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Title: 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
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Beals, Zephaniah Charles
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Publisher: New York, M.E. Munson
Contributing Library: School of Theology, Boston University
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston University

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es of a number of them in the treaty ports are an out-rage on all the best ideas of the natives and a libel onWestern civilization. In the Boxer placards it has beensaid that foreign men disregard all the human obliga-tions and their women commit adultery. Now, in no in-stance can this be asserted of the missionaries in China,but, unfortunately, it does hold true of a certain minorityamong the foreign residents. Instead of clamoring forthe expulsion of all foreign residents because of the sinsof the few, the missionaries are level-headed enough tosee that what is needed is not expulsion, but decided pro-test by all those foreigners who desire the higher stand-ards of their respective nations to be emphasized in thisland. The protest should be made privately and publicly,both in and out of the press, so that the natives aroundus can plainly see that foreign public opinion does notfor a moment condone what its highest ideals distinctlycondemn. The man or woman of foreign birth who lives
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A TYPICAL boxer/ WITH ALL HIS IMPLEMENTS OF WARFARE. 134 CHINA AND THE BOXERS. an immoral life, the foreigner who ill-treats a coolie as hewould not dare for an instant to treat a common cabman;the Westerner, be he an ordinary private individual or acity father, who encourages, establishes or patronizes lot-teries ; in fact, any among the foreign communities inChina who any way lower the standard of life they havein the home lands been taught to respect and aim at, domore to prepare the way for corrupt officials, bent onstirring up the ignorant people of China, than all the mis-takes of all the missionaries put together. The writer iswell aware that among certain conceited, sick-brainedcircles it is fashionable to deride the methods, objects andpersonal characters of missionaries; and while not claim-ing for them absolute perfection, nor asserting that theyare free altogether of minor errors, it is certain that, tak-ing them in a body, the percentage of those among themthat are actuat

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