Im less than half a century the West has completely upset a preexisting order of things in Japan; vital conflict is taking places between the East and the West at this moment, The Occidentals find plausible but really unconvincing evidence, of increasing anti-foreign ' feeling among the Orientals, On the side of the Orientals there exists confusion and uncertainty about the Occidental, while the Japanese reactionary {s determined that the ancient laws and customs, the ancient Tandmarks, of Japan were and are even now best for the Japanese and that the West shall not super impose itself, with all its aboli nations, together with its benefits, upon the East.
The ruler and the rulers of Japan have been tolerant with the teachers of the Christian faith. Indeed, they have been hospitable and generous. The mass has been sympathetic apathetic where the Church of the foreigner has come in contact. with it at all, Perhaps one half of one per centum of the population has been touched directly by the Church, the school or the hospital. 'The foreign pave or the "Sensei" (teacher) has been kindly, helpful, very trange and very weird, all' and sundry with their incantations and nostrums for the soul and body; very strange compared with the priests of Buddha or of Shinto or the Japanese go called native doctors whose name is Legion.
The foreigners have been very well off—and charitable withal. Their houses, their hospitals, th shools and their homes have be natuary for the oppressed and the pauper. Largely they have practised what they preached.
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