Show PADEN ON JAPAN First Presbyterian Pastor Delivers an Interesting Address on Conditions Con Boy Hev Ito Dr W H II Paden laden spoke on social and moral conditions con In III Japan before tho the usual large congregation con In III the this First church yesterday morning Ho lie called attention to the lie progress In ha enlightenment civilization among the Japs In the tho Ih lust CO to years and to how eager they thc are for tor the material and ant Intellectual benefits of cit f the tho moro enlightened nations of ot the this earth earthm However the tho trouble with tho time Japs Is III that they tIle tho accept tho the fruits they reject tho tIm tree hears bears the tho fruit and anti that tree Is III t hrh Chris Christianity was WOR Intro duc by h Roman Catholic missionaries COO oo years nars ear UK ago IIO but hut because of ot the desire lr of the church to political ns as well weil us its 18 spiritual It was driven out The Tue I sult the thc closed cloned clo ll door until when Commodore PortS Perry opened th tit Ports portA of by treaty The Th doctor further said saith No other nation In lii the history of lie the tue world has made such twili rapid strides civilization within tho the memory of men macli still young Shin She has left for anti Instead of hanging on un tho th wheels heels of at progress site she Is now nov pulling In the hilUs So swift and evident has hns been tho tue change that hint n a Japanese stud nt said Mill that when he returned to his coun country country country try after un an of oC seven seren ems nothing was tas left ns as It lund had been but the natural scenery The Tue upheaval of Japans social Fuji JuJI San has huts been chlell by II of or Intellect A J whole generation geneill of oC Japa Japanese nese leaders has 11 II I been at school In lii tho beginning hundreds were vere sent Kent to the thc best he t schools not Jot only emil to educational Institutions but to the schools of ot practical lifo Sonic Some of oe cu you 1011 Oll will remember tho the Japanese Mho ho were lelI In iii In TO iO It III IH said s ll that more than Japanese were abroad In S Soon Hoon oon they the began of oC their own manning them with foreign n teachers When General Grant Orant visited the tho military school at Tokio on his famous tour hf h wrote It Is ii one OUe of ot f the foremost t of ot similar l Institutions I r have havo seen Bean In iii world 1 Joseph Cooko Cooke declares that tip th examination papers required nt at the Im 1111 Imperial penal university save 1110 In classics are all tuito up ti to the tho average demanded In Cambridge or Oxford or orVale Yale Vale I Now western learning Is 18 tim whole nation through hundreds of sub stub schools and a 0 system of ot com corn education Is nt lit work through throughout out Japan The schoolmaster Is abroad and It Is 18 estimated that over half of ot Japans or of children 1110 row ross nt lit school chool Vo Wo o must graciously help these the o little people It win be hc years before the Jail anese church can get on west we t tem em and assistance To desert the islands now would bo more lore miter unfortunate than the too early earl desertion of In iii spite of their wonder fill doings time the Japanese are ure after all oil like hike precocious children Japan Is the till child of ot tho the worlds old age and amid ns nA such sucha a CI child Is In danger of being spoiled Considering the obstacles to tu be ho over oer overcome overcoats come coats Christianity hn has done very er much In III the empire of Japan considering the work vork to be done the tho results already achieved seem leem very ery small Yet Yot with within I in the lout lost 10 years there has hns been a n noticeable Increase In morality anti and In iii business lone ty correcting tho thus two greatest faults of ot the tho Japanese charac tor ter 1 |