. In brightest Asia. isitions, until now thereis a wide feeling that henceforth they can go alone, and littlethanks to either foreign money or foreign instruction. Thereare some painful cases of such ingratitude, toward even theirchief benefactors, among all the missions. Doubtless a sift-ing process is needed, and it probably is at hand. Nkko. October 5. Nikko is one of the Meccas of Japan. It has been asacred place since A. D. 767, when the Buddhist saint, ShodoShodon, first visited it. Early in the seventeenth century itwas selected by the second Shogvm as a resting-place for hisfather, lye
. In brightest Asia. isitions, until now thereis a wide feeling that henceforth they can go alone, and littlethanks to either foreign money or foreign instruction. Thereare some painful cases of such ingratitude, toward even theirchief benefactors, among all the missions. Doubtless a sift-ing process is needed, and it probably is at hand. Nkko. October 5. Nikko is one of the Meccas of Japan. It has been asacred place since A. D. 767, when the Buddhist saint, ShodoShodon, first visited it. Early in the seventeenth century itwas selected by the second Shogvm as a resting-place for hisfather, lyeyasu, the first Shogun. A great procession accom-panied the remains of lyeyasu on a journey of nearly a monthfrom Suruga, in Southern Japan, to Nikko. lyemitsu, thethird Shogun, is also here entombed, and likewise deified. Thus you see this is the seat of a great national shrine — a sort of Westminster Abbey. To it vastnumbers of devoted pilgrims are always coming, and especially at the time of the great KEGON NOTAKI WATERFALL. In Brightest Asia.
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