The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-08-29
Local Pastor Quotes Enter
tainly From Ii.
ON THE PEACE SITUATION
Rev. R. F. Lowe Gained Information
From a japanese Newspaper
Correspondent at
Portsmouth.

Rev. r. f. Lowe, pastor Of Hedding
NJ. Z. Church, who has been passing his
vacation at Kittery Point, Maine, where
the peace ENJOYS are holding their ses-
sions, gives the following interesting ac.
count Of some Of the happenings there;
We have been highly favored in see
ing the ENJOYS under the most favorable
conditions. We stood within few feet
Of them at their public reception in
Portsmouth, and have met them several
times as they came and went in their
automobiles.
1t is not safe to draw lasting conclu-
sions from hasty impressions, but i'm
pressions we must have so long as we
are human, and sometimes they are in
teresting. There is no doubt but that
the Russians have gained somewhat in
public favor on account OF the charac-
ter OF their ENJOYS. Since we are rae
iallv much nearer the Russians than to
their antagonists, we understand them
better and observe their individuality
quicker. In a long conversation with
Japanese correspondent, | said: You
laps do not reveal your character and
feelings as the Russias do; your friend
here (Alr. Fukutomi, correspondent for
| the Boston Herald) might be very
good OF a very bad man, but no one
could tell by looking at him. we
are taught from early childhood re-
sponded Mr.. N, ''to repress our feeling.
Heroes in Japan must be quiet, taeiturn
men, like your late General Grant. For
my part | am Altogether too talkatiye
person to be popular at home."
But TO return to impressions. For
the reason that the Russians are more
like Americans, NJ. Witte in particular,
| they have made gains in favor. nj. Witte
| himself seems more like good -natured,
easy going American sea-eaptain than
d courtier. He walks around in q crowd
1 IN a pleasant, familiar way, az though
he would like to Joke with you and
slap you on the back. Baron Rosen, on
the other hand. looks like a finished
| diplomat, and rumor has ii that he is
slated for q very important embassy.
lCuriously enough, the little Jap cores
pondent. doubtless rejecting Japanese
| opinion. has poor opinion of Witte,
but thinks well OF Rosen. When / asked
him his reasons, he said that Rosen
would be willing to give in and settle,
| while Witte hangs off. The latter, he
claims. is insincere. At first he proposed
that Sunday conferences be held, but
on Saturday, August 12, he gave out
in a public way that he would hold no
conference on the American Sunday. BY
such little artifiees he is trying to curry
favor with America.
My acquaintance, by the way, assists
Fukutomi, the aforesaid Herald man,
who is not so well versed in our lam
guage, By translating his daily letter
from Japanese into English. Suppose
Russia agrees to pay an indemnity, what
assurance will you have that she will
pay itln "Well," he said, for one
thing we might hold Yladiyostok as a
kind Of mortgage. Then there are other
| ways" What do you think Of the
future Of Christianity in your country n
1T has a splendid future" he said. My
parents are Buddhists, but | am not.
'Do you think it will ever become the
dominant faiths" That is hard
question. It is certainly making great
strides Pointing to a fastidious little
Jap, he told me that the latter was a
better authority on that subject This
dapper individual, with a diminutiye
black moustache and pink cheeks, also
said that Christianity Is gaining fast,
but that it will take a new form there,
different from any that We have known.
Its form is changing in the West, and
We must suppose that it will iii the
East. -Do you think that the Japan-
ese are a profoundly religious peopleY
THAT is another hard question" he re-
Piled He admitted that there are more
intelligent men there than here without
any fixed faith. He said that there Is
not the slightest persecution when one
, turns Christian.