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of foreigners there were twenty thousand Christians still living in
Japan. Their religion had been secretly kept up all these weary
years. There are thought to be thirty-five hundred Protestant converts
here, the Greek Church claiming eight or nine thousand adherents,
and the Roman Catholic thirty thousand. There are in the Protest-
ant missions about sixty male and thirty female workers. These
figures, remember though, are for to-day. Iz. a year — three years, five
years, ten or twenty— what changes may take place, and how rapidly
the work go forward !

“But that Japan may be speedily conquered, Christians have need
to emphasize their differences as little here as possible, and unite
heartily where they can agree. And the blessed bond of union for
them ail is the Cross, and the story of the Uross is the agency
tuat wii save Japan.”