"to show how people came to re~ gard the Christians, he gives in full, without any disapproval or refutation, one of the Boxer posters used neatly 30 years ago, and which led such disaster, The poster "The Catholic and Protestant insolent, to the Gods and no obedience to nm ena bay hlngn, Senden clouds mit ust but eight Jog both Heaven and. Earth, the Fala ho. longer it era wil deacond from the Empire clean of wil the gentle as "running dogs" of -the foveigners, and gave them rude nicknames, Jand said they had become enrolled as foreigners.
Tt is stated that there was some ground for this, in proof of whick an incident is given; this refers to the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria, and the period is strangely fixed by saying "Three years; before the Boxer uprising, in the year when the Germans had seized Kinochow because some vagabonds had killed two missionaries—that ame year was the Diamond Jubile, But what a roundabout way to fix the year, and how subtly the: animus is injected! The incident, referred to, and which is supposed to give ground for the charges: against. Chinese Christians was that. some loyal Hongkong Chinese Christians, in sending a congratulatory message used a style _implying that they considered Vietoria as their good Queen, and there. fore showed that they had become denationalized!
Bur we are not to conclude that! all Chinese Christians were so! service, and we are next told of jame who, when the Opium Commission met at Shanghai, over 30] years ago, dared to send a state-Jment on the evils of opium, for transmission to the British Parliement. This is given in full—though the issue is now a dead one—as it affords an opportunity of state ing that English merchants were covetous und seeking to enrich' themselves at the expense of others, and also that the mention of preaching religion and of sell fu the same Treaty, was a fof good and evil, and it was ud) wonder the people thought that the religion was harmful, like the opium. nil hat England has done since to°anve Chita from the perile. of days, zying to. do: now,
opium is left unmentioned; an. impression adverse to England is conveyed, and left to sink into the minds of readers.
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