The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-12-09
I'M T. ELLIS.


That many or most
'OlIJls say no more for
ire wanted In Japan,
of the strongest mis-
gree with them, at
{ of saying that no
be sent ont for the
ther sensational con
'pS On I have been forced
Insa | 'tudy of the mission
+, confronts the mis-
h err How serious it is
,,,-e in America have
oIrhat an open rupture
I &fons and the Jap
has been narrowly
till a dangerous pos
IS; b admitted on all sides.
lRsd hc situation is recog-
DIV concerned. It af-
gious conditions in
M more important still,
upon the future of
B in almost every
! hi prld. The questions
,u Excitement here and
!" tie a precedent for
lands. The very
, k + crisis has sobered
he'd. so that the bit
as lities which marked
of the controversy
Il and on every side
VI b are being modified,
5 Assert Themselves.
= hse situation has its
pirit OF japanese ma
people is exceedingly
bud. 1t resents with
arcasm being called
sltion, and thus being
natives of Africa and
Stands. Equally is it
under foreign
lage in its religious
hent which caused the
tra-territorial political
lers, and which to this
, Japanese prints to
-, )reign communities as
In. ents, - is keenly alive
mn TO be an attitude of
1hVae part of the mission
l have heard one Of
INEal and earnest of the
nese pastors speak
presence of a large
-Japanese, Of the day
lese ministers were
: 90 = vJrlpers by the foreign
u pq1f thing has touched
~ k
problem also. is the
eradicable Anglo.Sax-
Aus iority TO other races.
IN enough to warrant
Ops is ground for the
sst,ness on this subject,
csonaries conduct them
VI ~ Japanese preachers
\ n isas toward a man, a
u ....i Fl rsqual. Such men are
e.. 5ould be called home.
i@ is here is ended. If it
.s;eaf this attitude on the
,ollH, Z Foreigners. may be
2 . astical inconsiderate-
me- ostility Of the japan.
!, Isll ,l',,..;. & not a few know as
Hd ID = ministry what it is
'tyilA ags hurt.
thS the matter has been
~ %f-governing japanese
ciea he largest of these is
s 9, Jesus Christ in Jap.
,ass s b Ses all the Presbyter-
~ ~ q y bodies; there are here
ger pyterlan subdivisions
SsT y Eerica. Next in size
J b. y or Congregational
:. aaom will shortly be
raS ,Syr "A Brethren and Meth
tS . The Japanese Meth.
Ihs rs n, South. and Cana.
he eeking consolidation,
topii 2 on boards across the
J n,,'s ,s Z , interposed obstacles
= nI.cs scted. but the Japan
"a = pike out so promptly
as, % barriers to the crea-
!. "Sdist church III japan
IE.' ed. and next spring
G. irsration will be effected.
e. e, is,s Episcopal church and
~ : lib lgland have likewise
There is little doubt
0yement will continue.
lists and the Presby.
at an early date.
III cnleedy union of all ma.
dlu = one Japanese Chris
.;on ainly it is the conscn.
slVn II the minute demon
IN T1p sctarlan divisions of
" ',oth dom cannot be per.
r.,,o dfolled membership Of
tWo reh in Japan, by the
{rlp, pO00, the past wear
,oN'nt decrease-through
Cm%ned. in the statistics.
.olis churches OF Amer
oapup ST year in New York
othsfl Conference on Fed
W. pied a soundly estab-
siSn vanizatlon here, "the
',G;l6ec of Cooperating
Dll'~ mas effected several
! including the produc.
lg. I hymn book for all
o sSehes,
" Tsl statepent is true
I" thai while the rcIa,
nsID individual mission
!. psg1idual japanese Chris
ousD tordial. the relations
n nnt Mons and the native
NHlvi strained,
". vtc question has been
6~ forms and the funds
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