MISSIONS IN THE ORIENT

Evening Star, Issue 18717, 20 August 1924, Page 6

MISSIONS IN THE ORIENT

AMERICA’S EXCLUSION DECISION. Press Association—By —Copyright. NEW YORK, August 18. A telegram from Chautauqua (New York) says that the first endeavor to remove the impediment to. Oriental missionary work caused by the Japanese exclusion law was made by Dr William Axling, a Baptist missionary, who, in addressing the convention of the Federal Council of Churches, said that America’s exclusion of the Japanese had struck the Christian movement in Japan a staggering blow and plunged the missionaries into a dark Gethsemane. Dr Axling added that the exclusion law came as a dramatic crucifixion of national pride. “ They asked me,” he said, “to shout from the house tops their plea to limit Japanese immigration to vanishing point, if necessary, but to treat them as brothers, and remove the stingt and shame of discrimination on the basis of race.” Dr Axling recommended the inclusion of a Japanese general quota permitting the entrance of a negligible number of Japanese, and secondly, a Congressional amendment of the law to confer privileges impartially regardless of race.—A. and N.Z. Cable.