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THE CITY OF THE HAPPY WELL. 21
[of government] and rewards will be given [to
informers]."
In this way Christ was preached from thousands
of pulpits of Japan. Branded as " the Christian
criminal God," he was thus held before the people.
By the ferries, market-places, gateways, and roads
into the cities all over Japan these notices were
spelled out by the school-boys and read by all the
people. Mothers frightened their children into
silence by threatening them with the name of Jesus.
Here, in one of the fairest lands that ever came
from the Creator's hand, was He unknown or groped
after by those who followed blind leaders of the
blind. Here the idol and the dream confused the
mind and obscured the soul's vision of the Maker of
all things and the Father of all souls.