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On the whole, I think he will be thought more highly of in consequence of the publication of the Life, though it may be doubted whether his religion was not injured by his strong sense of the ludicrous. I cannot forgive him for his anti-missionary articles in the Edinburgh Review." Life of Archbishop Tait, vol. I. chapter xiii.
Perhaps the most widespread anti-missionary uprising in China occurred during the years 1870 and 1871. It was during the summer of 1870 that Dr. Talmage was compelled to go to Chefoo, North China, for much-needed rest and change. On August 8th he wrote to Dr. J. M. Ferris: "The next day after my arrival at Chefoo the news was received of the terrible massacre at Tientsin on June 21st.
Then, since the establishment of the Honolulu Mission, church feeling has run rather high, and here, as elsewhere, has a socially divisive tendency. Then there are drink and anti-drink, pro and anti-missionary, and pro and anti- reciprocity-treaty parties, and various other local naggings of no interest to you.
The hostile sentiment thus developed was indicated early in 1900 by the outbreak of a Chinese secret society known by a name signified in English by the word "boxers." These ultra-patriots organized an anti-missionary crusade in several provinces of North China in which many missionaries and native Christians were killed.
For it has been only ten years and a few months since the famous Boxer outbreak. The widely current idea is that this Boxer movement originated in anti-missionary sentiment, but this is not borne out by the facts. The late Col. Charles Denby, long American Minister to China, pointed out very clearly that the main cause was opposition to the land-grabbing policies of European nations.
The fact, as he further states, that his opponent was a clergyman, was a great drawback to him, and almost all the Christian sects, except his own the anti-missionary Baptists opposed him. With a candor that does him credit, the Judge admits "the support of the religious people was not so much for me, but against him."
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