The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-07-19
HAWAII AND ITS DENlZENS
FROM THE MlKADO'S EMPIRE

as rule, young farmer, energetic
and enterprising, whose ambition it is
10 secure by a few years hard labor,
q working capital which shall enable ]
him TO start well ahead in the indus /.
+rial race or his return. Removed in /,
Hawaii from all surrounding anti
Christian prejudice, he is found 10 be |
far more susceptible to the gospel. IL
he goes back to Japan a Christian, his
financial resources and his foreign ex-
perience give very large influence tol
his words and example. He becomes
a missionary to his own people. Such
may be called the direct result OF lhis
work in Hawaii.
There is also an indirect outcome just
as important. The Japanese govern
ment has just limited the annual num-
her of emigrants to the Hawaiian ISL
ands to 7,560-a very respectable army
Our own anti-Chinese legislation VIII
tend TO maintain the demand for Jap
anese labor, and to make still more in
innate the relations between the terri
tory and this empire. 1t Is very evil
dent that the government Is watching
with solicitude the fortunes OF this
large body of it's citizens. Whatever
may be the attitude of the leaders OF
Japanese thought towards Christian
uropaganda in this empire there seems
to be but one opinion regarding the In
terest taken by Americans in Hawaii
in the welfare of the emigrants. Prom
inent statesmen and men or affairs
as we'll as Christian pastors view the
work with deepest regard. For all
realize that the young Japanese, ex-
posed to the severest temptations, with
out the restraining influence of his
home and of national public opinion,
is almost certain to return a worse
man unless he be guarded by just such
agencies as the Christian people in the
Islands have created. 1t is not interest
in Christianity but solicitude for the
character of their countrymen who are
to return and make that character tell
for good or i'll here which moves these
men of wide influence to regard this
work with so much favor. What Chris
tan leaders think of it may be guessed
from the recent offer of Rev. Mr.. Ko-
zaki, formerly president of the Doshis~
ha and one of the most influential pas
tors in Japan, to spend his vacation
next summer in an evangelistic tour
throughout the Islands. American
Christianity is faced with the splendid
opportunity of making the deepest and
most lasting impression upon the En-
pire of Japan by putting the stamp of
~
thousands of picked young men in Ha-
wall.
! That the Pacific is destined to be the
ocean of the future admits of no doubt.
The undeveloped continents of Asia and
America face each other, longing for
! the commercial interchange which soon
/ viii dot the great sea with fleets the
like of which this world has never
known. Hawaii. the meeting place of
East and West, already mirrors in its
population a prophecy of the future. 1t
will mean far more than any of us now
guess to have the impress which Ha-
wall must make upon all who come to
it from the great East magnificently
! and aggressiVely Christian. The posi-
bilities opened before the Christian
forces in this territory in view of the
mighty world movement just stirring
! into life on the shores of the Pacific,
are wondrous and brilliant. 1t was with
a .vaster thought than yet appears to
our ken that our Great Captain led the
vanguard of his army to this lovely
outpost, and captured it after one OF
the most dashing campaigns in the his
tory of his kingdom, and that, too, long
II years before the shore of the great
western continent near by had felt the
stir of the onward march of the new
civilization.
/ Tokyo, April "a. 1902.