people in the san Ho
region have been killed. We have
heard from neighbors who were eye
witnesses of the triumphant death of
sUme of them.
October 4.-Wen Cheng's brother has
turned up. He and his family got SAFE
ly home after the trouble began here.
Heather relatives have for weeks
been begging the Christians to burn
incense and kowtow and thus save
their lives. They say you need not
have any image before you when you
knock your heads to the ground or
burn incense" Wen Chang has been
very HTHl, anu Il Uelp " lHOSe WIN
might otherwise be weak enough to
burn incense. A good many have done
this. They said to US why, we could
not help it, The Boxers would kill us
if we didn't" Others did not nave
the opportunity TO recant, but were
killed without delay. Others stood the
Boxer test which is that, when a GER
tain kind of paper incense is lighted, 4
ii catches fire and the ashes go up
ward, the person tested is not Chris
tian and must not be killed. A num-
Der were let off in that way.
Some who We're burned to death were
heard to pray in the midst or the fire.
A good many We're thrown into the
fameS of their own houses as they
were burning and as often as they
tried to escape they We're caught and
thrown back into the fames-children
and all. 1t is too terrible to write
about, and our hearts are kept in an
guish as one after another comes IN
and tells his experience.
Dr. Corbett says: One of my MEM |
bers, young man % years of age, |
was travelling through village forty |
miles southwest of Chefoo. The people |
accused him of being employed by for
eigners to throw poison into wells. The !
villagers armed themselves with clubs |
and determined to beat him to death. |
He protested that he was innocent and J.
could prove it. He said that he knew |
Kao Shang Tsi, Christian who lived |
about three miles distant. They yelled |
out, saying, THAT man Is leader in |
the church, and if you know him it is !
evidence that you deserve to die"
They rushed upon him and beat. him
until they thought he was dead. They
dug grave in the sand bed of a dry
river and threw him in. While they
did this he revived and made an effort
to escape. They buried him alive
A few days ago a well to do Christian
came to Tsingtau to have DR.. john
son dress his wounds received from the
Boxers. three months ago. This man
was in their hands nine days and was
most cruelty tortured. For nine days
his hands We're tied behind his back
to post-tied so tightly that even yet
one wrist is useless, the lgaments hav-
ing been severely strained. While be-
ing tied up he was shot in the arm,
beaten till two ribs We're broken, cut
across his arms and hands with knives Iy
and thrust in the leg with spear. "
This last wound is still suppurating af-
ter three months. Several times his q
tormentors united this man for an lc
hour or two thinking he was dead, but ID
upon a return of consciousness and his
refusal to recant and pay the sum or
money demanded, they tied him up Z
again and renewed their nendish $
treatment. :
Being asked, How could you bear =
Il all z? he said, Il thought of the suf- :.
ferings of Christ and my heart was u
No one can doubt that h
this man is genuine Christian, for n
he can say, II bear in my body the :,
marks of the Lord Jesus"
Mr.. Sen, Christian near Tungchow
was strung to beam by his hands, II
which had been tied behind his back. s.
Hands and arms were burned with in o
cense sticks until even the tendons "
and bones of one We're exposed The J'
man recovered in the Inland Mission a
Hospital at Chefoo, but is, OF course. "A a
cripple for life. He is a member or 81
The Southern Baptist Mission. W
TSlNG-TAU, July 24.-Christians OF "
the province are coming In daily with e
stories of robbery and violence. q
Pastor Ling Ii Mel, most lovable o
ana admirable young man, now lies at Il
a yamen in kia-chou, having been ar e
rested and beaten two hundred blows ]
with bamboo club on the naked Ip
thighs. Pastor Ting, stripped ana ii
thrown on his face before the official Ir
who demanded that he at once promise le
to forsake his faith. replied: TIA lao
yeh (sir), you may kill me, but l can S
not deny my faith" a
The Christians appear to be growing C
In grace under these perils sufferings d
ana losses. Our chapel was filled twice j
last Sunday. The prayers consisted +
more OF praise and confession OF sin, a
than of petition for protection. a
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