Show from japan after a marked decline in the ber of christian converts in japan the most recent statistics show a change tor the better in the four years fron to 1892 only 6 were baptized and after that the churches were sta flonary their number in bome cases even decreasing but in 1898 there was the remarkable increase of 41 adults baptized in the evangelical churches 24 in the russian ml sion which has shown great under bishop nicolas and 62 in the church which counts ahll ursa along with adults |