LIFE AND LETTERS OF JOSEPH HARDY NEESIMA
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228 MISSIONARY WORK IN JAPAN. left in lower strata of educatwna.l system, and fail to lay hold of the best class of students. Our good mis­sionary friends have thus far tried to teach the Bible too much and neglected scientific teaching. Numbers of promising boys were much disappointed and have left us to go to the schools in Tokyo, where they will have no Christian influence. We can't afford to lose these promising ones. We must tie them to our school by giving them a thorough, higher, and profes­sional as well as Christian education. This, if I mis­take not, is the keynote of success for Christian effort in Japan. Unless the missionaries find this keynote their work will be largely wasted and fruitless. To my great disappointment some missionaries do not take pains enough to adapt themselves to our way in this important respect. Hence they are getting quite unpopular and cannot get along with the natives quite smoothly. A chief reason is that they are still Amer­icans. Their habits, ideas, and imagination are all American. What Americans regard as good the na­tives may despise. Something honorable in America is regarded dishonorable here. Petty troubles arise now and then between them and our Cln·istians. They want to get too many foreign reinforcements instead of raising up native workers by their own hand. They cannot talk as the natives can. They cannot go about from home to home as well as the natives can. They cannot bear heat of the day as well as the natives can. They cannot live in a cheap rented house so patiently as the natives can. Their work should be a high spiritual brain-work. They should raise up the spokesmen instead of speaking themselves. If I were in the place of Dr. Clark I should put all my effort in founding a strong Christian

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