The Faith of Japan. By Taanku Harada. (Macmillan and Co.
5s. 6c1. net.)—Dr. Harada is the President of Dosbisha University at Kyoto, and this earnest exposition of Japanese religion was in substance delivered by him as a course of the Hartford-Lamson Lectures on "The Religions of the World" at the famous Hartford Theological Seminary in America. His governing purpose, he tells us, " has been not so much a scholar's effort to make the elements of a people's faith clear to scholars as a Christian's endeavour to interpret the spirit of that faith unto fellow Christians of another race." By the faith of Japan Dr. Harada means, "not Shinto, Confucianism, Buddhism, or Christianity, or any other religion, but that union of elements from each and all that have taken root in Japanese soil and moulded the thought and life of her people." It is interesting to read that Japanese opposition to Christianity springs from distrust of its ethical principles, since it gives no clear expression to either loyalty or filial piety—the two central pillars of Japanese morality.
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