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nize as having been baptized to drive it 

 deeper yet, and are so blind that they do 

 not seem to see that the iron of that 

 wedge is going straight into the body of 

 Christ. At Kobe the Union Church is 

 small, seating barely two hundred people, 

 and never more than half full. By an 

 amicable arrangement one denomination 

 has used the building one Sunday and 

 another the next, and many persons have 

 attended both services. That plan is now 

 disturbed. Again the wedge of discord is 

 being driven into the body of Christ The 

 sad fact is that the sects in those lands are 

 not so many companies fighting a common 

 foe, but starving societies competing for the 

 patronage of a few resident foreigners, 

 while heathenism captures more than half 

 of the young men who go there as Chris- 

 tians. And yet missionary societies urge 

 the people at home to give more liberally, 

 that the good work of perpetuating rival- 

 ries may go on. An eminent pastor of this 

 city recently went around the world, and 

 returned with the sage remark, that the 

 cure for the retrograde movement in the 

 Hawaiian Islands would be the introduc- 

 tion of another denomination. And he 



