. Niphon and Pe-che-li; or, Two years in Japan and northern China. on is strongly developed. They despise theirpriesthood, as a body of mendicants who, livingin idleness and sloth, fatten upon the industryand thrift of their more energetic brethren;but they yet cling tenaciously to the gods andthe traditions of their forefathers. And thisfeeling will ever prove a more serious stum-bling-block to the efforts of Christian mission-aries than all the prohibitory laws of the Stateor the impotent denunciations of the priesthood. If there is one sentiment universal among allclasses of Japanese, it is
. Niphon and Pe-che-li; or, Two years in Japan and northern China. on is strongly developed. They despise theirpriesthood, as a body of mendicants who, livingin idleness and sloth, fatten upon the industryand thrift of their more energetic brethren;but they yet cling tenaciously to the gods andthe traditions of their forefathers. And thisfeeling will ever prove a more serious stum-bling-block to the efforts of Christian mission-aries than all the prohibitory laws of the Stateor the impotent denunciations of the priesthood. If there is one sentiment universal among allclasses of Japanese, it is a deep and earnest reve-rence for their sacred mountain Fusi-jama—thetemple, the grave, and the monument of thefather of their faith.* Two hundred centuries are supposed to haveelapsed since, created by a convulsion of nature * Sin-fuh, whose doctrines may be considered to represent,with regard to the various forms of the Buddhist faith inJapan, much the same relative [»ositiou as the Roman CatholicChurch occupies towards otlier Christian Churches in OUNTAINOF FUSI-JAMA. Fdsi-jama. 145 in a single night, Fusi-jama reared its proudcrest and challenged the worship and the love ofthe millions who, from the extremest ends of theisland, gazed with awe and devotion upon itssnowy peak as it glittered for the first time in themorning sun, or faded into the mist of this reverence has survived time and change ;has grown with the growth and strengthenedwith the strength of the Japanese people. Fusi-jama is their ideal of the beautiful in nature, andthey are never weary of admiring, glorifying, andreproducing it. It is painted, embossed, carved,engraved, lacquered, modelled on all their wares;men carry it in their pockets, women wear it ontheir persons, and children by the roadside buildminiature Fusi-jamas of mud, as our own makedirt-pies. It must be allowed that, next to theobscene, there is nothing that the Japanese somuch love to represent as the beautiful; fru
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