"So  they  sent  him  to  Yokohama  to  sober
up,  did  they?"  said  a  London  newspaper  man,
in  speaking  to  a  friend  of  a  youth  whose  par-
ents thought  Japan  would  do  wonders  for
their  bright  but  wayward  child.
"Might  as  well  have  sent  him  to  Hades  to
cool  off."


YASO  NO  SENKIYOSHI.
YASO  NO  SENKIYOSHI.
In  Japan  the  missionary's  example  is  not
exciting,  but  generally  it  is  wholesome,  and
it  is  as  an  example  he  is  most  effective.  He
is  taken  seriously,  excepting  when  the  Mail,
the  Herald  or  the  Gazette,  being  short  on
copy,  gives  him  opportunity  to  point  out  in
print  the  weak  spots  in  the  creeds,  customs,
rites  or  beliefs  of  his  brother  missionaries  of
other  sects.  The  Japanese  smile  at  him  then,
and  the  Buddhists  say,  "Honorable  divergence
of  honorable  opinion  apparently  augustly  ex-
isting is  among  the  teachers  of  the  religion
from  the  West."  Then  they  rub  their  polls
and  become  abstracted  in  contemplation  of
absolute  unconsciousness.
The  Government  likes  the  missionary.  The
Mikado  decorated  one  some  time  ago  and
later  granted  him  and  his  family  all  the  rights
of  citizenship.  The  Minister  of  State,  in  trans-
mitting the  papers,  declared  that  the  Empire
was  to  be  congratulated  in  having  so  worthy
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TALES  FROM  TOKIO.
a  man  within  its  borders.  When  this  rever-
end gentleman  was  presented  to  the  court  of
the  Heaven-Descended  he  gave  His  Imperial
Majesty  a  Bible,  the  only  one  that  ever  found
its  way  within  the  palace  gates.
