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Show SUNDAY SERMONS AND NEWS NOTES i CONGREGATIONAL. At the morning service yesterday, 1h anthem. "Send Out Thy Light and Thy Truth," by Gounod, was sung by .-. trio, Mis? Zoa Kiikpatrick. Miss Grace Matthews, and E L. Howes. Mr. Howes and Miss Kirkpatrick also rendered ren-dered Stainer'8, "So Thy Liftest Thy Divine Petition." Dr Otis Carey, who has come to work among the Japanese of the inter-mountain inter-mountain country, and who for forty-one forty-one years has acted as a professor in the Doshlsha university of Japan, preached from the words of Paul to the Romans, "I am debtor both to the Greek and to the Barbarian.' The preacher said. "A new translation of these words would help us Not a new Literal translation, but one indicating the spirit and purpose of the words Perhaps if we translated it in this way. 'I am under obligation to all people-with people-with whom my nation has come Into contact,' It would help us. So we would realize on this continent and in this country what our indebtedness, to be paid in service of the highest and best kind, is. to the Indians of the reservations, res-ervations, to the negroes of the south, to the land of Africa, from which we came, and the yellow people, who densely populate the intermountain and western country. For good or ill wo have affected the life of Japan. By our intercourse with her wp have made it possible for her to leave her ancient idea of isolation and emerge among the family of nations as one of the greatest powers now influencing :ho world. What her part will be In the future of civilization will in a great measure depend on what we extend to her In the way of ideals and service We have been fortunate in rendering he. service. The Christian missions of Japan, the school sy-tem which we have helped to build up are all mark-- by Ihe Influence of patient idealism of American effort. Whether Japan in the future becomes merely a materialistic mater-ialistic nation, viewing her place in the world merely as a greedy, graspln? power, or as one of the families of :ho earth that will strive to live in the spirit of the Master, still greatly depends de-pends on what we are willing to do in Christian work, not only in Japan itself, it-self, among the native population, but here in this country, where many thousands thou-sands of her people are ai work alongside along-side our own sons and daughters. The only surety for our success Is our own faithfulness to the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, which, despite our many failings, has redeemed our life and made us to be considered one of the powers making for peace and righteousness right-eousness in the earth " |
