The Millions 1898 . le huts; in front ofthese, amidst shouts, shrieks and cries, a fouldouble murder took place, father and son, aswe afterwards learned, belonging to one ofthe cottages, meeting with a cruel death by ©it tlje Iang-tsi itapi&s. BY MR. C. POLHILL TURNER. beating with bamboos at the hands of a hand-ful of soldiers, two other men receiving seri-ous injury. The alleged reason was that thesepeople had stolen salt from a wrecked junk,salt being a Government monopoly. Theevening closed amid the WAILS OF THE WOMEN. What a glimpse at poor, dark China! Nextday. after travelling a few hou
The Millions 1898 . le huts; in front ofthese, amidst shouts, shrieks and cries, a fouldouble murder took place, father and son, aswe afterwards learned, belonging to one ofthe cottages, meeting with a cruel death by ©it tlje Iang-tsi itapi&s. BY MR. C. POLHILL TURNER. beating with bamboos at the hands of a hand-ful of soldiers, two other men receiving seri-ous injury. The alleged reason was that thesepeople had stolen salt from a wrecked junk,salt being a Government monopoly. Theevening closed amid the WAILS OF THE WOMEN. What a glimpse at poor, dark China! Nextday. after travelling a few hours up stream, couraging condition. At some of the out-stations of the Chen-tu Church there haverecently taken place more than twenty bap-tisms. From one of these stations Pen-shan, a young scholar, has been lent to us,partly as teacher and partly as evangelist,amongst the Chinese at Ta-tsien-lu. I shouldbe glad of prayer for this effort and for theevangelist, Mr. Liu. At a town two clays south-east of Kia-ting,. THE LITTLE ORPHAN ROCK, IANG-TSI RIVER we got out and proceeded to Kia-ting inchairs, arriving that night, as the boat wasnot to get in until Monday. Dr. and Mrs. Parry are stationed here, hehaving oversight of the work in WesternSi-chuan. This is just now in a very en- Uin-hsien, a little company of some sixteenmen have professed faith in the Saviour,opened a pl&ce of worship and desire bap-tism. Some of them have been preventedfrom this by the local magistrate, one namedLiao lying in prison chained to a table for !34 CHINAS MILLIONS- some days. Through Dr. Parrys mediationthe superior magistrate has put the matterright. The Proviiice is full of rumors about Rus-sia, France and England. One was thatRussia had ordered all Englishmen out of theProvince. An occupation by England istalked of, and not altogether objected to; theEnglish are thought to be fair. A doubledesire, not clearly defined by themselves,seems prevalent in many minds : first, tow-ards the English, to h
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