Bishop Motoda's Tribute to his Clergy Some impressions of London were given by the Bishop of Tokyo, the Right Rev. J.S, Motoda, last-month at a reception in his honour held at Church House, The Bishop, who is now on a visit to this country, in the course of an address on the work and needs of the Charch in Japan, pointed out that his country was the same size as England, but with 8 population twice as numerous. After Tokyo," he "your London is not very crowded; T find it a very quiet place."
The size of the buildings impressed him, for except for a small area of reinforce? concrete buildings, the majority of the people in his' diocese live small wooden houses. "We small people do not need such big houses In his diocese he had 24 churches, 10 of which were utterly destroyed in the great earthquake. He had 25 priests, all of whom had lost everything in that disaster, but through the help of the Mother Church and of individuals in Eng-Jand they had been able to carry on. We have the Japanese spirit," said Bishop Motoda, amid loud applause, "and we did not give up.
thank you for wh: you have done, not as a figure of Japanese ct'quette but from the bottom of my heart."
A tribute to the great work done Japan during the last 60 years was made by the Archbishop of Canterbury, who referred to the presence of a Japanese Bishop at the consecration of a new Bishop
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