Word: japanned
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Japan has two national educational associations with a total membership of over...
...seemed to recognize the fact that they had come together to find their points of similarity and so to establish a feeling of brotherhood rather than to discuss their differences of opinion. How anyone could see there a Greek Archbishop, a Buddhist from China, and a Confucian from Japan sitting side by side with Episcopal and Roman Bishops, talking with them in a friendly and sympathetic way and even expressing the same sentiment-and then quarrel about trivial sectarian difference is hard to understand. Various minor congresses of different religions and sects were held in the first part of September...
...Tokio, Japan, a picture which is a valuable and exceedingly interesting relic of an old Oriental faith. The picture will probably be hung in one of the rooms at the Divinity School Library. The gift was accompanied by a letter from which the following is quoted: "Allow me to present through you to the library of the Harvard Divinity School, an old temple hanging picture (kakemono) which I have brought from Japan. The picture is very old and the subject depicted is the Buddhist deity, Senju Korannon, here represented as the type of the Almighty Power. I am happy...
...been given, has come from men who have never before contributed to the college. No appeals have been made to them; the gifts have been purely voluntary. The wide range from which the subscriptions have come is also worth noting. Two have been received from China, besides others from Japan, India, South America, and various parts of Europe...