Forty years on the Pacific : the lure of the great ocean, a book of reference for the traveler and pleasure for the stay-at-home . A TRIP THROUGH JAPAN 49 the Japanese princes, and as a consequence about two thousandJapanese Christians were crucified, while others were deportedto the PhiHppines. Finally, Christianity became almost extinctin Japan and for more than two centuries there was very littleevidence of it.* In the middle of the nineteenth century the British, Dutch,French and Americans endeavored to establish communicationswith the Japanese Empire. The Americans were the most suc-cessf
Forty years on the Pacific : the lure of the great ocean, a book of reference for the traveler and pleasure for the stay-at-home . A TRIP THROUGH JAPAN 49 the Japanese princes, and as a consequence about two thousandJapanese Christians were crucified, while others were deportedto the PhiHppines. Finally, Christianity became almost extinctin Japan and for more than two centuries there was very littleevidence of it.* In the middle of the nineteenth century the British, Dutch,French and Americans endeavored to establish communicationswith the Japanese Empire. The Americans were the most suc-cessful, for in 1854 Commodore Perry opened up Japan toAmerican commerce. Shortly after that, American mission-ary societies launched out in numbers and prosecuted theirlabors in an energetic manner, which is now testified to by thethousands of missionaries and teachers of various denomina-tions who are working zealously in the Japanese of conscience is extended to all religious sects inJapan, and so far as I could observe, missionaries were satis-fied with existing conditions. One Sunday I visited an exhibition of
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