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Show THE CONVERSION OF JAPAN. Japan is one great family of 48,000,000 souls, with the Emperor worshipped as a god, the descendant de-scendant of an unbroken line of defied ancestors whom the people firmly believe to have come down from the gods as its head. The basic religion of these people is ancestor worship. As their ancestors ances-tors worship. As their ancestors through thousands thou-sands of years served and worshipped the ancestors of the Emperor, so do the Japanese today as blindly and as willingly serve and worship the man in whom they see something more to be reverenced than a mere head of a government. The conversion conver-sion of these people to the faith is one of the great works before the church. |