[162] See Cary’s article in “Andover Review,” June, 1889.
[163] See Greene’s paper in vol. xxiii., Transactions Asiatic Society of Japan.
[164] See Lowell’s “Soul of the Far East,” pp. 168, 169.
[165] “The wicked sect called Christian is strictly prohibited. Suspected persons are to be reported to the respective officials, and rewards will be given” (1868).
[166] See also Murray’s “Story of Japan,” pp. 172-179, 240-268.
[167] See Uchimura’s “Diary of a Japanese Convert.”
[168] There is now a “Japan Tract Society.”
[169] It is unfortunate that there are any missionaries, with more zeal than knowledge, who seem to forget those wise words of Paul, the courageous, but tactful, and therefore successful, preacher, in 1 Corinthians ix. 22. But most of the missionaries, or the best of them, always bear in mind Christ’s own instructions in Matthew x. 16.
[170] It is no small matter for encouragement to Christian workers in Japan that it is now possible to find among Japanese Christians three generations of believers; so that the words of Paul in 2 Timothy i. 5 may be applied here: “Having been reminded of the unfeigned faith that is in thee; which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois and thy mother Eunice.” The future of Christianity in Japan is insured when it begins to be inherited.
[171] See “An American Missionary in Japan,” pp. 259-262.