The
Japan Mission
OF THE
Methodist Episcopal Church 〔メソジスト監督教会〕
Edited by DAVID S. SPENCER
THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
150 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK
Price, Ten Cents
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・REV. ROBERT SAMUEL MACLAY 〔ロバート・サミュエル・マクレイ〕, D.D.
・MISSION DAY SCHOOL, FUKAGAWA , TOKYO
・DECREE AGAIBST CHRISTIANTY
・DR. GUIDO F. VERBECK 〔グイド・F・フルベッキ〕
・JOSEPH HARDY NEESIMA 〔新島襄〕, LL.D.
・UNION HYMN BOOK COMMITTEE
・MISS ELIZABETH RUSSELL 〔エリザベス・ラッセル〕 MISS JENNIE M. GHEER 〔ジーン・M・ギール〕
・KWASSUI JO GAKKO, OR GIRL❜ SEMINARY, NAGASAKI
・THE CHURCH AT NAGOYA BUILT IN 1889
・CHAPEL OF AOYAMA GAKUIN, TOKYO
・SOME OF THE STUDENTS OF AOYAMA JO GAKUIN, TOKYO
・THE FACULTY OF CHINZEI, NAGASAKI, IN 1908
・FIRST GENERAL CONFERENCE OF THE JAPAN METHODIST CHURCH, HELD IN MAY, 1907
・BISHOP YOITSU HONDA 〔本多庸一〕
・THE LATE PRINCE ITO 〔伊藤博文〕
本文
・COUNTRY AND PEOPLE
・MODERN CHIRISTIAN DEVELOPMENT
・PERIOD OF FIRST SOWING, 1859-1872
・PERIOD OF RAPID GROWTH, 1873-1889
・TWENTiETH CENTURY OUTLOOK
・THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL MISSION 〔下はその一部〕
In the work of the Woman❜s Foreign Missionary Society Miss Schoonmaker was first reinforced by Miss Olive Whiting, in September, 1876, and in November, 1879, by Miss Elizabeth Russel and Miss Jennie M. Gheer. Others came into the field before the organizing of the Conference, and of these there were still enrolled in the Mission forces in 1909 Miss Russell, Gheer, Mary S. Hampton, Matilda A Spencer, and Rebecca J. Watson.
The year 1879 has been called in our Mission “a year of disaster and growth.” The membership almost doubled, self-support guardrupled, and new churches were organized in important centers. The Japan Conference Seminary was opened at 221 Bluff, Yokohama, October 1st, Dr. John F. Goucher giving ＄10,000 to encourage this particular line of work; and the girls❜ school in Nagasaki was opened in December. On December 7th our church and school building in Hakodate were destroyed by fire, and on the 26th our entire property in Tsukiji - school, church, residences - was consumed in a great conflagration which swept away a large section of the city. Our missionaries there lost all, and would have suffered intensely but for the kindness of friends, Japanese and foreign, who came to their immediate relief.
Naturally the next year was largely spent in recovering the ground lost by these disastrous fires. Overwork broke down some of our missionaries, and, though reinforcements came. they were never sufficient to meet the needs of the work. On August 28, 1881, Bishop Bowman ordained to the office of deacon S. Kurimura, B. Onuki, E. Aibara, K. Asuga, T. Kikuchi, and S. Abe, the first native converts in our own Church to receive ordination, as the Rev. V. Honda, mentioned above, was converted in the Dutch Reformed Church, and ordained by Bishop Wiley in 1878.
After the year 1881 our publishing work assumed new interest, and the Berean Sunday school lessons began to be regulary translated and published in Japanese.
The schools now advanced schools, Cobleigh Seminary at Nagasaki, now called Chinzei Gakuin, and the rebuilt girl❜ school at Tsukiji, were opened in 1881, and the new buildings for Kwassui Jo Gakko, or Girl❜ Seminary, at Magasaki, were dedicated May 29, 1882, when Joseph Cook delivered the address.
〔以下省略〕
・THE PUBLISHING INTERESTS
・EDUCATIONAL WORK 〔下はその一部〕
Just as soon as the missionaries of our Church to Japan were able to establish themselves in their homes, at the different stations in the empire, they began to teach. When they had not yet the language of the people they began teaching in English, and from the very first there were young men, and later young women, who desired to learn the English tongue. As has been previously shown, schools soon sprang into existence, until the Mission now has a line of schools extending from north to south throughout the empire. A brief mention of these may be helpful:
（１）The Iai Jo Gakko 〔遺愛女学校〕, or Caroline Wright Memorial School, located at Hakodate, has from the beginning been a center of light in the far northland. Its graduates have gone out to be Bible women, wives of Christian ministers and of business men, teachers in the schools, and earnest workers in various good lines.
（２）The Hirosaki Jo Gakko 〔弘前女学校〕, a Girl❜ school with grades from primary to academic. The property of this school is not owned by the Womenls❜ Foreign Missionary Society, but by an arrangement with the owners our women have been teachers in the school from its beginning, and the results have been beneficial. There is also in this same town of Hirosaki a kindergarten, opened in memory of Mrs. Mary Alexander, whose sudden translation at the time of the burning of their house in that city will be specially remembered by by many warm friends.
（３）Sendai Girl❜ School 〔仙台女学校〕, an intermediate and grammar school of about fifty pupils, doing an excellent work among important classes in this great city of the central north.
（４）Aoyama Gakuin 〔青山学院〕, located at Tokyo, which is the outgrowth of the Mission school first constructed at 221 Bluff, Yokohama, now the site of the Bible Womens❜ Training School. With the development of the work of the Mission, it was found important to remove this first boys❜, school to the city of Tokyo, where already existed an elementary school for boys,and the two were united in the spring of 1883 at the present site, Aoyama, or Green Mountain. Here are college, academy, and preparatory departments, with a theological school quite independent of the other departments. The total enrollment of these schools is about 600, and the influence of the institution has extended far and wide. Special privileges are accorded the school by the Educational Department, because of the high grade of work it has been able to do. Its graduates are to be found in important diplomatic, official, and business positions, at home and abroad. The theological school has furnished the backbone of the ministry of the Methodist Church of to-day. At Aoyama is also:
（５）The Aoyama Jo Gakuin 〔青山女学院〕, a high school and preparatory department for girls. This is the outgrowth of the Girl❜ School established in 1874 by Miss schoonmaker, located first at Tsukiji and later removed to Aoyama. Here are some 300 young women and girls preparing for lief❜ｓwork, and the school has a high standing.
（６）At Aoyama is also to be found the Harrison Memorial Industrial School, which has for its object the training of women under Christian influences for the duties of home, as well as giving them a knowledge of some of the fine arts.
（７）Higgins Memorial Bible Training School, located at Yokohama, has sent out from its classes most of the Bible women connected with our laboring in other churches in Japan.
（８）The Seiryu Jo Gakko 〔清流女学校〕(Girls❜ School), is located Nagoya. This school, too, has had an excellent history, though it has met with some severe losses by fires.
（９）The Eiwa Jo Gakko 〔英和女学校〕, or Engligh-Japanese Girls❜ Schooli, at Fukuoka, in the northern part of the Island Of Kiushiu, in another valuable institution of our Church.
（10）The Chinzei Gakuin 〔鎮西学院〕, the second school for boys in the Mission - for there are but two educational plant for young men - is located at Nagasaki. It was first opened in 1881 and now has an enrollment of something like 500, owns some good buildings, and is exerting a strong Christian influence among the young men of the island.
（11）Kwassui Jo Gakko 〔活水女学校〕 (Girls❜ School), aiso located at Nagasaki, adjoins the property of the boy❜ school mentioned above. This school, began in 1879 by Miss Elizabeth Russell and Jennie M. Gheer, has made for itself a unique place among Christian forces of the country. It equals in grade a good college for young women.
〔以下省略〕
・METHODIST UNION, ITS ORIGIN SCOPE AND VALUE
・THE CALL OF JAPAN TO CHRISTIAN AMERICA
・LITERATURE
上の写真は、絵葉書のものである。
・長崎活水女学校 Kwassui Jogakko, Nagasaki Japan. 〔左：消印は明治四十一年（一九〇八年）〕
・長崎私立活水女学校 校長 マリアナ ヤング 〔右〕