An American missionary writes for ordinary readers about the Japan of the 1890s. He covers its geography and history, the character, manners and morality of its people, Shinto and Buddhism, and then the course of Christian missions, Catholic, Protestant and the Russian Orthodox work of Nicolai, with the problems a missionary actually faced.
A frank insider’s view of mission life in Meiji Japan; its judgments are those of a missionary of 1897. Download the free EPUB.