Hepburn of Japan and his wife and helpmates; a life story of toil for Christ . e seven-teenth century deeds of sale and contract were onlyvalid when they had a clause inserted that the par-ties at interest did not belong to the vile Christiansect. The peasantry, the largest portion of the popu-lation, uneducated and ignorant, like serfs bound tothe soil, hved in great poverty, one half or more ofthe product of their toil going as taxes to their feudallord. The whole nation was given up to licentiousnessand the gratification of animal instincts, with nogods higher than deified men, no religion
Hepburn of Japan and his wife and helpmates; a life story of toil for Christ . e seven-teenth century deeds of sale and contract were onlyvalid when they had a clause inserted that the par-ties at interest did not belong to the vile Christiansect. The peasantry, the largest portion of the popu-lation, uneducated and ignorant, like serfs bound tothe soil, hved in great poverty, one half or more ofthe product of their toil going as taxes to their feudallord. The whole nation was given up to licentiousnessand the gratification of animal instincts, with nogods higher than deified men, no religion better thanBuddhism and idolatry, no morals higher than Chi-nese Confucianism, without the knowledge of God,or of accountability to a Supreme Being. Withoutthe Bible, without the knowledge of salvation throughJesus Christ, without schools, or any of the improve-ments or great inventions of modern or Western civ-iHzation, they lived a quiet, secluded, torpid andsleepy existence, from which they were suddenlyaroused in 1853. The Doctor beheved that the results of the war[2201. HALF CENTURY TRANSFORMATION with China would be for great good and to thespecial advancement of the kingdom of God, notonly in the three nations of Japan, Korea and Chinadirectly interested, but in all Asia and even inEurope. The leaven of Christianity is now slowly butpowerfully pervading the Japanese people and wemay safely predict that ere many years have elapsed,Japan will be numbered among the Christian nations. The Doctor noticed that since he left Japan, theprayers and the longings of the missionaries for thepast thirty-five years had been answered, for the newtreaties (in 1900) gave Japan perfect autonomy andsovereign rights, and opened the country to foreignresidence and travel. As the success which the Japanese have obtainedagainst the Chinese has been almost entirely theresult of Christian civilization, the war will resultrather to the advantage of Christianity. . Thehand of God is particularly m
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