Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-03-24
MINISTERIAL ASSOCIATION,
Chaplin Marvin Reads Interesting
Paper on Chinese Campaign.

AZ this mornings meeting OF the
Ministerial association, the president,
Rev, f. Barnett, appointed as commit
tee on public morals for the current
year Reys. r.. Wake, p. A. simpkin
and Dr. w. NJ. Paden,
The feature Of the meeting was an
able paper from Chaplain Marvin Of
Fort Douglas on 'Some Incidents In the
Chinese Campaign" The chaplain was
with the famous Ninth infantry under
Col Liscum during that remarkable
march and saw about everything there
was TO be seen.
The speaker mentioned first the attl-
ture of the missionaries In the English
church, whose self.denia and strict
carelulness lest any breath OF SLAM
der besmlrch their sacred office have
been all in vain, at least as far as the
light, needless and too often malicious
aspersions of Christian missionaries
are concerned At the outset, Bishop
Scott and his co-workers, In order that
no one might accuse any missionary
Of lootng took the position that not
one Of them should even purchase loot.
And this was at a time when costly
furs, elegant embrOiderles, superb
watches ETC., were to be picked up at
the merest fraction Of their real value
But the mission field occupied by
them lay at distance from the allied
forces The towns occupied by the
missionaries of the American board lay
In the vicinity Of Pekln, and It was
their converts who to the number Of 800
men, women and children had nOcked
into Pekin for protection. and whose
labors proved 80 effectual IN affordng
protection to the ambassadors Of the
nations during the sege, Four days
after the Siege was raised Mr.. Conger
wrote to one Of tho missionaries, "Rut
for your intelligent and successful
planning. and the accomplishing CO.
operation of the Chinese, / believe our
salvation would have ben impossible"
And Sir Claude Mcdonald wrote in
even stronger language of the in
debtedness the ambassadors owed the
Chinese converts. II was DR.. Gams~
we'll the Methodist missionary VINO
planned the defenses which excited the
admiration of the officers OF the mill
tary forces, But II was the patient UNI
complaining Chinese who filled the
bags with earth and carried and placed
them In position on the walls Cur
i0suly enough at the beginning Of the
siege there We're those Indifferent
worldlings who would have refused
admission and protection TO these
Christian converts. Later. they were
compelled to admit that they owed their
lives 20 their presence. When the day
OF reckoning came, Germans. Russians
English and other natlonalities, who
had been sufferers through the wiles
Of the Boxers had their ministers
through whom to make their appeal for
redress nay rather 10 demand from the
Chinese government restitution Who
We're to speak for these defenseless
Chinese Christians who had suffered
far more than the westerners? Had
the missionaries been slothfuI or selfish.
how quickly the snarlng critics would
have opened upon them for base lngra-
titude,
The basis for settlement arranged by
the missionaries was arranged under
four articles. Cemetery and suitable
burial for Chinese Christians; pensions
for the aged and widows and orphans
money compensation for property de-
stroyed and the amount was fixed at
one-thrd above the value OF the prop.
erty destroyed In order that small
surplus might be obtained for relief OF
destitutlon In cases where the wage
earners Of family had been murdered.
Fourth a location should be provided
when desired for a Christian chapel IN
villages whore the disturbances had oc-
Cured After the railroad riots In 1871
the railroads brought claims against
Pittsburg Tor ten millions aud the claim
was paid. Taxation of innocent and
guilty alike met the assessment. | can
not understand why there should have
been this 0utcry against the missionary
In face Of the fact that his method Of
procedure * commonplace in western
and Chinese law alike. And In this
particular instance the amount was de-
cided not by the missionaries, but by
the village officials concerned. and APP
proved by the American minister. Mr.
Rockhill. the commissioner Iii Hung
Chang and all who are acquainted with
the facts