Hawaii Holomua, Volume I, Number 43, 7 November 1893 — A HAPPY PEOPLE. [ARTICLE]

A HAPPY PEOPLE.

Speaking-of tbe Japanese, the Tiser of lastFriday iuorning says, “Tbey are indeed a pecnliar people, and among their many peculiarities not tbe least is that tbey are tbe only nation in tbe world practicallv witbont a religion.” They are satisfied witb wbat they bave got, and are all tbe happier for it. Tbe Hawaiian people wouhl be mueh better oti' today, if it were not for tbe hypocritical and sacrilegious religion whieh is preacbed to tbem everv week bv insincere preachers. At the “Religions Session” of preachers held latelv in Chicago, the Japanese representative was one of the ablest speakers present. In tbe course of his reraarks, he made reference to the American Missionaries, in words soraetbing like tbis: He said that he was one of those Japanese who had protested against allowing tbose missionaries to enter Japan to teach religion,‘as the next thing tbey wonld try to do, wonhl be to annex Japan to the United States.