The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-10-09

for the two races to agree, and that
Is religion. which will be common
ground and a meeting place. Contin-
uinE, he said that the church had
planted It's missions In the most thick
i ly populated districts of China. the two
districts which were operated by the
American church having between So
I. 600, 900 and 80 900. 900 Inhabitants, OF e
greater number than the entire United
/ States. OF the two great cities Of
these missionary districts. Shanghai
Knight be called the New York. and
I Hankow. the Chicago of China. for. he
/ said. they were the great commercial
centres OF the Celestial Empire.
II he was asked he said, to state
| why the English church did not take
/ possession of the whole Chinese e1n-
pire as missionary district. he would
| answer that the English Church had
six districts which is all that it
could care for, while the american
church had two and that the two
churches were now working with the
/ utmost harmony without any conflict
4 of any kind. Tho great future of
4 China. the speaker said, was in the
fact that the Chinese were looking
for two things in the church. first.
i self-support, and second. self-Eovt!n.
ment. He said that this question o..
1.-the people, who desire not only self
i government in tho church. but also
4 government In the state: that the ma
3 tlonal spirit was being developed, and
!. La national pride was taking hold Of
Il the Chinese. and that this state OF
AFFAIRS could never come without tho
! growth Of the church. He said that
4 the Chinese educated by tho church de-
veloped an Intense national pride.
and were doing much to raise the
, standard of those around them. There
4 tricts governed by tho American
q church, Bishop Graves said, and there
\ IiareM good colleges and excellent nos-
4 lpitals.a OF late he had called Chinese
;, |sinto the church council. and found that
n they were able to give excellent ad-
a vice. and had entered into the church
& work. with great enthusiasm
:. He said that he had seen the great
Z good that the missionaries OF other de-
) nominations had done and are doing
--sIiin China and that the aim Of the
\ church was beyond the mere matter
! ljof counting converts and tabulatins
! statistics: the great plan being to
rI5"creatc anew Fclimate."
= Bishop Graves insisted that the
$ Church OF Rome did not have the tu-
t ture that the Anglican church had In
. China, and gave as his reason that the
7 Roman Church had no great schools,
4 nor publications, nor hospitals. He
. gave some interesting figures regard
o ing the Protestant Christians In China.
r There We're 10000 in 1887 he said,
/; while now there are more than $780,
y 900. Si a
= 81 AT the conclusion Of Bishop Gravess
! address the presiding bishop proposed
that letter be sent to tho Chinese
h clergy felicitating them on their work
$ land thanking them for their letter OF
: greeting which they had sent to the
II General Convention. The motion was
q carried. ana tile secretary was in
Q structed to Write such atletter and to
|. place 1t In tho hands Of Bishop Graves
y Church tn Japan.
y lS5s The next speaker In PRODUCED was the
: Rt. Rev. John 8N1cNim,s Bishop of Toxic
t who has lived for twenty-eight years
3 In Japan. Bishop McKim began his
Y address by telling the story OF thu
i early days of Japan, when Commo.
: dore Perry visited the nation, ana re,
It cited how Mr.. Townsend Harris, thu
Y first Minister to Japan. declined ii
= transact business on sSundny In order
d Ito provc Ia tho Japnnese the devotion
4 OF the Americans to Sunday. He alss
@ told OF the two missionaries Wht
~ W6llR W JUDttu W op'st 4NNNt We
n Moore WI lipms. who Is still live. ant
n Rev. John, ggin, and how these twt
holy men labo,ed in the face OF grea
!. |dithcultial and frequently In danger o
y their&llv until IN s72 tho first Chris
"a tlana convert was made.
81 1T was worthy Of note, Blshop Nc
81 ljTSln said; that the American Catholi
liz Church In Japan was orgnniaec 4tw
= years before the modern empire wa
y organized, and that the church I'M
T. i 5000 members. There are gsiNS a locese
IN 4 mn 10 ur Rng Isll and two Anacr