Church, first organized,175; sifting of,178.
Church of Christ in Japan,184.
Civilization, definition of,89; Japan's compared with Western,106; adoption of Western,177.
Climate,19-22.
Clothing,73,82.
Commercial honor,67; morality,120.
Confucianism, and Japanese morality,109; ethics of,110; history of,130; basal principles of,131; nearest approach to Christianity,135; contrasted with Christianity,243.
Consecration of missionary,197.
Constitution of Japan,47,96.
Converts, first,175; social ostracism of,279; requirements of,288; indigent,289.
Curiosity, native,212.
Customs, bearing of, upon mission work,70,269.
Davis, Rev. and Mrs. J. D.,180.
Death, not afraid of,65.
Disappointments, missionary's,226.
Doshisha University,180; rationalistic teaching of,181.
Duty, ours to the missionary,229; joy of doing,231.
Earthquakes,12,13.
Educational system of Japan,93,255; antagonistic to Christianity,276.
Educational work of missions, compared with evangelistic,250; criticism of,253; hinders self-support,260.
Embassy to Rome,149.
Emperor, power of name,55; worship of picture,112,301.
Environment, missionary's, unfavorable,227.
Episcopalians,170,183; five branches of,186; native church,187,303.
Ethnology,32,33.
Europeanization of Japan,46,91; our hope,312.
Evangelization,234; missionaries must be evangelists,235; subordinated to educational work,236; local,237; itinerating,242.
Exiles, missionaries,225,228.
Exports,27.
Facial expression,53.
Farms,23.
Festivals, religious,302.
Feudalism, rise of,41; conditions under,145.
Fish,30.
Food,80.
Foreign pastor,230.
Foreigners, treatment of,44,136; country open to,170,171; ungodly example of,282.
Formosa,9.
Franchise, limited,96.
Friends,135.
Fuji-san,12.
Fujiwara family,41.
Funerals,84.
Geography of Japan,9-15.
Girls' boarding-schools,255; purpose of,256; end defeated by etiquette,257; reasons for and against,258,259.
Goble, Rev. J., translation of Matthew,174.
God, Japanese word for,249,262.
Government, Japanese,95; paternalism of,58; hostile to Christianity,172,173,313.
Gratitude,66.
Greek Church (Russian),165; its founder,166; its cathedral,167; its work,168.
Greene, Dr. and Mrs.,180.
Greetings,88.
Gulick, Rev. O. H.,180; story of his teacher,172.
Hara-kiri (belly-cutting),85.
Haughty bearing of missionary,241.
Health of missionary, the first qualification,193; medical examinations,195; allowance for,215; and vacations,216.
Heathen faiths opposed to Christianity,277,311.
Hibachi,80.
Hideyoshi,43; persecutor of Christians,150.
Hindrances to Christianity,266; common to all fields,267; peculiar to Japan,271; the greatest,313.
Hiroshima,18.
Hollanders,10,44,156,158.
Homes, mission, necessity of as examples,207,211; comfort of,210; a Western home,212.
Hondo,9.
Houses, Japanese, use of,76; construction of,78; furniture,79.
Human life, cheap,64.
Imitativeness,64.
Imperial University,94.
Inconsistency,63.
Inland Sea,10.
Inns, Japanese,245.
Inquirers, how to deal with,238,286.
Instability, of people,61,314; of civilization,105.
Intellectual life,54; open-mindedness,59.
Islands of Japan,9,10,11.
Itinerating,242; greatest hindrance to,246; kinds of,247; objections to,249.
Iyeyasu,43,109; and the battle of Sekigahara,153; persecution of Christianity,153.
Japan, the land of,9; new, birth of,45; religions of,122.
Japanese, reliable history of,40; characteristics,51; manners and customs,69, civilization,89; morality,107; skeptical,316.
Jesuits, introduction of Christianity by,45.
Jimmu Tenno,36,38.
Jingo, Empress,39.
Jinrikisha,63,244.
Joys of the missionary,231.
Kagoshima,18.
Kanagawa,18.
Kasatkin, Bishop Nicolai, founder of Greek mission,166.
Korea, subjugation of,39.
Kyoto or Saikyo,10,17,18.
Kyushu,9; Dutch residence on,10.
Lakes,14.
Land, cultivated,11,22; picturesque,14; irrigation of,22; terracing,23.
Language, structure of,55; difficult to learn to read,93; first dictionary of,174; talent for, essential to the missionary,203; difficult to master,262,284.
Lawrence, Dr. E., on common sense,204; on exiles,225; "axioms of missions,"292.
Laws,96.
Libraries, how regarded,72.
Life, chief of all evils,127.
Liggins, Rev. J.,170.
Lights,103.
Literature, native,92; Christian,261,263.
Love of humanity, missionary's,199.
Loyalty, first moral principle,111,132.
Lutherans, missionary problems of,188; purpose in Japan,189.
McDonald, Dr., on furloughs,224.
Mails,101,246.
Manufactories,104.
Marriage, customs,75; relation,133; essential to missionary,206.
Martyrs,115.
Materialism in Japan,277,315.
Maxims,117,272.
Medical missions,264; no longer needed in Japan,265.
Mental qualifications of the missionary,201.
Methodist Church in Japan,171,183; branches of,185,304; present status of,186.
Mikados,41.
Minamoto, great clan,41.
Minerals,28,
Missionaries, lives in danger,171; qualifications of,192; private life of,209; extent and variety of work of,234; number of, in Japan,309.
Missions in Japan, modern Roman and Greek,160; Protestant,169; the "happy time" of,177; differing policy of,182; small bodies,190; results of,191; projected on too high a plane,260; hindrances to,266; special problems of,286; the outlook of,306.
Morality, compared with West,109,117; chief defect of,121.
Music in the Greek Church,167.
Mutsuhito,47.
Mythological history,36-39.
Mythology,34,122.
Nagasaki,10.
Nagoya,18.
Native church, its relation to the missionary,182,228,299,314; missionary's crown,232; development of,242; hurtful national feeling in,273; problem of,290; polity of,290; self-support,293; reasons for dependence,294; attitude toward national habits and customs,300; condition of, to-day,307.
Native ministry, educated,251; how provided,295; how trained,297.
Neesima, Dr.,181.
Newspapers, Japanese,92; value of Christian,263.
Nihon, native name of empire,10.
Nihon-bashi, center of empire,16.
Nobunaga,43; patron of early Christianity,148; assassinated,150.
Obedience, result of,58.
Official honor,68,
Okayama,18.
Omiiki, founder of Tenrikyo,138.
Open ports,19.
Originality, native,63.
Outlook in Japan,306; bright to spiritual eye,317.
Parental relation,133.
Parental respect,57; great ethical principle,116.
Passports,246.
Patriotism, extreme,55; hinders Christianity,272,313.
Perry, Commodore, and the opening of Japan,44.
Persecutions, causes of,150; Christians exiled,172; United States government and,176; cessation of,177; memory of,275.
Physique, native,33.
Politeness, the exalted virtue,85; ridiculous extremes,87.
Portuguese, discovery of Japan,43; captain and Hideyoshi,150.
Prayer,169.
Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions in the United States,169,170.
Problems, special,286.
Railways,97.
Rainfall,21.
Reformed Church in America,170.
Religion, Japanese, composite,123; influence of,142; and morality,268.
Rivers,13.
Roads,15,16.
Roman Catholic Church in Japan, pioneer work of,144; driven out,154; early mistakes,158,161; the work resumed,160; peculiar hindrances to,163; prosperity of,164.
Ronins, story of the forty-seven,112.
Sake,119.
Salary of the missionary,213; when on furlough,219.
Schools, Sunday,239; mission,251; academical,253; girls',255.
Sectarianism, a hindrance to missions,281; disappearing,303; advantages of coöperation,304.
Self-control of missionary,205.
Sermons, kind of,249.
Sexes, relation of,73.
Shikoku,10.
Shimabara, fall of,155.
Shinto, revival of,45; morality,108; history of,123; state religion,125; ancestors,270; opposing Christianity,278.
Shogun (tycoon),42; abolition of the office,46.
Sign language, graceful,76.
Simmons, Dr. D. B.,170.
Sin, no word for,249,262.
Society, missionary's need of,216,217,225.
Spiritual qualifications of the missionary,197.
Steamers,99.
Suicides,65,120.
Taira, great clan,41.
Taylor, Dr. W.,265; opinions on missionary's qualifications,194; furloughs,220,221,224.
Telegraphs,99,246.
Tenrikyo, missionary religion,137; origin of,138; teachings of,139; distinguishing characteristics,141.
Theological training, necessity of,251; in English language,252; abroad,252,299; place of native religions in,298.
Theology, native, rationalistic,181; desire for,274; formative stage,308.
Tidal waves,13.
Tokaido, most famous road,16.
Tokyo, the capital,10,17.
Tone-gawa, largest river,14.
"Topsyturvydom,"70.
Treaties, American,45,107; English,170; revision of,48,178.
Typhoons,22.
Vacations of missionaries, summer,216; furloughs,218,224; argument against,219; medical opinions in favor of,220; from an economic standpoint,221; useful to native and home churches alike,222.
Vegetarians,80.
Verbeck, Rev. Dr. G. F.,171,175.
Visitation, advantages of,239; and Japanese etiquette,240.
Volcanoes,11.
Wife, missionary's, health of,196.
Williams, Rev. C. M. (Bishop),170,175.
Work, methods of,234.
Xavier, St. Francis, first missionary to Japan,146.
Yezo,9; location and climate,10,
Yoritomo, first shogun,42.
Yokohama,11.