p. 10 | Religious Fears in Japan

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 27, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 39.

Religious Fears in Japan

A MISSIONARY, writing from Japan, says:—

“I see by the papers that the Shintoists are so apprehensive in regard to Christianity that they wish to withdraw from the field before the battle which they seem to expect with the beginning of the era of ‘mixed residences.’ They prefer to be called the professors of the cult—a cult which confines itself to managing rites and ceremonies, to being the representatives of a religious creed. Thus they will be not a ‘church,’ but a sort of bureau of rites,

covered by the shield of the government, and secured from all religious controversy. The Buddhists, too, are trembling. The trepidation in religious circles is a supernatural power in the religion of Christ which it is perfectly useless to try to cope with, if it shows itself in its might.”