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Title: The Shinto Cult

A Christian Study of the Ancient Religion of Japan

Author: Milton Spenser Terry

Release Date: May 20, 2013 [eBook #42747]

Language: English

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THE SHINTO CULT

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.

NOTE.

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 some valuable hints to the Christian missionary who is to come face to face with the Japanese people in their "beautiful land of the reed plains and the fresh ears of rice." It is possible that some portions, if not every jot and tittle, of this ancient cult may, like the law and the prophets of Israel, find a glorious fulfillment in the pure gospel of Jesus Christ. The principal authorities relied on in the preparation of this essay are named in the Select Bibliography given at the end.

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