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The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-10-19
Our Special Japan Mission Number.

was to preserve this Republic, would
have led to inertia and Indifference
respecting the momentous duty of
the hour. AS matter of fact those
who held that faith most tenaciously
were the very ones most ready to
march to the front. AS people we
yield place to none in our faith in
God, but we are equally certain that
the great work of God will never be
done without our aid. This is the
core Of our denominational fervor,
and that which it accomplishes is
limited only by the means at our
command. Were the church in
general as fully imbued with this
spirit as our little branch of it is,
there would be no necessity for heart
rending appeals for means to ac-
complish SO manifest duty as carry
ing the Gospel to the remotest ends
of the earth.
The planting of the Universalist
Mission in Japan is something al
ready accomplished, and an actual
accomplishment is always an incen-
tive to further exertion. For these
reasons l am glad that this number
of The UNIvERsALIsT is to be devoted
to the Japan Mission and trust it will
receive wide circulation. The future
work of Christian nations in the
East is unspeakably grand in concep-
tion. Leaping the Pacific Ocean it is
to plant itself on the islands of Japan
and with that firm foothold permeate
with new life the great continent of
Asia, which will be born again to a
nobler civilization than that which
originally cradled the human family
in its capacious bosom. Therefore I
rejoice in the Japan Mission and give
it my heartiest God speed. Let us
hold Japan for our church at all cost.
By SO doing we shall occupy our
proyidential place in the swift COM
ing struggle between the Occi dent
and the Orient.
CHIcAG. Oct. IA.
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fort to evangelize that interesting
country, there would be tremen-
dous advance all along the line, and
hundreds of our needy parishes and
struggling mission stations would be
aided, and our educational institu-
tions would be reinforced, and our
"Zion would lengthen her cords and
strengthen her stakes, and put on
her beautiful garments"
God bless the noble efforts to
evangelize Japanl May they be sur
passed by zeal to bless all the world
with our Gospel, until Orient and Oc-
cident shall rejoice, and the rose of
Sharon and the lily of the valley
shall blossom in all the waste places!
CHICAGO, OCT. TO-
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IN It's own powers and to stimulate
us to increased activity.
For the Mission itself the stage of
experiment has largely passed. 1t has
taken its place among the permanent
forces of our church. Its financial
management has been such as to win
the confidence of the Universalist
public. Every dollar contributed to
its support has been faithfully ap-
Piled to the purpose for which it was
given. 1t now needs that generous
response shall be made to the present
appeal for funds; that funds will be
given, and that it will receive the
united support of our people until
the Universalist Church o. Japan
shall be self-supporting body, is a
foregone conclusion.
LIE Roy. ILL
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THE JAPAN MISSION.
A RETROSPECT AND CONFESSION.
BY REV. ]. s. COOK.

When the Editor of The UNIVERSAL
IsT requested few words on the jap
an Mission, from the writer, it was
startling to reflect that five years had
elapsed since that enterprise was
born. But so it is; five busy years,
full of work for our church, full of
work for those who went to the for
eign land, ,and for those who remained
at home, have swiftly flown. During
this time great enterprises have been
originated or very materially ad
vanced among us; larger spirit of
missionary enterprise has been awak-
ened; deeper unity of spirit and a
more united purpose have been weld
ing us into a greater effectiveness.
And as the years have brought these
things, each one has come to us
freighted with more of promise and
more of opportunity than the last,
until, today, we look to the coming
years with greater confidence, deeper
faith and brighter hopes than ever
before.
As people we haven ever doubted
the triumph of the truths we hold 80
dear; but have we not, sometimes,
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THE JAPAN MISSION.
A POSITIVE ACHIEVEMENT ALWAYS
AN INCENTIVE.
BY A. j. cANFIELD. D. D.

A few days ago l received a COM
munication from party of, SO far as
l could Judge, fair degree of intelli-
gence, the burden of whose decla-
ration was that the Universalist de-
nomination had never been and is not
now engaged in the enterprise of
Foreign Missions. No doubt this error
prevails to a considerable extent and
has its effect in persuading not few
earnest Christians that we, as a peo-
pie, have no missionary nerve. This
appears to fit into the contention that
the doctrine of Gods impartial love
acts as sedative upon the consci-
ence of its believers respecting the
rest of Gods family; that since God
twill have all men to be saved" we
have nothing to do but to stand by
and see him accomplish that sublime
purpose.
This seems to us as absurd as it
would have been during the early
days of the civil war to have sup
posed that the ardent faith and pa.
triotism of the Nation, grounded on
the conviction that Gods purpose
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Iris paradox, often observed but only
rarely commented upon, that the means
used to mitigate certain evils increases
them. The boy is weakly, 80 we take
him off the farm and put him into a store
or office. Money is scarce, so each one
boards what he has with the inevitable
effect of making it scarcer. A nation
keeps large standing army, builds war
ships, forts and provides formidable arma-
ment, so that no other nation will dare
attack her; but her guns and garrisons
and captains are the occasion if not the
cause of war. So man carries pistol
to protect life, and some day uses it to
take life-shoots or is shot.
In other fields similar thing is noted.
The natural anxiety of parents to guard
their children against want leads them to
work and save for their children, when
it would be wiser and surer remedy to
train the children to work and save for
themselves. In some countries, as Eng
land, benevolence long since prompted
certain men and woman to establish
foundations" for education and charity.
As to many of them, it is clearly proved
that they either have not served the in
tended purpose or that they have con-
tributed to an opposite result. 1t is the
Judgment of the experts that charity
foundations. with rare exceptions. tend
directly to increase the subjects of char
ity.
ANY one who has made study of the
effect of endowments on churches in
this country must have been led to ques-
tion the utility of them. The intention
is to make sure that the church shall
not decline. They more often insure
decline; because they become an excuse
for doing and giving less to maintain
the church. They foster the habit of
dependence. Now, the life of church
is always in exact ratio to the exertion
put forth in its behalf by its members.
Anything that cultivates lease in Zion,"
or induces the spirit of dependence in
stead of self help diminishes by SO much
the motive to effort. Mission points
must be established and aided for time
by outside help. But nothing is so sure
to keep them small and make their ten
or of life uncertain as to make them
permanent pensioners. 1t is so much
easier to draw funds from the mission
airy society than to stir about and raise
them from the congregation, that it is
never safe to expose the average church
or committee to that temptation.
The opinion seems to be general
that good deed" is the equivalent of
an act of kindness. Many persons sup
pose that they have not done a good
deed unless they have shown benevolence
to some one. 1t follows naturally from
this inclination of mind that good deeda
should be thought Of as having relation
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THE JAPAN MISSION.
MAINTAINED BY ITS FRIENDS AND
THEIR MONEY.
BY j. W. HANSON. DID.
LITTLE FALLS, N. J

The urgent needs of the home field
are 80 numerous and SO great that it
has seemed to many of the best
friends of our church that the large
amount of money that has been de-
voted to Japan is proportionally too
much to bestow on that one mission
airy enterprise. 1t seems out of pro-
portion and they complain that the
appropriation of SO considerable a sum
to that one distant and comparatively
small section of the vast world field
which is or should be the sphere
of our activities, impoyGasaes the de-
nominational exchequer, and embar-
rasses the home work.
This criticism is not we'll founded
There would be great force in it if
the money applied to the Japan work
were drawn from the funds of the
church treasury. The amount is out
of proportion to the comparative
needs. Japan certainly is receiving
more money in proportion to it's
claims than is expended elsewhere
by our church for missionary pur-
poses. So that it may truthfully be
said that the Convention authorities
would be amenable to censure had
they taken SO large part of the en-
tire revenue as has been given to
Japan, from the general funds of the
church.
Two facts should be kept in mind
in order accurately to pronounce
upon the subject: l. The contribu-
tions to the Japanese mission have
been made almost or quite entirely
for that specific object by those who
believed in it. and who desired to es-
tablish and sustain it. Whether they
gave too much Importance to that
mission or not, is one thing; but it
is their enterprise, sustained by their
money, and supported because they
believe in it, and have consecrated
their gifts to that specific branch of
Gospel effort.
2. There is probably no less given
in other directions for the upbuilding
of our church in consequence of the
movement for Japan. No one has
impoverished himself by his gener-
osity toward the land of the cherry
tree, or paralyzed or even weakened
his ability to give in other directions.
In fact, it has generally been seen
that giving for one worthy object in
spires in the giver the disposition to
give more for other objects while the
example of generosity imparts
blessed contagion to others. We
doubt if single contributor to Japan
has found himself narrowed in his
sympathies, or been less disposed
than before to respond to the Mace
doniau cry from other quarters; and
it is certain that those who do not
feel drawn, as Emerson says, to "ori-
entalize" themselves, must be in
spired to larger generosity by the
splendid example of the Japan
lovers, and the encouraging success
that has rewarded their efforts.
But whether so or not, the fact re-
mains that the mission is not sus-
tanned by the general funds, but is
maintained by those who prefer to
send their money in that direction,
and who certainly have the right to
do what they will with their own. If
all those who consider other branches
of our manifold work to be of greater
consequence would sustain those
branches as munifcently as have the
patrons of japan supported the ef-
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doubted the part our church was to
play in these coming triumphs? To-
day, is not that doubt giving way be-
fore sturdier purpose to make our
church worthy to lead in every battle
with the hosts of sin and ignorance?
1t would be rash to say that the
Japan Mission was the cause of this
increase of missionary spirit among
us. 1t is rather one of the signs of the
depth and strength of that spirit, the
first wave of a flood tide which is still
rising in our midst; and whose first
oncoming was not viewed without
misgivings by some among us. I con-
fess that while | admired the courage
which dared to plan so large a labor
for our church, weak as l deemed it
in everything but faith, shared these
misgivings to some extent. | knew
so well the needs of the home field
that l was very jealous for it. l felt
that the work of church extension at
home needed all our strength, and
(almost) envied Japan the band of
true and able workers sent there,
when so much was waiting for labor
ers at home.
After five years l am convinced
that my misgivings were unfounded.
The Japan Mission was a revelation
of our strength; it made plain that
there were dormant forces in our
midst only awaiting the touch of a
noble purpose to break into enthusi-
astic activity. Every fear that the
work at home would suffer has disap-
peared before the logic of the facts.
No interest of our church has suf-
fered. Our colleges have gone on in
creasing their powers for good; the
divinity schools are increasing in
usefulness; the General Convention
has relaxed none of its efforts; the
Missionary at Large has received his
commission and now speaks with au-
thority from Maine to California, from
Canada to the Gulf. Hartman and
the Southern Mission, with Boston
'95, are in evidence for the vigor and
capacity of the Y. P. G. u; the newly
appointed missionary on the Pacific
coast speaks for the devotion of the
w. G. A.; the colored church at Nor
folk opens another door; the State
Conventions-but space would fail if
| should specify further Everywhere
the spectacle is presented of church
at work. OF course mistakes have
been made; points have had to be
abandoned, but this is to be expected
from the nature of the work. 1t is in
separable from human effort. With
these, multiplying evidences of in
creased activity at home and of new
purpose to go into every field, 1 have
come to believe in the Japan Mission
and to rejoice in its successes. Its
effect upon home missions has been
TO give the church larger confidence
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There will be lack of appreciation
often on the part of those to whom
the message is taken. As in the past
there will be Encouragement and
perplexities, but having put nor
hands to the plough the furrow must
be turned despite the stumps and
rocks. The experience of the past of
the church will doubtless be for long
years the experience of the future.
A battle against ignorance and sin,-
a conflict with barbarism and heath
enism, at home and abroad, marked
by steady gains for the cause of truth
and wider districts won for Christ,
until at last through such sacrificing
tolls, under the leadership of Jesus,
the crucified and risen Lord, a COM
plete triumph will be won.
The Universalist Church has taken
it's place in the ranks with others to
complete the work which Christ be-
gan
It has established its college and
mission stations in Japan. 1t has
entered upon what may be the per-
iod of it's best life.
Let it's motto be Onward" and
let croakers and doubters be given a
place far in the rear. Remember
Lots wife"
LITTLE FALLS, N. Y.
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THE JAPAN MISSION.
LET us GO FORWARD CROAKERs TO
THE REAR.
BY REV. VINCENT E. ToML1NsoN.

Ours is an age of worldwide Mis-
sions. The church of the Nineteenth
Century has heard the call to "disci-
pie all nations" and has responded
to it with a zeal unparalleled since
the time of the Apostles. There is no
land in which the Gospel is not be-
ing proclaimed.
In this we can all rejoice. 1t is as
it should be. By it the church justi-
fies its claim to be not for a tribe or
country, but for the race of man. The
more we think of it the more we see
the urgency of foreign missions.
Viewed from whatever side their ne
cessity is clearly shown.
The unity of the race demands
them. The chain is no stronger than
it's weakest link. So humanity is in
jured by ignorance and disease in its
weakest member. Cholera in India
means alarm in New York. We must
evangelize and edify the world, for
the health of one,-physical, moral,
spiritual-is the health of all.
The brotherhood of man requires
foreign missions. Every man bears
the image of God. Sometimes it
seem obscured, even lost, but by his
creation, man is child of the COM
mon Father and our brother. That
relation must not be ignored. What
ever the difficulties they must be
overcome.
Man must find his brother and
lead him home to God.
The genius of the Gospel implies
foreign missions. 1t is slight" hence
diffusive. 1t is "leaven;" it must
leaven ''the whole lump" Christ
came to save the lost and has "other
sheep that are not of this fold" We
cannot be his followers without be-
lieving that "the field is the world"
without encouraging every effort for
the amelioration of man, There is no
better proof that one has failed to
enter into the spirit of the Gospel
than to hear him sneer at foreign
missions.
So, too, we have the direct command
of Christ to "preach the Gospel to
every creature, "a sufficient motive
for worldwide missions to all who
believe that Jesus is teacher sent
from God, There may be a diff
erence of opinion as to methods.
There may be honest criticism of
some of the doctrines that have been
carried to the heather; there can be
none as to the importance of evan
gelizing the world.
We must believe in Foreign Mis-
sions or give up faith that in Jesus
Christ we have the 'true light that
lighteth every man that cometh into
the world"
OF couse there will be difficulties
in the way as there have always been.
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pit of the Ryder Memorial Church at
Woodlawn. and introduced Mr.. Otsuka
to the friends in that parish. During
the Worlds Fair season he was regular
attendant at the Sunday services and
and became member of the Young
Peoples Union and is remem bered by
them with great pleasure. He also made
visits to other neighboring churches in
and around Chicago and was everywhere
received with cordiality. Sometimes he
made short addresses, first in his native
language and afterward in English much
to the enjoyment of his hearers,
Like all Japanese Mr.. Otsuka is small
in stature, not 80 dark in complexion as
many others wearing always "the ia
anese smile" SO graphically described by
Lafcadio Hearn and is most exquisitely
polite in manner. At the request of
friends he appeared occasionally in his
native costume, which is so picturesque
but was always somewhat amused at the
attention it attracted from strangers.
OF course, coming to us as a convert to
our faith we tried to confer pleasure
upon him. as we certainly did upon our
selves by doing what we could for him
socially. He was frequent and vel
come guest in our home and other homes
to which he was introduced. Mr.. Otsuka
remained in Chicago two months after
the Fair closed and thus he was invited
to be with us during the festivities of the
Christmas holidays. which delighted him
beyond measure. We bade him good
bye with reluctance when he went away
we thought perhaps forever. but SO fas
cinated was he with America that in
few months he returned to this country
and after short stay in San Francisco,
established himself in business at No.
% West 9th street. New York City. DIR.
Cantwell expects to see Mr.. Otsuka on
Monday next and if possible will secure
his attendance at the General Conven-
tion in Meriden, where he will have
cordial welcome.
ORPHIA E. CANTwELL.
26O2 11sth st. Chicago.
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CONTENTS.
CHICAGO, SATURDAY. OCT. 10. 1895

CHICAGO, SATURDAY, OCT. 10. 1895.
Page One.
Editorial Briefs.
The Japan Mission.
Page Two.
The Japan Mission Work Among the
Women.-The Laymen and Work for the
Mission.-InfiuentiaI Testimony.
Western Poetry.
Page Three.
The Sunday School Lesson.
Page Four.
Editorials
The Japan Mission:-New Trend of Missions.
-Universalism and Missions-The Race
one Family -Universalist Missionaries
Japanese PatriOtism.-N0 Backward Step.
Page Five.
Church News and Correspondence.
Page Six.
The Family Page. Farm. Garden and Dairy
Page Seven.
Our Boys and Girls.
Page Eight.
General Convention.
Michigan Convention.
Church Notices and In MemOriam.
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THE many and generous individual
contributors who have thus far support
ed the Mission will undoubtedly contin-
ue their gifts for another term Of years.
Let the parishes be heard from on Sun
day, November Sd, with generous con-
tributions in aid of the foreign work.
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UsUBURo OTsUKA.
The First Baptised Convert of the Japan
ese Mission.

In the spring of 1893, when all was ex-
citement over the Worlds Fair, there
came to the Office of The UNIvERsAL1sT,
a young japanese gentleman with let
ter to the Editor from Rev. DIR. Perrin
then our Missionary in Japan, introduce
ing it's bearer as friend and student Of
our faith. and asking the editor and
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Talk about essence and substance,
And no one knows what;
God either made Christ.
Or else he did not;
II he did he's a creature.
'Tis plain at first view;
II not his God.
And then we have two"
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his Iamlly TO DO Wnat
they could to make it
pleasant for him while he
should tarry with us.
That was the way we
came to make the ac-
quintance Of one of the
most charming and agree
able young men we have
ever met, Mr.. UsUBURo
OTsUKA. of Japan, and
the fact that he was the
first convert to Univer-
salism in japan, made
him all the more inter
esting.
Mr.. Otsuka came over
here in charge of the ex-
hibit sent from Osaka.
his native place, and also
to act as interpreter for
which his knowledge of
our language eminently
fitted him.
The Editor u The
UNIvERsALIsT was at that
f;roo o,,pnlvsnn tho nt1I
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OUR CONTRIBUTORS.
EDITORIAL BRIEFS.

BY PRESIDENT 1. M. ATWOOD. D. D.
The record-union., 1895-04-11
LABOR COM MISSIONER.
Trade Unionists Denouuce the Ap
pointment of L. L. Fitzgerald.

Trade Unionists Denouuce the APP
pointment of L. L. Fitzgerald.
SAN Francisco, April 10. - Trade
unionists are denouncing the appoint
ment of E. L. Fitzgerald to the Office of
Labor Commissioner by Governor Budd
as Injurious, an insult to labor, and due
to political influence.
NJ. McGlynn, President of the Labor
Council. and editor of the Voice of Labor,
denies that he indorsed Fitzgerald, and
says: II believe the trade unionists will
not allow any chagrin they may feel over
the slight given their membership by the
Governor to deter them from giving Mr.
Fitzgerald all the assistance possible,
though they may consider the Governor
did not act in the wiSest manner"
William Zehn, Secretary of the Brewery
Workmen's Union, says: ''In the ap-
pointment of Fitzgerald the Governor
has totally disregarded the voice of
LABOR"
K. a. Parker, the Chairman of the Ex-
ecutiye Committee of the Typographical
Union, says: That the Governor might
have retrained from making an appoint
ment which he we'll knew would cause
the greatest disappointment in labor cir
cles."
1. +. Burns, President of the Cigar
makers Union, says the appointment is
most unsatisfactory TO organized labor.
A. Z. Schwatka, President of the San
francisco Typographical Union. says
that organized labor is disappointed and
surprised at the appointment.