Adopted Mother Held by Japanese Police ing all kinds of articles, pamphlets and books eatculated to interest the filial class, and for many years the Society regarded the publication of books on general subjects as an im= portant part of its programme.
With the appointment of Dr. Mac-Gillivray as general secretary in 1920, the society settled down to work in the more restricted field of religious Werature, Tt was during this period that many works on biblical studies, theology, church history, ete, were Outside Help obtained mye death of Ds, MacGiliveay, in 1odhe coineldd. with a shange fu the Scope of the. society. Hitherto. the rear mnjoriiy of books and. tracts publlsned by" the. soclely had been aristated or writen by members the star, Now, however, ie wae for tha the ely enchrs In schools thootogy pastor, and other work vas needed. 'The. increasing fiemand' of the. public for reading material constituted a challenge which could not be met by the society unless outside help were available. So now the society' is seeking the collaboration of outside writers, and {s also acting as publishers for a number of other Christian organizations, Among the earlier publications of the society, through which it was enabled to influence the higher Chi-hose oflelals, and hasten reform, were "Civilization, Chinese and Christian". by Ernst Faber, a German Mission-fry, frst published in 1884; Macken vie's "History of Christian Civilzation in the Nineteenth Century", iwanslated by Dr, 'Timothy Richard, Published in 1903; "History of, the War Between China and Japan", by Dr. Young. Allen; "The Lite' of Christ", by Dr, Alexander Williamson, the Christian Literature Society; "Universal History", by the Rey, J. Lambert Rees, of the American Church Mission, and many others, each of which helped to popularize Western Illerature' among Chinese readers, 'In 1898, the Emperor of China, in his desire for reform, gent to. the Society for copies of' thei During the Boxer uprising in 1900, the energies of the soclely, under A M-year old Korean girl, ser iously injured on May 29 by her hammer-wielding adopted mother, was reported on June 3 by the local Japanese papers to be hovering on the brink of death.
Nine stitches wore required to close the wound in the girl's head. Doctors at the Foomin "Hospital told the "Shanghai Mainichi" that the injuries may yet prove fatal to the iti, Fukujun shin, Meanwhile, Teishuku Kim, the 41- year old would-be murderess, was ald by the papers to be making con-{radiclory statements to the Japanese Consular Police. She has been undergoing a police examination for the past five days.
Kneeling in her cell at the Japanese Consular jail, the accused woman called upon tie Deity to "punish" the police. Simultaneously, she Iaunched on a virtual hunger strike, refusing food and taking only water, Immediately following her arrest, the woman said she attacked the girl in a belief that the Latter intended elope that day with a Korean named The woman took the girl to the second floor of their "residence, Kungehiahsin Road, locked the doors, and attacked Pukujun.
Attracted by the girl's desperate screams, the neighbours broke through the doors and seized the half-crazed The girl was lying on the oer in pool of bided. The assauller was running around the body with a gory hammer in her hand. Both women and the room, the "Mainichi" said, were bespattered with blood.
The woman's common-law hus Band, one Genshun Sai, is in North China,
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