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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
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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