The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-07-17

A detailed report of the work done
by the secretary was also given, and
report read by him from the. u MON,
which was organized a year ago in
japan. The following interesting
correspondence from 1.-The Sunrise
Kingdom formed part of the Sec
retarys report. We print in full, as
all our readers are interested in the
Japan Mission, and the work of the
Christian Union in that distant land.
JAPAN CHRISTIAN UNION.
From Missionary Cate.
To the Secretary of the Y. P. c. u, of the
United States of America.
DEAR BRoTHER:-A year ago l was
able to announce to the National Con-
vention assem- bled in Jersey City that
Y. p. G. u, had been organized in
Japan, and l now have the honor of
transmitting to you report. of that or
ganization.
The society was organized with some
misgivings as to its permanency, owing
to the small constitus ncy of our church
and the general indiff srencs of young
men to religious questions. The society
was organized in the full realization of
the enormous discrepancy between our
ideal, and what we were actually able to
accomplish with the material actually
at hand. We were we'll aware of the
slow and painful steps which must be
taken before the society could reach
even the lower heights of spiritual en-
deavor. And yet we felt that in coun-
try where the lines between Christians
and nonC Christians are, by the very me-
cessities of the case, strictly drawn, a
society admitting both to membership.
and yet conducted along Christi an lines,
and for distinctly Christian purpose,
might do a good work by bring ing the
two classes into closer and more SYM
pathetic relation than could be done by
the church with its necessarily exclu-
sive organization. In view of the diff
culties to be overcome. nothing great
could reasonably be expected in the
first year; and yet We countsit matter
of no small Importance that Christians
and non-C Christians have thus been able
to come together and to think together
on religious themes, that the m ember.
ship has been increased, that the meet
ings have been regularly sustained, and
that the interest shows no sign of
abatement. While conscious that the
crown which is the reward of true
Christian service is yet ito be won,
we feel that a real advance has
been made. and that the foundation of
Japanese Y. p @. u, has been material
ly strengthened during 1.-THE year, and
there is good reasonlto hope that with
the proper encouragement and under
the proper leadership, much more will
be accomplished during the coming
year.
Fellow Unioners: know that you will
join with US in the prayer,..a expressed
by the writer of the report that the bond
OF brotherhood between the east and
the west made possible.bY our churches
and unions. may be streng thened
with the passing years. until the time
shall come when there shall be no east
and no west, but all shall be un lifted un-
der "One Lord, one faith. one baptism,
one God and Father of all, who is above
all, and through all and in all"
In the bonds Of the trueifaith.
/. WALLACE CATE.
From The Japane Sc Br"ther.
To Brothers and Sisters..in the West
In accordance with your request, we
write these few lines just to inform you
what we, the members of the Young Peo-
plies Christian Union, have been doing in
tho far East The fOllOwinO is the affact