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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Jun 28, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 26.

FROM JAPAN.

PROF. F. W. FIELD, who has spent about three years as a missionary in Japan, gave a short talk recently at a missionary meeting in Academia, Ohio. From a report in the Welcome Visitor we take this extract:

"He told us of the many trials the young have to endure who accept present truth in the land of the rising sun. From early childhood the three following principles are forcibly impressed on the young mind: First, obligation to the emperor; second, to parents; and, third, to the oldest son of the family, leaving their obligation to God out of the question.

"The prevailing religion is Buddhism. They have no knowledge of the Gospel, nor do they desire 'that light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world.' When one gives up this belief, and accepts the message, all opposition possible is brought against him.

"Professor Field told us of a young man who took his stand for the truth in the face of much opposition. His parents firmly believed that his mind was deranged, and threatened to shoot the

foreigner who drew him from his former belief. The young man was at this time attending school some distance from his mountain village home. He was an earnest student of the Bible. Later his father suffered heavy financial losses. The parent's pride was humbled, and he, with the rest of the family, was ready to hear this message which the son so gladly carried to them. The mother and grandmother have recently been baptized, and the father is at the door of the church. In March, the young man was sent to prison, because he could not conscientiously enter the military service. His sentence was for two months. He is of good courage, and sent by Elder Field the message found in 2 Cor. 4: 17, 18 to the students of Mount Vernon College."