p. 10 | Japanese Temples

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 28, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 42.

Japanese Temples.

Perched on every knoll, and commanding every height in Japan, you see a temple. Sometimes it is a mere box of a thing, where the wandering pilgrim may stop to clap his hands to call the attention of the gods and bow low in prayer. But in the large temples throughout the land, Japan puts all her devotion. The choicest spots are chosen for their sites, where the scenery is most beautiful, and the woods most thick and green. Long avenues lead up to them; by high flights of steps you enter them; and all that can be done in painting, carving, gilding, and bronzing, is bestowed upon them. At the doors of these strange temples you will see a curious collection of wooden clogs of all sizes and varieties, neatly tied two by two. They put their shoes from off their feet. Inside, with forehead touched to the earth, the worshiper hides his face.