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THE CHRONICLE OF THE PARLIAMENT. I I 5 who are called Christians are with them. We cannot disagree with them as long as they give the right interpretation of God's writing m our nature. There we are on a common platform together. Those of us who are Chris- tians only differ from them in the interpretation again. We believe we have a clearer revelation from heaven that throws light on that revelation con- fined with them to nature, and if we understand it in that light we feel that we may get in advance of these friends, who have been studying through the ages God's revelation in man. We believe our interpretations are based on the revelation God has given us, and, therefore, we have only something above and beyond that other revelation. The two phases are here, and they are united on this platform : and so I am delighted to find the whole revelation of God repre- sented by these friends that have come to us from abroad and those that belong to our own land. In presenting as the first speaker of the afternoon the emi- nent Chinese Confucian, Pung Kwang Yu, Dr. Barrows, speaking of him as the representative of an empire toward which America had not been just, evoked such a demonstra- tion of the sympathies of the audience as had greeted the same personage on the first day. The outburst of applause con- tinued for several minutes, the Secretary bowing his acknowl- edgments. Confucianism ; by Pung Kwang Yu, First Secretary of the Chinese Legation at Washington. Read by Mr. William Pipe. The Ultimate Religion; brief address by Zenshiro Nogu- CHi, Buddhist layman, of Japan. The Real Position of Japan toward Christianity ; by Kinza RiUGE M. Hirai. This speaker, whose eloquent command of the English language impressed all hearers, seemed at the outset to have some misgivings as to the reception which his message of rebuke of the un-Christian dealing of Christians toward his people would meet with in a Christian audience. His message was uttered without reserve, and with the utmost boldness and force ; and the reception of it was thus described by the next morning's press: "Loud applause followed many of his decla- rations, and a thousand cries of 'Shame' were heard when he pointed to the wrongs which his countrymen had suffered