The Gist of Japan: The Islands, Their People and MissionsF.H. Revell Company, 1897 - 324 Seiten |
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Seite 158 - So long as the sun shall continue to warm the earth, let no Christian be so bold as to come to Japan ; and let all know that the King of Spain himself, or the Christians' God, or the great God of all, if he dare violate this command, shall pay for it with his head.
Seite 136 - Do not do unto others as you would not have others do unto you.
Seite 109 - Shinto, teaches with emphasis that morals were invented by the Chinese because they were an immoral people, but in Japan there was no necessity for any system of morals, as every Japanese acted aright if he only consulted his own heart.
Seite 127 - All education was for centuries in Buddhist hands. Buddhism introduced art and medicine, molded the folk-lore of the country, created its dramatic poetry, deeply influenced politics and every sphere of social and intellectual activity. In a word, Buddhism was the teacher under whose instruction the Japanese nation grew up.
Seite 201 - And now abideth faith, hope, Love, these three; but the greatest of these is Love.
Seite 226 - ... exile.' It is not merely a physical exile from home and country and all their interests; it is not only an intellectual exile from all that would feed and stimulate the mind; it is yet more — a spiritual exile from the guidance, the instruction, the correction, from the support, the fellowship, the communion of the saints and the church at home.
Seite 318 - His kingdom, and guiding everything to that grand consummation, when all the kingdoms of this world shall become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ.
Seite 132 - There are ruler and minister; father and son ; husband and wife ; elder brother and younger; and the intercourse of friend and friend: — (the duties belonging to) these five (relationships) constitute the universal path for all.
Seite 313 - Russian cathedral, which was opened for worship in 1891, is the only ecclesiastical edifice in Tokyo with any pretensions to splendour. From the eminence on which it stands, it seems to dominate the whole city. V. GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS. To those who can look back thirty years, or even only twenty years, the change in the position of Christianity in Japan is most striking, indeed well-nigh incredible.
Seite 51 - After the war was over they settled down to the even tenor of their ways as though nothing had happened.