Life and light for woman . LaSalle Street, Chicago.«• J. B. LEAKE, 499 North LaSalle Street, Chicago. Treasurer. MRS. FRANCIS BRADLEY, Evanston, 111. >IISS MARY E. GREENE. 75 BladlBon Street, Chicago. SABAH POLLOCK, 73 Madison Street, Obicago. Auditor. REV. G. S. F. SAVAGE, Chicago. Board of Managers. MBS. C. G. HAMMOND, Chicago. C. H. CASE, Chicago. H. E. BAKER, Detroit, Mich. A. E. NUTT, Glencoe, III. L. H. BOUTELL, Evanston, 111. K. S. CHESBROUGH, Chicago. MRS. E. P. GOODWIN, Chicago. J. F. TEJIPLE, Chicago. ROBERT HILL. Ctiicago. L. C. PURINGTON. Chicago. J. C. NE^VCOMB. Chicago. S. D.
Life and light for woman . LaSalle Street, Chicago.«• J. B. LEAKE, 499 North LaSalle Street, Chicago. Treasurer. MRS. FRANCIS BRADLEY, Evanston, 111. >IISS MARY E. GREENE. 75 BladlBon Street, Chicago. SABAH POLLOCK, 73 Madison Street, Obicago. Auditor. REV. G. S. F. SAVAGE, Chicago. Board of Managers. MBS. C. G. HAMMOND, Chicago. C. H. CASE, Chicago. H. E. BAKER, Detroit, Mich. A. E. NUTT, Glencoe, III. L. H. BOUTELL, Evanston, 111. K. S. CHESBROUGH, Chicago. MRS. E. P. GOODWIN, Chicago. J. F. TEJIPLE, Chicago. ROBERT HILL. Ctiicago. L. C. PURINGTON. Chicago. J. C. NE^VCOMB. Chicago. S. D. ARNOLD, Milwaukee, Wis. M!KS K. , Hudson, Ohio. UIU>. g. D. HADDOCK, Michigan City, Ind A. F. BRUSKE, Charlotte, Mich. C. W. CLAPP. Waverlev, S. IlL WM. TALCOTT, Bockford, N. flL• K. COBUBN, Whit-water, Wis. State Secretaries. MRS, C. C. SCALES, St. Louis, F. PARKER, Iowa City, B. HANSON, Blinneapolin, W. IDE, Leavenworth, FARWELL, Crete, WARD, Yankton, Vol. Till JAXUARY, 1878. Xo. 1. HOW THE HEATHEN PRAY. XLTrrBEE FIVE. EST JAP AX. It is •^ell-known that the two great religions of Japan are Shin-toism and Buddhism. Shintoism. the more ancient of the two, inits higher forms and among the educated classes, is sini2)lT acultured atheism; among the ignorant, a blind obedience to thegovernment and to the priests. The chief duty of its believers isto imitate their ancestors, proving themselves worthy of them bytheir pure lives. In progress of time these ancestors came to beworshipped as gods, and so arose innumerable petty deities ordeified heroes, with all the passions and weaknesses of its worship Shintoism has no idols or images. Its symbols area mirror and a^oAee, — strips of white paper fastened on wood,—and its temples are built of plain wood, without ornament of anykind. The worshipper does not enter the temple, but offers hisprayers outside, having first rung a huge beU by means of a xop
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