appears that, whilst the "Land of [the Moming Calm" counts upon excluding, the Bible from its holy interior under recent treaties as an immoral book, proofs of he superior enlightenment of the Japanese ave evident in their appreciation of some, 1 at least, of the good points of Christianity.
se to Nagasaki, in the little Boman tholio colony of Crakami, is e for native children,' abandoned, as happens in some cases delivered up by their parents into the keeping of the orphanage nang the patrons of this truly praiseworthy charity (for there is really a great deal of infanticide, even in our day, in Japan) the Prefect of Nagaki Intely sent two the Superintendents a welenme and gratifying present, and a most lo i in recogni This is an unmistakable evidence of the true enlightenment of the upper classes of Japaese society and of far higher culture than that of the Lteati of the "Middle who obtusely adopt a fatuous cism of accidental progress in favour sot government and con-Japanese friends fail jeredit for havi ce, on a grand scale and not long since either, persecutors of Christianity; 8 were also the Coreans, and (in ancient. times) the most enlight-joned of the philosophical Remens, doubtedly a merit in a peuple or Agovernment to suppress unconscionable immorality. We do not in our day limit this duty, in Great Britain, to the fining of x mun five shillings if found drunk in the streets; English and American laws alike suppress bigamy and polygamy, not to mention other offences against ethics and order. The truly virtuous and enlightened Emperor, Aurelian, was certainly right (if he had no opportunity of knowing better) in delivering up to executtion in due course of law those proved to belong to the accursed race of Christians," odious to ind" and' contemners of the Gods." The doom of witches in Eng-Jand, in comparatively recent times, would have been too lenient for such malefactors, All honour to Nagasaki, and ite enlightened Prefect, who takes the trouble toting out what isthe real truth of the matter
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