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DISESTABLISHMENT OF SHINTŌ
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cution of that sentence will be a very gradual and prolonged affair. In the mean time it behooves the disciples of Jesus Christ to be unremitting in their labors of teaching the Japanese people to substitute for "the Way of the Gods" the religion of Him who said, "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life."

BIBLIOGRAPHY.

See Rein's "Japan," Peery's "Gist of Japan," Cary's "Japan and its Regeneration," Knapp's "Feudal and Modern Japan," and Lowell's "Soul of the Far East," pp. 162-193. But especially valuable are "The Religions of Japan" (Griffis), "The Development of Religion in Japan" (Knox), "Occult Japan" (Lowell), Hearn's works, and papers by Sir Ernest Satow and Dr. Florenz in Transactions Asiatic Society of Japan, vols. ii., iii. (App.), vii., ix., xxvii. These references are, of course, on the general subject of Shintō rather than the special topic of this chapter.

Aston's "Shintō: The Way of the Gods" (1905) is, of course, most excellent. Hozumi's "Ancestor-Worship and Japanese Law" is very valuable.

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