The Gist of Japan: The Islands, Their People, and MissionsPeery, R. B. (Rufus Benton)
Religion
The Gist of Japan: The Islands, Their People, and Missions
Peery, R. B. (Rufus Benton)
Japan -- Social life and customs; Missions -- Japan
Missions in Japan, modern Roman and Greek, 160; Protestant, 169; the
"happy time" of, 177; differing policy of, 182; small bodies, 190;
results of, 191; projected on too high a plane, 260; hindrances to,
266; special problems of, 286; the outlook of, 306.
Morality, compared with West, 109, 117; chief defect of, 121.
Music in the Greek Church, 167.
Mutsuhito, 47.
Mythological history, 36-39.
Mythology, 34, 122.
Nagasaki, 10.
Nagoya, 18.
Native church, its relation to the missionary, 182, 228, 299, 314;
missionary's crown, 232; development of, 242; hurtful national feeling
in, 273; problem of, 290; polity of, 290; self-support, 293; reasons
for dependence, 294; attitude toward national habits and customs, 300;
condition of, to-day, 307.
Native ministry, educated, 251; how provided, 295; how trained, 297.
Neesima, Dr., 181.
Newspapers, Japanese, 92; value of Christian, 263.
Nihon, native name of empire, 10.
Nihon-bashi, center of empire, 16.
Nobunaga, 43; patron of early Christianity, 148; assassinated, 150.
Obedience, result of, 58.
Official honor, 68,
Okayama, 18.
Omiiki, founder of Tenrikyo, 138.
Open ports, 19.
Originality, native, 63.
Outlook in Japan, 306; bright to spiritual eye, 317.
Parental relation, 133.
Parental respect, 57; great ethical principle, 116.
Passports, 246.
Patriotism, extreme, 55; hinders Christianity, 272, 313.
Perry, Commodore, and the opening of Japan, 44.
Persecutions, causes of, 150; Christians exiled, 172; United States
government and, 176; cessation of, 177; memory of, 275.
Physique, native, 33.
Politeness, the exalted virtue, 85; ridiculous extremes, 87.
Portuguese, discovery of Japan, 43; captain and Hideyoshi, 150.
Prayer, 169.
Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions in the United States, 169, 170.
Problems, special, 286.
Railways, 97.
Rainfall, 21.
Reformed Church in America, 170.
Religion, Japanese, composite, 123; influence of, 142; and morality,
268.
Rivers, 13.
Roads, 15, 16.
Roman Catholic Church in Japan, pioneer work of, 144; driven out, 154;
early mistakes, 158, 161; the work resumed, 160; peculiar hindrances
to, 163; prosperity of, 164.
Ronins, story of the forty-seven, 112.
Sake, 119.
Salary of the missionary, 213; when on furlough, 219.
Schools, Sunday, 239; mission, 251; academical, 253; girls', 255.
Sectarianism, a hindrance to missions, 281; disappearing, 303;
advantages of coöperation, 304.
Self-control of missionary, 205.
Sermons, kind of, 249.
Sexes, relation of, 73.
Shikoku, 10.
Shimabara, fall of, 155.
Shinto, revival of, 45; morality, 108; history of, 123; state religion,
125; ancestors, 270; opposing Christianity, 278.
Shogun (tycoon), 42; abolition of the office, 46.
Sign language, graceful, 76.
Simmons, Dr. D. B., 170.
Sin, no word for, 249, 262.
Society, missionary's need of, 216, 217, 225.
Spiritual qualifications of the missionary, 197.
Steamers, 99.
Suicides, 65, 120.
Taira, great clan, 41.
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