The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-12-22
A DAY IN HARB0R
Continued from Page 81.

| ing hits of scenery down the winding
valley among the rounded hills. Pass
| ing through the fishing village with its
multitudinous sheds for the nets. and
| its long strip of sandy beach lined
with fishing smacks, We turned a rocky
| point, and sat down to enjoy the view
| of a pretty little cove, with curving
outlines and rocky shores and quiet
water where the fish were disporting
themselves in peace save for the sud
den appearance among them of a great
black tern, diving down for his din
ner, and then lifting up his great black
head like that of some miniature sea
serpert. The only other intrusion on
the peacefulness of the scene was the
sake drinking in a tea-house near by;
but the vile liquor had its vile influ-
ence in a luscious, rather than fatal
display OF quarrelsomeness. There
WIS little general drunkenness, how
ever in all the things that we saw that
day.
In the evening the ladies of the M.
E. Mission Girls School had a recep-
ton. One is impressed with the mag
nitude of the work done by the women
in the various missions in Japan This
Nagasaki Girls School owes it's success
largely to the great administrative
ability of its principal. who has built
up large and successful institution
It's buildings are not so we'll built nor
so well kept as those of Kobe College,
but the main object for which such
schools exist is evidently kept in front.
The culture here sought, is not simply
making the most of ones self, but the
due training of all ones person for
the service of God and humanity.
Eleven Sunday Schools, and seven
neighborhood prayer meetings are
maintained largely by volunteers from
among the girls of the school In the
company of 40 or more, gathered that
evening, nearly one half were chance
visitors, some on their way to Korea,
some to China, some to the HindOOs
We met Seamen's Chaplain from
Tacoma, sent out under the auspices
of some Christian Endeavor Societies;
and the last one of band of teachers
sent out by the International Y. n. C.
A. committee. The 100000 Of Jap
anese need the help of fresh reinforce
ments Of Christian workers, and this
fact is impressed upon me with great
force az I see the character and needs
of the people. 1t must encounter op-
position from people so full of Nip
ponism, which the Japanese mistake
for patriotism. No foreigner can own
land in Japan, and even under the
new treaties, as revised, the utmost
privilege allowed in this line is that
of renting land for 80 years. No for
elgner can expect to have the right of
suffrage, and the property qualification
of $13 personal taxes excludes millions
of the Japanese themselves. Yet if
Japan is ever to make it's national life
prosperous and progressive, this policy
of exclusion must give way to more
liberal dealings with the outside world,
and less superlative ideas of Japanese
self sufficiency.
Nagasaki shas been an especially
difficult field for Christian missions.
1t was here that the fires of persecution
ragged so holly against the converts to
Roman Catholic Christianity. The
mission premises where we were en-
tertained, occupy the site of the local
ity where those converts were COM
PEELED to trample on the cross. The
message of the cross is a message of
self-sacrificing love and lowly service,
not malice and pride. AS some vic
tories have often proven to be disas-
trous defeats in the exhaustion of the
resources of the victors, so the appar-
ent defeats of the gospel have often
proven to be the means and condition
of it's most signal triumphs. The
present condition of relapse in the his
tory of mission war in Japan is only
the prelude to a stronger effort and
more successful spread. Too much
must not be expected too easily There
are altogether too many who when
they hear the dark side of the story of
gospel work in Japan, are ready to
exclaim, land the gospel has been
preached for 40 years. 1t is the same
inconsiderate habit of thought that ex-
poets Hawaiians only two generations
removed from savagery, to have the
ideas and principles, that are merely
dominant and not universal. among
those who have been trained for 80
generations under the influence of
Christian institutions.
Nagasaki is recovering from the
commercial depression that prevailed
a few years ago. 1t is lovely harbor.
more like a lake than a bay. Plans
are in operation for the recla1na ton of
the flats at the upper end of the harbor
at an expense of So 100000. A dredger
and pipes, such as have been used in
Honolulu harbor, are busy at work
making a large area available for
warehouses and residences. A railroad
depot will be built on this land. and
the railroad starting at that point will
connect with the system now operating
in Japan from North to South. lacking
only development at the extreme
limits On visiting I was
surprised at the extremely narrow
quarters within which for 200 years
the Dutch merchants were willing to
be confined with visit of two Dutch
trading vessels annually. There is alb
solutely no trace nor relic whatever
of that Dutch occupation. 1t was Com
mOdore Perry with the T. s. flag, that
called on Japan to warm out of its sulky
mood of selfish exclusion and wake up
to the responsibilities of national life
and growth. More and more am I
impressed with the responsibility of
English speaking people in rousing the
nations to true life. England with it's
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