octrine, is tested
by missions 219

Our mission churches are becoming models of
self-support, self-government, and
self-propagation 219

The physical environment of the missionary needs
to be cared for 219

The large house, many servants, and an automobile,
are great and almost necessary helps 220

All these can be obtained cheaply, and should be
provided 220

Other denominations furnish better equipment than
ours 220

Yet the days of missionary hardship are well-nigh
past 221

Missionary trials are mainly social and spiritual;
and there are enough of these 221

But faithful work, in spite of hope deferred, will
be rewarded at last 222

I

A WEEK IN JAPAN

The Pacific Ocean was very kind to us, for it answered to its name, and
was pacific beyond all our expectations. Sixteen days of smooth seas and
lovely weather brought us by way of Honolulu to Yokohama. Only the last
day of our voyage was dark and rainy. But though the rain continued
after our landing, Japan was picturesque. On four out of our six days we
drove about, shut up in water-tight buggies called "rickshaws." They
were like one-hoss-shays, through whose front windows of isinglass we
looked out upon the bare legs of our engineer and conductor, who took
the place of the horse for twenty-five cents an hour.

There were other sights on these rainy days--endless processions of
slipshod men on wooden clogs, clattering their way through the narrow
streets, while they protected themselves from the watery downpour by
flat oil-paper umbrellas; other strong-limbed men acting as wheel-horses
to draw or push incredible weights of lumber; and saving themselves from
the wet by bushy coats of straw that made them look like porcupines;
women, little and big, carrying babies on their backs, occasionally a
girl, aged anywhere from four to eight, loaded with a baby aged two;
shops, shops, shops, one-storied