The times., 1901-05-14
DIR. AMENF'S REPLY.
He Makes n Defence of n Missionary
Expcdition In China.

CHICAGO May I3.-Defence of mission
aries in China and condemnation of news
paper correspondents. especially Thomas
z. Milard. of the London Daily Mai"
who recently addressed the Twentieth
Century Club of Boston on the Boxer
situation. were included in an address de-
livered by the Rev. DIR. f. S. Ament, in
the Y. NJ. c. A. auditorium at noon today,
DR.. Ament. who is the missionary re-
Gently involved in controversy with
Mark Twat discussed modern mission
airy work end the situation in north
China. Many of MiIlard's statements be-
fore the Boston club were denied in toto
and with emphasis
II am sorry. extremely so.'' said DR..
Ament, that we find newspaper men and
correspondents who are responsible for
much that has been written about US In
China. Right at our doors we had two
editors who were against the work the
missionaries have done and are doing in
/ China. Those two editors live in Japan
and are atheists of a pronounced type.
| Their work against the missionaries has
been detrimental to the Christian cause.
| Had l read the attack of Mark Twain
| in the North American Review before
L preached my last sermon it would
| have Inundated me. But when L arrived
on this side of the water did not expect
to find that some of our own papers and
/ correspondents took similar attitudes.
1T is needless to say that those papers
are the same that are printing, day after
day, matter that is derogatory to our SOL
diers. Here 1 learned that this corre-
spondent. Thomas F. MiIIard had spoken
before the Twentieth Century Club, of
Boston 1 procured an accurate copy of
his ~ddress and some time will answer
his charges more fully than can now.
He attacked me for organizing one of
the punitive tribute expeditions. as he
styled them, to go to the relief OF a num-
Der of Christians He declared before the
Bostonians that after October there had
been no need of another punitive expedi-
ton and that while 1 was with Captain
Forsythe and his 260 brave American cav
alrymen l had demanded that an entire
Boxer village be destroyed. That state
ment was fal Sc We did destroy one hut.
but not a village. The place was the
home of one of the worst murderers and
it's burning had a good effect on the 9TH
ers In Captain Forsythe | felt that we
had man that was deeply in sympathy
with the missionaries. but he did not per-
nit his feelings to interfere with his work
But the stipuIations agreed upon Were
not carried out Such were easily DfoheH
by the soldiers when they had been made
with a missionary. But the work they
have done cannot be commended or
spoken OF too highly. Millard said the
expedition rescued no one, not one Chris
tian. Again he told what was not true
We rescued sixteen Christians.
Missionaries are the forerunnes OF a
new civilization in China. They have
moro frieuds-yes five to onc-than they
had before this last terrible uprising. Tbs
Chinese take Ieniency for weakness anc
fear The punitive expeditions were the
only things that could show them that nc
weakness or fear existed. What We mis-
sionarfes wanted was a judicious punish
ment spread over the entire affected dis
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