The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-02-24
NO BASIS FOR
any WAR RUMOR
BISHOP HARRIS PAYS his RE
sPEcTs TO HoBsoN, LEA AND
ALL OTHER CLAIMANTS.

LOS ANGELES, February 1S.-Capt.
Richmond Pearson Hobson and Gen.
Homer Lea got theirs at Methodist
church last night A good, gray old
bishop stood in his pulpit and read
those gentlemen out of the peace con-
ference.
Thepulpit was that of the University
Methodist Church on West Jefferson
street, and the bishop was the Rev.
Merriman C. Harris, head of the Metho-
dist Episcopal missions in Korea and
Japan. He dispensed with General Lea
in sentence when he begged to change
the name of "The Yalor of Ignorance
to "The Cowardice of Knowledge"
20 AS for Captain Hobson, who sank a
boat, was kissed and sent to congress.
Bishop Harris regretted to see so bright
young man doomed to disappointment,
but he was certain that Captain Hobson
would need linger a long time for a
military career if he waited for a war
with Japan to give him his opportunity.
He also regretted that so many intelli-
gent Americans seemed willing to be
Hobsonized.
The bishop was sure that an Amer
lean could not make more deplorable
mistake than by taking Hobson seri-
ously. japan, he said, had not raised
sword for 300 years prior to the war
with China, and the Japanese were the
happiest people on earth when the
peace angel returned after the war with
Russia.
The heart of Japan bleeds with grief
at any suggestion of war with America,
the bishop said, and the people of the
United States ought to consult their
missionaries and other American resi-
dents in Japan before taking the word
of alarmists like Captain Hobson. When
all of the Americans in Japan took the
trouble to hold a mass meeting and to
send. the United States a signed state
ment to the effect that there is not a
thought of war with this country in all
japan, the people over here should be-
lieve their own fellow eountrymen, if
they can not believe the protestations
of the Japanese.
Bishop Harris spoke with feeling
touching the enthusiasm of blooded
Koreans for their religious faith.
"More persons, " said he, ''have gone
bankrupt in Korea for the sake of the
kingdom of heaven than has happened
in any other country. The Japanese
women will set aside little of their
daily portion of rice in order to give it
to the minister of their church. Many
have given their wedding rings to the
cause Of evangelization. The Korean
Christian is always glad. Before the
coming Of the Christians, twenty-five
years ago, the people of Korea had been
robbed Of their religion, and they were
lost in the night. A spirit Of heaviness
brooded over the land. Their women
were prisoners in their own homes.
Now three hundred thousand Christians
in Korea I'll the land with song, and
the women are wondrously free.
81 No moro is the minor key heard in
the music of Korea. In the old days,
the note Of victory and Of inspiration
was absent from their song, but no
music have evor heard is as sweet as
that now heard in the Korean churches
throughout the land. The natives love
to sing, and their ministers dare not
say, omit the second and fifth stanzas. ,
"a Christian in Korea can always
identity himself by the fact that he
carries q hymn book and a New TeBta.
ment IN his inside coat pocket. They
are greedy for an Interpretation OF the
Scriptures, and they never question the
authogity Of the doctrine Of life found
In the Bible. A Korean makes his re-
ligion the chief end Of his life.
Korea had learned by bitter export
cree that when religion dies, art ana
literature and even morality also die.
'fOne OF the reasons i0l Tie DJoad
welcome which the women Of Korea ex-
toaded 10 Christianity N thelF Rfeat
love o. children. The mortality among
tie little people 81 ihe land had been
heart'bFeakinR, and the mothers we're
full ~ iog vixen they saw that the
Christian ssissloukFias brought trained
nurses Hifh iAem. We have 8 rsheol
faI ilalnel angaea there no.s. ahd iAaf
sfa1ol 4 iAt pride - iae eemfa ~ ne