Buddhism’s Revival in Japan

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 3, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 56.

Buddhism’s Revival in Japan

REV. J. B. PORTER, of Japan, sees in the semi-revival of Buddhism in Japan one of the causes of the present slow progress of Christianity. "It is not a revival in the sense of a reformation, but an awakening to the necessity of defending itself. The enemy it most fears is Christianity, and every possible means is taken to inflame the prejudice of the people against the teaching of Jesus. Buddhism was never more active in an intellectual way than at present, through the medium of the press and its schools."