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Ainu Aizu American missionary Amida anese Baptists become Bible Board Buddha Buddhism building called cent character China Chinese Chris Christ Christian Christian leaders committee Confucian congregation course dormitory Emperor English evangel evangelistic foreign Fukushima Fukushima Prefecture Gospel graduates Hirosaki influence institution Iwanuma Japanese Japanese language kimono kindergarten Kitakata Koriyama language living lord Middle School missionary Miyagi Girls moral Morioka nation native Nihon Kirisuto Kyokwai Niigata Niigata Prefecture North Japan College organized Oshikawa pastor peasants preaching Prefecture priests Reformed Church religion religious residence rice Roman Sakya salvation says Schneder sects Sendai Shingon Shinran Shinto shrine snow Society spirit street style Sunday School taught teachers teaching temple Tenrikyo theological tian tion Tohoku Gakuin Tohoku Mission Tokyo town village visited Wakamatsu woman women workers Yamagata Yokohama young
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Page 65 - ... pursue learning and cultivate arts, and thereby develop intellectual faculties and perfect moral powers; furthermore advance public good and promote common interests; always respect the Constitution and observe the laws; should emergency arise, offer yourselves courageously to the State; and thus guard and maintain the prosperity of Our Imperial Throne coeval with heaven and earth.
Page 65 - Ye, Our subjects, be filial to your parents, affectionate to your brothers and sisters: as husbands and wives be harmonious, as friends true; bear yourselves in modesty and moderation; extend your benevolence to all; pursue learning and cultivate arts, and thereby develop intellectual faculties and perfect moral powers...
Page 105 - So long as the sun shall warm the earth, let no Christian be so bold as to come to Japan ; and let all know, that the King of Spain himself, or the Christians' God, or the great God of all, if he violate this command, shall pay for it with his head.
Page 265 - So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can.
Page 68 - Japanese subjects shall, within limits not prejudicial to peace and order, and not antagonistic to their duties as subjects, enjoy freedom of religious belief.
Page 69 - Our good and faithful subjects, but render illustrious the best traditions of your forefathers. The Way here set forth is indeed the teaching bequeathed by Our Imperial Ancestors, to be observed alike by Their Descendants and the subjects, infallible for all ages and true in all places. It is Our wish to lay it to heart in all reverence, in common with you, Our subjects, that we may all thus attain to the same virtue.
Page 76 - He is to the Japanese mind the Supreme Being in the Cosmos of Japan, as God is in the Universe to the pantheistic philosopher. From him everything emanates; in him everything subsists; there is nothing on the soil of Japan existent independent of him. He is the sole owner of the Empire, the author of law, justice, privilege, and honor, and the symbol of the unity of the Japanese nation.
Page 120 - For we know in part, and we prophesy in part; but when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part shall be done away.
Page 86 - I am weak and sinful and I have no hope in myself ; my hope is all in Amida Buddha. I believe him to be the Supreme Being. Because of the wickedness of man, and because of human sorrow, Amida Buddha became incarnate and came to the earth to deliver man; and my hope and the world's hope is to be found only in his suffering love. He has entered humanity to save it, and he alone can save. He constantly watches over and helps all who trust in him. I am not in a hurry to die, but I am ready when my time...
Page 34 - The food provided by the factory boarding-houses may be tolerable to the class from which the women are recruited, but as to the other accommodation it is simply sickening. The women on the night and day shifts are obliged to share one bed, which is neither aired nor dusted, and never exposed to the sun, since as soon as one leaves it, another takes her place. Consequently consumption spreads among the operatives like an epidemic. ,