Identifier: spiritofmissions74epis (find matches)
Title: The Spirit of missions
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Episcopal Church. Board of Missions Episcopal Church. Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society
Subjects: Episcopal Church Episcopal Church Missions
Publisher: Burlington, N.J. : J. L. Powell
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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lowing one line of railwaythrough the heart of Japan till it skirtsthe Japan Sea and brings us to MutsuBay, looking out fifty-six miles to Hako-date, and thus making a loop come backalong the eastern shores where, beyondtree-clad slopes and rocky points andsandy coves, we look across the Pacificseas toward home. It was not February when the Secre-tary made this journey, and the plumswere not in bloom; nor April, so shemissed the cherry blossoms; nor May norJune, so she could see no wistaria, nopeonies or iris. There was no Augustlotus, and the red of the October mapleshad faded; even the November chrysan-themums were gone; but dainty red andyellow berries of the nanten gave fre-quent welcome, and the China lilybloomed white and sweet for Christmas^And if she missed the brilliant fiora andfoliage, as she missed Matsushima, Lak&Chuzenji, the Shiba temples and (the warmuseum, which other travellers see, shesaw the morning sun bright on the whitetop of Asama, and the streets and trees
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(247) 248 The Womans Auxiliary of Odate snow-laden under the moon;and she walked on the stern old wall inWakamatsu, which the nineteen gallantyouths could not keep and fled to thewoods and killed themselves because theycould not keep it. And she saw thecastle park in Morioka, and the horsesstatue in Sendai which commemoratesthe brave horses slain in the recent war;and she made friends in Shimmachi andYamagata and Hachinohe and Yumotoand Tsuchiura and Fuchu, places to theusual traveller unknown, but the memo-ries of which this traveller would be lothto miss. The journey was made at a time whennew troops were being mustered in andold troops mustered out. The stationsalong the way were decked with flags,and whole towns were there to welcomethe return or to speed the departure oftheir men. Across the fields would ap-pear a group of country folk escorting anew recruit on horseback; by the rail-road would stand a horse waiting to re-ceive his master after two years ab-sence, while the wavin

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