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 Ten Y ears of an Episcopate 
 in Japan 
 
 Being a Review of the Progress of the 
 Church in Japan for the 
 Ten Yea.rs, Jtine, i 8 gj, 
 to Jiine, 19^3 
 
 The Right Reverend John McKim, 
 
 Consecrated Bishop of Tokyo, June 14th, 1893 
 
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TRINITY CATHEDRAL, TOKYO 
 
 Ten Years of an Episcopate in Japan 
 
 BY THE REVEREND E. R. WOODMAN 
 
 T he writer well remembers tlie 
 (lay, more than ten years ago, 
 when the Rev. II. D. Page, 
 then the president of the Stand- 
 ing Committee of the Missionary Juris- 
 diction of Japan, informed the members 
 of the mission living in the foreign con- 
 cession in Tokyo that a cablegram from 
 America announced the election of the 
 Rev. John IMcIvim, of Osaka, as mission- 
 ary bishop. We were glad that one of the 
 missionaries on the held had been 
 chosen ; one who hy thirteen years of 
 faithful service had won the conhdence 
 of those in authority at home. After ac- 
 cepting the election. Mr. McKini pro- 
 ceeded to the United States and was con- 
 secrated in St. Thomas’s Church, New 
 York, on June 14th, 1893, as Bishop of 
 Yedo. Returning to Japan he took up 
 his residence in Tokyo, which Bishop 
 Williams had made his see city. Soon 
 after the name of the district was 
 changed to Tokyo. 
 
 Ten years have passed. What has 
 
 happened in that time, here in Japan? 
 Great events have come to pass, some of 
 which have considerably changed the 
 relation of the foreigner to the Japanese 
 and have been, on the whole, favorable 
 to mission work. 
 
 I. Some Poiitical Changes Favor- 
 able to Religious Progress 
 
 1. The New Constitution 
 
 At the time of Bishop Mclvim’s con- 
 secration the new national constitution 
 had been in existence but four years. It 
 was still on trial, the foreigners looking 
 on interestedly to watch the working out 
 of the new ideas. No other country has 
 been in a like position. European na- 
 tions have gradually worked their way 
 out ^’lom monarchical or feudal oppres- 
 sion, contending for years, sometimes, 
 to make slight headway. Japan has the 
 oldest single dynasty in the world, and 
 until half a century ago had a feudal 
 system. Almost at a stroke, the whole 
 
system was abolished, and on February 
 13th, 1889, the present occupant in lineal 
 descent of Jimmu Tenno’s throne 
 graciously allowed his subjects to have 
 some voice in public affairs, and to 
 elect some delegates of their own to frame 
 new legislation. The suffrage at first 
 was very restricted, but one of the not- 
 able events of the decade has been its 
 extension. The election of members of 
 the Diet, which took place in August, 
 1902, was conducted under the new suf- 
 frage laws. Before this election the num- 
 ber of electors was about 450,000. This 
 number was increased to about 1,000,000, 
 the membership of the lower house of the 
 Diet increasing at the same time from 
 300 to 375. Another great change is the 
 removal of the former property qualifica- 
 tion for membership in the lower house. 
 This will make possible the election of 
 some good men who otherwise would have 
 been excluded. 
 
 Just at present, the political world is 
 in quite a ferment. Naturally, when 
 power is given to a people they wish to 
 exercise it. The lower house here, as in 
 England, represents the people ; the upper 
 house, or House of Peers, stands for 
 more conservative ideas. For years the 
 lower house has been struggling to 
 make itself more and more of a 
 power in legislation. A number 
 of times it has been dissolved by the 
 Government, but every 
 year a gain has been 
 made. The great object 
 aimed at is “party gov- 
 ernment” and a cabinet 
 
 responsible to the people and not to the 
 Emperor, as now. 
 
 December 28th, 1902, the lower house 
 was again dissolved, and a new election 
 became necessary. By this election the 
 Liberal Party certainly has not lost. The 
 new Diet is just now (May) commenc- 
 ing its sessions. It is at this moment an 
 open question whether the lower house 
 will still continue its opposition to the 
 Ministry. At all events, the day of party 
 government may be very near, for it now 
 has most substantial support wEich 
 hitherto it has lacked. The man above 
 all others to whom Japan is indebted for 
 its present enlightened constitution is 
 Marquis Ito — the “father of the constitu- 
 tion.” This wise and judicious states- 
 man has from the first been a leader, or 
 rather, w’e might say, a trainer and guide. 
 He has led in somewhat the same way as 
 a father leads his children — not giving 
 the people all they desired until the 
 proper time came. Hitherto he has de- 
 clined to give favorable notice to the 
 
 ever-growing desire for party govern- 
 
 ment. Now, however, he has not only 
 given his sympathy, but has himself con- 
 sented to be a party leader, thus in a 
 way separating himself from his former 
 colleagues, fellow'-veterans of 
 years of labor for Japan. 
 
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work, but it lias, indirectly at least. It 
 means that “Voun”- daiian,” progressive, 
 foreign-edueated da]uin, is fast (.•oniiiig 
 to the front; and tliat old-lime con- 
 servatism and distrust of foreigners and 
 their ways are going to the rear. 
 
 2. The Anglo-Japanese Alliance 
 
 A recent event of great interest not 
 only to Japan, but to other nations, also, 
 is the “Anglo-Japanese Alliance,” con- 
 summated last j^ear. The Japanese nat- 
 urally feel proud of 
 this, for it is the 
 first recognition of 
 an Oriental by an 
 Occidental nation. 
 
 Great were the re- 
 joicings all over the 
 country when the 
 alliance was an- 
 il o u n e e d. The 
 natural result of 
 this state of affairs 
 is a subsidence of 
 the strong anti-for- 
 eign feeling which 
 formerly prevailed. 
 
 Officials of both gov- 
 ernments vie with 
 each other to in- 
 crease the already 
 cordial entente. 
 
 Treaty Revision 
 
 The event of the 
 last decade which 
 has had more direct 
 infiuence on the for- 
 eign missionary and his work than any- 
 thing yet named, is the revision of the old 
 treaties, by which “extra-territoriality” 
 was abolished and all resident foreigners 
 came under Japanese jurisdiction. This 
 dates from the summer of 1899. Before 
 that time, foreigners ivere under the 
 jurisdiction of their respective govern- 
 ments. Japanese police had no right to 
 enter a fornigner’s jirc-mises without his 
 consent, and all law cases were tried in 
 the defendant’s consvdar court. As can he 
 imagined, this state of things was galling 
 to the Japanese, hut they made the alien 
 
 pay for his exemption from Japanese 
 control. Except by special government 
 permission, no foreigner was allowed to 
 reside or to do business outside of the 
 foreign concessions, wdiich w’ere few in 
 number and small in extent. In Tokyo, 
 for instance, the concession consisted 
 of about sixty building lots. Anyone 
 w’ishing to reside outside of these 
 was recpiired to obtain permission 
 and, nominally at least, be in the ser- 
 vice of some Japanese. 
 
 What a hamper 
 this was to mission 
 work ! But this was 
 not all. There were 
 five “treaty ports’" 
 where foreigners 
 might reside (in the 
 concessions), but 
 they could not travel 
 beyond twenty-five 
 miles from one of 
 these open ports 
 without a passport. 
 T h e s e passports 
 were granted by the 
 J a p a n e s e Gov- 
 ernment, at the re- 
 quest of the repre- 
 sentative of the 
 country whose citi- 
 zen wished to travel. 
 The passports were 
 not difficult to 
 obtain — on certain 
 conditions. 
 They were granted 
 for two — and only 
 two — reasons — “health” or “scientific ob- 
 servation.” For years, wEen there were 
 but very few native evangelists, the for- 
 eign missionary longed to visit the in- 
 terior to preach the Gospel. But the Gov- 
 ernment could not give passports for 
 such a purpose. If a passport were re- 
 (piested for this reason, it was always 
 refused. As years went by, however, the 
 use by missionaries of their passports for 
 evangelistic tours was officially winked 
 at. But many missionaries felt that they 
 could not conscientiously use passports. 
 The passport system was undoubtedly a 
 
 MARQUIS ITO. "THE GRAND OLD MAN 
 OF .JAPAN” 
 
FUJIYAMA, THE SACKED MOUNTAIN OF JAPAN 
 
 Japanest tradition says that ti t mountain sprawj up in a moment at the time of the great eartltguake, sue B.C. 
 Should anyone question the trulh of the statement, his informant can urge, " There is the moimtainf' It is 
 literally worshipped J)y the Japanese, and thousands of pilgrims climb its summit every summer. 
 
 great hindrance to evangelistic work. 
 At the revision of the treaties all this was 
 changed, and now, as long as we obey 
 tlie laws of the cmintry, we can travel 
 anywhere witliuut let or hindrance, t(.) 
 preach or lecture. It ought to be said 
 here that even under the passport regime. 
 the itinerant mission work was helped 
 rather than hindered by the police in the 
 interior. Permission always had to be 
 obtained for anyone to hold a public 
 meeting, and almost without exception 
 this privilege was granted to the foreign 
 missionary. 
 
 4. Property Rights 
 
 Again, in the ante-revision days no 
 foreigner could hold property in his own 
 name, outside the concessions. All such 
 property had to be held in the name of 
 J apanese, and was wholly beyond the 
 legal control of the foreign owner. 
 Schools, mission residences, chapels, rep- 
 resenting many thousands of dollars, 
 were held by Japanese trustees, the real 
 owners of the property relying on the 
 moral integrity of these native holders, 
 not to take advantage of the situation. 
 
 This was quite unsafe, not because of a 
 lack of integrity on the part of the 
 trustees, but on account of changes and 
 chances which might occur. Suppose a 
 foreigner should put property valued at 
 $10,000 in the hands, as trustee, of Mr. 
 A., a prosperous Japanese business man. 
 For years all goes well, then Mr. A. gets 
 into hnancial difficulties and becomes 
 bankrupt. His creditors hunt up his as- 
 sets and find a certain piece of property 
 valued at $10,000 registered in his name. 
 What is to prevent their attaching it? 
 The foreign owner could have had no 
 legal redress. Or if Mr. A. had died, 
 there was nothing to prevent his heirs, 
 possibly non-Christians, claiming the 
 property found registered in his name. 
 
 In ante-revision days, if I am not mis- 
 taken, a Christian congregation could 
 not be registered as a “legal person,” and 
 thus had no legal status. After revision 
 this was allowed to Japanese subjects. 
 This was a great improvement on the 
 former method, as an organized Christian 
 congregation could legally hold property 
 for religious uses, and this would not be 
 liable to alienation. 
 
ST PAUL’S COLLEGE, TOKYO 
 
 Some time ago, foreign missionaries 
 thought that they miglit be allowed to 
 hold mission property in their own 
 names, having no Japanese partners. I 
 think that the American Baptists w’ere 
 the first, or certainly one of the first, as- 
 sociations to apply to the Government to 
 be acknowledged before the law as a 
 “juridical person.” They were delighted 
 to find that their request was granted. 
 Other Christian bodies then attempted 
 to gain the same privilege. Some of the 
 applications were favorably received, and 
 others refused. Our mission is among 
 the fortunate ones. Very recently a 
 number of the members of our mission. 
 all foreigners, have been incorporated as 
 a “juridical person” under the laws of 
 Japan, and they can now hold in their 
 own names all of our mission property, 
 wherever situated. Probably no one in 
 the United States can appreciate how 
 much this means to us and to the mission. 
 
 The Government and Educa- 
 tional Institutions 
 
 So much for the benefits that have 
 come through treaty revision. Some- 
 thing else came after revision, which 
 
 seriously affected the boys’ schools of the 
 middle grade, a most important part of 
 our mission w’ork. The policy of the 
 Educational Department has been to dis- 
 courage private schools, native as well 
 as foreign. Certain privileges are 
 granted to pupils of government schools 
 which are withheld from others. One of 
 these privileges applies to students wish- 
 ing to enter the Imperial universities; 
 another to those liable to army conscrip- 
 tion. In order to have a boys’ middle 
 school prosper it seems necessary for it 
 to have a license from the Educational 
 Department. To obtain this, the school 
 must submit to the government curricu- 
 lum. About four years ago, the Minister 
 of Education put forth a regulation pro- 
 hibiting religious instruction in any 
 school under the department. This was 
 a great blow to mission schools. They 
 have little reason for existence except to 
 give religious instruction. Some are in- 
 clined to think that this blow was in- 
 tended for Christian schools, but the 
 writer does not share this view. Re- 
 ligious teaching of any and every kind is 
 excluded, Buddhist as well as Christian. 
 The Government had a right to make 
 
.TAPANESP: BUDDHIST PRIESTS 
 
 Buddhism in Jupmi is divided into numerous sects; between some of them inoleiit enmities exist. 
 
 such a regulation, just as much right as 
 any one of the United States has to for- 
 bid even the reading of the Bible in its 
 schools. 
 
 When this change took place, the writer 
 was most decidedly opposed to our mis- 
 sion schools securinglicenses on such con- 
 ditions. It looked to him then like haiil- 
 ing down our colors. Most mission 
 schools have, I believe, not taken licenses. 
 This means smaller schools for boys. 
 Certainly non-Christian hoys will attend 
 the schools where they can receive the 
 most benefit and have the most official 
 privileges. As regards St. Paul’s Col- 
 lege time has proved that opponents to 
 securing a license have been happily dis- 
 appointed. Religious teaching is pro- 
 hibited in the school building proper; 
 but it is not excluded from the dormi- 
 tories where scores of the students live, 
 and this under much the same rules that 
 governed the old mission schools. The 
 parents or guardians of all boys entering 
 the dormitory are required to sign a 
 paper to the effect that the boys must at- 
 tend morning and evening prayer. The 
 tone of the school is good and the boys 
 flock to the cathedral morning and even- 
 
 ing. There is a larger percentage of 
 C’bristian students in St. Paxil’s than in 
 any other boys’ school in the country. 
 
 II. Some Evidences of Progress 
 
 1. Christian Leaven in the 
 National Life 
 
 One who, like the writer, can look back 
 twenty-three years, can see a wonderful 
 change for the better in the status of 
 Christianity in Japan. Converts are 
 steadily increasing in numbers, and what 
 is as much to the point, the ethical 
 code of Christianity is gradually per- 
 meating the nation. What has been con- 
 sidered wrong in Christian countries is 
 coming to be considered wrong here. 
 
 It is a mistake to say or to think that 
 there was no good in the Japanese people 
 before Christianity came here. There 
 was and is very much good in them, 
 apart from any Christian influence. 
 They have some fine traits of character. 
 They have faults (some other people 
 have, too), and such faults cs they have 
 we firmly believe that Christianity can 
 correct. It can do for them what it has 
 done for other nations. 
 
The outlook for Christian evangelistic 
 work is hopetul. (Tiristianify docs not 
 now seem to l)e under the laui, as it for- 
 merly was. 1 do not mean officially, hut 
 practically. Nearly everyone has read 
 that a Christian man has been for some 
 time the president of the lower house. 
 One must not lay too much stress upon 
 this, hut it at least gives evidence that 
 his Christianity was not a bar to his 
 election. 
 
 2. Three Interesting Facts 
 
 Three events have recently occurred 
 which we think mean a good deal; at all 
 
 Hearn, chose the Rev. Arthur Lloyd. For 
 many years Tlr. Lloyd has been inde- 
 fatigable in direct Christian work. Even 
 a short time ago I doubt if such an active 
 Christian would have been chosen for 
 such a position. Again, we must give the 
 caution that this must not he made to 
 mean too much. lie was not chosen be- 
 cause he was a Christian, but neither was 
 he debarred on tins account. 
 
 Thirdly, Tlrs. Sugiura, wife of Dr. 
 Sugiura, whom a number of your Amer- 
 ican readers will know, is engaged in 
 teaching two of the Imperial Princesses, 
 daughters of the Emperor, klrs. Sugiura 
 
 A MEETING OP THE KYOTO HRANCH OF THE WOMAN'S AUXILIARY 
 
 events, they show that Christians are not 
 tabooed. First, some months ago, the 
 Premier of Japan wished a principal for 
 Ids school, in which are educated men 
 for future official position in Formosa. 
 Me chose our Dr. Motoda, a man who is 
 thoroughly identitied with Christian 
 work, being not only rector of Grace 
 Church, Tokyo, but vice-president of the 
 National Students IJnion (Y. M. C. A.), 
 and prominent in various Christian 
 movements. 
 
 Secondly, the Tokyo Imperial Uni- 
 versity, wishing a successor as Professor 
 of English Literature to Mr. Lafeadio 
 
 is a graduate of our St. Tlargaret’s 
 School. 
 
 3. The Value of the Y. fl. C. A. 
 
 Another proof of the present state of 
 (Tiristian work is the flourishing condi- 
 tion of the Young Men’s Christian Asso- 
 ciation. It has a list of honored ex-presi- 
 dents, among them being a chief justice 
 and an admiral. The present president 
 is klr. Kataoka, president of the lower 
 house. It has good men also for 
 directors. One of these is Mr. Fukuoka 
 (a communicant of Grace Church), son of 
 Baron Fukuoka, a member of the Peers’ 
 
Club, and professor of international law 
 in the Peers’ School. This gentleman is 
 very active in Christian work. A mem- 
 ber of the standing committee is klr. 
 Ebara, a member of the Diet and a man 
 of great influence in educational circles. 
 Several rising young lawyers, uni- 
 versity graduates, are also active mem- 
 bers. But what tells far more than all 
 this is the attitude of a part of the nnn- 
 Christian public. A certaiir baron, not a 
 Christian, told his son, recently returned 
 from America, that before he made any 
 other acquaintances he wished him to 
 meet the young men of the Y. M. C. A. 
 A firm of architects, non-Christian, has 
 given 500 yen toward an endowment 
 fund. A non-Christian merchant has 
 given 1,000 yen for the same purpose. 
 
 There can he no ulterior purpose in this. 
 There is no money, education or position 
 to be gained by identifying one’s self 
 with the Y. M. C. A. The fact is that 
 through this movement, Christianity is 
 making its infiuence felt, and business 
 men are finding out that Christian char- 
 acter counts for something. One of the 
 highest officials in the Educational De- 
 ])artment has said that he highly ap- 
 preciates what is being done for young 
 men, and that such work is necessary to 
 give moral stamina to Japanese students. 
 Count Okuma, one of the leading states- 
 men, also gives his endorsement to the 
 Association. 
 
 Since we ore reviewing a ten years’ 
 episcopate, the inevitable statistics must 
 be brought in. 
 
 Comparative Statistics for 1893-1903 
 
 
 
 
 im. 
 
 1U03. mo:i. 
 
 
 
 Whole 
 
 District of 
 
 District of Total. 
 
 
 
 .■\ILssion. 
 
 Tokyo. 
 
 Kyoto. 
 
 Foreign priests 
 
 12 
 
 12 
 
 9 21 
 
 U 
 
 deacons 
 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 U 
 
 teachers and workers . . 
 
 2-1 
 
 22 
 
 17 39 
 
 Japanese priests 
 
 1 
 
 9 
 
 3 12 
 
 a 
 
 deacons 
 
 6 
 
 5 
 
 3 8 
 
 a 
 
 postulants 
 
 9 
 
 5 
 
 12 17 
 
 u 
 
 catechists 
 
 33 
 
 18 
 
 11 29 
 
 iC 
 
 teachers and workers . . 
 
 ,. 185 
 
 69 
 
 40 109 
 
 (( 
 
 communicants 
 
 , . 1,496 
 
 1,324 
 
 700 2,024 
 
 Contrihutions 
 
 . 2.GG5yen 
 
 ■ifiOSyen 
 
 2,973y£>«. 7,581i/e 
 
 THE MEMBERS OF THE BROTHERHOOD OF ST. ANDREW AT GRACE CHURCH, TOKYO 
 
DR. TEUSLER WITH 
 THE .lAPANESE 
 ASSISTANT ANlI 
 NURSES AT ST. 
 LUKE'S HOSPI- 
 TAL 
 
 District 
 of T o k y 0 
 where a for- 
 eigner w a s 
 resident ; 
 now there 
 are e i g h t. 
 In 1893 the 
 
 ST. LUKE’S HOSPITAL, NOW ENTIRELY INADEQUATE TO THE DEMANDS 
 UPON IT. A NEW BUILDING, TO COST $1'>,0U0, HAS BECOME A NECESSITY 
 
 Gratifying as these figures are, they 
 do not supply all the facts of growth 
 during the ten years. Here are some 
 others: Bishop McKiin has ordained 
 eighteen priests and twelve deacons. Re- 
 cently St. John’s Church, Tokyo, cele- 
 brated its tenth anniversary; in 1893 it 
 had twenty-eight communicants; now it 
 has ninety. Then the offerings of the 
 congregation for the year were yen 73 ; 
 for the last year yen 325. In 1893 there 
 was but one out-station in the present 
 
 longs to this last decade, but is now quite 
 inadequate for the pre.sent demands. 
 Fourteen missionary residences have 
 been erected, many of them at out- 
 stations. It is a notable fact that dur- 
 ing all this time not a dollar has been 
 appropriated by the Board of ^Managers 
 for building purposes. The money has 
 come from special giving. 
 
 4. The Growth of the Native Church 
 
 During these years there has been a 
 steady forward movement 
 of the Nippon Sei Kokwai — 
 “the (native) Holy Catholic 
 Church in Japan.” Japanese 
 
 value of the buildings in the present 
 Tokyo District was $G2,000, and in the 
 whole mission $87,000. Now the Tokyo 
 property alone is valued at $101,000, and 
 that in Kyoto at $153,000. Twelve 
 churches have been built in the Tokyo 
 District and four were built in the Kyoto 
 District before it was set apart. For 
 school buildings we have much to show 
 in St. Paul’s College, St. Margaret’s 
 School, Tokyo, and St. Agnes’s School. 
 Kyoto — all large structures. The present 
 building of St. Luke’s Hospital also be- 
 
 a:'.d foreigners are working in entire har- 
 mony, as is manifested by the fine frater- 
 nal spirit at every diocesan convention 
 and general synod. At the synod held in 
 April, 1902, steps were taken looking to 
 the election of a Japanese bishop. How 
 soon that will occur we do not know, but 
 we shall all rejoice to see the native 
 Church able to supply and ready to fol- 
 low a Japanese chief pastor. His juris- 
 diction will undoubtedly be Tokyo, the 
 metropolis of the country, where natur- 
 ally the Christian work is most strongly 
 
centralized. This means that the Ameri- 
 can bishop must make another see city 
 for himself. Bishop McKim is deter- 
 mined not to stand in the way, hard as 
 it would be for him to sever his connec- 
 tion with the work in Tokyo. Some time 
 ago the Bishop started an endowment 
 for the native episcopate, contributing to 
 it the offerings at his confirmation visita- 
 tions. Some of us thought that x>erhaps 
 the Japanese did not realize that two 
 bishops could not reside and have juris- 
 diction in the same city and that the ad- 
 vent of the native meant the retirement 
 of the foreign bishop. When they did 
 realize it, it was delightful to see the 
 spontaneous expression of attachment to 
 Bishop McKim. There is not a Japan- 
 ese here but will hesitate a long time 
 before he takes any action which will 
 cause the retirenient from Tokyo of 
 Bishop TIcKiin. 
 
 I have never known Bishop McKim to 
 
 be so busy as he has been during this past 
 winter. The Tokyo District is a large 
 one, with a population of about 11,000- 
 
 000 people. Some of the stations are 
 nearly GOO miles from Tokyo, and Japan- 
 ese trains average twenty miles an hour. 
 He has visited most of the churches two 
 and three times for confirmation within 
 the last few months. St. John’s Church, 
 Tokyo, is overfiowing. Grace Church. 
 Tokyo, is prospering splendidly and is 
 entirely self-supporting, though in 1893 
 the congregation was contributing but 
 
 1 yen a month toward its own support. 
 Kow it has a rector, a curate, parish or- 
 ganizations, and a large congregation, 
 including many young men. At Trinity 
 Cathedral there are six services in Eng- 
 lish and Japanese every Sunday, besides 
 Daily Tlorning and Evening Brayer in 
 both languages, and mid-day prayer for 
 missions in English. 
 
 5. Work among University Stu- 
 dents 
 
 The Kev. B. T. Sakai, through the 
 aid of many friends in America, has 
 begun a uniciue work among 
 the students of the Imperial 
 University in Tokyo, llis 
 aim is to have what in Eng- 
 land is called 
 a “hostel” — 
 a living place 
 
 SOME OF THE MEMBERS OF THE CONGREGATION AT GRACE CHURCH, TOKYO, PRESENT 
 AT THE CONSECRATION SERVICE 
 
for young men connected with the univer- 
 sity. Three buildings have been secured 
 in the midst of a student population of 
 5,000. Rooms are rented to young men 
 who are willing to receive Christian in- 
 struction, though they do not commit 
 themselves to becoming Christians. At 
 present the house is full, with twenty 
 residents, all of them ]iromising students 
 averaging about twenty-four years of 
 age, and there is already a considerable 
 waiting list. Smdi men as these will 
 largely mould the future policy of the 
 Empire, and if they become Christians 
 will be able to do much to further Chris- 
 tian missions among the people. 
 
 6. The Brotherhood of St. Andrew 
 
 d'he work of the Brotherhood of St. 
 Andrew in Japan is also something which 
 has come entirely within the last ten 
 years. Begun in 1894 by Mr. C. H. 
 Evans, who was sent out from the United 
 States as the Brotherhood representative, 
 and who laid strong foundations, retir- 
 ing in 1897 because of his ordination 
 and his addition to the clerical staff of 
 the mission, the work has gone on stead- 
 ily, and has been greatly developed under 
 Professor Erank E. Wood, as ]\Ir. Evans’s 
 successor. Professor Wood says that in 
 the whole Tokyo District there are now 
 but one or two places where chapters 
 
 do not exist, and in the South Tokyo 
 District, one of the English dioceses, he 
 knows only one more place where a chap- 
 ter can be started. Tie is soon to visit 
 tlie English dioceses in the extreme north 
 and south to establish chapters. 
 
 What is the Future? 
 
 As one thinks of all the great gain 
 during the first ten j^ears of Bishop 
 IMcKim’s episcopate, it seems appropriate 
 to ask; “What will the Bishop be able 
 to report ten years from now, if his life 
 be spai'ed 'ITie answer will not depend 
 wholly ui)on him. lie may be counted 
 upon to do his work in the difficult post 
 the Church has entrusted to him. What 
 the record is to be will depend largely 
 upon how much the Church at home will 
 permit him to do. Give an architect 
 sufficient of the proper material, and ho 
 can rightly be blamed if he fails to erect 
 a worthy building. He cannot, however, 
 reasonably be expected to put up a six 
 story building out of material sufficient 
 only for one story. Give Bishop McKim 
 what he needs, and there will be no ques- 
 tion about the result. 
 
 The old, old cry — how familiar it must 
 now be! — must be uttered again, yes, 
 again and again continually, until Japan 
 has become a Christian country. We 
 must have 
 
 MORE WORKERS. 
 
 JAPANESE CHILDREN AT A CHURCH KINDERUARTEN 
 
SOME SPECIAL NEEDS OF THE TOKYO 
 DISTRICT 
 
 1. Three unmarried clergymen for important evangelistic 
 
 work. 
 
 2 . Five unmarried women for general parish work among 
 
 Japanese women. 
 
 3. A parish house at Akita to cost $1,000. 
 
 4. A new building for St. Luke’s Hospital, Tokyo, to cost 
 
 $12,000. 
 
 5. A church at Kumagaya to cost $3,000. 
 
 6. A church at Urawa to cost $1,000. 
 
 7. A church at Kudan to cost $1,000. 
 
 8. Three residences for women missionaries to cost $2,000 
 
 each. 
 
 9. A Church at Takasaki to cost $3,000. 
 
 10. An addition to St. Paul’s College, Tokyo, to cost 
 $3,000. 
 
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