. China and the Boxers. A short history of the Boxer outbreak, with two chapters on the sufferings of missionaries and a closing one on the outlook . hamefully mistreated them. It is there-fore in keeping with history to recognize this uprisingagainst Christians, because of false ideas of their work,as instigated by the father of lies, who has been the authorof former persecutions as well. The Greek word for witness is Martyr, and it hascome to mean one who dies for his belief, simply becauseso many chose to do that rather than deny the Lord. Thecourage, joy and patience of martyrs have touche
. China and the Boxers. A short history of the Boxer outbreak, with two chapters on the sufferings of missionaries and a closing one on the outlook . hamefully mistreated them. It is there-fore in keeping with history to recognize this uprisingagainst Christians, because of false ideas of their work,as instigated by the father of lies, who has been the authorof former persecutions as well. The Greek word for witness is Martyr, and it hascome to mean one who dies for his belief, simply becauseso many chose to do that rather than deny the Lord. Thecourage, joy and patience of martyrs have touched thehearts of millions, and their blood has truly been the seedof the Church; and China like Europe, is to be blessedwith an abundance of such testimony as will never ceaseto speak of the sincerity of the witness and the power ofGod to keep His people faithful and sustain them in the Foreign IMinisters the Empress Dowager wasthe de facto ruler of China, and that was enough forthem. They also recognized that the Emperor, KwangHsu, was the de jure ruler, as they showed recently byinsisting on being received in audience by him, and pro-. EMPEROR KWANG-HSU. (From a recent photograph.) THE FUTURE OUTLOOK. I4I viding that it should be understood that the visit of theirwives to the Empress Dowager was merely a social func-tion, with no political significance. The Empress Dow-ager was one of the secondary wives of the EmperorHsien Feng, and the mother of the Emperor Tung the death of Tung Chi she acted as Regent duringthe minority of her nephew, the present Emperor KwangHsu; but as soon as he was old enough to take the reinsof government her rights of ruler ceased entirely, and thelegations knew, as well as every one else in China knew,that she was simply usurping the throne of Kwang Hsu,who was only kept alive because she feared the wrath ofthe people. The Emperor, as soon as he attained to years of dis-cretion, had begun to take an unexpected interest in theaffair
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