The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-11-10

the basis of reunion by the whole An- glican Episcopate when the Bishops of both churches met at Lambeth Palace Tn iSss-s0, so that 1t is not too much to say that the Chicago-Lambeth Quad- riiaterai represents tht united voice and the joint action of the English and American Churches throughout the world
 There are other notable ccntrIbu- tons which the Church has made and Is making to the life of the Nation. The Book of Common Prayer is be- coming appreciated by all the Churches of Christendom. Tn the extempore prayers of the ministers throughout the Christian world the incomparabie language of the Liturgy is being more or less consciously appropriated and its rich stores appropriated as treas urer house of devotion and worship.
 Not the least of the Church's con tributions to the National life Is the par 1t has played throughout history in the struggle of the English speak Ing peoples for liberty. both constitu- tional and religious. from the time when Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury, and the barons. wrested from King John on the battle Held Of Runymede in 1915, the Magma charta. .The words which Sir Francis PaI- grave uses in estimating the debt which the cause of constitutional goy- ernment owes the Church of England are none too strong when he says. The Mitre has resisted many blows which would have broken the helmet !.
 Japanese Work.
 The Reverend Mfr. correii. mission ary to Japan. followed on the sub tect: Some personal observations of the Church's work in the Orient" MT. Cornell opened his remarks by expressing both sorrow and pleasure as his emotions at being permitted to address the Missionary Council.
 My chief regrets. said he. are that am only permitted to talk to you because I am compelled to absent my. self from my work in Japan which will ever hold my greatest interest. Tn fact am but a prisoner here against my will since it Is to raise funds for the proper conduct of the work in Japan that I remain in Amer ica
 We must have s12.50o for the work of the church In my district of Japan and I have raised but ss.50o of that sum. am . prisoner here ana my bail is S4.500.
 My missionary district in Japan has held me twenty years since first landed in that country In 1889, and I am still compelled to content myself with a room about eighteen feet | square. which we share with native worker. as chapel. On Sundays we remove the front partitions of the building and convert the room into a kind of pulpit from which we ad- dress the gathered conRre gation that crowds the street in front of, the place.
 QR.r Rlr Nv To 11kA from the middle of the seventeenth century with the entry Into the coun- | try of the early missionaries of the Catholic Church and their work was so fruitful that 1t was but few years be- fore their converts numbered many hundreds of thousands.
 Later they made the mistake of teaching the doctrine that one who gave his allegiance to the head of the church in spiritual affairs also gave | his allegiance to the church in tenn poral affairs. doctrine at that time taught by that church and for which | they could not we'll be blamed. yet when the government learned of 1t the missionaries were driven from Japan and all converts were ordered to re- nounce the new religion and trample | the cross under foot. orders which many of them refused to execute. and | selves to a glorious martrydom.
 "The Roman Catholics returned to Japan In 1860 and their records show that 10000 people were found who had retained the Christian religion. not from books or any form of written records, but from word of mouth hand ed down from the first converts: a splendid tribute to the steadfastness of the people of Japan.
 "The persecution by the government had not died. but when 1t was brought to the official notice of Japan's ruler, that these converts were declaring | themselves as Christians. their prop. erty was confscated and they were length and breadth of the kingdom.
 Marked Changes.
 we landed In Japan in 1873 and l since that time have seen wonderful changes in the attitude of the govern' ment toward Christian missionaries At first we were compelled to remair | in the reservation of our respective governments, where we were not sub
 feet in the slightest to the laws oi l Japan but were yet under the rule ot our native land.
 "The first great change came witt the sending to Europe of party oi | notables of the country who were or dered to discover the reason for tht greatness of the Western nations That party returned to report that tho fruits of Christianity had been sadly misunderstood bv the Japanese and fl their country hoped to become great 1t must espouse the new religion oi the westerners for therein lay theI' power.