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“Some Liaoyang members.” Group portrait of indigenous men most of whom are holding a book, the picture may have been taken in the winter. Liaoyang sits on the Tai-tzu River in fertile plains south west of Shenyang [Moukden]. The United Presbyterian Church established an outpost there when Old Wang, the indigenous evangelist, was sent there in 1882. Rev. James A Whylie (1863-1894) was ordained to the Manchuria mission in 1887 and based in Liaoyang, 1888-1894. He did much itinerant work and built upon the work of Old Wang. When the first Sino Japanese War (1894-1895) broke out troops were being gathered to send to Korea and suspicion of foreigners was heightened. In Liaoyang, on the 10 August 1894, a group of Chinese soldiers wrecked the U.P. chapel and attacked Mr Whylie, who died of his wounds several days later. Missionaries and foreigners then sought refuge in the port of Newchwang where many remained until the war ended the following year.
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