The San Francisco call., 1909-11-29
MAN WITH AN IDEAL
NEEDED BY NATIONS
Baron Shibusawa, Japanese
Commissioner, Advocates
Spiritual Development
Religion Described as Giving
Strength and Vigor in Adj
dress Before Y. M. c. A.

Laying aside the matetialistic view
of businessmen on tour of investiga-
tion, the visiting members of the Jap
anese commercial commission dealt
with affairs spiritual yesterday at a
mass meeting held by the Young Mems
Christian association in Golden Gate
hall. discussing the value of religion
in the upbuilding of nations and in
the maintenance of the peace of the
world
At the meeting was shown the calm,
logical manner in which the Japanese
mind considers religion. Baron shibu-
sawa. the leading banker Of the orient.
spoke for the commissioners.
NO. observer of human affairs he
said. ''ean fail to see the value of the
spiritual in the workings of the world.
IDEAL MAN IN DEMAND
The man who devotes himself ex-
clusively to the affairs of finance or of
commerce and neglects the develop
ment of the spiritual side of his ma
ture. falls far short of being the ideal
man. And it is the ideal man that the
state demands from its citizens or sub
jeets, for the more perfect are the men
comprising a community the more per-
feet is that community.
The ideal man is he who can COM
bine the material with the spiritual,
the man who has his theory of life
and endeavors TO put that theory into
practice. When a man is guided by a
spiritual conviction toward the attain
ment of material object. he will sur
mount obstacles with greater ease and
with greater enthusiasm than if guided
solely by purely material desires. Re-
ligion gives mankind am object, and
without religion a man or nation is
without lasting strength and vigor.
VALUE OF Y. vi. C. A. WORK
The Young Mems Christian associa
ton seems TO have grasped the great
value of combining the spiritual and
the material and its success in all
lands shows that it is making rapid
progress toward the attainment of its
obiect-that of making better charac-
ters. better men, better citizens and a
better state"
Baron Kanda, another commissioner,
a graduate of Yale and one of the
first to start Y. NJ. c. A. institutions
in Japan, spoke of the work in Tokyo,
where thousands of students travel an
nuany from all parts of the Japan.
These young men" he said wander
from boarding house to boarding house
and find temptation on every hand The
Y. NJ. {. A. has a great field there and
recognizing this fact takes advantage
of every opportunity
KING IN HUMBLE HUT
During the course of the speeches
this afternoon reference has been made
TO presidents kings and emperors, and
also this meeting not being held in its
own hall. Taking these two points
call to your mind. gentlemen. that
kings and emperors live in palaces,
guarded and kept apart. but the king
you worship and the king | worship
lives in the humblest hut and the low
liest among US may commune with him
at any moment"
Speeches We're made also by DR.. Viii
liam RAIDER Jr., DIR. Frederic Clampett.
Rev. H. p Johnson and Henry j. Nc
Coy, secretary of the association.
The japanese visitors devoted the re-
mainder of the day to resting and in
formal visits among their countrymen
The main events today viii be a receD
ton in the Merchants Exchange build
ing by the chamber of commerce and
a banquet at the ST. Francis hotel
During the morning the visitors wiz
be taken around the city in automo
hiIac