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when he is told that, because he has not 

 been immersed, he must not partake of the 

 Supper of the Lord with a saintly heroine 

 whose name is known from one end of 

 Japan to the other for unparalleled devotion 

 in the hospitals, and who, perhaps, saved his 

 life when he was wounded ? Multiplicity 

 of Christian sects confuse those who feel 

 the inadequacy of the old religions, and 

 who have dared to hope that our Master 

 might be indeed the Desire of all Nations. 

 In the face of a united, defiant, and often 

 blatant heathenism we present a divided 

 camp. If it be said that there are sects 

 among the ethnic religions, I reply: Yes, 

 but they all make common cause against 

 Christianity. Cursory travel through a 

 country might not show this fact, but 

 when one has studied the life of the 

 people and come to understand its inner 

 forces, he finds that the multitudes are 

 confused and confounded because Christ 

 seems to be divided. 



There is another side to this question. 

 Those who stand between the various mis- 

 sionary and philantliropic causes pleading 

 for assistance and the givers in the churches 

 must ask themselves whether this tide of 



