We have then, at a time when goodwill is urgently needed, a Christian magazine, supported by prominent foreigners and Chinese disseminating pernicious ideas which are helping to produce the crop of lamentable results now seen, and! which sully China's name before the world, This one article alone gets much' anti-foreign virus in by] several avenues:—
(a) Ridiculing carly missionaric and believers. our peopl Priritle League of Boxers will protect, {he Empire nue bring peace to al then, to spread ite! for it you gain therent {0 the faith, your own pers win be abtclved. from' all future. mee it you gain five ts hole family will you cain 10 1 Your whole Vilage wit be nhsolved from alle tmitien, Those who pun to adherents forthe ensue shall be decapitated; for Emu "ai foreigners. have. been. exter: Imingtoly the vain can never Visit ts, Fancy reviving this suit after nearly 30 years, and at such a tine' fas this, without any yord of ex: planation or condemnation. It may be said that the purpose is to record history; but the motive may also be something elses and in any cease it docs more harm than ood to, publish such matter just now.
Then follows a Proclamation of the infamous YG Hsien, former Governor of Shans', who murdered 0 many mes. women and children ft Taiyuanfu' in 1900, "The foreign religion, is cruel and nealing to the cons and cruel to men, 'The Boxers have burned and Kiedy spaiion hae, one exhort, You Shefaie' ands retarn to the trio. you, follow" Sour, dalles" chen, you are sein ito net know how pte, a tected (b) Reviving two scurrilous proclamations about Christians, especially foreigners, with no correct tion of their falsehoods.
(e), The unnecessary reference to the Kiaochow occupation, which is now @ matter of history nly.
(a), The disparaging reference to! Hongkong Chinese who Joined congratulations to Queen Victori (e) The avarice of English chants in connexion with opium, while saying nothing about Br stapping the traffic; no "mention of the great efforts' of Enzlish China from the evils nor of the soci ple for the good of China, The net result of this article to leave bad feeling, and with literature being published and rea we can hardly wonder at the violent anti-British outbursts ea common in these days.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.