The light of the world : a brief comparative study of Christianity and non-Christian religions . mmonly nec-essary to dwell upon his unity and spirituality; now, atleast among those of some education, the word God hascome itself to carry with it this conception of hisnature. Far more than used to be the case, one mayaddress men much as unconverted men are addressed inAmerica or England. The reading of foreign literaturehas done much to make Christian ideas familiar; andhas awakened in many a real interest in Christian who are not Christians read Christian sermonsand understand them.
The light of the world : a brief comparative study of Christianity and non-Christian religions . mmonly nec-essary to dwell upon his unity and spirituality; now, atleast among those of some education, the word God hascome itself to carry with it this conception of hisnature. Far more than used to be the case, one mayaddress men much as unconverted men are addressed inAmerica or England. The reading of foreign literaturehas done much to make Christian ideas familiar; andhas awakened in many a real interest in Christian who are not Christians read Christian sermonsand understand them. It may interest you to know thatRobertson and Beecher are favorites among the Shintoand Buddhist priests. Buddha is not only more andmore thought of as personal by Buddhist teachers,—heis so described by them in their teaching. The pessi-mistic view of life is giving way to one that is moreoptimistic. Shinto and Buddhist priests officiate atweddings, a thing new under the sun. There are Bud-dhist Sunday schools, and Buddhist hymns sung, andthe melody of organs. They have also borrowed the. ASIAS OWN OPINION 279 Taikyo Dendo (sometimes translated Forward Move-ment). But besides all these things, all of which aresignificant and some deeply so, there are the Christianchurches, some of them more than thirty years old,many of them financially independent, and occupyingall the most important centers in the empire. Thisthen is the present situation. There are the Christianchurches recognized by all as a constantly growingforce; and around the churches there is a far largerbody—ten times as-large and more—interested in Chris-tianity, and consciously or unconsciously movingtowards it. To say that Christianity cannot penetratethe life of Japan is to contradict what to anyone witheyes to see is a perfectly plain fact. Ibuka, Japan:— Meredith Townsend, it does seem to me, is entirelywrong in his statement. Does not the political historyof Japan for the past forty years show that t
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