The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1913-04-29

spreading Christianity throughout the
world, will sail for the mainland this
morning on the Tenyo Maru on the
/ last lap of roundthe world journey
in behalf Of the Y. M. G. A. lie
reached Honolulu yesterday morning
accompanied by distinguished party,
and spent n strenuous day preaching
peace and advising his hearers TO lend
their aid TO the movement that is ear.
rying Christianity to the millions of
/ Asia.
Mr.. Mott believes that there is but
one way to silence the guns of war
now rumbling throughout the world
Christianity In this way will the
peoples, rent by racial preiudiccs, be
brought together. Mr.. Mott deliver
ed four addresses here yesterday, clos
ing with mass meeting ut the Opera
House last night.
Mr.. Mott had an unique experience
while in japan. The California anti
alien attitude had Just been known
there, and Mr.. Mott, Hamilton Wright
Mubic aud DR.. Peabody were guests OF
Baron Noboaki, minister of foreign af.
fairs. The principal speaker of the
affair was Count Okuma, former. pre-
mier and minister of foreign affairs.
| He made the startling declaration that
| diplomacy, the courts, and commercial
kings We're powerless to prevent an
open breach between the nations
Christianity VS.. War.
There remains only the influence
of Christianity to avert war, y assert
ed Okuma, Mr.. Mott replying to
Count Okuma admitted that Christian
ity was the greatest force that ~ulti-
mately would unite the world. And
so he preached here yesterday, and
will continuc to preach until he gives
his message to the great convention
which will meet at Edinburgh in June
and to which he is now on his way
Mr.. Mott, throughout his addresses
here, emphasized the fact that the cl
Lcated and ruling ,classqsoof japan,
hayc n most friendly feeling for the
United States. while admitting thnt
the lower classes have been pisled.
A Woman's View. oa5G
| The religious worker circling the
globe comes in contact With an entire.
| " different phase Of life from that
viewed by the tourist on sight seeing
| jaunt. The latter Classes see but the
glitter and surface of the real condi.
tions existing in the various countries
while the missionary comes upon the
cold hard facts. And so it has been
with Mrs. Mott, wife of the famous
void leader. MhiF she has been
with her husband on their trip around
the world she has been looking into
the sad conditions that cAist in the
lives of the women of thee rfar east
while Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait, the
veil known suifragist, viewed an alto
sether different side of the lives OF
the women.
| While speaking before a hundred OIL
more women OF the city who had been
invited to the homo OF Mrs. littriror
Hendrick yesterday to meet her, Mrs
Mott told of some of the hard things
that the women of the cast have tC
bear. In all of the Mosem countries
and in Chine there is only sorrow in
the hearts of the parents when a lit
| tie girl is born into home. Tho
mother, because she breads to have
her daughter live the same life that
she has lived and the father because
he considers the feminine portion OF
the world inferior to the masculine
in illustrating this fact Mrs. Mott told
a short story of two little girls in q
Moslem city who We're playing togeth'
| 1r. One was describing 80 her friend
the minutcncss OF a certain thing and
the child asked.
"Wcil, how small is that2' The
answer she received was, "As small
IS was the 10y in the heart of my
father when he learned that there was
| daughter born in his home. This
condition is the Same in all of the
eastern countries. the woman is con
sidcred inferior.
Japanese Women Restless.
In Japan the women are more pro
grcssivc than in any other of tn
countries, still the Japanese women
have little to say concerning their
lome life. 4 woman may at any
.imc be divorced if it suits her hus-
1and IS fancy, whether it pleases her OF
| not, Some time ago m investigation
was carried on concerning the divorce
| statistics in the Orient, The mission