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SIGHTS NEAR A JAPANESE TEMPLE. 123<br />

iiients. He was surprised to f<strong>in</strong>d <strong>the</strong> temple surrounded Avitli booths for<br />

s<strong>in</strong>g<strong>in</strong>g and danc<strong>in</strong>g and o<strong>the</strong>r amusements, and was very sure that such<br />

a th<strong>in</strong>g woukl uot be allowed iu America. Doctor Bronson answered<br />

that <strong>the</strong> subject had been discussed before by people who had visited<br />

Japan, and various op<strong>in</strong>ions had been formed concern<strong>in</strong>g it. He thought<br />

it was not unlike some <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> customs iu Europe, especially <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> more<br />

Catholic countries, where <strong>the</strong> people go to church <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> forenoon and de-<br />

vote <strong>the</strong> afternoon to amusement. A Japanese does not see any wrong <strong>in</strong><br />

go<strong>in</strong>g to his worship through an avenue <strong>of</strong> enterta<strong>in</strong>ments, and <strong>the</strong>n re-<br />

turn<strong>in</strong>g to <strong>the</strong>m. lie says his prayers as a matter <strong>of</strong> devotion, and <strong>the</strong>n<br />

apjjlies himself to <strong>in</strong>nocent pleasure. He is firmly attached to his re-<br />

ligious faith, and his recreations are a part <strong>of</strong> his religion. What he does<br />

is all well enough for him, but whe<strong>the</strong>r it would answer for us is a

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