An able " Monthly Summary of the Reious Press" appears regularly in the japan Mail" and is a very interesting and instructive feature of that paper, interesting as showing what the Japanese savants think of Christianity, and instruetive as showing what a great interest the Japanese, in spite of all their superficipality, take in religious questions. It is an open secret that' the writer of these translations and summaries is an Englishman who came out to Japan as an Anglican clergyman, but who afterwards aba doned Christianity, edited the "Japan Gazette" for a time, making fierce personal attacks on the editor of the" Japan Mail" all that time, went to Australia, returned to Japan. and is now a teacher in a Government <chool at Sendai. The fact that he does not profess Christianity makes many professin~ Christians doubt his impartiality: but he seems to the ordinary layman to be very fair. He remarked the other "tay that "it has been known for a long time that there exists among professing Protestant Christians a radical difference opinion on the cardinal doctrines of Christianity, but the tendency has been to keep the matter quiet. But. owing to the outspokenness of Mr. Ebira Danjd on the Trinity, the storm has at last burst and the air will no doubt be clearer after it. Perhaps there are few countries in the world where Christianity has been propagated that can show a
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