Show old oid and new faith blended mended in japan when you understand japan heathendom will never have quite the old significance again the fu ture of christianity there lies iles not above other faiths but beside them intricately entwined when japan tabes takes on the new she neer neier utterly neglects the old aril an just as christianity made her tier own the ineradicable superstitions of ancient countries so buddhism and christianity alike incorporate cus toms and beliefs held too tenaciously to be rooted out A friend has told me out of long and intimate experience with the jap anese the story of a oung man of noble blood who very early became a christian lie ile married the daugh ter of a samurai and she embraced her husband husbands s faith years followed of happiness then of deep anxiety and death their eldest child a beautiful girl not sen seven en years old died after a devastate deva stat ing illness my friend bound to the young couple by bonds of old and close affection went to the house of death the stricken father met him at the door the smile ot of welcome as ever on his I 1 ps while in silence he drew back the of the inner room there was the mother kneeling and beside her the child white as the pear blossoms without in the child childs s right hand the mother had placed her bible and across her breast lay her fathers sword naked and shining the wold woid of god was there to guide her to a better world but while her spirit groped through mor tal confines the blade of the samurai made every everything thInK of evil beep keep its terrified distance illery sed seda wick in the atlantic monthly |