The Spirit of missions . erable help to me, but Ithought that if I translated the Chinesephrases into English, and by the aid ofmy teacher, trans-literated the Japaneseword with Roman letters, a book wouldbe produced which would be valuable toEnglish-speaking people in beginningthe study of Japanese and to natives ofJapan who wished to learn English. Itherefore prepared the book and pub-lished it under the title of One Thou-sand Familiar Phrases in English andJapanese. It proved to be a very time-ly and popular book. It was at firstprinted at Shanghai and sent to Naga-saki. It consisted mainly
The Spirit of missions . erable help to me, but Ithought that if I translated the Chinesephrases into English, and by the aid ofmy teacher, trans-literated the Japaneseword with Roman letters, a book wouldbe produced which would be valuable toEnglish-speaking people in beginningthe study of Japanese and to natives ofJapan who wished to learn English. Itherefore prepared the book and pub-lished it under the title of One Thou-sand Familiar Phrases in English andJapanese. It proved to be a very time-ly and popular book. It was at firstprinted at Shanghai and sent to Naga-saki. It consisted mainly of conversa-tional sentences. During the first nine months myhealth was benefited by the change, butafter that I had a severe attack of thefever, which laid me aside entirely fromwork, and I very reluctantly had toleave the field. I never recovered myhealth sufficiently to render it advisablefor me to return, but I have continuedto work regularly for missions and kin-dred causes in a literary way, aided byan COMMODORE PERRY PRESENTING PRESIDENT FILLMORES MESSAGE TOTHE JAPANESE COURT THE YEARS OF PATIENT SOWING 1859-1872 JULY 1st, 1859, saw Japan re-opened—so all the histories tell us. Thestatement appeals to the imagina-tion. We seem to see doorsi flungwide and barriers removed, free com-mercial and intellectual interchange,wonderful opportunities for Christianachievement and missionary enterprise. But what were the actual facts?Japan was open, after a fashion, but sofar as access to the people was concernedit remained practically as closely barredas ever. Foreigners might live—^undersuspicion and surveillance—in certainquarters of certain cities, but any at-tempt upon their part to come into touchwith the Japanese people was resented,and became a signal for petty persecu-tion of the foreigners themselves orcruel retaliation upon the people whoapproached them. Everything was doneto foster and increase the prejudicesalready deeply rooted in the minds ofthe Ja
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