Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-28

L. Dearing, president of the Baptist TheO-
logical Seminary, called, and at his invi-
tation we took tea at his home and ac-
compa MED him to the service of the Union
Church at & o'clock The meeting in
cluded representatives to all the mission
airy families, as well as other Europeans
and Americans residing in Yokohama.
Later in the evening we attended the
service in a Japanese chapel where we
listened to an earnest young preacher, a
graduate of the Baptist seminary who had
also served as secretary of the Young
Men 6 Christian Association in Manchuria
chapel on busy street 30 conversions
to Christianity have been recorded in the
past year
AS our steamer was full day ahead of
been planned for Monday, and we used the
extra day for some sightseeing, going to
kamakura to the great Buddha and
the Hachiman shrine.
The next day we were escorted to Tokyo
by Prof. Ernest W. Clement, the writer
of several very acceptable books on mis-
sionary work in Japan. Four days were
spent in Toxic before starting out on the
tour of other cities in Japan and Korea
In this time We gave especial study to the
problem which is presented by the pres
ence in that city of 10000 Japanese stu
dents of high school grade and upward.
representing almost every city and village
IN the entire empire and 1900 to 10000
students from leading families in every
province of China. 1t is probably safe to
say that no such number of students has
history of the world. Many of these stu
dents live in boarding houses, where the
influences are not of the best in scarcely
any case. and in many cases of the very
worst. The problem of comba ting these
influences Is a matter of serious concern
to leading Japanese statesmen and edu-
Gators. and the work of the Young Mems
Christian Association in erecting and MAIN
tanning suitable student dormitories is thor
oughiy appreciated by these men.
New Y. M. C. A. Building.
Mr.. John R. Mott brought with him in
his recent visit to Japan $4,000 from
friends in America, and work is now in
progress on a splendid building which will
accommodate quite a considerable number
of students. Another building will shortly
be erected. and there are already in use
several smaller dormtories. In these stu
dent homes a secretary of the association
lives, Bible classes and religious meetings
are conducted. and wholesome recreation
and instruction provided for leisure hours
1t is not to be imagined that these centers
of influence reach only the young men who
live in the dormitories: they influence the
whole student body in many ways. In the
first place they raise the standard of liv-
ing. providing cleaner and more wholesome
fCod and lodging, thus compelling the pri-
vate boarding house keepers to improve
their service In the second place they be-
come propagating centers for religious work
and for energetic resistance to the tempta
tons which beset the students.
1t is an interesting fact, to be noted in
passing, that the ground purchased by the
association for the large student dormitory
now in process of erection has been known
for the past go years as Christian HILL"
because of the fact that the prison in
which the Catholic priests were confined
before their martyrdom was located here.
When we visited the spot the secretaries
who accompanied us pointed out a single
remaining landmark of this persecution.
namely, the stone erected in the memory
of native Christian servant who refused
to either recant or forSake the priests and
who shared their Imprisonment and martyr
dom. This stone has been allowed to re-
main all these years, and Is now an i'm