The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-01-21
CHRIS |ANS
PROSECUTED.
Terrible Atrocities Of
the Boxers.
4 MISSIONARY WRITES
Rev. E. W. Thwing Told of the
Church in China Last
Night.

A large. audience listened to Rev. E.
w. Thwing last night at the Chinese
Church. Taking his text from the
Romans, Kills., and from recent letters,
| 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 Picking, out of a membership of 700,
over $50 Christians were killed. Paul
D. Bergen, missionary, writing from
Picking 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 We're eye
| witnesses. of the triumphant death of
some 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 firm, and a help to those who
might otherwise be weak enough to
burn incense. A good many have gone
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
Isl n I.~Ir Gal,
Boxer test, which is that, when a GER
tain kind of paper incense is lighted, II
it catches fire and the ashes go up
ward, the person tested is not a Chris
tan 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 OF the fire.
A good many were thrown into the
flames of their own houses as they
were burning, and as often as they
tried to escape they were caught and
thrown back into the fiames-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 a 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 WIS innocent and
could prove it. He said that he knew
Kao Shang Isl, a Christian who lived
about three miles distant. They yelled
out, saying, THAT man is a leader in
the church, and if you know him it is
evidence that you deserve to de-
They rushed upon him and beat him
until they thought he was dead. They
dug a 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 were tied behind his back
TO pcst-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.
and thrust in the leg with a spear
This last wound is still suppurating af-
ter three months. Several times his
tormeDtors united this man for an
hour or two thinking he was dead, but,
upon return of consciousness and his
refusal to recant and pay the sum OF
money demanded, they tied him up
again and renewed their f1endish
treatment.
Being asked, How could you bear
it all?" he said, Il thought of the suf-
ferlngs of Christ and my heart was
comforted." No one can doubt that
this man is genuine Christian, for
he can say, Il bear in my body the
marks of the Lord Jesus
Mr.. Sen, a Christian near Tungchow
was strung to a beam by his hands
which had been tied behind his back
Hands and arms We're burned with in
cenSe sticks until even the Iendons
and bones of one were exposed The
man recovered in the Inland MISSION
Hospital at Chefoo, but is of course. a
cripple for life. He is a. member OF
the Southern Baptist Mission.
TSING-TAU. July 24-Christians or
the province are coming IN daily with
stories of robbery and violence
Pastor Ling Lii Mel, a most loyable
and admirable young man, now lies ar
yamen in Kia-chou, having been ar
rested and beaten two hundred blows
with bamboo club on the naked
thighs. Pastor Ting, stripped ana
thrown on his face before the official
who demanded that he at once promise
to forsake his faith, replied: TIA lao
yeh (sir), you may kill me, but I cam
not deny my faith
Inc Christians appear TO be growing
in grace under these perils, sufferines
and losses. Our chapel was filed twice
last Sunday. The prayers consisted
more of praise and concession of sin.
than of petition for protection.