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388 HONDA THE SAMUBAI.
American Christians for making our country so long
the object of their prayers. While here I wish to
pay the visit of a grateful pilgrim to Doctor Grey's
tomb, which is in this state. As for Doctor Bunner's
name, it is a household word in our
" country.
Excuse me. I must now say good-by, but before
I go allow me to hand you this. It is from Honda
Jiro's artist friend, Oiwa Samro. He is a very devout
Christian, and is preaching
is one of
Christ in art. He
many whom I hope God has called to interpret
to our people the Bible symbols in their own
art language. We have no sheep or shepherds in our
country, so we lose much of the beautiful imagery
of the Bible of which I had no conception
till I came
to America ;
but God has given us a beautiful land,
and some day I hope one of my countrymen will
give us a Bible illustrated in the best style
of true
Japanese art. Sayonara ! "
This closed the conversation, for Mr. Asahi llai
had calls to make on several, not all, of his countryfolk
then in Boston. To simply name them will set
in sufficiently dramatic contrast the hermit nation of
1852, pictured in our first chapter, and the cosmopolitan
people of 1890. To say nothing of the hundreds
of Japanese elsewhere in the United States,
there were in or near Boston a young lad who had
come to America as a deck-hand on a merchant ship
and was now studying to be a missionary
: three
students at Harvard University; two young ladies
at the Conservatory of Music ;
one lad, son of an
admiral, in the School of Technology; two young