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Show KOREAN GREETS Costumes Replacing Ones Lost In Tokio Blaze Hastily Made TOKIO, Oct. 8 Professor Augustus Smith ol Boston, and Mrs Smith, ftftei the fire which destroved the buHding I in which the World's Sunday school convention was to have, ben held, has illy arranged for a staff of tailors to fashion new costumes to be worn in i tho pageants. Scon s of Japanese girls, j who Insisted on maklnp their own cos j tunies, worked all night on I hem. Messages ol greeting to the nations of the world wire read at last night's j gathering This was followed hy the! unveiling of paint incs of eminent Sun day school workers the late H. J Heinz of Pittsburg, who promoted Sun day schools in Japan. George . Bailey ;nd E K. Warren A 'feature of the evening was a I speech by the venerable Pastor Pak, j the onlv Korean delegate attendlncj the convention. Robed In white, and trembling, lie emphasized the strength j of Christianity in Korea. He believed it was God's purpose that the Korean J church should be the medlu mfor the 1 conversion of the Mohammedans and the Buddhists of the Far Ea6t I am sorry thai I nlone represent I Korea," said Pastor Pak. "but many of i my countrymen are in jail and sorrow reigns in the land because so many christians have met with unhappiness. I 1 aslc you to pray for me and my people." peo-ple." A large American delegation has ust arrived here OO |