become Buddhas, and that the priests of Amida should be free to become fathers after the pattern of the Heavenly Father. Marrying the charming princess this Japanese Luther founded a new sect, and to-day one sees the hereditary abbot, splendid in purple and scarlet, accompanied by his son, a boy of seventeen, proudly conscious of his destiny as the next head of the great hierarchy, and taking his place in the elaborate ritual of the service. Behind them are the choir in robes of old gold and the priests in black. "_Namu Amida Butsu_"[13] intone the priests, and alternating with this act of faith they sing to a kind of Gregorian chant such words as these: "Eternal Life, Eternal Light! Hail to Thee, wisdom infinite. Hail to Thee, mercy shining clear, And limitless as is the air. Thou givest sight unto the blind, Thou sheddest mercy on mankind, Hail, gladdening Light, Hail, generous Might, Whose peace is round us like the sea, And bathes us in infinity." Or it may be some patriarch who is being hymned, such as Honen himself: "What though great teachers lead the way,-- Genshin and Zendo of Cathay,-- Did Honen not the truth declare How should we far-off sinners fare In this degenerate, evil day?" Occasionally a hymn, like the excellent preaching of some of the priests, strikes a note of moral living whose motive is gratitude to Amida: "Eternal Father on whose breast We sinful children find our rest, Thy mind in us is perfected When on all men thy love we shed; So we in faith repeat thy praise, And gratefully live out our days."[14] The Japanese, in whom gratitude is a very strong motive, find in the teachings of Shinran a Buddhism which is very Christian, and the words attributed to him as he was nearing his journey's end, are a confession of sin which is only worthy of a saint. That the mass of his followers fall far behind him in this respect is unfortunately true, as it is true of most of us who call ourselves by a greater name. Other founders of Buddhism are commemorated on the altars and in the hymns of this sect, especially Nāgārjuna, the Indian philosopher of about the second century A.D., and Donran, a Chinese, who carried still further the evolution of Mahāyāna Buddhism. A Revival of Buddhism. The _Shin Shu_ is one of the sects of Japanese Buddhism in which a great revival seems to be at work. Upwards of five hundred young priests are being trained in its schools in Kyōto, and it claims to have one hundred and fifty thousand children in its Sunday Schools, an organisation in which it has wisely imitated the missionary methods of the Christian Church.