The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1877-01-26
LETTER FROM JAPAN.

KIYoro. JAPAN, Dec. Sd, 1876.
In this city of Kiyoto there are now
.pwards of fifty native Christians. The
;reater number of these are, of course,
n our training school, but quite num-
yer are citizens. Our school is prosper
ng- The buildings, which l was super
Intending during the summer, were
nished and dedicated in September, and
sur school opened with nifty scholars
We have now sixty-eight Some thirty
If these came from Kumamoto, $50
niles away, who have had some three or
We years training in Captain James
ehool IN that place, and are here to pre-
ARE themselves to preach the Gospel to
heir own people. We have now through
he students over thirty different preach
ng places in the city, and have Just or
:anized two churches one with fifteen
md the other with seventeen members,
nd next Sabbath We expect to organize
mother.
All the city is alive now with expecta-
ion, for the Empress is expected here
o-morrow. Wehear martial music. ans;
ee the soldiers marching round the
;asho-palatial grounds opposite. Our
'treet will be lively after the Empress
rrrlves, The Mikado-Emperor- ex-
pected on the 1st of January The Japan
N1a says he viii visit the shrines of his
ncestors, &c. One Of the native Physi-
ians asked us what we would do if we
lad to give up our house. As we are
living in the very house the Mikado was
born in, we are most afraid It will be
called for on account of that interest.
l have been going three times week
native physicians house, near the
Ieart of the city, to see patients, and to
ak on various points connected with
Medicine, with the hope and expectation
hat af,er New Years might open up
lispensary. But alas Mr.. Nesima (our
apanese Missionary, educated at Boston,
md sent here by the American Board),
las lately been summoned before the
Kiyo;o Flu (the city authorities) with the
complaint that 1 was practicing medi-
cine in the city, when | was hired to
each in the school. was breaking my
,greement, they said, as no one could
practice medicine in Kiyoto without per-
mission from the Flu. | did not have
permission, therefore / could not be al
owed to practice. What Mr. Nesima
said to them do not know, but as he :
timid man and afraid Of the authou..es.
lsuppose he made no great defense. j
wish they would giyeme an opportunity
o talk to them, But told Mr.. Nesima
hat as l was not japanese citizen, /
vas not amenable to Japanese av, and
As received no compensation person
ally for my service, the Flu could not
sop me. That if they would place pa
-rol in front of my house, and allow no
SICK to come in, and police in front of
every sick mans door and not allow me
% enter, they might prevent my prac-
icing; otherwise not That If q sick
person came to my house should see
him; ifcalled to see sick person, 1 should
go, or if called in consultation by anative
physician, | should 60, and especially if
any of my family, or any member of the
Mission were sick, surely would see
them and attend to them, and the Kiyoto
Fn could not and dare not prevent me.
What will be the final result know not,
but | shall pay no regard to their in
structiun whatever. / am utterly dis
gusted with the authorities here. They
are little, bigoIeds narrow-minded. selfish
beyond all and every thing have seen
in Japan ! have hbored hard, with all
the wisdom and influence / could com
mand, since 1 came to Kiyouo. to get in
with the physicians and open up some
place, or get some opportunity to open
up hospital or small dispensary in ths
city that We might haye public preach
ing place, bu: have as yet met with
but disappointment and dis
If they would let the
physicians alone could get along very
well. But as long as the Flu stand over
hem and control them, it is not much
influence can have.
am utterly disgusted and perplexed.
Elsewhere in Japan have not found it
80. But here in Kiyoto, the old Capital,
the seat of the old religion and musty
earning, they struggle hard to have
things in their own hands The central
for more than year made
an effort to conduct a labratory here at
no expense to the city, but had to give it
up ON account of the coz tinual interfer-
ence and grumbling Of the Flu. Any
hing they cannot fully control they will
not permit in their midst. This is JAP
anese character out and out. It never
ceases TO be wonder to me, and the
more see of the Government and the
character Of the Fu, the more I am led
o wonder that they ever allowed the
school-our school-to come here; and
af.er il had come, and they came to
know something of its character, that
hey allowed it to exist and US to 20 on.
It must be Gods work, not their perm;s-
sion, for indeed they did come very
near crushing US out 4 time or 80.
This blow against the medical +ork is
evidently not aimed at Chrisus;.ity and
our religious work, for if they desired
10 deal that a blow, there are a dozen
points in our over thirty preaching
places in our school and in the manner
N which we carry on the work, that are
very much more valuable than the med
zeal side Of our work.
WALLACE TAYLOR.