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Show MISSIONARIES DESCRIBE WORK D0NE1N JAPAN j. jir. and Mrs. Hilton Robertson Robert-son Keturn to Sprinsrville From Japan Mission. Humlmls of pooplo p;ukod tho SjiriUiivillo Fourlh ward t-haiu'l Smi-j-iv I'voniiii; August ;U to lu'ar .Mr. ami Mrs. Hilton Kolu'i-tstm who have just rotunicd from a iluvo your mission to Japan. Many loft tho ' jnmmls who ooulil not gain cu-inuu-e. Missionary oxporii'iK-os, a dost-rip- tion of the pivat dostrnction of N Tukio by oartluiuako and fire of a rear aj:o and an 'account of the re-r re-r ihricms customs of the Japanese " were presented in a very interesting v niiuuicr by Mr. and Mrs. Kohertson. Tho people of Japan are very I? much effected by the recent, exclusion exclu-sion law. according to Mr. ttubevt-c ttubevt-c Sim, but he said this is not the reason rea-son that the missionaries were taken J out of Japan. He stared that this bad been an experimental field for ; many years and that satisfactory results in proportion to the work that had been done were not i reached. One hundred thirty-seven ! baptisms have ben performed since UUO. he said. Mr. Robertson stated that tho Japanese have a real problem to face iu finding places for. their increased in-creased population, that the population popu-lation increases at the rate of 250,-imi 250,-imi a year and they have no place to put them. Mr. Robinson stated that there rcere two and one half million people peo-ple in Tokio at the time the earthquake earth-quake occured and that within a few minutes time the whole city was on fir? with all the water mains cut dff. He stated that 32.840 persons per-sons were all smothered in one place where they tried to find refuge on the Armory grounds. Many he said rushed into the small lake and lilly ponds but the water became so hot their bodies were cooked. None of the missionaries, saints or friends were killed he said. Today if you were to visit Tokio you would not ! know that there ever was an earth i quake, Mr. Robertson said, for the j dry was rebuilt in such a short time. ; Mrs. Robertson gave a very inter-1 esting account of the religious rituals rit-uals practiced by the Japanese, baptisms bap-tisms in their temples for their dead and of the burial ceremonies for the dead. |