A CHRISTIAN STUDY OF THE ANCIENT RELIGION OF JAPAN BY MILTON S. TERRY, D.D., Lecturer on Comparative Religion in Garrett Biblical Institute. Cincinnati : JENNINGS AND GRAHAM New York : EATON AND MAINS Copyright, 1910, By Jennings and Graham....

The following pages are the substance of a course of lectures on the old Shinto cult which the author has been giving for a number of years to his classes in Comparative Religion. They are here condensed and adapted to the purpose of a little manual which, it is believed, may interest many readers, and bring together within a small space information gathered from many sources not easily accessible to ordinary students. At the same time it is hoped that this little volume may serve to suggest som

1. The Country. In taking up the study of a religion which has never extended beyond the limits of an easily defined territory, we may appropriately first of all take a hasty glance at the geographical outlines of the system we call Shinto, the primitive faith of the people of Japan. To appreciate the geographical position of Japan, one needs to have before him a map of the world. He may then see at a glance how remarkably the three thousand islands of that Empire stretch for some twenty-five hu