The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 6, 1900, Page 5

NDAY CALL cated Chinaman is willing to laugh at posed, invests the tablet with the individ- Buddhism or Taoism, but reverence for uality of the deceased. In the funeral pro- his ancestors is one of the passior his cession the tablet occupies a place of hon- life. One may call a native all or beside the coffin and afterward it is the bad names in the vocabt ind he installed in the home of the eldest som, may not resent it: but a word against his Who for three years, morning and night, ancestors will arouse his most vindictive makes an offering before it. Then it is fury. W a man die China his son placed a shrine with the tablets of his tablet resembling a er ances! d in common with 4 ich is elaborately dec- m is reverenced at various times dur- nd marked with “Shen ear ' meanipg “Spirit L has always been.a question as to “Spirit 1 this practice idolatrous or reverential—whether it is religlous or merely social. and had the early mis- naries be: ng to accept it all Chi- A might pe have been Christian, or tian, to-day: but the pronounced Protestant churches and it has remained irmountabile two people ago the missionaries ace for some time and re- E 1 the word * the word “Wei At appointed time had en garded the s full of hope, but on haw and Order Sc- R A e T e were malt a mob, who charged them with g children. The mi slon houses we ndered, and this was the signal for the renewal of the disturb- ances all through China. T e became worse and worse, exciting more and more ntment rope, until rman_pr were mu mission loot hantung lowed by the : the the port of The Shant two events Germans elgners an that the Swor make itself obnoxious - o m i ih = tlon which ther did not altogether de- 4 <P Yha e e =n' serve. This condition intensified the feel- ing which has always existed against the ;»—de missionarfes e e This feeling grows to some extent out of the general contempt with which the ermiesy Hag Nowy e maer oo o chines wre keen critics and give close scrutiny the teachings of the Christ Bible They confess to the L\ p P - ’(- a; Ba as ";P‘e DY:easel beauty of its moral teachings, but can- | not see in what they are superior to those of Confucius They s0 notice the ac- N t . The bandits had shat- counts of the miracles in the Old Testa- They had previous ‘ s v nse stones and then ment. and say that the Chinese legend the Government f xer 2 whi ried it rt with crowbars. The amount of the moon being eaten by a dragon is b e e Ly s red was s Sometimes pnot much more unreasonable than the wer v b al thelr ex- Bible story of how Joshua compelled the . ot s n of one of sun to stand still. They choose to regard . - = lead him ( anity a wave of darkness.” Ax y rcle and at last carry him off In order to overcome this feeling the s f Boxer mountains, from where the d missionaries have in most es adopted W = wiessness, r ransom Chinese dre But Chinese ideas of pro- der, w e s as this. repeated priety are the most st ced in the ® 'S r villages through- world. and the missionarie despite their z s m sulted in the or- ive e, have not always been able ¢ se ag S 2 ut they were 1to live up to then been espe- f Sha & N Their name was cially true of the women, whose Western s w w Or Hwel eans ‘“The Soclety ce wetion bas been shocking to Great Sword.” More recent is the the ng though quite correct from - . i 1 Society of Boxers. but point of view. Every effort has been e - = har ifies little; in fact, change made hy the missionaries to adapt them- N R T g A secret societies s fre- )nditions, but in China sions can rarely be eradicated, nd complaints gainst the early atholic mission %o centuries ago, quoted against their successors of to- selves to loca s kept until an e issued against it. a s adopted, and the if nothing had hap- t impre w just when the hatred of Christianity among the = Societ word had its ori- jijerary class finds expression in the most \ - ‘ = to it as an “an- gpocking slanders, which are constantly \ = < < mean ten 11in order to keep alive the hatred ona > -3 g ars or Tee( how- For the name of God the ? s g missions ples were ( e adopted the word Tien s s 2 it as it be- gnifies Lord of Heavens, and s th = the pr . s ree prot just as dishonest _bigh w ally themselves other lands to- might ind it in the the ssed 75— HEAD OF A BOXER T PLACED IN CAGE ON HIGHWAY AS AWARNING red to proceed agatnst had ¢ v held office s - last soring. He was Inexpe 1 was promoted through the sm of the Emperor. under compulsion he t Swords, whom ssacred w again Mr. Porter, who i of Chinan as far nort ce of Chihli, lamed up " and the track of ruin In many countles of Sha Roman Catholie home w swept clean nd hundred. f Protest Cl s suffered. In re- =po appe om the missionaries the miscreant Yu was suddenly removed and the > n Shih K a friend of LI H Chang, was sent to be the But before the anthorities of Chihi could be made to realize the real import of the struggle one hundred Protestant families had been looted on the b of the Yellow River. west of the provin- An equal number of Chris. n mission in Chihli had or more Congrega- been attacked, de- ted of money under The most se- at ¢ g-Ssu-Ma, in Ho-Chia-T'un. in Shantung the native pastor was s home, while the chapel were gutted and despoiled N r families were driven from home and NS neighbors dug up the concea NS ures of books and medicines and scat- R terea them > N onat in Ho- N f two h n. & b 1 ndred rushed into the village, gutted the station resi- dence and looted the chapel and homes of the helper and his brothers, be- sides robbing the adinining home of a wealthy neighber. The terror was con- tinuous for monthe As a climax to these outrages came the murder of a voung Church of England ssionary named Brooks, a smooth- cheerful boy i 7 7 77 I i 7 7 In zoing to join a_hrother mi Shantung _ he d throngh lage where a band of ive Great Swords were at dinner He might have n 1 through in safety had not a little girl raised the cry “Yang Kweitze!" or forelrn devil antly the nd had They pushed him ab; lled hi & names nd at last, while sothe heid him. others thrust a hook throveh his nose. to which A rope was tied. They pulled him abont here and there to the immense amuse- ment of the mob. At last the unfortunate boy 'managed to extract the hook and break away from 1 tormentors. He started to run from the village, but threa of the rebels got horses and rode after They s¢ ed in overta 2 him, and t killed him with their swords which aroused the to_actlon. although Africa has donbtless ated to prevent a more ener~etic pro. test tham wauld have otherwise been new Governor has not vet in_suppressing _the Boxers A few heads have been cu# off and hung n their ‘pecial medicinal virtue, and in the orphan- gather ages the missionaries are charged with proaches murdering children and cutting up their and some high official ap- the tablet. ‘Harid up the verm wound t escaped ion pencil,” says k 21 fotris % up in cages by the highwavs to serve as % was romping with bodles for medicinal purposes. the master of ceremonies, and a red lead 3 warning to evildeers, and & number of & peadPie st A It is such wild tales as these that have pencil is given to the officia nerpetrators of minor offenses against Mr. Bent's been used to excite the Boxers agalnst the found ‘May it please our distinguished guest the Christians have been haled before - a mob of han- Justice for them. Then. in turn. some kau signifies religion. The Christian re- church are slandered in the same way. missionarles, and the same charges have to turn to the east and recelve. e . Lot ;,',".\5‘,fh,::,':}ffh";Z,';;:f'f:".'.w,?,,",‘! - m shouting “Kill! kiil:* ©0f the missionarfes, it may be Inferred, Iiglon is therefore known as Tien Chu It s declared that In receiving the holy been used in all parts of' China, and have breath of life.” says the master ing the cangue,” but the reign of lawless his quarters, got hfs became the victims of designing men Kau. Unfortunately. there is a word re- communion the people drink a phiiter that resulted in murder after murder, gBut in The official turns and breathes upon the ness still continues, if in less violent en over the fence and Who professed Chirstianity in order to sembling Chu which means pig, and kiau makes them slaves of the priests, and reality the root of all the hatred .with pencil. form, and has been the occasion of the a place of safety. Mr. obtain ald in avoiding just punishment, means squeak: so the Chinese translate {t that during extreme unction the priests which Christians are regarded fs that they “Impose the red dot,” says the master, joint “-;57(""‘"'";""3,""'k;‘m"fl"?fl “th- d likewise. When re- and In some cases it is probable they “Squeak of the Celestial Pig.” and de- cut the eyes out of dying men. In China disapprove of what they regard as the ard the official completes the two words, toris Sal M_,"",h”:u_““n?{:fid"';mg dits were gone, and. the were able to secure from these noble and clare that the Christians are hog worship- there are thirty-one different parts of the idolatrous worship of ancestors. This cer- chu and wel. Afterward he covers them ‘ x b " to protect the missions unless the Boxers literally smashed 1w bits self-sacrificing men and women a protec- ers. The most sacred ceremonies of the human body which are said to possess es- emony is part of Confucianism. The edu- with black, and this ceremony, it Sup- are suppressed.