Massacres of Christians by heathen Chinese, and horrors of the Boxers; containing a complete history of the Boxers; the Tai-Ping insurrection and massacres of the foreign ministers; manners, customs and peculiarities of the Chinese .. . irst as tothe responsibility of the missionaries for the present troubles inChina, secondly as to the right to defend themselves when in dan-ger of death; and last and most important of all about the ques-tion as to whether Christians, priests or laymen have the right todestroy their own lives or those of others in order to escape inevit-able and certain tortur
Massacres of Christians by heathen Chinese, and horrors of the Boxers; containing a complete history of the Boxers; the Tai-Ping insurrection and massacres of the foreign ministers; manners, customs and peculiarities of the Chinese .. . irst as tothe responsibility of the missionaries for the present troubles inChina, secondly as to the right to defend themselves when in dan-ger of death; and last and most important of all about the ques-tion as to whether Christians, priests or laymen have the right todestroy their own lives or those of others in order to escape inevit-able and certain torture. It is the last of these problems which is the one that appealsmost strongly to the average man. The latter, especially if hehappens to recall the stories of the Indian massacres of white set- 542 MISSIONARIES AND THEIR SUFFERINGS. tiers in the Western States and Territories of America, even dur-ing the last five and twenty years, will be able to sympathize withthe idea that led the envoys at Pekin -to keep their wives suppliedwith a quick and sure poison, to be used for themselves and theirchildren, sooner than to permit either to fall alive into the hands ofthe Chinese. He will feel, too, for the resolve of the envoys to use. INTERNATIONAL TROOPS LEAVING TIEN-TSIN STATION FOR PEKIN. their pistols first of all upon their loved ones, should the poisonfail to do its work, and then upon themselves, rather than that anyof them should be captured alive by so cruel a foe. To every man who has a wife, a sister or a child, this wouldseem the only thing to be done under the circumstances, and to beevery bit as justifiable as when Vice Admiral Sir Edward Seymour,unable to carry his wounded along with him any further in hisretreat to Tien-Tsin, had them shot by their comrades in deference MISSIONARIES AND THEIR SUFFERINGS. 543 to their entreaties, rather than abandon them still living to thetender mercies of the Chinese who were in hot pursuit. DENOUNCED BY RELIGIOUS PAPERS. It would s
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