2ist January, A. D. 1904. 



AN ADDRESS 



BY 



Rev. frank ALANSON LOMBARD, Doshisha, Kyoto, 



Japan. 



Theme : — The Flora of Japan. 



Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen, Members of the Worcester 

 County Horticidtural Society, Friends : — 



To speak at this time of any subject connected with Japan 

 is at once to call to mind the war clouds that hang, so dark 

 and low, o'er the Eastern horizon. It is well that we should 

 be thus interested, for to us Japan is bound by peculiar ties 

 of sympathy, more spiritual than material. 



As the Prince, in ancient story, found the Sleeping Beauty, 

 and with a kiss called her from a century of slumber, so in 

 the cold annals of history it is recorded that by the salute 

 of an American gallant Japan's sealed eyes were opened to 

 the light and the life of a modern world. Today she honors 

 Com. Perry as a national benefactor; and, because of the 

 unbroken spirit of kindness in wliich she has ever been treated 

 by the United States of America, feels toward us as toward 

 no other, England not excepted, an unquestioning confidence 

 and regard. Her nation-proud people admit their debt to- 

 American life, character, education and ideals which have 

 quickened her spirit and given inspiration and guidance to the 

 efforts of her era of enlightenment. We also may well recog- 

 nize that the obligations are mutual. We have received as well 

 as given. Eastern beauty, natural and artistic, has enriched our 

 Western life; Eastern philosophy, hoary with age, has impelled 



