stantly showed that forgiving spirit which characterizes a true Christian. Immediately after the riots, with all the horrors of what she herself had passed through and what she had heard from every direction of the fiendish cruelty of the Boxers, fresh on her heart and mind, she writes to her sister at Bradford, "And now I do not want my sister to say or think anything about the Boxers more severe than is consistent with John 16:3: 'These things will they do unto you because they know not the Father nor Me.' Jesus never told how wicked the people were who wanted to kill Him or persecute His followers, but only said it was because they did not know God that they did these things. Saul was a 'Boxer,' and when God converted him, he converted the leader of the Boxers. So we should pray for these men rather than be talking about them."

The gathering at Shanghai of so many missionaries who, having survived the terrible riots, had come from all parts of China, was a most interesting event. The many thrilling and marvelous deliverances that some of them were enabled to tell to the glory of God, greatly encouraged the faith of the missionaries; while the many reports of he roic devotion to duty resulting in martyrdom for Christ, although it saddened the joy of their own deliverances, yet strengthened their confidence in their own calling and filled them with courage to begin anew the work so rudely interrupted. Miss Leffingwell gives an interesting instance of deliverance from death. "There was a lady missionary whom the Boxers told to kneel down and have her

head cut off (as kneeling for this purpose is a favorite method of execution). The lady knelt as told; but as she did so, she looked up into the man's face and actually smiled. As she looked at him a moment thus smiling, it seemed as if his face began to change and to reflect the smile. He stepped back a little and then continued to withdraw, together with his companions, until after a little they all fled, leaving the missionary ladies there alone; and yet they were not alone, for the God that stood by the Hebrew children in the fiery furnace was there to save them.

"As the Boxers were rapidly going away the leader turned and said to the lady: 'You cannot die. You are immortal.' If her face had shown fear, they would have killed her without hesitation. I suppose that smile seemed supernatural. She afterwards said, 'I did not know that I smiled.'"

She also gives another touching incident as follows: "During the fall of 1900, as the missionaries were gathering in Shanghai, a number of us occupied an immense residence built by a brother of the famous Li Hung Chang. Oriental beauty and clumsiness were strangely blended with modern improvements in this building. Much of the outside was hewn stone, and over the doors inside of the entrance were intricate figures carved in the stone to represent battle scenes, with mounted horsemen, spears ready for throwing, the steeds rearing and plunging in very lifelike attitudes.

"The children played much in the halls of this building, and one day two of them were there—one five years old and the other four. They were talk

ing over the current events of our mission as they

We could just hear serious tones. 'And

had heard the older ones do. them as they talked in quiet, somebody got killed,' one was saying in tones subdued with awe. The other finished a climax of a recital by saying: 'And the little girl died,' until it seem so solemn that one of them said, 'Let us have prayers.' They did pray, but we could only hear the closing petition as one said; 'O Lord, bless us and take us back to our 'tations.'

Another incident forcibly illustrates the simple faith that parents, especially missionaries, are able to inculcate in the hearts of their children. "One little boy, Willie, whose home had been rioted, thought of his little rocking-chair that an auntie had brought to him. Such a treasure! He lived so far in the interior, it meant so much to have a rocking-chair there. 'But, mamma,' he said, when he heard what they had done to his home, 'the Boxers will not smash up my little rocking-chair. They will say, "This belongs to some little boy; we will not break this." They surely will not break up my little chair.' The mother could give no encouraging word, but he needed no such assurance. When at last some one went to their home, he wrote to the mother, 'Everything has been broken up, but a little rocking-chair has been brought back.' It was just as Willie had expected."

Soon after Miss Leffingwell reached Shanghai from Yun-nan, she was greatly grieved at hearing of the tragic death of two of her traveling companions from America in 1896, Mrs. Alice Young (formerly Miss Troyer) who was killed July 16, and

Miss Mary E. Huston who was also killed by the Boxers on August 11th.

Miss Huston's sufferings and awful death are mentioned in the following account: "A party of nineteen missionaries from the province of Shan-si had a terrible experience in reaching Hankow, and five of the party were killed on the way. The of

ficials of the province of Shan-si refused to protect them, and they were obliged to flee for their lives. It was impossible to go north, and equally so to go east to Shang-tung; and so they were compelled to try to reach Hankow, although it involved a journey of seven hundred miles. They were constantly at the mercy of the people who formed almost a continuous mob. They were robbed both directly and indirectly. They were frequently obliged to

flee by night to save their lives, and had but very little bedding and few clothes.

"The crossing of the Yellow river was most difficult. They were at the mercy of the boatman for three days, but finally got over.

"Soon they were stopped by a mob of over two hundred, who demanded their money, seized their belongings, stripped every one to the waist, and drove them through the village with clubs. From village to village they were hustled along, one mob literally taking them out of the hands of the mob of the preceding village. How they existed, they themselves can scarcely understand.

"In the cities through which they passed, it was a little better; but they were hurried through and out as quickly as possible as the magistrates were anxious to get them off their hands. Miss Rice was beaten so badly that she died on the road, and Miss Huston was found afterwards alive on the road, but with her brain exposed, and beaten so badly she soon died. The survivors finally reached Hankow."

One of the most touching incidents of devotion to Christ among the natives during the riots is that recorded of the members of a small school of Christian girls who suffered martyrdom. They were brought out before an official, and the interrogator said, to them, "You follow the foreigners." "No," they said, "we follow Christ." "You read the foreigner's books," was the next accusation. "No, we read the Word of God." It was of no avail, however, and they were heartlessly killed.