The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-09-16

the relations Of foreign missions TO di-
plomacy; the present year IS giving
a practical demonstration OF this. The
recent Worlds Sunday School
ton in Zurich. Switzerland, and
Japan's part therein, afforded a Gull
minating evidence Of the effective
way in which the agencies Of religion
may be used for the promotion Of in
ternatfOnal comfy.
him affords the other notable re-
cent instance of the relation between
missions and StateSInanShip.~ One OF
the first announcements made by
President Wilson. was that he desired
to appoint a man who would be re-
Sarded as representing Christian mis-
sions, to serve as United States Minis
ter in Picking. In accordance with
this purpose, he repeatedly urged the
post upon John r. Mott, an action
which elected such a nationwide
chorus of approval from pulpit and
press, that the good politics Of the
move was apparent, apart from all
considerations Of international rela-
tionships. DR.. Mott declined the post.
While Prof. Reinsch, who a since
been named, is not identified with the
missionary movement, it is certain
that he will at least reflect the ad-
ministration's favorable attitude to-
ward foreign missions in China.
How Religion Makes Public Senti-
ment.
At the present hour, the machinery
Of the missionary propaganda-which
is perhaps the best organized and
most widely distributed organization
in America-is now promoting senti-
ments Of peace toward Japan. Thu
missionaries in that country, months
20, sent word TO their representa-
tives here that it was important tO
stir up a friendly interest in Japan's
case, and to decTy all talk Of war
Very strong prO.Japanese resolu-
tons were adopted by the missionary
bodies in Japan.
Now the business of molding the
church sentiment of the country ir
opposition to the anti-Japanese pro.
~paganda, and in favor of a peaceful
solution Of the pending japanese
questions, is Under way. Hundreds Q.
religious papers. tens Of thousands o.
pulpits, and many great missiOnar,
mass-meetings, are all depositing sen.
tlments of good will to u text doOl
neighbor across the Pacific, in tn,
minds Of Americans. This method O
influence works the more efrectivel,
since most Americans get theil
knowledge OF the nations Of Asis
through missionary addresses and lit
erature
That it is a shrewd craftsmanship
70 utilize the churches as far as ma,
be possible has been shown by tn
Chinese. Yuan Shin kais call for
day Of prayer, a few months ago, con
centrated the sympathetic attention
OF the Christian world upon Chin;
and her problems as no other actor
r could rave DONE.
4 Japan at urich.
No nation has better un0erstoo,
he value Of religious venue Of pub
q licity and of sentiment-moldin., tina;
Japan. For more than fly years sh
e has been hospitable to m~issionarie4
e and has bestowed favors upon then
g Her foremost statesmen are at presen
n actively cooperating with mission
: aries in creating a better feeling be
: tween the two governments upon tn
s California question.
The recent Worlds SUNDAY Schof
Y Convention at Zurich, Switzerland
was a strategic occasion. Some twer
d ty-six hundred delegates were pres
ent from all over the world, but mo.
e Of them from America. Each dole
e gate would report to a large consti
Is uency. The moment was psycholoe
1T cal for evoking a friendly. fratern:
ana even enthusiastic attention /
t. Japan.
So Rev. Hiromachi Kozaki. II
president of the National Snnda
~ VI Japan, eXtent
r. ed an invitation TO the Worlds Su,
lie day School Convention to meet
IS, TOXIC IN the year 191e. A lare
d money guarantee for the expense
l. the convention had already been sD)
ut scribed by Toxic business men. n
a lbuke. president of the Federation
In Japanese churches. made q hri1Iia,
il address in faultless English before -
convention; His master argume,
was that the idea is being wide1r =;
culated in Japan that Christ;a MT,
dead in the West. One ~suffcien, .,
sWer to this would be for Ch,;stis,
in a mass from all the world Ia M,
Of upon Toxic. nv
RS, Naturally. the convento,