IN SEARCH OF TRUE RELIGION.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10727, 26 June 1906, Page 1

IN SEARCH OF TRUE RELIGION.

EMPEROR OF JAPAN'S LONG QUEST. CONSTANTINOPLE, May 11. The Japanese Government has notified the Sublime Porte that the religious con--giess in Tokio will open on June let, and that the Emperor lias learnt with pleasure that the Sultan, in his capacity ot Caliph of all Moslems, has appointed three repie. sentatives to attend the Congress. The special mission, the message continues, instituted by the Mikado for tlie purpose of searching for the "true religion" has been inactive for the la6t seven yeais, but uow it lias resumed its. labors under orders from the monarch. The religions congress will devote its attention also to tho Audius of the true religion, and the one best adapted to bccoauo the State religion of Japan. Representatives oi the principal creeds all the world over will attend the congress. The most interesting delegate will be Abdurrahman, whoso name live years ago was Mr A. B. Thomson. He was au Englishman, an official in one of the British colonies, and| president of several Christian fiflPlPl If**? , He turned) Moslem, and has since been an energetic propagandist for IslainUm. He did a great deal of proselytic work iu India, and also caused a translation to be made of an important propagandists book written by the mufti of Java.