against foreigners this year have been especially characterised by ocks on the Orphinages of the Roman Even in Wusueh, where Messrs, Argent and Green were murdered, the riot was essentially an anti-orphanage riot although there was no orphanage in the place. Children were being brought in from country districts to Wusueh to be forwarded to the orphanage at Kiukiang, Rumour was busy in describing what was to be done with them when they got there. The minds of the Wusueh people were wrought upon with horrible tales of the barbarities practised by the Romanists on the children whom they profess to befriend; hints were thrown out that the bungalows of the Wesleyan Mission on the hills opposite to Wusueh were a sort of kitchen where babies were boiled, and at last all this wild talk produced its numeral result. An assault was made on the foreigners, te only men who could be found were publicly murdered, the women and children were barely allowed to escape with their lives, and the houses and chapel of the Wesleyan Mission were looted and destroyed.
In view of these facts the contents of the 2 CE RHR or Chinese Blue Books, as fur ws they bear on the orphanage work of the missionaries, are worthy of special attention. The officials would find it very hurd to deny that the sum and substance of all the anti-orphanage slanders which pro-ducod such terrible results during "the resent summer are to be found in these Jue Books. The talk of the teashops in
ed with the authority of high officials. The Wasuch was the echo of documents publish-streams of popular fanaticism spring from the fountain of official malignity. This subject will require to be treated by itself. In the present paper I shall content myself with showing what the Blue Books have to say about other charges brought against the Roman Catholics besides those that relate to orphanages.
In Book No, 111, of this collection, missions are dealt with at considerable length in two chuptors entitled: 'The gradual demoralization of China," and 'The expulsion of Christianity from Kiangsi and Hunan.' The first of these two chapters seems to be made up of about 14 pages of quotation from an intensely anti-Christian book entitled WY or Notes on China and the West, with 9 pages of additional matter from the pen of the of the Blue Books himself. The second chapter has about 7 pages of quotation from the same source, with about 2 pages of supplementary information by the editor.
pass over everything in these books that may be said to be merely hostile eriticism of the historic facts on which Christianity is based, or of the doctrines which it teaches, There is plenty of anti-Christian matter in the collection which is vulgar, coarse and ignorant. The facts of the Gospel story are misrepresented and its doctrines are travestied. But of that
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