A company, numbering twelve, of Swedish Missionaries from Houeihwacheng, with their wires and children, took refuge with Fathers Dobe, ZyImans and Abbeloos in the district of Houpa, central Mongolia. Father Dobbe had for ten sears been labouring among the people, the two other priests for two years each. All, Swedes and Belgians, Protestants and Roman Catholics, however, much divided by nationality, language and doctrinal differences, were united by God in their deaths, for all were burnt together inside the church. Can we not sco them, the priests kneeling round the altar, as the Procurcur says, offering up their lives as expiation for their faults, and, as ho declares, doing it galement, and the little company of Swedes doing the far harder tack of giving not only their own lives, but those of their innocent children, back to the God who gave them? At that supreme moment how the petty differences of this life must have fallen away BETRAYED TO DEATH BY A MANDARIN, The story of Father Heirman, aged 35 who had been ten years in China, and Father Mallet, aged 28, fills us with other feelings. They had been attacked several times in their house. Helped by their conyerts—all so statinch and true all through Mongolia—they had already again and again repulsed the Boxers and the Chinese soldiers. A Mandarin came to ask them to put themselves under his protection. But hardly had they gone out of their house with him, before their house was allin flames, Their clothes were torn from them, they were thrown into a cart, and Heirman was cut in four pieces and his heart taken out and nailed to a tree, No details have been received as to Father Mallet's death.
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