orshipers support a whole colony of Buddhist priests.
The avenue leading to the temple is lined with shops where mementoes of
the goddess may be purchased, as in Ephesus of old silver shrines might
be bought in honor of the great goddess Diana. It is the old story of
buyers and sellers in the Jewish temple. It was most pathetic to see a
well-dressed and handsome woman bend herself almost double before the
image, clap her hands to call the attention of the goddess, and then
fold them in prayer, possibly for the child that had hitherto been
denied her. It is well understood in this temple that, until the clink
of coin is heard in the collection-box, it is vain to suppose that even
the goddess of mercy will listen to a prayer.

The god of war reigns in Japan, rather than the goddess of mercy. War is
more profitable. The sale of munitions to the Russian Government is
enriching Japan, as our sales to the Allies are enriching us. The love
of gain is an obstacle to the success of the gospel, here as well as in
America. Nothing but a mighty influence of the Holy Spirit can convince
Japan of sin, and bring her to the feet of Christ. The work of our
missionaries, however, is permeating all the strata of society. Western
science and Western literature are so bound up with Christianity that
Japan cannot easily accept them without also accepting Christ.

We wished to see mission work in a country field, and we begged Mrs.
Fisher to go with us to Kanagawa, a suburb of Yokohama, where an
educated milkman is pastor, and where the Mary Colby School of Christian
girls attends the worship of his church. The reverence and sincerity of
the service impressed us. The warmth and abandon of the singing put to
shame our Western quartet choirs. Here is a pastor who prefers to
supplement his meager salary by selling milk on week-days, rather than
give up the satisfaction of seeing his church entirely self-supporting.
It seemed to me the model of a good ministry, and the prophecy of a
multitude of New Testament churches in Japan, manned and financed and
governed by the Japanese themselves. So long as we of the West furnish
both the preachers and their salaries, the Japanese will not learn to
depend upon their own administration or their own giving, and we will
not have churches organized on correct principles and so rooted in the
soil that they can stand the shocks of time and endlessly propagate the
gospel. May "the little one" in Kanagawa "become