CHAPTER XII.
TWO CENTURIES OF SILENCE, PAGE 351 Policy of the Japanese government after the suppression of Christianity .-- Insulation of Japan .-- The Hollanders at Deshima .-- Withdrawal of the English .-- Relations with Korea .-- Policy of inclusion.--"A society impervious to foreign ideas."-- Life within stunted limits .-- Canons of art and literature .-- Philosophy made an engine of government .-- Esoteric law .-- Social waste of humanity .-- Attempts to break down the wall--External and internal .-- Seekers after God .-- The goal of the pilgrims .-- The Deshima Dutchman as pictured by enemies and rivals, _versus_ reality and truth .-- Eager spirits groping after God .-- Morning stars of the Japanese reformation .-- Yokoi Heishiro .-- The anti-Christian edicts .-- The Buddhist Inquisitors .-- The Shin-gaku or New Learning movement .-- The story of nineteenth century Christianity, subterranean and interior before being phenomenal .-- Sabbath-day service on the U.S.S.

Mississippi .-- The first missionaries .-- Dr.J.C.

Hepburn--Healing and the Bible .-- Yedo becomes T[=o]ki[=o] .-- Despatch of the Embassy round the world .-- Eyes opened .-- The Acts of the Apostles in Japan.
NOTES, AUTHORITIES AND ILLUSTRATIONS, PAGE 375 INDEX, PAGE 451.