New-York tribune., 1901-07-20
AN AWAKENING IN CHINAi
ENCOURAGEMENT FOR RENEWED AND
INCREASED MISSIONARY EFFORT.

Courtenay H. Fem. acting secretary of the Pres<
a letter from a missionary IN China.
which MIR. Fem believes shows important
dictionary tendency among the Chinese In favor oS
the Christianity and the Western civilization OF the
Americans The letter is looked upon with tho
greatest interest by heads missionary boards bes
cause OF its contradiction of reports that the Cht<
nese had been steeled against preachers of Chriss
tianity. because of the indignities which some o8
the natives had suffered the hands of the allies.
Similarly encouraging letters have also been rs>
ceived by the foreign mission boards of other de-
nominations from those who have now returned Ia
their posts. The letters TO the effect that ar
rangements are being perfected by these boards
to send to China this fall the course OF nexa
year missionaries than have ever before BEEN
sent forth for work in that country The Chineso
universities are now looked upon the of as
great revival in missionary work rather than as
forecasting discouragement and defeat. Indeed,
missionaries now looking forward to an un.
paraleed revival Of apostolic zeal In the country
of the Dragon
The letter is written by the Rev ]. W. Lowrie.
of the Presbyterian Mission Pao-Tfng-Fu, one os
the storm centres of the insurrection. Mr.. Lowrta
was driven out by the Boxers. who destroyed al
the mission property and caused the death of q
number OF missionaries, who burned toe
gether in the home of Mr.. Simcox. after a br,cA
defence. Mr.. Lowrie has now returned TO Pao-.
Ting-Fu, and has held a memorial service on th4
ruins of the destroyed missions In his letter hs
tells of the sorrow shown by the Chinese ofticaIS
of the town for the calamity. He said that he be-
heved that they were sincere because OF the facs
that after the memorial service these odloiaII
oHereo the mission sixteen OF land for . new
station. MIR. Lowrie said that the people vol.
coined the return of the missionaries and listened
TO them with greater interest than they had evsa
before shown.
DR. BROWN IN PEKING. .
DR.. Arthur j. Brown, secretary OF the Presbys
terrain Board OF Missions is now IN PekinS I'm COM
suitation with the representative missionaries Of
the Presbyterian Church in China Together thess
men are looking over the field and forming plans
for the renewal of work in the near future Six oe
the Presbyterian missionaries have gone back to
the Shan-Tung Province, whence they were drivers
out by the Boxers, and all report encouragingiy.
concerning their labors. Other missionaries wiz
/ leave this country for China next fall
AS another evidence of the sentiment for stif
greater exertion the part OF the missionaries,
/ the missions of the Shan-Tung Province have
signed a petition to the mission board to extend Q
! long furlough to Dr. Hunter COrbett. who has
been stationed in this province to travel and speas
i throughout the United States for the purpose ae
| bringing in new recruits and raising funds.
now cooperating with the Americans is shown By
the action Of the governor Of the province IN
| tai of the province ". NJ Hayes. OF the present
| the head Of the new institution
Disorder is said still to reign in the provinces of
sionaries of the Canadian Presbyterian and Of the
English and American Baptist churches have not
J work been attempted in the country district
around Peking, which Is still reported TO be over-
run with bTigands.
| FOREIGN DEVIL PASSING AWAY.
| DR.. n. K. Carroll first assistant corresponding
secretary OF the Methodist Beard of Foreign Mis-
/ sions said yesterday that the prospects for mis-
| sonary work in China reported by those IN
the field as most encouraging He had received a
| letter from DR.. Mccartney, who had just made a
| two thousand mile journey through the interior,
| and who wrote that he had not once heard the
epithet OF foreign DEVIL which before the out
break used all the time
OF the fourteen Methodist missionaries IN North
China. hve have returned, and four more VIII
| return in the fall. Many more VIII leave TINS co2o
| try for China next year.