INDEX

Ainu, [10], [33].

American Board (Congregational), [171]; history of work, [179]; strained relations with native church, [182].

Ancestors, worship of, [117], [270], [301].

Animals, [29].

Art, [95].

Asama, [11].

Ashikaga, [42].

Ballagh, Rev. Mr., baptized first convert, [175].

Banking, [103].

Baptists, [171], [187].

Bathing, [83].

Beautiful, love of the, [59].

Belief, missionary's, [198].

Berry, Dr. J. C., opinions on vacations, [218], [220], [223]; his medical work, [265].

Bible, first portions translated, [147], [174]; translation of, essential, [162]; translation committee and work, [175]; distribution to soldiers, [311].

Bible and tract societies of America and England, work of, [190].

Bicycle, [245].

Birds, [30].

Biwa, [14].

Bridges, [16].

Brotherhood, universal, unknown, [136]; repugnant, [273].

Brothers, relation of, [134].

Brown, Rev. Dr. S. R., [170]; drafts of New Testament, [174].

Buddhism, introduction of, [40]; principal features of, [126]; history of, [127]; formative power of, [128]; temples and priests, [129]; and Christianity, [126], [130], [279]; vitality of, [278], [311].

Camphor, [26].

Census of 1893, [9].

Chamberlain, Professor, on advance of Christianity in Japan, [312].

Chaplains, Christian, appointed by the government, [310].

Character, missionary's, [200].

Cheerfulness, native, [53].

Children, an allowance for, [214].

China, early influence of, [39]; ancient civilization of, [90]; recent war with, [49], [310].

Christianity, first introduction of, [144]; early successes, [148]; attempted extermination of, [154]; cannot be extirpated, [156]; prohibitions of, [157], [172]; edicts against, removed, [176]; reaction against, [178]; by nature diffusive, [243]; revolutionizing tendency of, [267]; exclusiveness of, [269]; past record of, [274]; advance of, [312].

Church, first organized, [175]; sifting of, [178].

Church of Christ in Japan, [184].

Civilization, definition of, [89]; Japan's compared with Western, [106]; adoption of Western, [177].

Climate, [19-22].

Clothing, [73], [82].

Commercial honor, [67]; morality, [120].

Confucianism, and Japanese morality, [109]; ethics of, [110]; history of, [130]; basal principles of, [131]; nearest approach to Christianity, [135]; contrasted with Christianity, [243].

Consecration of missionary, [197].

Constitution of Japan, [47], [96].

Converts, first, [175]; social ostracism of, [279]; requirements of, [288]; indigent, [289].

Curiosity, native, [212].

Customs, bearing of, upon mission work, [70], [269].

Davis, Rev. and Mrs. J. D., [180].

Death, not afraid of, [65].

Disappointments, missionary's, [226].

Doshisha University, [180]; rationalistic teaching of, [181].

Duty, ours to the missionary, [229]; joy of doing, [231].

Earthquakes, [12], [13].

Educational system of Japan, [93], [255]; antagonistic to Christianity, [276].

Educational work of missions, compared with evangelistic, [250]; criticism of, [253]; hinders self-support, [260].

Embassy to Rome, [149].

Emperor, power of name, [55]; worship of picture, [112], [301].

Environment, missionary's, unfavorable, [227].

Episcopalians, [170], [183]; five branches of, [186]; native church, [187], [303].

Ethnology, [32], [33].

Europeanization of Japan, [46], [91]; our hope, [312].

Evangelization, [234]; missionaries must be evangelists, [235]; subordinated to educational work, [236]; local, [237]; itinerating, [242].

Exiles, missionaries, [225], [228].

Exports, [27].

Facial expression, [53].

Farms, [23].

Festivals, religious, [302].

Feudalism, rise of, [41]; conditions under, [145].

Fish, [30].

Food, [80].

Foreign pastor, [230].

Foreigners, treatment of, [44], [136]; country open to, [170], [171]; ungodly example of, [282].

Formosa, [9].

Franchise, limited, [96].

Friends, [135].

Fuji-san, [12].

Fujiwara family, [41].

Funerals, [84].

Geography of Japan, [9-15].

Girls' boarding-schools, [255]; purpose of, [256]; end defeated by etiquette, [257]; reasons for and against, [258], [259].

Goble, Rev. J., translation of Matthew, [174].

God, Japanese word for, [249], [262].

Government, Japanese, [95]; paternalism of, [58]; hostile to Christianity, [172], [173], [313].

Gratitude, [66].

Greek Church (Russian), [165]; its founder, [166]; its cathedral, [167]; its work, [168].

Greene, Dr. and Mrs., [180].

Greetings, [88].

Gulick, Rev. O. H., [180]; story of his teacher, [172].

Hara-kiri (belly-cutting), [85].

Haughty bearing of missionary, [241].

Health of missionary, the first qualification, [193]; medical examinations, [195]; allowance for, [215]; and vacations, [216].

Heathen faiths opposed to Christianity, [277], [311].

Hibachi, [80].

Hideyoshi, [43]; persecutor of Christians, [150].

Hindrances to Christianity, [266]; common to all fields, [267]; peculiar to Japan, [271]; the greatest, [313].

Hiroshima, [18].

Hollanders, [10], [44], [156], [158].

Homes, mission, necessity of as examples, [207], [211]; comfort of, [210]; a Western home, [212].

Hondo, [9].

Houses, Japanese, use of, [76]; construction of, [78]; furniture, [79].

Human life, cheap, [64].

Imitativeness, [64].

Imperial University, [94].

Inconsistency, [63].

Inland Sea, [10].

Inns, Japanese, [245].

Inquirers, how to deal with, [238], [286].

Instability, of people, [61], [314]; of civilization, [105].

Intellectual life, [54]; open-mindedness, [59].

Islands of Japan, [9], [10], [11].

Itinerating, [242]; greatest hindrance to, [246]; kinds of, [247]; objections to, [249].

Iyeyasu, [43], [109]; and the battle of Sekigahara, [153]; persecution of Christianity, [153].

Japan, the land of, [9]; new, birth of, [45]; religions of, [122].

Japanese, reliable history of, [40]; characteristics, [51]; manners and customs, [69], civilization, [89]; morality, [107]; skeptical, [316].

Jesuits, introduction of Christianity by, [45].

Jimmu Tenno, [36], [38].

Jingo, Empress, [39].

Jinrikisha, [63], [244].

Joys of the missionary, [231].

Kagoshima, [18].

Kanagawa, [18].

Kasatkin, Bishop Nicolai, founder of Greek mission, [166].

Korea, subjugation of, [39].

Kyoto or Saikyo, [10], [17], [18].

Kyushu, [9]; Dutch residence on, [10].

Lakes, [14].

Land, cultivated, [11], [22]; picturesque, [14]; irrigation of, [22]; terracing, [23].

Language, structure of, [55]; difficult to learn to read, [93]; first dictionary of, [174]; talent for, essential to the missionary, [203]; difficult to master, [262], [284].

Lawrence, Dr. E., on common sense, [204]; on exiles, [225]; "axioms of missions," [292].

Laws, [96].

Libraries, how regarded, [72].

Life, chief of all evils, [127].

Liggins, Rev. J., [170].

Lights, [103].

Literature, native, [92]; Christian, [261], [263].

Love of humanity, missionary's, [199].

Loyalty, first moral principle, [111], [132].

Lutherans, missionary problems of, [188]; purpose in Japan, [189].

McDonald, Dr., on furloughs, [224].

Mails, [101], [246].

Manufactories, [104].

Marriage, customs, [75]; relation, [133]; essential to missionary, [206].

Martyrs, [115].

Materialism in Japan, [277], [315].

Maxims, [117], [272].

Medical missions, [264]; no longer needed in Japan, [265].

Mental qualifications of the missionary, [201].

Methodist Church in Japan, [171], [183]; branches of, [185], [304]; present status of, [186].

Mikados, [41].

Minamoto, great clan, [41].

Minerals, [28],

Missionaries, lives in danger, [171]; qualifications of, [192]; private life of, [209]; extent and variety of work of, [234]; number of, in Japan, [309].

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].

Taylor, Dr. W., [265]; opinions on missionary's qualifications, [194]; furloughs, [220], [221], [224].

Telegraphs, [99], [246].

Tenrikyo, missionary religion, [137]; origin of, [138]; teachings of, [139]; distinguishing characteristics, [141].

Theological training, necessity of, [251]; in English language, [252]; abroad, [252], [299]; place of native religions in, [298].

Theology, native, rationalistic, [181]; desire for, [274]; formative stage, [308].

Tidal waves, [13].

Tokaido, most famous road, [16].

Tokyo, the capital, [10], [17].

Tone-gawa, largest river, [14].

"Topsyturvydom," [70].

Treaties, American, [45], [107]; English, [170]; revision of, [48], [178].

Typhoons, [22].

Vacations of missionaries, summer, [216]; furloughs, [218], [224]; argument against, [219]; medical opinions in favor of, [220]; from an economic standpoint, [221]; useful to native and home churches alike, [222].

Vegetarians, [80].

Verbeck, Rev. Dr. G. F., [171], [175].

Visitation, advantages of, [239]; and Japanese etiquette, [240].

Volcanoes, [11].

Wife, missionary's, health of, [196].

Williams, Rev. C. M. (Bishop), [170], [175].

Work, methods of, [234].

Xavier, St. Francis, first missionary to Japan, [146].

Yezo, [9]; location and climate, [10],

Yoritomo, first shogun, [42].

Yokohama, [11].