Under marching orders : a story of Mary Porter Gamewell . ws of the foreigners plight to the armies?Such was the forlorn situation that glaringnoonday when the homeless folk from theMethodist compound were received withinthe legation lines of defense. Human helpwas remote and unlikely; destruction by theBoxers near and threatening. God alone wasthe real bulwark of protection from the firstto the last day of the long strife. East of the British Legation, separated bya street and a moat, was the palace of aChinese nobleman, named Prince Su. Hisstately residence was known as the Su WangFu, briefl
Under marching orders : a story of Mary Porter Gamewell . ws of the foreigners plight to the armies?Such was the forlorn situation that glaringnoonday when the homeless folk from theMethodist compound were received withinthe legation lines of defense. Human helpwas remote and unlikely; destruction by theBoxers near and threatening. God alone wasthe real bulwark of protection from the firstto the last day of the long strife. East of the British Legation, separated bya street and a moat, was the palace of aChinese nobleman, named Prince Su. Hisstately residence was known as the Su WangFu, briefly called the Fu. Persuaded by thetact of Dr. Morrison and Prof. James, PrinceSu had granted permission for the ChineseChristians to be sheltered within his thousand Catholic Chinese had alreadybeen housed there, and now several hundredProtestants were waiting for a place ofrefuge. Later in the day the prince fled intothe Imperial City, thus making room in hisempty house for this new multitude of de-pendent Chinese. Fires were still burning in. ?b^-^.-U^ British Legation, Peking
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