Reaction from the Boxer Movement
Reaction from the Boxer Movement.—A remarkable change seems to have come over the Chinese people in regard to the work of the missionaries. Everywhere schools are crowded, chapels are filled to overflowing, and there is an eagerness to receive the religion of the foreigners, such as has never been known before. In one place two opium shops, hitherto very prosperous, have been obliged to close their doors for lack of customers, the Christian young men of the town having conducted such a successful crusade against the opium habit. Another fact indicates a great change. Formerly the selling of portions of the Scriptures was a slow and difficult task. Now a man can sell 1,000 copies a month. The people buy, and the people read.—Missionary Review.