Some of the most unique societies have been the following: a floating society in the Japanese Navy, a society for post-office and telegraph employees at Sendai, societies (five simultaneously for several years) in the Okayama Orphanage, one for children of the slums in connection with Miss Adams's work in the same city, a society for ex-convicts in the Kobe Home for Discharged Prisoners, one for reformed criminals working in a marble mine in Nagato Province, and quite a number among students in missions or public schools. At Nagasaki there is a C. E. Seamen's Home for seamen of all nationalities.

The Japan C. E. Union was formed in July, 1893, with 36 societies enrolled. Its president, until four years ago, was Rev. (now Dr.) T. Harada, widely known and honoured as the head of Doshisha University at Kyoto. He was succeeded by Rev. N. Tamura of Tokyo and he after one more turn under Dr. Harada by the present head of the Union, Rev. T. Osada of Osaka. There are three vice-presidents, three secretaries, and two treasurers, one of the last-named being Rev. J. H. Pettee of Okayama. The society headquarters are at Kyoto, in charge of the Chief Secretary, Rev. T. Makino, who tours among the churches of central Japan, while Rev. G. Fukuda (who represented Japan at the Atlantic City Convention in 1911) attends to eastern and northern Japan and the other secretary, Mr. T. Sawaya, who made such a happy impression at the Seattle Convention in 1909, attends to the western and southern portions of the Empire. He was appointed delegate from Japan to the Los Angeles, Cal., Convention held in the summer of 1913, and the Japan Union plans to send a representative, probably its president, to the World's C. E. Convention to be held at Sydney, Australia, in 1914.

The society publishes a small monthly bilingual magazine, Kwas-Sekai (Endeavour World), and holds anually a wideawake convention that is one of the great features of the united aggressive evangelistic Christian work in Japan. At the Nagoya convention last spring, special interest was attached to the street preaching from automobiles and to a great meeting for the general public held in the new city hall. In 1911, at the Kyoto Convention, which chanced to be held when the city was crowded with pilgrims attending a great Buddhist festival, some 20,000 tracts specially prepared for the purpose were distributed in connection with preaching meetings in the parks or in front of the railroad stations.

Rev. F. E. Clark, D.D., LL.D., founder of the movement, who is lovingly known as Father Endeavourer Clark, together with his estimable and efficient wife, has visited Japan three times,

once each in 1893, 1900, and 1910, and given great impetus to the work here. Other widely known Endeavour visitors from abroad have been Secretary William Shaw of Boston, Mass., Rev. Messrs. G. H. Hubbard and G. W. Hinman, in 1903 president and secretary of the China C. E. Union; Rev. F. S. Patch, in 1904 Secretary for India, Burma, and Ceylon, who held more than fifty meetings in nine different cities; and Rev. J. P. Jones, D.D., first president of the India Union.

The work of the Japan C. E. Union is sustained by an annual grant-in-aid from the World's Union of $1,000, supplied mainly during recent years by the Cleveland, Ohio, C. E. Union, and by nearly as much more raised in Japan. This does not include contributions by Endeavourers in support of their own local or denominational enterprises.

Christian Endeavourers are loyal supporters of the work of the Sunday School Union, and much of their effort is directed along this channel. They have also opened work in Chosen (Korea), both among Japanese and Chosenese, and are doing much to bring about a better understanding between these two peoples now politically united. It should be added that Christian Endeavour methods have been adopted in many churches that are not formally organized as C. E. Societies.

The present roll of the Japan C. E. Union is as follows: Number of adult societies, 125; number of junior societies, 45; number of denominations represented, 10; total number of members, 3,100 (of these, 1,100 are juniors); new societies organized last year, 25.

APPENDIX E

(See Part Three, Chapter VIII)

THE CONFERENCE OF FEDERATED MISSIONS

The Conference of Federated Missions, which meets in Tokyo annually, is a delegate meeting of the missions which have become members. It originated in a large conference of missionaries in 1900 (see A Report of the Conference, page 1960). After the close of the Conference, some missionaries in central Japan, for fear that the proposed co-operation plan might fail, prepared an appeal to all the missionaries, in which was the following prayer: “All mighty God, our heavenly Father, who has purchased an universal church by the precious blood of thy son, we thank thee that thou hast called us into the same, and made us members of Christ, children of God, and inheritors

of the Kingdom of Heaven. Look now, we beseech thee, upon thy church and take from it division and strife and whatsoever hinders Godly union and concord. Fill us with thy love, and guide us by thy Holy Spirit that we may attain to that oneness for which thy son, our Lord Jesus, prayed on the night of his betrayal, who with thee and the Holy Spirit liveth and reigneth, one God, world without end. Amen."

The diversified activities of the Federation can be seen through the list of its standing committees which, beside the Executive Committee, consists of Committees on Christian Literature, Eleemosynary Work, Educational Work, Statistics, Industrial Welfare, School for Foreign Children, Temperance, Distribution of Forces, Publicity, Bible Study, Sunday School Work, Summer School for Missionaries, International Peace, and Board of Examiners of Uniform Course of Study of the Japanese Language. There was great rejoicing at the annual meeting in 1913, when H. S. Wainright was introduced as the Executive Secretary of the Christian Literature Committee. While his salary is paid by his own church, the Methodist Church, South, his service will be completely given to the Conference of Federated Missions in the translations and distribution of Christian literature. We are living in the dawn of a better day, when any church will thus graciously give a man of talent for a project that counts for unity and the extension of the whole Kingdom of God.

APPENDIX F

(See Part Four, Chapter II)

THE IMPERIAL OATH (CALLED GOJO NO GOSEIN) ISSUED BY THE LATE EMPEROR MUTSUHITO (POSTHUMUS NAME, MEIJI TENNO) ON APRIL 17, 1869, THE YEAR FOLLOWING THE ACCESSION.

1. Deliberation assemblies shall be established on a broad basis in order that governmental measures may be adopted in accordance with public opinion.

2. The concord of all classes of society shall in all emergencies of the State be the first aim of the Government.

3. Means shall be found for the furtherance of the lawful desires of all individuals without discrimination as to persons. 4. All purposeless and useless customs being discarded, justice and righteousness shall be the guide of all actions.

5. Knowledge and learning shall be sought after throughout the whole world, in order that the status of the Empire of Japan may be raised ever higher and higher.

APPENDIX G

(See Part IV, Chapter II)

GIFTS OF JAPANESE MAJESTIES TO CHRISTIAN EFFORTS

By examining the gifts of the Japanese Government and the Imperial Household Department to such Christian institutions as orphanages, schools, and hospitals, one can easily see that Christianity has already made a good impression upon Japan. During the last five years the Home Department of the Japanese Government has contributed to fifty-three Christian institutions scattered throughout nineteen provinces of Japan. During these five years this department of the Government granted $112,436 to benevolences, of which $40,700 went directly to Christian institutions, or a little more than a third of all the gifts. Below are given the letter from the Home Department, the list of its benevolences, and also a list of gifts from their Majesties the Emperor and Empress. The amounts given are in yen. One yen equals fifty cents.

FRED E. HAGIN, ESQ.,

February 13, 1913.

DEAR SIR: Referring to your inquiry, regarding the subsidy, etc., granted by our Imperial Household or the Government to Christian works, we beg to advise you that the amount of money granted as encouragement or subsidy by the Minister of Home Affairs to the enterprises of reformatory or relief works is as the accompanying statement. As to the grant from our Imperial Household or those persons upon whom orders have been conferred, we wish you would inquire of the Department of Imperial Household.