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Signs of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 52.

Christ Living in the Believer
Earlier text: THE INTER-CHURCH CONFERENCE ON FEDERATION

THE PEACE THAT PASSETH ALL UNDERSTANDING.

By Ellen G. White

BY MRS. E. G. WHITE.
BEFORE our Lord went to His agony on the cross, He made His will. He had no silver or gold or houses to leave to His disciples. He was a poor Man, as far as earthly possessions were concerned. Few in Jerusalem were so poor as He. But He left His disciples a richer gift than any earthly monarch could bestow on his subjects. “Peace I leave with you, My peace I give unto you,” He said; “not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.”
He left them the peace which had been His during His life on the earth, which had been with Him amidst poverty, buffeting, and persecution, and which was to be with Him during His agony in Gethsemane and on the cruel cross.
The Saviour’s life on this earth, tho lived in the midst of conflict, was a life of peace. While angry enemies were constantly pursuing Him, He said, “He that sent Me is with Me; the Father hath not left Me alone; for I do always those things that please Him.” No storm of satanic wrath could disturb the calm of that perfect communion with God. And He says to us, “My peace I give unto you.”
Those who take Christ at His word, and surrender their souls to His keeping, their lives to His ordering, will find peace and quietude. Nothing of the world can make them sad when Jesus makes them glad by His presence. In perfect acquiescence there is perfect rest. The Lord says, “Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on Thee; because he trusteth in Thee.”
It is the love of self that destroys our peace. While self is alive, we stand ready continually to guard it from mortification and insult; but when self is dead, and our life hid with Christ in God, we shall not take neglects or slights to heart. We shall be deaf to reproach, and blind to scorn and insult. “Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not its own, is not provoked, taketh not account of evil; rejoiceth not in unrighteousness, but rejoiceth with the truth; beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. Love never faileth.”
Every man’s experience testifies to the truth of the words of Scripture: “The wicked are like the troubled sea, when it can not rest. . . . There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.” Sin has destroyed our peace. While self is unsubdued we find no rest. The masterful passions of the heart no human power can control. We are as helpless here as were the disciples to quiet the raging storm. But He who spoke peace to the billows of Galilee, has spoken the word of peace for every soul. However fierce the tempest, those who turn to Jesus with the cry, “Lord, save us,” will find deliverance. His grace, which reconciles the soul to God, quiets the strife of human passion, and in His love the heart is at rest. “He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still. Then are they glad because they be quiet; so He bringeth them unto their desired haven.” “Being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.” “The work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness, quietness and assurance forever.”
“The mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but My kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of My peace be removed, saith the Lord that hath mercy on thee.” When we receive Christ into the soul as an abiding guest, the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, will keep our hearts and minds. There is no other ground of peace than this. The grace of Christ, received into the heart, subdues enmity; it allays strife, and fills the soul with love. He who is at peace with God and his fellow men, can not be made miserable. Envy will not be in his heart; evil surmisings will find no room there; hatred can not exist. The heart that is in harmony with God is a partaker of the peace of heaven, and will diffuse its blessed influence all around. The spirit of peace will rest like dew upon hearts weary and troubled with worldly strife.

THE TEN COMMANDMENTS AND GENTILES.

By E. L. Maxwell

BY E. L. MAXWELL.
THAT the whole Ten-Commandment law was binding on all men before Israel came out of Egypt, and that the Gentiles were held amenable to it, being punished for its violation, is often denied by those who would excuse their disobedience of the fourth precept on the ground of being Gentiles. But this excuse is shown to be without foundation by a consideration of many texts, some of which are noticed here.
All will admit that Canaanites or Amorites, who inhabited Palestine before the Exodus, and the Egyptians, were Gentiles in the fullest sense. Then if it can be shown that they were held accountable for violation of the Ten Commandments before this law was spoken from Sinai, there remains no reason why all Gentiles were, and are, not amenable to the same law.
In Lev. 18: 6 there begins a list of prohibitions against particular sins. This is prefaced by the statement: "Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, and say, . . . After the doings of the land of Egypt . . . shall ye not do; and after the doings of the land of Canaan . . . shall ye not do." Verses 1-3. The list closes with these words: "Ye shall therefore keep all My statutes, and all Mine ordinances; that the land . . . vomit you not out. And ye shall not walk in the customs of the nation which I cast out before you; for they did all these things, and therefore I abhorred them. . . . And ye shall be holy unto Me; for I, Jehovah, am holy, and have set you apart from the peoples, that ye should be Mine." Lev. 20: 22-26, A. R. V.
The only reason given for casting out the nations mentioned is that given in verse 23, "for they did all these things, and therefore I abhorred them." And an examination of the "things" mentioned reveals the fact that God held them to account for violating every command of the Decalogue, as the following will show:
Commandments noted—(First) Lev. 18: 21; 19: 4; 20: 2. (Second) Lev. 19: 4. (Third) Lev. 19: 12. (Fourth) Lev. 19: 3, 30. (Fifth) Lev. 19: 3; 20: 9. (Sixth) Lev. 19: 17. (Seventh) Lev. 18: 20; 19: 29; 20: 10. (Eighth) Lev. 19: 11. (Ninth) Lev. 19: 11, 16. (Tenth) Lev. 19: 10, 35, 36.
Inasmuch, then, as the Gentiles of Canaan and Egypt were held amenable to, and were punished for violation of, this law before it was spoken from the mountain, we are forced to conclude that it was binding on all men at that time; and where not obscured by a "conscience seared" through persistent disobedience, it was known to all. Not being local or applicable to a special people then, it is no more so now, but it still stands to be used of the spirit in convincing the world of sin. John 16: 18, margin.
Have you been treating lightly the claims of this "holy, and just, and good" law, supposing all the while that Gentiles are not required to keep it? Then, as you see the truth overthrow this pet theory of the great deceiver, come to Jesus, and unite with Him who came to magnify the law, "not to abolish it." He will gladly hear your cry for pardon, dry your tears of repentance, forgive your transgression of His Father’s law, and strengthen you to go on your way rejoicing. Not that you have been made righteous by the abolition of the law, but that you have been washed and made "white in the blood of the Lamb," and that you may "go, and sin no more."

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.

By California Christian Advocate

THERE is no malady more difficult of treatment than Christian Science. It is a system based upon the physical weakness of humanity with an appeal to mental pride. Its impulse is fanaticism. It is a determination to evade the indictment of conscience. There are tens of thousands of people living in the twilight of Christianity. They have a dim and imperfect knowledge of what salvation by faith in Christ is, but they have no adequate conception of the constitution of religion. They think it is a sort of patent medicine for physical ills primarily. There is not much organic strength in the Christian Science system. It is largely a reaction from materialistic rationalism on the one hand and Christian indifferentism on the other. The way to fight Christian Science is to proclaim a real Christ, and wake up along the line, and go to work for the salvation of our neighbors.—California Christian Advocate.

CEREMONIAL AND MORAL LAW DISTINGUISHED.

By W. A. Gosmer

(Concluded.)

God's Sabbath Not a Type or Shadow.

ANOTHER reason why the Sabbath days here included in the typical economy could not have reference to the weekly Sabbath is, that the Sabbath of the Fourth Commandment never was a type or a shadow of anything. It was instituted and fully appointed at the creation of the world, before sin entered, and consequently before types and shadows were needed. Instead of being a shadow of anything to come, it points unfailingly back to creation. Types and shadows were needed to point forward to the remedy for sin, only after sin entered. And as we have seen, the Sabbath day was set apart before the entrance of sin; and, too, there is nothing about the Sabbath day which suggests type or shadow.
Speaking of the handwriting of ordinances, and the ceremonial days of Col. 2:16, Dr. Adam Clarke says:
The apostle speaks here in reference to some particulars of the handwriting of ordinances, which had been taken away, viz., the distinction of meats and drinks, what was clean and what unclean, according to the law; and the necessity of observing certain holy days or festivals, such as the new moons, and particular sabbaths, or those which should be observed with more than ordinary solemnity; all these had been taken out of the way and nailed to the cross, and were no longer of moral obligation. There is no intimation here that the Sabbath was done away, or that its moral use was superseded, by the introduction of Christianity. I have shown elsewhere that "Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy" is a command of perpetual obligation, and can never be superseded but by the final termination of time.
Dr. Albert Barnes, speaking of the same text, says:
"Or in respect of a holy day." . . . The word rendered "holy day"—heortē—means properly a feast or festival, and the allusion here is to the festivals of the Jews. . . . "Or of the Sabbath days" (Greek, "of the sabbaths"). The word sabbath in the Old Testament is applied not only to the seventh day, but to all the days of holy rest that were observed by the Hebrews, and particularly to the beginning and close of their great festivals. There is, doubtless, reference to those days in this place, as the word is used in the plural number. . . . There is not the slightest reason to believe that he meant to teach that one of the Ten Commandments had ceased to be binding on mankind. If he had used the word in the singular number—the Sabbath—it would then, of course, have been clear that he meant to teach that that commandment had ceased to be binding, and that a Sabbath was no longer to be observed. But the use of the term in the plural number, and the connection, show that He had His eye on the great number of days which were observed by the Hebrews as festivals, as a part of their ceremonial and typical law, and not to the moral law or the Ten Commandments. No part of the moral law—no one of the Ten Commandments, could be spoken of as "a shadow of good things to come." These commandments are from the nature of the moral law, of perpetual and universal obligation.
The American Tract Society, in "New Testament with Notes," says:
"Judge you;" pronounce you good or bad, according to your treatment of the ceremonial law. A holy day—sabbath days; in the original, a festival-sabbath. The days referred to are those required to be observed in the ceremonial law—days associated by God with meats, drinks, and new moons. The passage does not refer to the Sabbath of the moral law, associated with the commands forbidding theft, murder, and adultery. The weekly Sabbath was never against men or contrary to them, but always for them, and promotive of their highest good. The observance of it caused them to ride upon the high places of the earth, and to possess the heritage of God's people. Isa. 58:13, 14; Jer. 17:21-27.

PREPARE WAR.

By H. S. Harriman

BY H. S. HARRIMAN.
WHILE the most energetic efforts are being put forth to establish universal peace among the nations, yet the world goes on arming itself on the most gigantic scale, and, in breathless silence as it were, is patiently awaiting results of the great peace conference, where representatives of two powerful nations were assembled, and arranged conditions for a peaceful settlement in a great and cruel war, in which was fearfully demonstrated the horrible result of death-dealing machinery, invented for the special purpose of wholesale destruction, and human slaughter. And thousands upon thousands, with one accord as it were, with aching hearts and trembling voices are continually pleading before the throne of mercy, praying that we may be further spared from that which has already caused the sacrifice of tens of thousands of innocent souls, and bringing wreck and ruin to as many loving homes, and who against their own wills were forced to enter into the defense of a heartless nation, whose only motive is to gratify the lust of human greed.
Yet this cry of Peace, peace does not portend peace. While the recent difficulty between Russia and Japan has been adjusted, yet there are other problems the solving of which, through international entanglements, may still involve the world in universal war. Prophetic students have long been watching for just such events as are now occurring in the affairs of nations, and were it not for that which is written in the "sure Word of prophecy" concerning the "day of God's vengeance," then we could better hope that the present efforts would be rewarded with success. But the signs on every hand are now so plainly written that all may read.
Instead of peace for the future we may rather look for the sword, and a time of trouble such as never was since there was a nation. These are the times of which men of God who spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost, have written; and among the many events which are now taking place, there are none more startling than present distress of nations with perplexity. There are good reasons for the general alarm now manifest concerning international dangers, of which the majority are willingly ignorant. The time is not far distant when it will be demonstrated to the whole world that the power of nations, like that also of the individual, is only human. "Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the Lord's wrath." Zeph. 1:14-18. If these are the times, afore stated, and the words of God's holy prophets have been rightly applied, then we may reasonably expect the failure of all human efforts to establish a lasting peace.
While with horror and amazement we gaze upon the darkness that is fast approaching a sin-cursed world, yet we should try to fully realize that our hope lies beyond the darkness.
From the lips of Him who spake as never man spake before, we learn that we are now living in times compared with the days that were before the Flood. We may look for evil men and seducers to wax worse and worse, and not better and better, as is so commonly taught. Present conditions must eventually result in a complete overturning of all human affairs, by war, plague, pestilence, and famine.
Another startling "sign of the times" which will also add its terrors in the coming time of trouble, may be seen in the struggle now impending between labor and capital, which already gives sufficient cause for anxiety and alarm, the final result of which may be found recorded in James 5, which conditions were to immediately precede the coming of the Lord, in which event lies the world's only hope.
The Czar of Russia, the Mikado of Japan, and even President Roosevelt himself, are commanded by God's holy prophet to obey the proclamation to the Gentile world which may be found written in Joel 3:9-14, and is in part as follows: "Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near," etc. Instead of universal peace, they are commanded to beat their plowshares into swords, and their pruning-hooks into spears, and the weak are to say, "I am strong." How far the nations of earth have given heed to the above proclamation may be seen in their efforts of late in doubling the strength of their naval forces, each striving to outdo the other in an effort to procure the very latest devices in the art of death-dealing machinery to be used in the wholesale destruction of human life.
This great prophecy, like that of James 5, applies also to conditions that were to obtain just previous to the second coming of the Lord, when there are "multitudes, multitudes, in the valley of decision; for the day of the Lord is near, in the valley of decision." Joel 3:14. Until the kingdoms of this world are become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ, we may still expect that the thoughts and imaginations of men's hearts will be but continually evil. And Jesus Himself says, "As it was in the days of Noah," they "knew not until the Flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of Man be." It is also said, "When they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them; and they shall not escape."
These are Christ's words, and not mine, and the present movement to establish conditions which would insure universal peace will prove abortive. In Jer. 25:28, it is written, "And it shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at thine hand to drink, then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Ye shall certainly drink."

THE MASTER'S HAND.

By Horatius Bonar

In the still air the music lies unheard; In the rough marble beauty hides unseen; To make the music all the beauty needs A master's touch, the sculptor's chisel keen.
Great Master, touch us with Thy skilled hand; Let not the music that is in us die; Great Sculptor, hew and polish us, nor let, Hidden and lost, Thy form within us lie!
Spare not the stroke! Do with us as Thou wilt! Let there be naught unfinished, broken, marred; Complete Thy purpose, that we may become Thy perfect image, Thou our God and Lord! —Horatius Bonar.

Controversy Yields Little Good

"CONTROVERSY hardly ever yields good fruit."

Do Nothing Without God’s Glory

"WHATEVER you can not do to the glory of God, leave undone."

"COME . . . LET US REASON TOGETHER."

By Will Wood

DEAR HEAVENLY FATHER, why do I say "Forgive me for Jesus' sake?" Why canst Thou not forgive me for my own sake? Art Thou not forgiving enough? Art Thou not kind-hearted enough to let a little thing go without holding me responsible, without taking vengeance for it, without punishing me for things, even tho they are things that are against Thee? Art Thou not merciful enough to do so? And if once, canst Thou not do so again? and again? and again? Dost not Thy mercy endure forever? Let me hear from Thee. Thy Word says that tho my sins "be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow." Why canst Thou not just forgive me my sins and let them go for the sake of being kind to me? And, of course, if to me, to all, for all are as worthy as I am.
"Well, dear child, I do so love thee as thou hast suggested. My mercy does endure forever. I am forgiving enough, kind-hearted enough, to let it all go and say nothing about it, as far as My own feelings are concerned. But suppose that I were never to interfere with thy actions, with thy sins, with thy transgressions of My law, would they not of themselves work death in thee? Would not the acts themselves kill thee? finally, if permitted to carry themselves out, bring actual destruction upon thee?"
Yes, Lord, I see that.
"Well, then, not having killed thee, would I be under any obligation to raise thee up? Having done things of thine own choice that of themselves destroyed thee, would I be obliged to raise thee up? Having worked for the wages of sin which is death, and having gotten thy wages and finding thyself dead, would I be under any obligation to raise thee up?"
No, Lord, I see that Thou wouldst not, and still Thou wouldst be just and fair.
"Then whose shall those things be that thou hast prepared?" What would My being willing that thou shouldst live and go on in sin amount to if thou wert dead and unable to rise up and go on?"
Nothing, Lord.
"Now another thing, dear child; suppose I should raise thee up. Having in one lifetime consented to sin, wouldst thou not do so in another?"
Yes, Lord, I see that.
"And if I raised thee up unworthily once could I consistently refuse to do so the second time, and if a second time, as often as thou didst perish?"
No, Lord, I see that Thou couldst not.
"Well, dear child, dost thou wish Me to perpetuate sin? to perpetuate destruction?"
No, Lord, I do not. But, Lord, listen to a word from me. If Thou dost give me the privilege of choice and I use it to sin, is not Thy system a failure? Can it not truthfully be said that the Lord's arm is shortened that He can not save?
"Yes, My child, that is true; but if I, Myself, pay the price of thy sin, then may I not consistently place thee the second time upon thy feet, providing thou dost accept of the gift?"
Yes, Lord.
"And if I do so, do I not prove that My mercy "endureth forever," that I really am kind-hearted, forgiving? Do I not demonstrate that My arm is not shortened that I can not save?"
Yes, Lord, thou dost.
"Again, dear child, if sin works death, if the "wages of sin is death," to see that the wages are collected, I must see that there is death. If thou art not to be the one who dies, the One who gave thee life must take thy place, as only He who can give life can consistently withhold life. That means either I, Myself, must die, or My Son, for only He and I are able to give life. My Son created thee and I have consented to His offer to die in thy place. If thou wilt accept this Gift, this Son, if thou wilt continue to pray, "Forgive me for Jesus' sake," I shall be glad indeed to hear thee and forgive thee, to have mercy on thee and to let all the things thou hast done go, and "remember them against thee no more." What dost thou say?"
Lord, I say, "Amen." Dear heavenly Father, I cry, "Forgive me for Jesus' sake." I admit that Thou hast demonstrated that Thy arm is not shortened that Thou canst not save, and that Thou art kind-hearted and forgiving, even to the last degree, and that Thy mercy truly endureth forever.
Chicago, Ill.

BAPTISM.

By Pauline Schilberg

BY PAULINE SCHILBERG.
‘God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform.’
WONDERFUL is the record of God’s dealings with the children of Israel. Our hearts are stirred as we read of His long-suffering toward them. Times without number did they turn away from the Lord, and grieve Him. Again and again He forgave them, and stood by them, delivering them from their enemies. Step by step they went downward, till, by rejecting God’s proffered mercies, their hearts had become so hardened that they could even reject and crucify their King, the Redeemer of the world.
‘Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah,’ etc. Jer. 31:31. Before Christ came God commanded Israel to observe ordinances and sacred rites, as an acknowledgment of their faith in the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world; but when type met Antitype, these passed away.
Since the new covenant was ratified by His death, Christ has given us two emblems of the great work He has wrought for our salvation. These are the ordinances of the Lord’s Supper, in commemoration of His death, and baptism, in commemoration of His burial and resurrection. In His wonderful self-sacrifice Christ has left us an example that we should follow His steps. 1 Peter 2:21. He also says, ‘He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved.’ We see clearly that faith precedes baptism. Peter, on the day of Pentecost said, ‘Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.’
Now it is true that we do not observe this rite in order to be saved. We do not do anything as a means of saving ourselves. We are saved by grace, through faith. Our actions, our lives, will show whether we have faith or not. God takes our faith, and measures it by our works. If we believe, and God gives us light concerning these things, it is our duty to manifest our faith by taking part in this form. We have put off the old man, we are dead to sin and to the world; we must now be buried with Christ in baptism. We are baptized into His death, that even as He was raised from the dead, so we should walk in newness of life, if so be that we have put on Christ.’ Rom. 6:4.
Only those who are dead should be buried. If our affections are set on things above, and we are dead to the world, we have a right to be buried with Christ in baptism. Col. 2:12; 3:1-3. If the old man is truly dead and buried, the things of this world will not charm the soul. The principles of righteousness have been implanted in the heart; the individual has been born from above, and raised to a new life.
The Word of God is a sure foundation, and those who will but look and live, can not fail to see what God has in it for them. The above-mentioned scriptures with such as Matt. 3:16; Mark 1:10; Acts 8:38, 39, establish beyond a doubt the true mode of baptism. But Satan is ever ready to give error for truth. Therefore the Lord exhorts us all to be on our guard. ‘And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.’
South Lancaster, Mass.

POWER BETTER THAN KNOWLEDGE.

UNNECESSARY knowledge is promised to none of God's children; power for the work just ahead is promised to all. Just before Christ's ascension, when He was giving the eleven their last instructions, they asked Him, with a natural desire to know when to expect the fulfilment of His purposes, whether the time had now come when He would restore the kingdom to Israel. But they would have done their work no better for knowing,—probably not as well,—therefore His answer: "It is not for you to know times or seasons, which the Father hath set within His own authority. But ye shall receive power." That same denial, and that same pledge, are made to us to-day. They are sufficient.—S. S. Times.

The Word of God Endures

By Dr. John Cumming

The empire of Cæsar is gone; the legions of Rome are moldering in the dust; the avalanches Napoleon hurled upon Europe have melted away; the pride of the Pharaohs is fallen; the pyramids they raised to be their tombs are sinking every day in the desert sands; Tyre is a rock for bleaching fishermen's nets; Sidon has scarcely left a rock behind, but the Word of God still survives. All things that threatened to extinguish it have only aided it; and it proves every day how transient is the noblest monument that man can build, how enduring is the least word that God has spoken. Tradition has dug for it a grave, intolerance has lighted for it many a fagot; many a Judas has betrayed it with a kiss; many a Peter has denied it with an oath; many a Demas has forsaken it, but the Word of God still endures.—Dr. John Cumming.

Scripture Promises and Faith

By John Berridge

Scripture promises are real bank notes of heaven, and the true riches of believers, who do not live on stock-in-hand, but traffic with this paper currency. Where divine faith is found, it takes the note to Christ's bank, and receives the cash. But human faith can not traffic with this paper; it reads the notes, and owns them good, but dares not take them to the skies for payment. No faith can truly act on God but that which comes from God.—John Berridge.

THE RECENT MURDER OF MISSIONARIES IN CHINA.

By Editor

FROM the China Mail, published at Hongkong, we get some particulars of the murderous affair at Lienchan. From this account it would seem that the uprising was the result of the American boycott agitation, rather than an anti-Christian feeling. This is assumed from the fact that no native Christians were attacked by the mobs that looted and burned the mission buildings, and murdered some of the attachés. The Mail says:
On the morning of the massacre, October 28, Dr. Machle, when on his way from his residence to the men's hospital, passed a temple, near to which a temporary bamboo structure had been erected, where a la hsiu was in progress. At his request three old men followed him to his hospital, and he talked with them about their having erected the bamboo structure on mission property.
He called their attention to the fact that they would be justly offended if he should build a chapel on their land, and told them that he could not consent to their erecting a structure for their worship on mission property. Several persons standing by spoke up and said: "The foreigner is talking justice. That is right."
The elders then told Dr. Machle that the last performance and the feast were to occur that evening, that the structure would be removed the next day, and so the matter was pleasantly arranged.
The entire conversation occupied about ten, or at the most fifteen, minutes, and the elders were turning away apparently perfectly satisfied.

Armed Roughs.

Just then a crowd of younger men, a rough looking set, one of them with a drawn revolver, several armed with Chinese pikes, carrying poles, etc., rushed up, and, as Dr. Machle entered the hospital, one of them struck him on the shoulder. Then stones were thrown, one of which, glancing from a window, hit Dr. Machle in the forehead, but, as its force was spent it inflicted no injury. The elders remonstrated with the crowd and they dispersed.
A little later Dr. Machle saw another crowd around a guard boat on which Dr. Chestnut had taken refuge. That crowd was temporarily dispersed. A message was then sent to the officials.
Dr. Machle went on back to his house, a "seven-minute walk" from the hospital, supposing that there was no longer any special danger of trouble at the hospital. Not long after he got to the house, however, two persons came from the women's hospital, which was located near the men's hospital, saying that the crowd were looting the hospital, had taken everything of value, and one of the persons who brought the report had been seriously injured.

Misleading Assurances.

While Dr. Machle was dressing his wound, a Chinese official came. A little later other officials came, the highest civil and military magistrate in the district.
They came without arms, and the soldiers who came with them were without arms. The officials assured the missionaries that they need not fear any further trouble, that all would soon be quiet.
In a few minutes, however, the women's hospital was reported to be on fire. In quick succession, the other buildings down near the river were set on fire, the women's school, the men's hospital, the church, the native pastor's residence, and theological students' dormitory.
Still, the officials all remained up on the hill and assured the missionaries that they need not fear, that the crowd would certainly not come up on the hill where the mission residences were located.
The burning of the buildings near the river occupied a surprisingly little time, scarcely more than an hour, and about twelve o'clock the crowd was seen starting toward the residences. About that time the officials suggested to Dr. Machle that all missionaries get into a boat and go to the yamen, across the river in the city. But no boat was prepared. The party went down to the river and a ferry-boat that had started from the opposite shore stopped in the middle of the stream, the boatman, pretending for awhile to be coming to one shore, finally returned to the other shore.
Then the men who were pretending to guide the missionaries suggested that they go to the temple, adjoining which was a cave. But they soon found that the temple-keeper was unfriendly; then they thought to flee into the country, but the mob was too close after them. So they took refuge in the cave. Here they had a rough experience, being scattered and trying to hide in various ways. Dr. Machle sunk himself in water, with only his eyes protruding, where he remained for several hours. A Miss Patterson was hid in a well with a very small opening, but wider at the bottom. The searchers looked in the well by the light of their torches, but failed to notice her. Mrs. Machle could not get through the small aperture.
Chinese Weavers.
Chinese Weavers.

Dr. Machle and Miss Patterson Rescued.

Eventually Dr. Machle heard some one call him, and recognized the magistrate, who assured him that the mob had dispersed. Then another man assisted in finding and rescuing Miss Patterson from the pit in which she had hidden. This man had befriended her because at one time he had received help at the hospital. It was he who had shown her the hiding-place.

Attack on the Women.

The accounts of the massacre of the other missionaries are given by Chinese who witnessed the awful atrocities. I shrink from writing all that I have heard. Much must be left for the readers to imagine. The women were not spared the worst. Innocent little Annie Machle was the first to be put to death. She and Dr. Chestnut were the first ones found by the mob. They were stripped of all clothing and were thrown uninjured into the river. Dr. Chestnut could swim, and safely reached a sand bar out in the river. Little Annie caught hold of some bushes growing on the river bank, and so kept above water.
For some ten minutes they were let alone by the crowd who were interested elsewhere. But finally a heartless wretch ran a spear through the head of little Annie, and a number of men went out into the river, and one ran a three-pronged instrument through Dr. Chestnut's body and thus killed her. The two bodies were then brought ashore and were beaten and stabbed by the inhuman wretches, and finally, when scarcely recognizable as human bodies, they were again thrown into the river.
Mrs. Machle was the next one discovered. She was stripped and exposed to the ridicule of the crowd, then run through with a spear, beaten, and her lifeless body pierced again and finally thrown into the river.

Shocking Treatment of the Peales.

After an interval of about half an hour Mr. and Mrs. Peale were found. They were stripped of all clothing, and put up on an elevated place in full view of the crowd. They were made to stay there for about a half an hour, enduring jibes and jeers and insults. In vain Mr. Peale made efforts to shield his wife. Finally a miscreant crept up from behind and crushed him to the ground with a heavy stone. While his wife was forced to look on, his body was pierced through and through, and beaten until it was a shapeless mass. Then Mrs. Peale was beaten down with a heavy club, her body treated much as the rest had been, and with that of her husband was thrown into the river.
Thus ended the wild orgie, and with loud rejoicing the frenzied, bloodthirsty crowd went off to feast, leaving several scores to search the caves for the two missing ones. Fortunately darkness made it possible for the officials to rescue them in the manner already related.

Another Suspicious Feature.

The Mail's report gives another feature of the affair that would indicate that anti-Americanism was at the bottom of it. French Catholics are very influential in that vicinity. The reporter, writing from the scene, says:
The ringleaders in the mob the day of the massacre were recognized by the Protestant Christians as Catholics. To give further color to the idea that the Catholics had some connection with the affair, the French priests, altho several times requested to help quiet the crowd, the civil magistrate himself sending a special request to them, refused to do anything. I presume that the officials, if it is possible to suppose that they sincerely desired to protect the foreigners, recognized the ringleaders as Catholics, and knew that the priests could influence them, and so sent the request. At any rate, the French priests were not molested.

Boycott Influence.

The boycott agitation, to say the least, had got the people so aroused that they were ready for just such an outbreak as occurred. The Chinese are disposed to deny that the people of Lienchan knew anything about the boycott. But the day before Dr. Machle and party reached Lienchan, he was on shore at a small town selling Christian tracts. A man who had bought some tracts brought them back, saying, "If these tracts are American, I want you to give me my money and take them back." Similar things occurred a number of times that day. After they got to Lienchan they noted repeated evidences of the effect of the boycott agitation. Boycott placards were posted all through the city, and the elders had applied to Canton headquarters for large supplies of boycott literature.

WHERE ARE THEY?

By Church Spectacles

WHERE are those watchmen, faithful, true, Who sleep not all the dark night through, Who see the danger from afar, And promptly all the truth declare, Unmoved by smiles or frowns of men, Whoe'er they are, whate'er their clan, Who love the flock and not the fleece; Who'd rather work than take their ease; Who'd rather serve than be a guest; Who never swerve to please the rest; Who love their Master and His way, And never fret about the pay, But, faithful to their trust, go on, That they may hear the word, "Well done." —Church Spectacles.
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