CHINESE IMPERIAL TROOPS. p 000 3300000000000000000000 | The "Ewers" of (Ihina. § gj A Secret Society Whose Object is to q S Exterminate Foreigners. Q 00000000000000000000000008 THE "Boxers," or "Righteous ness and Peace Fist Society," as they have been called, rep resent the periodical revolt of Chinese conservatism against the in flux of foreign influence and foreign methods. They originated with the people of the West rn provinces, large ly in Shantung, who looked aghast as they saw foreigners coming in and taking by force what they considered their own patrimony. Murmurings grew on every Land. This came to the knowledge of the Manchu leaders, al ready wondering how they were to hold their own against the twenty mil lions of young Chinese who, during the brief reform ndministartion, had acquired a taste of Western life with its opportunities and ambitions. It was not sufficient to gain control of the Government, replace the aggres sive Emperor by the reactionary Em press Dowager, secure the dismissal and flight of the reform leaders and hold the machinery in their hands. The poison of reform had spread all over the country, and was constantly CHINESE OUN CREW WITH FIELD PIECE. being instilled into the people in num berless ways. The only effective method was to expel the foreign ele ment, eradicate It altogether. Hence they looked with favor upon the new movement; encouraged it secretly, guarded it from interference, without, however, patrouizing it openly. When , the movement became so strong that the German authorities threatened to Interfere, it was transferred west and north, and appeared iu Pe-chiu-li, the province of Pekin. There must have been shrewd lend- ] ers among Ihe insurgents. They took j special pains, for the most part, to avoid op.u collision with European INTERIOR OF UNITED STATES LEGATION AT PEKIN. ( rt:« Is the courtynrl of MtuUter Couger's bousn In the Chlueae capital.) Governments. The foreigners them nelves, while aimed at, were reached by the peculiarity Chinese method of indirection. Their persons, with one exception, were not touched. It was their followers that felt the blow. Missionaries were left in safety, but native Christians were butchered. The movement grew, and the crowd became more open in its manifestations. The men drilled in the very square of re kin, and not a word was spoken from the Palace to hinder. In the provinces a quasi effort was made to suppress them, but with the order for suppres sion went a private order to the Gov ernor to be patient with the people, CENTRAL BUSINESS STREET IN PEKIN. whose intention was not evil, even if some of their actions could not be ap proved. At first the foreigu embassies contented themselves with protests. To these there came the usual form of Oriental assent, and the usual attend ant Oriental delay. As Pekin, how ever, was threatened, and the possi bility appeared of danger to the em bassies, the demands became more ur gent. Ships of war gathered at Tien tsin, and marines were landed and, de spite the protests of the Tsungli \'a meu, transported to the capital. The "Boxers" profess to be an or ganization for the cultivation of gym nastics, but, like the Turn Vereln, which so perturbed the retrograde gov ernments of Germany In the days of the Holy Alliance, they conduct a se cret political movement and uphold the ultra-conservative and anti-foreign tenets of that energetic, indomitable old lady and thorough-going reaction ary, the Empress Dowager. It is an open secret that the Manchus, the rul ing race in China, encouraged and sup ported the "Boxers," and probably it is to their patronage that the society owes its remarkably rapid spread from Shan-Tung, where is wns organized, throughout the whole province of Pe chln-li. TLe iise of a strong popular movement against Christians, foreign- ! ers and native reformers was undoubt- ( edly n consolation to the Manchu man- i darlns and the Empress. Indeed, last } January thc-y were referred to in tones of high approbation by the latter au gust personage, and. In consequence, it is impossible to withhold some meas ure of sympathy for the "Boxers" in the position in which they find them selves. They believed they were bask ing in the light of imperial favor, and the Dowager Empress's edict certainly lent color to that supposition. That edict, which it was understood at the time had special reference to the "Box ers," drew at once a wide distinction between "those reckless fellows who band together and create riots," in other words, seditious societies, and CITY GATE, PEKIN. "the submissive and loyal subjects" who "learn gymnastic drill for the pro tection of their families o unite the villages in their districts for mutual protection, in other words, the "Box ers." "But the local authorities." the edict went onto say, "make no distinction, j and, mistakenly listening to groundless rumors, treat them all as seditious sub- I jects and ruthlessly put them to death. ! '.'.'he instructions to the local officers j should be precise, that in all cases of ! this kind they should only Inquire j whether the men were rebels or not, ' and should not consider whether they j belong to a society or a religious sect." j Heading between the lines, the mean ing of the edict is plain. Free liberty j of nction was to be given to any so ciety which is loyal to the throne, | while stern suppression was to be j meted out to all those who. directly or , indirectly, belonged to disaffected as- j sociations. Edwin Ilurd Conger, United States | Minister at Pekin, under whose direc- ' tion American marines have been lauded for the protection of American interests against the "Boxers," was born in Knox County, Illinois, March 7, 1543. Mr. Conger is a man of will and nerve. He was educated in Lom bard University, graduating in the class of 1802. He turned from the schoolroom to military service in the Union Army. He began the study of law at the close of the war, and grad uated from the Albany Law School In EDWIN H. CONGER. (American Minister at Pekin.) 18GG. He first practiced law at Gales burg in 1808, and then removed to Dexter, lowa, where he became en gaged in farming, stock raising and banking. He was elected treasurer of Dallas County, lowa., In 1877, and again in 1879. In 1880 the Republi cans chose him for State Treasurer of lowa, and re-elected him In 1882. Af ter this he served three terms In Con gress, leaving his position there to become Envoy Extraordinary and Min ister Plenipotentiary to Brazil. From this his advancement to the Important post nt Pekin was rapid. He is ranked as one of the ablest of American rep resentatives in foreign countries. Hartals In Home*. In certain parts of Africa it is considered a mark of disrespect to bury out of doors at all. Only slaves are treated In such unceremonious fashion. The honored dead are bur led under the floor of the house. , ! A LIVING SAINT. ; Teresa of Mexico One of Ilia World's lie liiarknbln Woman. I The central figure in this picturesque nucl interesting group is one of tho most remarkable women in the world. She is nothing more or less than u liv ing "saint," who is not only worshiped SANTA TERESA OF MEXICO. by thousands of Indians and others, who actually go Into battle using her name as a war-cry, but she has been considered important enough to merit iinpleasant attentions from the Mexi can Government. It is the Yaqui In dians of Sonorn, Mexico, who worship this lady, "Santa Teresa," who, in the picture is seen performing her usual mission of healing the sick. The wom an herself resents all these attentions, both from the Indians and the Mexi can officials, and Jhe points out that she really cannot help it if her people sup pose she is of divine origiu. Never theless she has been ordered out of Mexico. The writer first heard of Santa Teresa from a Mexican lady of iinquestionable position, who, sceptical enough in the first instance, was yet afforded a remarkable demonstration of the woman's curing powers. "I found her," says this lady, "famous throughout all Mexico, and when I ame face to face with her I was sur prised to find a daintily-formed and ilmost beautiful Mexican lady, who oossessed the most marvelous eyes and most delicate hands I ever beheld." l>ver and over again she has left the vicinity of El Paso, Texas, whither she has been banished, in order to ivoid demonstrations, but she has neeu followed by hundreds of invalids ind others requiring assistance. Her power Is so great that it is even al leged that she was the cause of the tate war between the Yaquis and the Mexicans. Undoubtedly Santa Teresa possesses the hypnotic faculty in a marked degree. Wide World Maga zine. T.llluokalmil Return* to Hawaii. Iler former Majesty Lilluokalanl, ot the Hawaiian Islands, and party re cently left Washington for San Fran cisco. I-'rom there they go to Hono lulu, where the ex-queen will remain till December, when she will return to the United States to conclude her business affairs with this country. in the party were Robert W. Wilcox, Honolulu, a personal friend and ad viser to Lilluokalanl; Charles Hamil ton English, M. L)., Washington, her EX-QUEEN IjILIUOKAIIANI OF HAWAII. physician; Prince Heleluhe, Honolulu, private secretary and a wealthy laud owner of the islands, and the Princess Heleluhe, maid-in-waiting to the for mer queen. Count Alexander Valan ger, of Poland, who is on his way to Honolulu on a pleasure trip, also trav eled with the royal party. Liliuokalani was attired in black and around her neck wore a boa of bright red and yellow. She remained In her room all day, declining to see visitors. The Demand For liahoonfl. The lAboous and chimpanzees are ferocious and hard to handle, but bring good prices and there is always a demand for them. The opening of new zoological gardens throughout the United States has increased the trade in monkeys; but the American cir cus has always offset the greater num ber of zoos in Europe and has made this country n good monkey market. The clown and the monkeys are the two indispensable circus adjuncts. The rest of the outfit may be thin spread and unsatisfactory, but if the monkey and the clowns are 'n good working order, the children, at least, will get their money's worth. So the manager of even the smallest traveling circus keeps Ms monkey cages full, and, as the exposure kills oft the animals rap- Idly, he has to be constantly replenish ing "Vie stock. It is hard on the mon keys, tout the making of the dealers. England has exactly fifty times cs much lunatic asylum accommodation tter ueid of population as EgynU 264714 DE. TALMAGE'S SERMON. SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED DIVINE. rfubjfct: The Mi nt or All nooks—The lliblc's Divine Origin Upheld—Ful filled I'rophecle* of Ihe Ol<l Testament l'ruve Its .Emanation From God. [Copyright ltwu.l WASHINGTON, D. C.—ln the great con flict now ragini. in Europe, as in this coun try, between Christianity anil agnosticism l)r. Tnlinuge has taken a decided stand, and in this scimon declares his unwaver ing belief iu 1 he divine origin of the Scrip tures; text, Matthew vii, 16, "Do men gather graves of thorns?" Not in this country. Not in any coun try. '1 horns stick, thorns lacerate, b.it all the thorns put together never yielded one cluster of Catawba or Isabella grapes. Christ, who was the master of apt and po tent illustration, is thus setting forth what you and 1 well know—that you cannot get that which is pleasant and healthful and good from that which is bad. If you find a round, large, beautiful cluster ot* grape*, you know that it was produced by a good grapevine, and not from a tangle of Can ada thistle. Now, if I can show vou that tins Holy J'ihle yields good fruit, healthful fruit, grand l'ruit, splendid fruit, you will come to tiie conclusion it is a gord Bible, and all the arguments of the skeotic against it when he tries to show it is a bad book, will go overboard. Do men gather grapes of thorns? <*«n a bad took yield good results? Skep:ic4 with great vehemence declare that tho Bi ble is a cruel book. They read the story oi the extermination of the Canaaniies and o; all the ancient wars and of the lug tory of David and .loshua, and they come to the conclusion that the Bible is in fa vor of laceration and manslaughter and massacre. Now, a bad book will produce a bad result, a cruel book will produce a cruel result. You have friends who have been in the habit of reading the Bible a great many years. Have you noticed a tendency to cruelty on their part? Have you "ever heard any of them come out and practi cally say, "1 have been reading the story about the extermination of the Canaanites and I am seized upon with a disposition to cut and slash and maul and pinch and murder anil knock to pieces everything 1 can lay my hands on?" Have your friends in proportion as they become diligent Bi ble students and disciples of the Christ of the Bible, shown a tendency toward mas sacre and murder and manslaughter? Has that been your observation? What has been the effect upon your chil dren of this cruel book? Or, if you do not allow the book to be read in your house hold, what has been the effect upon the children of other households where the Word of Uod is honored.' Have they as a result of reading this cruel book gone forth with a cruel spirit to pull the wings off flies and to pinion grasshoppers and to rob birds' nests? A cruel book ought to make csuel people; if they diligently read | it and get absorbed with its principles that cause must produce that effect. At what time did you notice that the teachings of this Holy Bible created cruelty in the heart and the life of George l'eabody, of Miss Dix, of Florence Nightingale, of John Howard, of John Frederick Oberlin, ot Abbot Laurence? Have you noticed in reading the biography of these people that in proportion as they became friends of the Bible they became enemies to human ity? Have you not, on the contrary, no ticed that all the institutions of mercv were established, or, being established, were chiefly supported by the friends of this book? 'I here is the hospital in war ! time. There arc twenty Christian women. They are binding up wounds, they are of fering cordials, they are kneeling down by the dying, praying lor their departing spir its. Where does the cruelty crop out? They have been reading the Bible all their lives. They read it every morning; they I read it every night; they carry it under ; their arm when they go into the hospital. | Again, infidels goon and most vehc j niently charge that this Bible is an impure : book. You all know that an impure book produces impure results. No amount of | money could hire you to allow your child : to read an unclea book. Now, if this Bi ble be an impure book, where are the vic tims? Your father read it— did it make him a bad man? Your mother read it did it make her a bad woman? Your sis ter fifteen years in heaven uied in the faith of this gospel—did it despoil her na ture? Some say there are 200,000.000 cop ies of the Bible in existence; some say there are 400.000,000 copies of the Bible. It is | impossible to give the accurate statistics. But suppose there are 200,000,000 conies of the Bible abroad, this one book read more than any twenty books that the world ever printed, this book abroad for ages, for ages, tor centuries—where are the vic tims? Show me 1000; show ine 500 vic tims of an impure book; show me 100 de spoiled of the Bible; show nu fifty; show me ten; show me two; show me one. Two hundred million copies of an impure book, and not one victim of tne impurity. Oil the contrary, you know very well that it is where the Bible has the most power that the family institution is most respected. Again, agnostics goon still further, and they say the Bible is a mass of contradic tions, and they put prophet against pro phet, evangelist against evangelist, apos tle against apostle, and they say if th.she true how, then, can that be true. Mr. Mill, who was a friend of the Bible, said he had discovered 30,000 different read ings of the Scriptures and yet not one im portant difference out of 30,000, only the difference that you might expect from the fact that the book came down from gener ation to generation, and was copied by a great many hands. And yet 1 put betore you this tact to-day—that all the Bible writers agree in the four great doctrines of the Bible. What are these four great doctrines? God —good, kind, patient, just, loving, om nipotent. Man—a lost sinner. Two desti nies—one for believers, the other for un believers. All who accep. Christ reaching that home and only those destroyed who destroy themselves, only those who turn their back upon Christ and come to the precipice and jump off. for God never pushes a man off; he jumps off. Now, in these four great doctrines all the Bible writers agree. Mozart, Beethoven. Ilandel, Hadyn, never wrote more harmo nious music than you will find in this per- I'ect harmony of the Word of Hod, the har mony in providence and in grace. You must remember also that the au thors of the Bible came from different lands, from different ages anj from dif ferent centuries. They had no communica tion with each other, they did not have an idea as to what was the chief design of the Bible, and yet their writings, got up from all these different ages and all these dif ferent centuries, coming together, make a perfect harmony in the opinion of the very best scholars of all lands. Is not that a most remarkable fact? Again, intidels vehemently charge that the Bible is an unscientific book. In a former discourse I showed you that there was no collision between science and reve lation, and 1 went from point to point in the discussion. But now let us have au thority in this matter. You and I cannot give the forty or nicy or sixty ytars exclu sively to the study of science thr.t some men give. Let us have authority in this matter. Who says there is a collision between science and revelation? Well, Herbert Spencer, Tyndall, Darwin. They say there is a discord between science and revela tion. But 1 will bring you names of men who have found a perfect accord between icience and revelation, men as much Uigh ?r in intellectual character above those whom 1 have mentioned as the Alps and Mount Washington rnd the Himalayas tre higher than the hill back of your house, Herscnel, Kepler, Leibnitz, Itoss, Isaac Newton. My frier.'-, we arc in respecla blc company when we believe in tho \Vord of God—very respectable company. Now. I might. as infidels have failed tc prove that the I'ible is a cruel book, that the Bible is an impure look; that (he Bi ble is a contradictory book, that the Bi bie is r.n unscientific book—l might move a nonsuit in.this case of Infidelity, the plaintiff, agc.inst Christianity, the defend ant, but I will take advantage cf the circumstances. for when the skeptic goes onto say ;hat we are a gullible people, when he goes on to say. as he often does, that the Greater the improbability the more we like to believe it; when ho gnea onto say that the Bible is made up of a lot of manuscripts, one picked up here and another there and another from some other place, and that the whole thins; an imposition on the credulity of the hu man rare, [ must reply to that charge. The Bible is made no of the Old Testa ment and the New Testament. Let ua take the New Testament first. Whv do I believe it? Why do I take it to ir.v heart? It is because it can be traced bac'- to the divine heart just as easily as that aisle can be traced to that door and that aisle to that door. Jerome and Kusebitis in the first centurv and Origen in the second century and other writers in the third and fourth cen tv-ies gave a list of the New Testi.ment writers just exactly corresponding with our list, showing that the same New Tes tament which wc have they haa in the fourth centun-. and the third century and the second century and the first century. But where did they get the New Testa ment? Thev got it from Irenaeus. Where did Irenaeus get it? lie got it from Poly carn. Where did l'olycarp get it? He got it from St. John, who was the nersona! sociate of the Lord Jesus C.irist. My grandfather gave a book to my father, mv gave it to me, I give it to mv chuu. Is there any difficulty in tracing this line? On communion day I will start the cha lice at that end of the aisle, and the cha lice will pass along to the other end of the aisle. \\ ill it be difficult to trace the line of that holy chalice? No difficulty at all This one will say. "I cave it to that one." and this one will say, "I gave it to that one." But it will not be so long a line as this to trace the New Testament. It is easier to get -t the fact. l?ut you say: "Although this was handed right' down in that way, who knows but they were Iving imposters? How can you take their testi mony?" They died for the truth of that book. Men never die for a lie cheerfullv and triumphantly. They were not lying impostors. They died in triumph for the truthof that New Testament. "Well," says some one, "now I am ready to believe that the New Testament is from the heart of Christ, but how about the Old Testament? Why do you believe that?" 1 believe the Old Testament be cause the prophecies foretold events hun dreds and thousands of years ahead events which afterward took place. How far can you see ahead? Two thousand years? Can you see ahead a hundred years? Can you see ahead five minutes? No, no. Human prophecy amounts to nothing. Here these old prophets stood thousands of years back, and they foretold events which came accurately true far on in the future centuries. Suppose I should stand here and sr.y to you, "Twenty-five hundred and sixty years from now. three miles anil a half from the city of Moscow there will be an advent, and it will be in a certain family, and it will be amid certain sur roundings." It would make no impression upon you, because you know I cannot fore see a thousand years or one year or one minute, and I cannot tell what is going to transpire in a land far away. But that is what these old prophets did. You must remember that Tyre and ISahylon and Nineveh were ill full pomp and splendor when these prophecies, these old prophecies, said they would be de stroyed. i.'hose cities had architecture that makes the houses of modern cities per fectly insignificant. Vet these old pro phets walked right through those maguiti cent streets and said, "This has all got to come down; this is all going to be leveled." Besides that, you must remember that this book has been under tire fcr eentu ries, and after all the bombardment of the skeptics of all the centuries they have not knocked out of this iiible a piece as large as the small end of a sharp needle. Ua how the old book sticks together! I nsanctitied geologists try to pull away the book of Genesis, i'hey say they do not believe it.it cannot be there was light before the sun shone, it cannot be all this story about Adam and Eve, and they pull at tlie book of Genesis, and they have been pulling a great while, yet where is the book of Genesis? Standing just where it stood all the time, ihere is not a man on earth who has ever . ,;ed it from h;s Bi ble. And so the infidels have been tryiug to pull away the miracles, pulling away at the blasted fig tree, at the turning ot the water into wine, at the raising ot Lazarus from the dead. Can you show me a Bib.e from which oae of these miracles has been erasea? How marvelously the old book sticks to gether! All the striking at tuese chapters only driving them 111 deeper until they are clinched on the other side with the hum mers of eternity. And the book is going to keep right on until the tires of the last d-y are kindled. Some of them will begin on one side and some on the other side of the oid book They will not find a bundle of loose lnanu scripts easily consumed by the tire. \\ hen the tires of i last day are kin dled, some will . urn on this side, from Genesis toward Revelation, and others will burn on this side, trom Revelation toward lienesis, and in all their way they will not find a single chapter or a single verse out of place. That will be the first tune we can atlord to do without the Bible. What will be the use of thj book of Gen esis, descriptive gf how the world was made, when the world is destroyed? What will be the use of the prophecies when they are all fulfilled? What will be the use ol the evangelistic or l'auane description of Jesus Christ when we SCJ Him face to face; But I do not think we will give up the Bible even at that time. 1 think we will want the Bible in heaven. 1 really think the files of the last day will not consume the last copy, for when you and 1 <_■«. out dead children out ot the dust we waul' to show them just the passages, just the promises, which comforted us here in the dark day of interment, and we will want to talk over with Christians who have had trials and struggles, and we will want to show them the promises that especially re freshed us. I think we shall have the Bi ble in heaven. Oh, i want to hear David with his owr voice read, "The Lord is my shepherd;" 1 want to hear l'aul with his own voice read, "Thanks be unto God that giveth li the victory;" 1 want to hear the archangel play Paul's march of the resurrection with the same trumpet with which he awoke the dead! O blessed book, good enough for earth, good enough for heaven. Dea>* old book—book bespattered with the blood of martyrs who died for its de feuse, book sprinkled alt over witii the tears of those who by it were comforted! l'ut it in the hands of your children on their birthday: put it on the table in the sitting room when you begin to keep house; put it under your head when you die. Dear old book! 1 press it to my heart: 1 press it to my lips. "\\ here shall I go?' said a dying Hindoo to thj Brahmitic priest to whom he bad given monev to pray for his salvation. "Where shall 1 go after 1 die?" The Btahmitic priest said, "You will first ot aU go into a holv quadruped." "But," said the dying Hindoo, "where shall I go then?" "Then you shall go into a singing bird." "liut," said the dying Hindoo, "where then shall 1 go?" "Then," said the Brail mitic, "you will go into a beautiful flow er." The dying Hindoo threw up his arms in an agony of solicitation as he said, "But where shall I go last of all?" 'lhank God this Bible tells the Hindoo, tells you. tells me. not where I shall go to-day, not where I shall go to-morrow, not where 1 shall a* next year, but where 1 shall BJ last of ftflt
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