The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-10-24

! club since June, when the meeting was held at North Haven That was the annual meeting.
 The executive committee, Rev. " J. Mutch, chairman. made report in re- gard to the attendance at these meet ings. The committee recommends that the club shall guarantee payment for the entertainment at supper of three fourths the number expected to attend, to ensure the entertaining church against loss in case that the full num- Der should not attend; also that the members inviting guests shall guaran- tee payment for their entertainment. It was explained that a diminished at tendance occurred in times of storm only.
 MT. Parsons of Plymouth church ob- iected to the recommendation concern ing guests.
 MT. Blakeslee of Dwight Place church objected to the first clause, but favored the second recommendation.
 A suggestion was made that the sup per tickets should be sold in advance.
 The president stated that the com mittee found the matter a difficult one to solve. In the matter of guarantees it was voted that the club guarantee seVen-eighths of the probable attend ance and also payment for the guests. It was suggested by Prof Whitney of Branford that. it would be well to have tickets sold in advance. The vote oh this plan was adverse. The president stated that last even ing the attendance was so unexpectedly large that fifteen were unable to be provided with supper. The whole mat ter was then referred back to the, com- mittee with power to act.
 : The Rev. T. S. Dewitt of Branford was elected a member of the executive committee in place of Rev. Dr. Leete, who asked to be excused from serving. It was announced that the next meet ing of the club would be December Il, in celebration of Forefathers' day The place is Plymouth church, and the ad- dress will be delivered by Rev. Dr. Will lis B. Walker, on What America's Civil Institutions Owe to Congregation : alism"
 Lewis H. English was elected mem Der of the club.
 S Dr. Griffith, the speaker of the even- ing, has studied the Japanese question for forty years. He said that in 1866 the first Japanese students came to this !. country. Asked what they came for, : We have come to learn to make can- S non to protect our country against the
 Russians was the answer. Dr. Griffith
 said he had entertained in his home al - lease 100 Japanese students, including < one Japanese prince. Baron Komura
 was one of the Japanese boys whom he x had instructed. He said that before S leaving for Japan he took out a life g insurance policy of $5,000 in one oi W those New York insurance companies
 that our friend Hyde managed. And
 know what became of my money now 4 he added. .,
 He said he was the first of 5000 who M went out to Japan to bring in modern # ideas. He went there in 1870, was a S missionary and connected withsthe edu
 cational matters there for number ot S years. # 'The Japanese are young nation e said the speaker. "A thousand years # ago there was no Japanese nation. They # have no history that antedates the S fourth century. They were savages s In the south were the Malays, and s that gives them the fighting blood @ They are also mixed with Tartar ant
 Korean blood. The race that preceded M the Japanese borrowed their politica @ system from China.
 & He spoke of the origin of the natior # and of the feudal system. Dr, Griffith SE went out to organize schools on the # American system. He said the Japanest
 beauracracy had to be smashed before M there was any new Japan. @ Tt was all humbug that Japal N backed down at Portsmouth" said tn, KY speaker. "The dream of Japan is to b.
 second to none in the world. The con NJ version of Marquis Ito to the terms O
 peace and the development, was lik A the treaty of Portsmouth in miniature 5Mx 5sMx By study he secured an idea of tn
 power of the Anglo-Saxon race. I 'The trouble between Russian am 'R4 Japan is 120 years old. It was propos --a ed to invade Korea in 1858, but it wa , finally decided that this would be t s play into the hands of Russia.
 When I arrived in Japan in 1S7
 there was not a school or railroad o
 soldier in the empire. The treat
 ports were opened in 1859. The Japan
 csc have reconstructed their nation.
 Tt was an American missionary wh
 established the first dispensary in tn
 country, the beginning of their splendi
 hospital system. The missionaries ha
 a good deal to do with the making C
 the new Japan. When Japan went
 war with China she had 1,500 traine
 nurses; now she has 1000 nurses. Tn
 Japanese are going to be a grea
 Christian nation through and througl The Russians are Christian natior ~H but are we like them? Thank God, nj MI IT prophesied the night before the recer AB war broke out that Russia would nc
 land a man in Japan except as pris
 oner; that the Japanese navy woul
 sweep the Russian fleet from the oceal
 and that her artillery would surpris
 tho world. To-day 5000 Chinese boy
 and girls ara studying in Japan an