The Spirit of missions . TWO SPECIMENS OF BOARDS CONTAINING JAPANESANTI-CHRISTIAN EDICTS They were formerly found everywhere throughout Japan. The Imperial Govern-ment even proclaimed that if the Christians God Himself should dare sdfoot in the Empire He should he instantly heheaded. Now the Christianmissionary may go everywhere throughout the Empire and is generally welcome. THE CHURCH MISSIONS HOUSE IS FORTUNATE IN POSSESSING THREE EXCELLENTSPECIMENS OF THESE BOARDS (778) PART II. 1^ Work in Mpm OUR EVANGELISTIC WORK I. IN THE DISTRICT OF TOKYO By Bishop McKim k LTHOUGH the first American/\
The Spirit of missions . TWO SPECIMENS OF BOARDS CONTAINING JAPANESANTI-CHRISTIAN EDICTS They were formerly found everywhere throughout Japan. The Imperial Govern-ment even proclaimed that if the Christians God Himself should dare sdfoot in the Empire He should he instantly heheaded. Now the Christianmissionary may go everywhere throughout the Empire and is generally welcome. THE CHURCH MISSIONS HOUSE IS FORTUNATE IN POSSESSING THREE EXCELLENTSPECIMENS OF THESE BOARDS (778) PART II. 1^ Work in Mpm OUR EVANGELISTIC WORK I. IN THE DISTRICT OF TOKYO By Bishop McKim k LTHOUGH the first American/\ missionaries to Japan arrivedf ^ at Nagasaki in the spring of1859, it was not until 1873lat work was begun in Tokyo. Whilelying this one must not forget that therst Christian service in the Englishmguage • ever held in Tokyo was thatf the American Prayer Book, and that18 man who read the service was not aergyman but a layman—Townsend[arris, the first Consul General of thenited States to Japan, a stalwarthurchman and
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