The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-12-29
JAPS AS ORATORS.
Closing Exercises of the
New Mission.
Some Flowers of Rhetoric Delivered
in the Church on Pine
Street.

Any one who denies the fact that the
for their own would have been convinced
of the error of his ways by attending the
! closing exercises of the Mission school at
| the new church on Pine street yesterday
evening.
The pretty building. which is the first
Japanese church in America, was filed
with mixed audience OF white people
and Japanese. The exercises were en-.
tirely conducted in EogliSh. and all the
performers were subjects of the Mikado
The flights of oratory were so impas.
stoned, however, and the subjects of most
OF the addresses so profoundly learned
and literary, that most OF the Americans
present were fain 10 confess that they
would not have been sin it" had it fallen
to their lot to address the congregation.
"The Patriotism Of the Japanese Ma.
lion was the subject of The first grafton,
which was pronounced eXtempore by c.
| Oksda. "The patriotic spirit of Japan is
now at It's full tide," he SAID. at makes
The ten der green of the grass more beauti-
full: IL causes the leaves of The forests to
sing: it cries aloud in The running waters"
Speaking of the war the orator said .
What has caused us to triumph Is it
political influenced? No. Is it warlk g
power2 No. 1t is the patriotic spirit OF
the Japanese nation which has made us
successful in this righteous war, which
Will cause the flower of civilization to
| blossom in Eastern Asia. My brothers
and sisters. you must never become
drunken with this triumph, but must try
| TO advance more and MORE"
Is. Mayama was an orator who dis
coursed upon The Duty of the Japa-
nese." Speaking of Manchooria he said
''Japan's victory means free government,
free education and enlightenment TO Co.,
| 1000 souls that live on that side of the
world"
II. Senow chose as his subject Greek
| Civilization and Christianity" and he
spoke with surprising elcQuence upon the
arts of ancient Greece, but he sharply con-
| t!asted the mental freedom of modern
| thought with the ancient servitude of The
soul. which reduced religion To a science,
| like mathematics. His final smile was
that Greek civilization was to Christianity
what st. John the Baptist was TO the
| Messiah-not worthy to unl0ose his SD oe
| latchet
Professor S. X. Seraki, the principal of
the Mission School, read a clever and
scholarly essay on Lord Bacon in which
! he gave sketch of the life of the great
| Englishman and contraSted his philosophy
| with that of Aristotle. The scorn of the
| Greek philosophers for any practical re-
suits Of their researches after ruth was
also explained and contrasted with the
eminently practical nature of modern re-
searches inaugurated by Lord Bacon !;
And yet there ara to-day IN China and
India numerous philosophers who are
uoing the same thing as these ancient
seekers after truth. Their works are nat
The expressions Of living thoughts, but of
secondhand ones that have been handed
down TO them from ages past"
| 10 addition TO the orations the exercises
| consisted of songs and recitations. NagI
! gave Shakespeare Seven Ages Of Man."
Y. Nakamura reeited Mark Anthony 8
Funeral Grafton" f. Kato delivered the
Capture of Quebec" and other Japanese
students repeated patriotic and literary
cuttings TO the evident satisfaction of the
audience. An organ SOLO was also very
well played by Takai. The only American
who had any share in the entertainment
was Rev. NJ. c. Harris. who made few
remarks.
AT the conclusion of the programme a
number of magic-lanteru slide, of the
war were shown and explained by III.
Senow, who recently brought them from
Korea.