Christianity as a Social Factor in Modern Japan
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Excerpt from Christianity as a Social Factor in Modern Japan: A Thesis Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Pennsylvania in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy The two main sources of our knowledge concerning the influence of Christianity in Japan have been the missionary address and the globe-trotter´s account. In a certain sense, both of these informants have "axes to grind." The former is expected to lay special emphasis only on that part of the truth which will best serve to loosen the purse-strings of his hearers, while many of the latter class of persons, when they come to a missionary country, engage themselves in seeking some new reasons why they should not contribute towards foreign missions. That both of these sources of information are unreliable and insufficient, is proved by the remarkable amount of ignorance on this point that is met with among otherwise intelligent American Christians. But I feel certain, also, that the missionary, because of his first-hand knowledge and his sympathetic relation with the Japanese people, is a trustworthy authority on the subject of Christian influence provided he can be caught when he is off his guard. Any person writing about the life of peoples other than that of his native land, has one immense advantage. It is that he does not feel obliged, either by love or prejudice, to defend the institutions and customs which he is reviewing. But the corresponding disadvantage which meets him at every turn, is the fact that a foreigner cannot fully fathom the nature and feelings of other people and thus truly sympathize with them. The question becomes doubly difficult when the institution to be studied is Christianity in Japan, a non-Christian country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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