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Show Instructor at Japanese College Writes to American Friends i tain days the Emperor's picture is worshipped in the public schools. Christians usually keep their children at home from school on these days. But I learned a few days ago that school superintendents have committed committ-ed suicide when the school building burned and the Emperor's picture was destroyed. Such superintendents have been held in the highest honor. And it always happens that teachers are willing to risk their lives to save that '"divine" picture. ! If Christian preachers pray for the Emperor in public, they are almost invariably visited by the police and ' warned not to do it again. Such a I prayer, of course, reveals their belief that there is a Power higher than the Emperor. These are gala days, with decorations decora-tions galore and excitement running high. But you will have to read all about the Enthronement long before this letter reaches you. Life in Japan, particularly in the educated classes, is interstingly portrayed por-trayed in a brief letter, written by Miss Mabel Daniels, a former resident resi-dent of Gunnison and with the Presbyterian Pres-byterian church here. Miss Daniels, an accomplished musician, is with the Golden Castle college at Nagoya, Japan, and in her letter she extends the season's greetings and best wishes wish-es to all. Following is her letter of recent date: MyJDear Friends: It is five weeks j today since I arrived hei-e. The first two or three weeks I vas here, myj impressions were like a kaleidoscope. There are several Americans and a number of Canadian and British here, all of whom I met at a couple of receptions, re-ceptions, but it took me a while to leam their names, just plain English names, Davis and Buchanan and Preston, Pres-ton, etc. Add to them six hundred Japanese girls, our students, the Japanese teachers, pastors, servants friends 'and friends' friends, and it made my head swim. Two weeks ago I acquired a Bible class of young men, mostly sudents, who come form English practise. Eight attended last Sunday. The manager of the class is A fine Japanese Japan-ese christian, a teacher of English in one of the Nagoya high schools. After Af-ter Sunday school I stayed for church service which was entirely Japanese. In fact, I was the only American there. The pastor is a strong, Japanese Jap-anese christian. An impressive part of the service was the baptism of five young people, one young man and four of our own school girls. We had a holiday today, because the Prince, the Emperor's second brother, was in town. He and his bride, the daughter of the ambassador ambassa-dor to Washington, rode in a fine sedan automobile right down our street. Everyone on the school grounds, I guess, was out in front of our house, stood there for one and . a half hours for that fleeting glimpse. The Prince was a fine looking I specimen. b':t just human. You know that the Japanese are taught that their Emperors are divine. On cer- |
