| Show JAPAN JIS IN i t A 4 writer In the Now New York la in search of ot a re cut tt picture II 1 linen and telli teitS lel what would happen If IfA Ifa Ifa A were a nt Jt on 01 a 1 journey the tb world for tor the th Ih t tI Acting I on OM to the country It Ur Ii 1 a I clever I lver Il po u picture of ot the religious rellouS status statue of the th ChristIan coun cohn countries COUl tries specially ssp Such Hurh a ti commission would woul first Ort take Ike 1 a fIance 11 n the writer as unie nt at Islam but bitt iu si It I by 1 us an 1 unworthy ft If ron eon It I would then thel look iek Iok nt at n t the church hut not lot seriously not nt caring to recommend a I culus of which Is Ii 1 the tho chief adherent At t however the commission would pence with much Hut But not very ery er long A pope pop P In part lart torn tem ter lorl power per while a prisoner at II the Vatican would Indicate that Is I wr In the searchers for religion Ind empty and nIl an crowd crawl crowded crawled ed d lecture rooms where religion U Is 1 turn torn to 10 o by y haIti bold Loll criticism In they he would find dod noble rathe drill but buit the women alone worship while Ihl hiie tho tiu men man scoff In England I condl condi ar Br are more snore favorable but lut tho the In Inquires quires would soon learn that none but butan butan butan an Anglican bishop would be rd ir t to that church to Japanese soil lol and that lint feature of ot tho the system would Mould be Le objectionable The would 0 u II now no go to America here Heie Bert they the tho would find tho tha towns town find And cities overstocked over with wll churches churcheS owned by n a number r of ot sects nil all ni differing on Important points of doc doe doctrine doctrine trine trifle This ThU H is I also perplexing It I In Is I Ione Isone one religion that Japan Jalan needs and not nota a n diversity of at religious ere creeds creed fill and proc Urea tiers ler Tho flue result Is to that tho the commis commissioners return without having found that for tor which they were wore In search The description Is In graphic It T might have hn 0 been be 1 added that the Intelligent In searcher Marcher for tor truth would have IUle found In nil all ni of at the traversed a St religion that lint takes but hut little mUe noci of ot the tho teachings of ot Its ls Founder a eya tem tern that cares cores but little for tor the tho needs steeds of at the masses They would find sy terno under tinder which the most earnet followers of ot the tho are uro hated halel persecuted and sometimes put to death In Ills His Is name And If It they were to return to their own atm country with wih the report that superstition form and vandalism Hour Ith ishi under tho the banner of ot the cross they would bo Le Justified d by their own Modern Christianity Is through the force of ot armies amies aol and navies Iles than thal by spiritual means It I Is U difficult to 10 see le how a n observer can con find Ond any tiny difference In III this respect re peel be between le between tween Christianity Mohammedan MohammedanIsm Ism In Its age of ot conquests although the latter IH In II much denounced on that account lecount as an i a n religion of ot blood and Ore fire Japan In search of ot a n religion Is nevertheless a I sublime spectacle In this age And A Inasmuch as n the tho th Eternal Ite Fl I Fn ther promise to Ills His Is children Is IB that they who seek seck shall hind nd the search Wi ll not bo ho O in vain The main difficulty however io vcr Is la that truth when found utica often tUle appears so different from all al that rito 1 expected or anticipated that It II 1 Is rejected on that very ground Tho The very ery stone I IC designed as aA a corner comer stone In Is I often otten oust O t aside by b the builders We hope thu tha Japanese will wl act wisely and nc the light the tha Lord of nil all ni may nd them theU In answer to their prayers their search earch for truth If I so 10 they will wi b a mighty nation the bearers beam or of throughout all al Asia perhaps whore where touch much darkness still prevails |
