Show 10 hiI OHm l The announcement throuGh the thc Des Deseret I eret News Newa that Heber J Orr hall had been on a to J Ju Jut t than Jan to 10 have quite n a lii tel Cr In inan circles It Is a 1 long time iii the lie Church sent Fent to the Orient excepting those who Ian lavo labored In IIII Minor On August 28 2 1852 1152 1 ii special con ence WI was held ir this city at which 1 number ot of Elders were to go goon on can foreign missions Among them we nine to Calcutta and tour to toto to und and three to Slain I to that Elder Joseph Il a soldier In the British army orm Who arrived In Cr cutti India about the first of June Jur 1811 Introduced the Gospel there al before thin tho month was out Patrick Melk Mary Ann Meik Matthie McCune and Maurice White rho he ren were ordained to the Priesthood and commenced missionary work vork then them selveS On the Iha mh of at December the tho nan year ear Elder Wm Willis III Ca from having been heen se there liS as 1 a by br To Torenzo T renzo SnOw In May Ia 1853 1852 he reported members of the Church In Calcutta including Hots who hlo had hod jill 1110 embraced Christianity On AUF Aug August 17 1852 1 Elder lder Matthew or iii red dyed In introduced tho Oi Gospel to This waa by the already of missionaries traIn lom this city In Sep September Se 18 1152 2 Elder Hugh Findlay or oi 1 a branch of oC the Church wit telo members in III British lii In InI I lIn I lInOn On April G 6 1853 1153 I Elders N V Joan JoanA A Musser lIc Shelton Bollt Owen Oln Wm III y JI yI I Carter Will Viii I Samuel 4 0 Woolley Chau tire W p Vet Levi Say ego and F 10 Dewe Dewey arrived at a Calcutta train Cram Utah after aCter SO sa days das voy voyage age froin San Francisco co Next day dllY Il El ElI I del dec Stout James Lewis an Chapman Duncan arrived nt at from Utah to labor In Chum Chilla The Thet Ther r were anal not very horn otter returned to rue fhe mis r to India wet sent Hent to differ cut ent hurts of oC that country whore hero the labored with varied but not hut On en IU success Japan ta not Hot In the lie fields of labor then lien opened liP up III recent recen years yearn great changes have occurred In I Ithe I till the Mad land ot of the Mikado arid and man many no Uvell have visited the United States ani Europe In 1872 a Japanese e emboss to spent n a Cel few In Salt Sail City and others or oC their country inca have visited us who ho were much In our religion I customs The wn va hia been prepared for Cor the lie stop step noW decided to be bc taken anti Japan will lie be offered the Gospel under the tho direction I vf of II a postIe The religious conditions In Japan form I a subject ot of considerable Interest 1 Tea years cars ago alfo hail had very bright prospects In the empire ninny i or of the most Japanese bring being favorably Impressed with It 11 hut but a hango has hils come caine according to nil all no nc counts One OliO evidence of this was shown last fall when a government measure Intended In Intended tended to place llaco nil religions In Japan on onan onan an equal footing the In law was rejected by the house of oC peers though It hand the support of both Loth Christians anti progressive thud Bud Buddhists I The Tho entire number of Chris In III Japan Is given ns as somewhat oYer oer or oL which are Roman Homan Catholics and Protestants Pro Protestants But Dut few though the are the nr lire reI In III the most offices In the empire even CYell In Inthe the tho cabinet Ant AM the rejection of tim the bill Intended to grant perfect religious liberty anti equality won was II surprise to all Another evidence ot of till Un of nt at least In inthe the tho empire Is In the status of the churches A Japanese 1st sas lie he examined the tho roll of at on otis of oC the churches auth found that out of oC a t total membership of no less than wore absent And oC at the tho remainder were said to Le be zion non active Tho Thio average nt at atthe the church van 77 7 The number ot of S IL SupportIng churches hind hod fallen In 1 a r fw f years from 10 to 21 4 or ii Several reasons are for tor tIb decline One Is that the morality of at atI those who have embraced Christian Christianity II ity hils ha not Proved much superior to that of at the followers of the tho native I teachers The discrepancy between theory and practice has hns been 1 a great stumbling block In ns as elsewhere Another reason is II said to be that missionaries In Japan vcr very turn turnout turnout out agnostics tlc anti their converts tol oh low them This sounds Hounds strange the fact seems Item to bo be suh Mr Ir Penman a literary man who hives In Japan says Bas lie ho visited 1 personally trustees ot of n a fine educational ion and that the they toM told him the they did not believe In the divinity of Christ Lending native hae bo be become come advanced thinkers and there isI Is I club claib between them anti the T ot at the Iho mission boards not r rat at nil nfl to propaganda A writer IK hi quoted to the I effect that tho lie Christians opinion und and discuss s this doc tie Info flint that but It oil nil thero thu Is little roul roal hIllier belief Christianity cat associated n ci civIlIzation lint ii Its Jt l For or that ren renson re reson son It some prestige But now fl the lie feeling o 0 the tho nation MUon In regard to Home parts or of civilization Ii zulu Christianity Is no longer long hold II in the former IS teem If IC proceed thus hu hit ConclUdeS In Iii years In iii Japan will bu bue 1 e 0 facet This decline In Christianity has hIlS re r III it I corresponding revival awl at reconstruction of the ancient roll glans of oC the tho country On the lie authority of Dr DI lIchel fovea Hoon late Professor In tho I Imperial or of Japan It hI that au In is now being mm to modernize Buddhism on the ito lines of I Ithe the philosophy ot of Herbert Spencer at the lit two are to surprisingly well for tor Buddhism If lit tho U doctrine or of evolution In iii ci a four form Reincarnation to 10 some ls to hll he hut but term for Cor eVo It is II freely Creely believed lii In noW how that lint was for forthe f the western nations helping to them front from murder nut oth other or er but that lint It Is not n In Japan where the p lI ure at flu lP food these apparent eli all the lie of the Chris Chrie of oC christ so to title will WI lint which J tinder this ho be round found anti that the he time tim timms Is to Japan hns ms conic come for tor It a lent and wo se lay look for In that direction which will vII redound to the tho benefit of the be people thero and to the tho glory ot of the lie The Chur h of Jesus JeBUS Christ of Lot Saints special divine divino mis erday lion a ion sian to the to eely and kindred anti tongue am eople The angel el spoken en of In tho tb sea ice IoV G 6 7 has hus to 11 stored oreth It In Its puritY hilt Power anti the lie duty of proclaiming It ot of the advent of tho thit for or 0 ns aS the of kings ond Lord Lordt Elders of ot othis oe t lords devolves upon the tho this his Church It does liot whether hey Aue eed In making converts or not it I minor consideration They go to hit end to bear benr testimony of the lie reopen reopenIng Ing ig of at divine communication with lad and antl tho lie of the set Bet up 1 by the Savior In person centuries ngo with Its doe doc authoritY ordinances and ane spirit Crom which the world has departed hey Are re not to war upon exist In ig sects churches but Lut to otTer tim tho ord lit C the lie Loud newly revealed for forit it obedience or if all mankind and to this world ot of coming coniing jud Judgments ments titi whIch will be the tho con of rejecting their message that lint Is true that tenths to I elevate enlighten and unite In all the systems ox ex tont ant they o acknowledge ns as of God od They are ure not to attempt to take e away voy anything that the Iho world already haa 0 or of truth hut but to add to the sum suni human Information on spiritual 1 ings They he 1 10 not hOt seek to tte their 1 opinIons no tu to re ion but to II declare list whirl which noel lad ladIs hns Is iii the Present dispensa Uon The Sta too and nun at the islands o of the tho sea sen been b this the and now Japan to 0 Iel helte tile tho hiving word of God There ur times seasons for tor move montA eats In the Church relative to Its worl abroad os as CUM as III at home TheSe heSe e noted and upon nil a Ion n through the earthly heal tile Church When the divine call mes It Is toi fol the lie servants of Gall Coil to tolbo tono nu no where It directs or hoW hio the he task rue mission to 10 Japan may extend In Into to China Chinn and ports That will he by future events sail tho 0 word worl of the Lord hut the APostle who 10 hOs been appointed to this arduS Ius S mission rind the Elders who mn may Ito with him and doubtless will receive the support ot of the he faith and ami ayars MII ot if th that they may be It f nn any ot of thi th bloo of oC is III min mingled ill with the hi Japanese ni ain those ho in lear It wilt will outfit cuma to the tho the Gospel now it cling to It not hot different results result may In any event that has bOil to be Je varned and the tho Orient as 11 as the tho Occident must hear the ho giad till lid LB of and have the Ity to receive or reject the word of 1110 3 lord which 1 Is to oil nil nations and to every people |