Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-01-30
WATERVILLE.
VISIT OF BISHOP PARTRIDGE.
Will Preach, Next Sunday, at Augusta
and WaterviIle.

The Right Rev. Sidney C. Partridge d.
D., missionary bishop of Kyoto, Japan,
will spend next Sunday in the Kennebec
valley. In the morning he will preach at
st. Marks church, Augusta; in the after
noon he will speak in the chapel of Colby
College; and in the evening he is to be the
preached ut ST. Marks church, Water
vile.
Bishop Partridge's view Of the progress
of civilization in the Orient is a comprc-
in the world-problems which concern the
peoples of the far East win surely he en-
1ghtened by what the bishop may say. He
speaks from an experience of about IL
China, supplemented by three years at
the head of the newly created missionary
jurisdiction of Kyoto.
The following extract from recent
personal letter gives some Interesting i'm
formation concerning him:
when the bishop graduated from Yale
in 1880. | think, he went around the world
as tutor to a young man. What he saw
impressed him that he decided then ard
there to prepare himself for missionary
work. believe that prior to that time
he had no intention of studying for or
derS. He returned to this country. en-
tered Berkeley Divinity School, was or
dained deacon and went out to China iii
1855. For a time he workedsat Shanghai
when he was transferred up the river to
Wuchang, where for over Is years he
worked steadily in Boone School and in
various associated enterprises. Much OF
the present success of the school is due
to the excellent foundation he laid
In the autumn of 1899 he was elected
by the House of Bishops to be mission
airy bishop of Kyoto, one of the two dio-
ceses in Japan for which the American
church is responsible. He was conse,-
in init hDf Fol- 81.
:. 1900: He is generally and justly lc-
glrdcd as one of the most eloquent mis-
siOnary speakers in our church."
There are betw cen 80 and 100 workers
clergymen and teachers, u part of whom
are natives trained III the mission. S. Ag-
mes school for girls is situated at l<yoto,
adjacent to the cathedral and has en-
than one-half of whom are accommodated
in the dormitories.
The history of modern missionary Of
fort in japan is very brief. Early in tho,
18th century. the Jesuits We're expelled
from the empire. and edicts were pub
lished ingtorously excluding Christians.
The first christian worship offered after
that time was nearly two and une-half
centuries later--in 1S5S-in the house of
the United States general consul
The mission of the American Episcopal
church was established in 1859, and al
though the first missionaries were str
by dangers and met much OPPOSE
ton. their work has continued and pros
pered. 1T has been the policy TO develop.
not merely mission of the American
church. but q Japanese church. Such eX
lists, today. and the two American bishops
and the five bishops of the Church Of
England, together with their clergy both
native and foreign, meet regularly in
synod to legislate in the interests of
Nippon Sci Ko Kwai--the Japan church.
The next step will be the appointment of
4 native Japanese bishop. This viii UNI
come very shortly. and then
our own American Bishop Mckim OF
Tokyo, will inauguratc pioneer work ut
some point, leaving his see to the native
bishop.
A cordial invitation is extended to TIE
public to hear Bishop Partridge, and it is
hoped that many will attend