The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-04-17
4 MGJRDER0US PLOT
The Chinese Planned 10 Kill Every
Foreign Resident.
HAD IMPERIAL SANCTION.
Report Of the American Bible
Society Shows How Chinese
Murdaring Was Directed
Against Christians.


The annual report Of the American
Bible society relative to the situation
in China will contain the following in
teresting statements from It's agents in
China, the Rev. John R. Hykes, D. D.:
There was q deep and cunnlDgly
laid plot, under imperial sanction, to
eztirpate Christianity, expel all foreign
ers and destroy all foreign interests.
NJ one OWNED the full extent Of the
iRquity which was deliberately consem-
plated.
I'm all 1873 Protestant missionaries,
including so men, IS women an 49
children, have been msssacred.
With the exception Of the msssacres
at Ku Choo, in Chinese Kian, where II
persons were killed, and at Heng Choo,
in HUMAN, all Of the deaths occurred
in the northern provinces.
The question has been raised at
home as to whether the Boxer uprising
was anti-missionary in its character.
No doubt exists in the minds Of any
we'll. informed person in China. The
movement was undoubtedly against
foreigners as such, and the crusade was
directed against everything foreign,
Christianity, Of course, included. Rsu
Ching Chen and Yuen Chang, two
ministers Of the foreign Office, would
not transmit the awful edict which
reiterated the order to painfully ex-
tirpate foreigners but changed it SO as
to protect all foreigners and then sent
1t flying over the wires to the renotest
provinces. They we're sentenced 70 be
cut in two. Missionaries were the class
that benefited by this act Of heroism.
The fact that every missionary escaped
from Il out Of the Is provinces would
indicate that the crueade was rot
specially anti-missionary.
In the provinces Chih Ii and Shan
81 every school, hospital, chapel and
dwelling vas looted and burned by the
Boxers and imperial troops, the only
exception being the property IN the
foreign settlement at Tien Tsin. So
complete was the demolition Of
property by these mad fanatics that not
a vestige was left to mark the site; even
the foundations were dug up and carried
away. There was also destruction Of
mission property in the province Of
Shen 81, 10 Tan, Hu Nan, Hupe
Chang 81, Che Kisng and Kzan Tung.
Relative Christians have been the
worst sufferers. Those who escaped
the general slaughter in the northern
provinces lost absolutely everything,
and many Of them are perishing from
cold and starvation.
The Scriptures destroyed will ag-
gregate Lot less than 100 volumes, and
the actual loss to the society will not be
less than eight or ten thousand gold
dollars, including the necessary expense
Of getting workers to places Of safety
and back again to their stations. All
Of our foreign superinterdents we're
saved. We have to mourn the loss Of
many roble and devoted native workers.
They were warned of the rigks they
were runing, but net man Of the noble
band Of Is ainched. Their reply was:
''we 90 on a colportage tour. Gods
will will be done" Only four Of the
18 returned from that journey. The
homes Of these martyrs we're looted
and burned and their families eXtermj-
mated. Those who survived escaped to
mountains, where they suffered terrible
priyations and managed to get back to
Pekin after It vas captured By the
allied armies. Of the colporteurs under
missionary supervision have not heard
of one that escaped. Some other paris
of China complain bitterly Of the same
treatment.
More than 10000 native converts
Gncluding Roman Oatholica) met death
in heroism worthy of the best age Of
the church.
While the total number Of volumes
the Scriptures published is $500 less
than previous years, the number Of
pages is slightly in excess. The mum.
Der Of pages printed in 1899 was 49,
932. 200; this year it was u, 646, 700, or
about three quarters Of million more.
This is the largest number of pages
ever printed in one year by the China
agency, and will give some idaa Of the
proportions to which the work has
grown when, in common with all other
forms Of Christian WORK, it vas sudden
ly interrupted by the events Of the past
year. The number Of mandarin Bibles
manufactured is worthy of special
notice. There We received from the
printers no less than 16, 500 complete
Bibles and 5000 copies were in press On
December 81"
Texas Cotton.