The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1889-10-06

100000 0 mostly in India.
Two hundred millions has been the
common calculation. Prof. Williams
assigns the sixth place to a Chinese re-
ligion, Taoism. He appears to regard
Christianity as the one great vital, con-
quering force of the world, and destined
to convert both China and India. The
English control of the latter may
make its conversion practicable, al
though the educated Hindoos adopt En-
glish manne sooner than the religion
of the English people who dwell among
them. Perhaps when caste is entirely
broken down the ChristianizatiOn of In
dia will follow speedily.
AS to China we are more sceptical.
The Chinese are the most fixed in type
of any cultivated people the world has
ever seen. Nevertheless, we know that
within the historical cycle, more thar
one great religion has gained a foothold
in that country. Buddhism now disputes
with Taoism, Confucianism and the orig
inal ancestor worship.
But the most interesting, because the
nearest, most practical view of this whole
question is not obtained from scholarly
and philosophical writer's like Sir
Monier Williams, but from the mis-
siOnary statistics-mOre accessible to
the general public. Without going into
detail, it is seen that within thirty
years the Protestants have started to
work in Japan and added the number Of
25,514 members, a gain in the last year
of 5,758. There are 9,698 pupils in day
and boarding schools, a gain OF 1858 in
the last year. The tendency is to form
united churches, SO that very soon we
may find only two or three. Protestant
churches in Japan.
The Roman and Greek Catholics have
established strong missions there. The
former reported in 1887 108,912 com
municants, the latter 1882 commune
cants. With the facility of the Japan
csc to receive new institutions may we
not expect in a comparatively shot
time the complete or nearly complete
conversion of these impressionable peO-
pie? Through Japan and India it may
be that the whole East will be led to &C
cept the Christian faith and follow the
spiritual standpoint of 1.-The Judean."
Joe Howard tells this little story in the
New Pork Press: Fact is much stran-
ger than fiction. In 1861 Colonel Gouv-
erneur Carr was in command of the
United States troops at Winchester, Va,
and, as he passed along the streets of
that old time city, crowds of men and
women, boys and girls, kept time to the
music of the march, Among them was
a little fellow, a native Of the place, by
the name of Bradford. Months rolled
into years and years into q quarter Of a
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umental among it's fellows. A second
quarter of a century was begun, Carr
now and old man, enfeebled, gray, an
applicant for a consular appointment,
suddenly died. Pallbearers were Sc
lected from his confrerss Of the Tribune
staff, among whom was Mr.. L. G.. Brad.
ford, the telegraph night editor of our
esteemed contemporary, no longer the
little Winchester boy, trotting after a
troop of Yankee soldiers, but a grave
and unfeigned mourner at the bier of a
departed comrade."
We print elsewhere in today's GLOBE
a beautiful poem from the pen OF Will
liam Winter whose scholarly dramatic
criticisms in the New York Tribune are
recognized in literary circles as the
highest models of critical style. There
is much in Mr.. Winters poetry as there
is in his prose, that indicates his love of
POpe's methods Of syntaX and versitiica-
ton. The specimen we print today is
essentially Popesque.
The Republican organs feel very sore
over that speech by George William Cur
It's, but at the same time admit that the
President is much too forward in the de-
capitation Of postmasters. Mr.. Cleve-
land says the Philadelphia Ledger, "did
better in the matter of Federal removals
and appointments than any President
succeeding an adverse party Administra-
ton for the last forty or fifty years"
That little visit of Emperor William of
Germany to England, where he saw the
great naval review, is going to cost his
faithful taxpayers severalmillions, which
are to be voted at once for the improve
ment of the German Navy. Now the
Emperor is off to Constantinople and
Greece, where he may pick up some more
ideas which will cost his people money.
y Hint to Sir Edwin.
While the author of the Light of
Asia" is in America he should be invited
to come to Fort Worth and see if he
cannot do something to improve tie gas
light.-Fort Worth Gazette.
The Situation in Ohio.
The impression is gaining ground that
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