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RELIGION IN ASIA.

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In the peach made on his arrival at Yokohama "General" Booth is reported to have said :—-“I have heard a great deal of talk about the Japanese character being difficult to understand; but I seem to understand it right off. Forionately or otherwise, the "General's" stay in Japan will not be long enough to lead him to reconsider this cheerful ut erauce; and possibly be will be able to carry home a sincere belief in the impending wholesale conversion of Japan to bis own faith.

What

with opinions thus hastily formed and opinions coloured by solf

but seldom, it in interest and professional spirit,

that the truth on this matter roaches er uhlie in Europe and America, and when it the does suash them it fails to carry conviction.

The plain fact is-and one evas admitted by some of the missionaries that the dogmatic hasis ni wedern Christianity does not appeal to the average Asistic. If it is not repulsive to hit that can only be because it is not utterly nninteresting. He reads or hears it with fee ings similar to those with which the average European reads the early legends of the Japanese or the fshies of the Koran. And when he compared the lives of those professing the sex faith with those of his fellow countrymen it is little wonder that he often fails to discern what advantage would accrue by its whole-hearted adaption

It may be well in contemplato the very woode rate amonu of success which has attended missionary efforts in the Far East and then ask how much surces they wouldave been enabled

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, MAY 11тa, 1907.

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it as soon as it is fairly presented lost to be nearer a solution. to their minds, in an idea which, he rover popular of his last visit to Ader, in 1903, Lord North. cote, in reply to an address presented by the among those who support missions, vanishes on closer acquintangy with the facts. It is the Arab merahsata, said, in connection with this least-informed who are the most hopeful of the subject, that the question of bringing an sascoes of Christianity. Fut the more familiar improved water supply from the Lower Taffai becomes with of the other great cafatry was considered in 1886, but hard to be one religioue agsieme, the more clearly does it abandoned, partly in consequence of its cost and

account of difficulty of ous is just Rective-and, ma a dogmatic zoting the nine line, which was unpowd to being eat by maliciously disposed people. become poreeptible that as a basis for morality as completo and ex

hold

good, construction, elusive-as sneiker. The pions Mohammedan. The views of His Excellency still Hindu or Baddhist lives in his religiou and the objection to bringing a water-sup- the plens Cathalle ly from the Lower Yoffsi country still exists, as completely R

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any attemp: to bring water from such his; it enfalls him and

sery far place would he vary cont'y sal side

would be attended with much risk. siternative project from a neurer place is now proposed. This subject was lately brought up before the Executive Committee by order of the Politics! Resident for a more practicable water- supply from Sheme in the Labri District.

just

it satisfies bim com and what is) most important, it regulates his conduct just as well. Why should he change? In what way is the world a guiner by his clancing? The only motive for trying to convert him seems to be the Christina idea of salvation by faith--the idea that belief is everything and endast, by itself, nething. But this idea is, happily, losing strongils erorg day. If, on Matthew Arnold so frequently insisted, Conduct is four-fifths of life murely-it should be more than four-tifths of religion."

PRINCE'S LOVE ROMANCE..

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In the Middlesex Walking Club's walking competition from London to Oxford on March VT. F. Hammoud covered the course (from the Marble Arch to the Martyrs' Memorial) 544 miles, in Sh. 51min. 14 -5sec. He, there fore, beat the previous record of 9h. 59min. THE KAISÉE TESTED HIS SON.

fio, made by J. R. Barnes Mons on Good rilag last year by 1h. Sein. 1 3-5zea. There The Daily Mail Berlin correspondent writes

were eight competitors, but P. R. Leatherby W. Raddock, & W. Griffiths, and F. J. Jack to host of if, in Japan, there lind ust been a on April 2 mag. after the fourth

C. A. desire to insen English: if, in India, the sams; son at the Kaiser, Prince August Wilhelm, desirs had unl, heen kill more active and the whom his lajesty will send to Harvard Univer¦-did not fluish, The placings were:-T. missionaries bad failed to receive help be hity, instead of his fifth son, Prince Oscar, Hammond, B. 51min. 14 2-5ses., 1 piestige of the governing race; and if, la Caisa, According to a profty story told me today, for | Sampson, 1, 23min. Sisec, 2. A. R. Edward, The popular dintust for foreign dairings had the full afhenticity of which I can rough, the min. 15se, 3; W. Brown, tel. 77min. consented to Priser 16 2-58c. 4. All except the last name, there not been hold in cheek by the fear of foreign baiser un Kaiseria

intervention, strengthened by several August's engagemect to his cousin, Prize as fore, beat the provious record. examples of extravagant compensaction exforto Alexandra Victoria of Selleswig-Holstoin, in But Asia, the January, upon the strict condition that he for anti-mi-xicanry outbreaks. ahole of balf the baran raes, is rightly begin- should study for two years before his wedding. ping to claim a larger share in the world's affairs, and there up be no doubt that as a whole its sentiment, where not jnd front so Christianity, Secartainly net friendly to it.

After falling desperately in love with his consip, Prince August confessed his 1sion

ut the time to his parents. Bat they told him

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sineteen years old that he was too young to think of sucks

followed Prince things, and ordered him back to his books. The disappointed father's advics until he learned or day that s certain eligible German Grand Dake was about to propose to his swoofbeart.

Leasing Bonn without permission of the university ruthorities or the knowledge of his adjatust the Prince hastened to his father's side and told him he must have Princess Alexandre Victoria a his wife. He said that the thought of her marrying anyone else was intolerable.

Christianity is an exotic in the Far East wed. is more after the care than not with nt kinds of exotics, much rareful culture bng 1s bestowed up n it with feeble results. The or Chine, even the Indian, whe Japane becomes a Christian-8 sincere Christin, apart frem all self-interoded motives, enn abnortuni eiren of his race and is never likely to be more than a rare exception. Even get the bigoted and intolerant of the West it is now admitted that a mount may be god mag without being a profered Christian, and

fact that 14 Delighted at this evidence of bis sea's trus there is no denying the Christianity mitigates its dogmas it becomes love the Kaiser agreed to interecede with lees powerful in propaganda. The brend the boy's mother. The Kaiserit finally consented minded Christian who tells his "bea bon" to their betrothal upon the andersteading bearer that Christianity, in its easence, does that the marriage should be postponed until not differ so greatly from Baddhism or Moham 1909 Prince August Wilbela will, therefore, Then it ish bie prasent course at Bonn, spend next medaniam is likely to be answered':

winter at the University of Strasburg, and perhaps go to Harvard early in 1908. It was the Kaiser's original intention to sond kim to America about that time, and he mentioned his purpose again three weeks ago at a dinner at the American Embassy.

I um true to the perpts of my own religion, I shall be essentially as hristion; and there is no need either to call myself one or to listen to After a century of missionary your preaching." effort in Asia, the converts are neither in number nor in quality such as to give any hope that what is so lightly generalised "Christianity will become the national religion of any Asiatic

ince.

it.

The works of Draper, Heuty Lea. Andrew D. White, and others, have proved beyond dispute that the progress of Western civil's tion has heen web, not hy the help of Christianity but by constant struggles against These works show, with convincing wealth of detail, that the orthodox defendere of Christianity have in every generation, scleraly and mercilessly opposed every step of progress in knowledge, and that Science has won its present position only by a struggle from beginuing that were so fooble as to ycom hopeless. In the face of such evidence the fact that up-to-date Christianity should is put forward as the reason why the Western nation in knowledge Leve outstripped the others.

most glaring and wealth is perhaps the misrepresentation on record.

An encounter between the Queen of Spain, when she was a yousy girl, and a fortan teller is related in Mainly About People. The Princess was walking near Caboros with ber brother when they met an old gipsy woman, who, unsware of the identity of the children, asked for us. The Princess fumbled in her pocket, and es tracted her only coin-a shilling-and handled it is the woman, who asked in gratitude, Would the young lady like her fortune told ?" The Princess held out her hand. "The young She will torn from lady has great good fortune in store," and the gipsy, examining it.

journey Cross towards Orcea; she will make by sea to warty, a dark man-he man of her hart: she will rule samongst rulers she will sen death, but shall live unscathed; and she will bear t sois, and all before a score of years have passed over her head."

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