. 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 . ement as something abnormal, alto-gether unrelated to the common beliefs and practices ofthe Chinese. It is but one manifestation of a supersti-tion that shows itself in a thousand forms, and onlyChristianity and civilization can efifectually cure or de-stroy this malady. Fifth, inability of our Consuls and Ministers to dealwith Chinese officials. The Ministers in Peking have probably realized bythis time that the Empress Dowagers coup d etal was
. 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 . ement as something abnormal, alto-gether unrelated to the common beliefs and practices ofthe Chinese. It is but one manifestation of a supersti-tion that shows itself in a thousand forms, and onlyChristianity and civilization can efifectually cure or de-stroy this malady. Fifth, inability of our Consuls and Ministers to dealwith Chinese officials. The Ministers in Peking have probably realized bythis time that the Empress Dowagers coup d etal was notmerely the petty family squabble they aflfected to believeit was. Onlookers proverbially see most of the game. Incentral China we not only saw it; we saw through , therefore, to the partition error, and to whatseemed to the Chinese mischievous assumpiton of au- REASONS FOR THE MOVEMENT. 29 thority by the Roman Catholic missionary, we attributeour present difficulties to the mis judgment of events byour Consuls and Ministers. Time and time again have the Consuls and Ministersbeen advised to deal with officials as the source of riots,. THE RECEPTION GIVEN BY THE EMPRESS DOWAGER TO THELEGATION LADIES AFTER SHE HAD DEPOSED THE EM-PEROR. etc., and not accept the heads of a few poor coolies (whoin many cases were bought up for a few thousand cash)to expiate the crime of some official or gentry, as it wasdone in the first Tientsin massacre. At other times a few 30 CHINA AND THE BOXERS. thousand Mexican dollars were received and the mur-derers cleared. Especially was this so in the Sung-pucase, and the settlement of the last called forth the fol-lowing prayer from an exile at Ichang:Because, O Lord, there is none other wayWhereby we may escape these evil we are as jetsam on the strand,Forgotten of our country and our kin,We, who join East to West, the pioneersOf many better days that are to be;Because we, ever toiling overseas,We who have sold our heritage, our
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