One of the most singular events of the present day is the coming of a number of young men from Japan, one of the oldest and most conservative nations on the globe, to acquire an education in the United States, the youngest and most progressive government now in existence. The information given us in the following article concerning them is of interest, but especially the statement that they are puzzled over the great number of American religions, and that they reject Roman Catholicism, because it so much resembles in its forms of worship, the old heathenism which they have renounced. This is another evidence that the papal worship is only heathenism baptized. We copy from a late Detroit Post:— MR. CHARLES H. BRIGHAM gives in the Boston Christian Register some interesting details of the Japanese students now at the University of Michigan. One of their prominent characteristics is their working power, their love of it, their patience, and application. One of them (Toyama) studies sixteen hours a day. They are temperate in diet, and, though not athletically strong and robust, have great endurance, and toughness, and keep good health without much physical exercise. They are quick and active in limb and eye; close and keen observers. They tell things as they are without exaggeration. They are seekers of truth, not of fantasies. They have a strong sense of the ludicrous, and a ready, delicate wit. They are cunning as Yankees to see through shams. The different religious sects have vainly tried to proselyte them. They have an undisguised dislike for the Roman church, because of its ritualistic resemblances to those of Buddhism, which they have renounced. They prefer faith to form, and believe in the doctrines of Confucius before those of any other religious teacher. The number of American religions greatly puzzles them; their preferences are for that religion which gives most encouragement to learning, art, and social progress. They are not so much concerned with the salvation of their individual souls, in some future state, as to make the best use of the life which now is, and help fit their nation for a better earthly future. They keep up a constant intercourse with home, yet are not homesick, and make themselves readily at home wherever they are. One of their mottoes is: “I call that place my home where I happen to be in all the world.” They are good-humored and smiling. Their voices are soft, their manners gentle. They are neat in person, polite and respectful, and if they swear—it is not in English. They wear our dress easily and gracefully, and altogether seem excellent models in conduct for any body of any nationality. They are fond of music, harmonious music, not like that of the Chinese, harsh and dissonant. Necessarily these young men represent the better rather than the lower classes of Japanese, but they are apparently such as any nation would be proud of, and glad to be represented by, among foreign peoples.