Article December 20, 1900 Issue

Saved by Seeming Miracles

Boston Post

The Rev. Charles E. Ewing, one of the American missionaries who recently arrived from China, stated in a sermon yesterday (Sunday, December 9) that miracles seemed to have been wrought in their favor during the siege of Pekin. He has been in China for some time, and was in Pekin during the recent siege.

"How we all stood the siege is almost a miracle," he said. "The principal reason is that God seemed to be with us. We had able and valorous defenders, and the native Christians did wonderfully well. We had only five hundred men against possibly hundreds of thousands. Something beyond human power seemed to aid us. As an illustration, bullets whizzed by our ears at intervals, but no civilian was wounded, and only one missionary injured in the legation.

"One day a bullet hit the window of the chapel where we were holding prayer, but strange to say, while it broke the glass it never entered the chapel.

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