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A PEACEFUL REVOLUTION.By E. A. Kilbournk, Japan.■ _Less than fifty years ago Japan was a hermit nation, shutting herself upfrom all Intercourse with the world, and thus cutting off all possibilities of receiving the Gospel; but in a most unexpected manner and quite suddenly, God broke down gigantic barriers and threw wide open the doors, and prepared the way to the hearts and minds of the people for the missionaries.Since the opening of Japan in 1854to the commerce of the world and the Gospel, her progress in western civilization has been perhaps, unparalleled, and without precedent. It has been marvellous in the eyes of the Japanese themselves, and n the innovations of to - day, in society, education, religion, commerce, government, and manners, they scarcely find any trace of the feudal ways remaining—theyhardly know themselves.Forty-five years ago Japan had no newspapers, now there are over two thousand. This, perhaps more than any other change, shows how rapidly they have advanced in civilization. The whole system of education has been westernized, and to such an extent that it now looks as though the►whole nation was mad for learning.All these things have their bearing upon, and relation to God’s plans for the propagation of the Gospel, and are simply the agencies which He has used to bring the knowledge of salvation to these shores. In 1850 the
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Tongues of Fire
London, Middlesex, GB
Thu, Sep 01, 1904
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