Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 261, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1915 — JAP GOVERNMENT TO AID CHRISTIANS Returned Missionary Says That Premier Okuma Favors Work of the Church—No Chance of War. [ARTICLE]

JAP GOVERNMENT TO AID CHRISTIANS

Returned Missionary Says That Premier Okuma Favors Work of the Church—No Chance of War.

Battle Creek, Mich., Nov. 2.—Speaking on the progress of missions in Japan before the seventh annual Interdenominational Medical Missionary conference here today, the Rev. Wm. Axling.'of Tokio, declared the present Japanese government headed by Premier Okuma favors the work being done by the Christian churches even to the extent of aiding it in a financial way. Mr. Axling said the so-called Japanese peril exists largely in the minds of jirigolistic journalists in the U. S. and Japan. He quoted Premier Okuma as saying: “A serious conflict between Japan and the United States is unthinkable.”