AS IT SHOULD BE EVERYWHERE.
In speaking of his trip to the Orient last year, Mr. John G. Woolley says: When we reached Japan a great surprise awaited us. I never saw such eagerness to hear and absorb whatever information and facts we had to give them. The war was just over when we arrived there, and thousands of the Jap soldiers were returning from Manchurian battle-fields; but strange as it may seem, there was little or no drinking among them, and for the most part it was as abstemious a crowd as a delegation of ministers in this country en route to some church conference. Our first point in Japan was Nagasaki, a mission colony, where we had a strenuous ten days of it, with two enthusiastic rallies every day. The Japanese young people are most appreciative and sympathetic, and they would listen to what I had to say without any regard as to what time it was when I began or when I might stop. Occasionally they would keep me at it for two, three, four, and even five hours at a time, and were ready for another meeting of the same sort at the first possible moment thereafter. At Tokyo and Yokohama we had many large and enthusiastic rallies, at which hundreds of university young men were conspicuous by their interest and attention. The whole trend of Japanese thought seems to be in the direction of Western ideas and Western customs. Everywhere the warmest friendship was professed for America and Americans. If there is one thing that stands out above others on this trip, it is that we have the best people in the world in this great fight wherever it is being carried on. Nothing could match their hospitality wherever we went, and especially was this noticeable in our final meetings in Japan. At our last meeting in Tokio we were presented with a silk American flag with the Japanese flag fastened indissolubly to it, and this token represented the feeling of our friends throughout our journeying. Best of all to me was the evidence that the Christian people are leading in this great reform. The liquor men are coming to treat the church as synonomous with its temperance enemies, and a head-on collision is rapidly approaching.