number of adherents claimed by any other Christian body. The Roman
influence has been particularly successful in the Goto Islands, in the
neighbourhood of Nagasaki, where the devoted labours of the missionaries
have won over a considerable portion of the population.

To come to the statistics. These give one Archbishop, three Bishops,
seventy-eight missionary, and fifteen native priests, with over 300
(native) minor clergy and catechists; 185 churches and chapels, with 244
congregations. Seventy-six sisters of the Order of St. Paul de Chartres
are stationed in Japan, and there are further nineteen native novices.
Other statistics include seventeen orphanages, with an average of over 100
children; twenty Industrial Schools; eight Nursing establishments; a
Hospital for the Aged; and a Hospital for Lepers, with sixty-two inmates,
situated at Gotemba, at the foot of Fuji-san. The number of infant
baptisms for 1892 is given as, children of Christian parents 1,337, and
Heathen parents 1,166; these, with 2,806 adult baptisms, and forty-five
"conversions of heretics," bringing the total of baptisms and conversions
for the year to 5,354. The work that is being done by the Roman
missionaries is commended on all sides; a prominent feature in their
methods being a consideration for, and adaptation to, the habits and
prejudices of the people, that greatly facilitate their progress,
especially among the poor of the country districts. The whole number of
Roman Catholics in Japan amounts, as has been said already, to about
45,000.

I pass on to speak of the condition of the Greek, or Orthodox Russian,
Church in Japan; whose relations with the Church of England are here, as
elsewhere, of a friendly though not, of course, of a very intimate
character. Its head-quarters are at Tokio, where an imposing Cathedral,
situated on high ground and in a central position, has recently been
erected. Unfortunately our information in this case is very incomplete;
but assuming the correctness of the numbers before us, one is struck by
the paucity of missionary clergy, viz. one bishop and three priests. To
these must be added eighteen native clergy, and 128 unordained teachers
and workers. There are in all 219 congregations. The number of adult
baptisms in 1892 is given as 952; and the total membership at the present
time exceeds 20,000. Scanty as these details are, they indicate much
activity and progress. The proximity of Russian territory to
Japan--