The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-09-19
FLOODS AND
FAMINE IN CHINA
American Missionaries
Flee From MODS Prep
are For Famine Relief
BOXER RISING POSSIBLE

The Chinese Masses. Desperate
Against Foreign Invasion. Nav Get
Out of Hand and Kill and Loot
The Real Meaning of This Crisis
Told BY One Who Has Spent Years
III n Orient and Knows China As
He Knows America.
(By THE RELIGIOUS RAMBLER
Given a people who look upon a comet.
Il nood OF an eclipse as / sign of me dis
pressure OF the old gods ut the presence
OF foreigners; and add to this state Of ic-
horance ana credulity 4 smatteripc of
news over the telegraph wire-then YOU
nave the chaotic tumultuous, yeaSty China
OF today. The persons in this country
VINO Know China best, and who most
clearly understand the magnitude of
Americas stake in the empire, are the
ones who view the present crisis with
greatest concern.
Great Britain and Germany have many
of their nationality engaged in business in
China, but by far the larger number Of
Americans are Missionaries. The number
OF American business men in China is
comparatively small. OF the total of I.113
foreign missionaries now at work in China.
by far the greater number are Americans.
counting the members OF the Missionaries
families, there are. approximately. five
thousand Americans scattered up and down
the celestial kingdom, most of them be-
ing in the interior and beyond the pro
lection Of gunboats.
A Host OF Missionaries.
1lpFo are tllrtv-Siy american r,icc;o,
airy societies dong work in China as
against eighteen British, fifteen Continen-
tal and sixteen Chinese. Tbe vastness Of
these missionary interests and operations
has suddenly been made q matter of live
news by the present riotous outbreaks.
Many millions of dollars are invested in
schools, hospitals. churches and homes. The
destruction of all the American business
establishments and consulates in China
would not entail nearly so great a finan-
cial loss as the destruction of the mission
airy institutions that are under the protec-
ton of the American flag.
In addition to the more than four thou
sand foreign missionaries in China, there
is L force of twelve thousand native work
ers associated with them, and devoting
themselves to propaganda. The latest
available figures show 207 hospitals and
292 diSpensaries maintained by mission
funds. The influence of these upon China
may be surmised from the bald fact that
in 4 single year l,o6o,4o6 separate patients
were treated. and forty thousand minor
and ten thousand major operations per
formed. Up until within the past few
years, practically all the education done
missionary schools. The total number Of
these is 3,129 and the enrolled pupil.
%. S23.
The Missionaries occupy '53 principal
preaching places. There are more than
two thousand organized churches. with
more than a quarter of a million bap-
TIED Christians. and nearly half n million
1dharGpfG These figures are for Protest.
ant missions alone: the Roman Catholic
missions, which are proporrionateiy extern
sive and successful. are maintained chiefly
by the French orders, and their statistics
are not available.
Another Boxer Outbreak Possible.
The feeling is quite Widespread through
out the missionary body-and all the off
closest to the people-that the present
extraordinary ferment among the Chinese
bodies i'll many say that another Boxer
Bile: all argue that no man can tell what
a day may bring forth in China. There
has lately been serious riot1nS IN kanSu.
| where 4 Boxer army had been drilling.
and only the prompt action OF the Off
cials in arreStins the leaders prevented the
projected rising. These outbreaks have
not been reported in the American papers.
Ia Canton and vicinity there have been
a succession of revolutionary risinss the
large foreign community of Canton are
ever on the lookout for trouble
Now the trouble is renteriDS III the
western province of Szechwan. which
impinges upon Thibet. The people here
are famously hardy and independent. 80
imnortant is the capital. Chengtu. regard
ed by missionary leaders that a great
union university has been established
there. the American and canadian Method
lists the American Baptists and the Eng
lish Friends uniting in its support.
While the present rising is anti-foreIgn
il is not primarily missionary. All in
formed persons are agreed that the grant
ing of railway and mining concessions to
foreign corporations is the prime cause
'rhis agitation has been under way for
two or three years. The local sentiment
forced the government to buy back the
foreigners rights, the people Of he prov