Tokio, June 17.
With the object -of establishing 'a pure Japanese Christian churet and shaking off the "monetary yoke" that the parent missions. in America are alleged to have saddled on Christian organizations here, a meeting, attended by the leading representatives of over 150 churches Usroughout the country and 200 diferent Christian scholars, was held in Tokio to decide what steps should be talon to brea: the bonds now linking the Christian churches in Japan with parent missions in the United States. Heated diseussions ensued and a committee of ten appointed to go into the matter thoroughly and to formulate plans for independence.
Christian church, untrammelled by Q, mhe alm to establish " Japa dependence on missions abroad, now thing. This has been the subject of discussion at annual mission nods long before the immigration question came to have the large part in the life of the Japanese ration that it has to-day. At that time, however, the proposal for securing complete independence also aimed at carefully preserving all other bonds of union and eo-operation., The elevation of Japanes: pastors to the episcopal chair regarded as a step in the diveetion of permitting the Christian Church in Japan to stand on its own feet, and the parent missions were in full sympathy with the aspiration of the young Christian church here to carry on the work of evangelization unaided. To-day, the exclusion law has been further availed of to press home the move for independence and has also included within its scope, at Toast in so far as many individual Japanese missionaries are concerned, something akin to non-ce-operation with American mi "U. 8. Commercialized Christianity: who declared that the exclusion bill would have far-reaching effects: in the future, and that it not only put the Japanese residents in America in an ugly position, but that it also formed a source of acute embarrassment to the entire Japanese people. "There were several ways of reaching _a solution," he said, "bat the Senate preferred to. insult' and despise us, and this action was based on racial grounds. As Japanese, we cannot accept this without demur; a8 Christians, we must protest or it would be aequi-being in the wrong and bolstering up a fulschood. It is time for us Chris tians in Japan to.awaken our fellow-Christians in America to the dangerous current on which their country is drifting. There is no racial pre-Jud the eyes of Jesus Christ and no room for it anywhere, however camouflaged, in His doctrines, Sapanese Christian missions should forthwith organize and coalesce into one strong federation, and carry on their evangelical mission without relying any longer.on monetary aid from America."
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