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362 HONDA THE SAMURAI. aging him at the same time. Through the influence of friends in Yedo he had the teacher, who was government spy at Doctor Grey's house, promoted to higher office in Yedo. a During the months spent in waiting he read carefully the Gospels, spending the mornings purely as an inquirer and seeker after truth. In the afternoons he occupied himself as a literary student, comparing the Chinese New Testament with the Japanese, and making a transcription of what he thought was the best Japanese expression of some of the wonderful ideas and most impressive sentences. He found the Gospel of St. John very difficult. Without a teacher, its study seemed more loss than profit, except for occasional flashes where the missionary had found the Japanese words worthy to match the thought. The Gospel of St. Mark was most easy, and this he read again and again with delight, though many of his old ideas were rudely shaken. His wife also became interested in the reading; but her favorite was the Gospel of St. Luke. The couple now came to Yokohama, and renting a little house, made their home in the nicer part of the Japanese quarter. When Doctor Grey's teacher accepted the offer of official position in Yedo, Honda had the great joy of being invited by Doctor Grey to become his assistant and instructor in Japanese. Doctor Grey wished to fix a modest salary, and at first insisted on paying, but Honda explained that his office was sufficient for his support, and that any intended as remuneration for work or tran- money
THE AMERICAN MISSIONARIES. 363 scription could go to pay the expense of printing when the time came to pay for it. This, however, seemed a long way off, for while the penalty of death or imprisonment was still published before the eyes of the Japanese, neither printers nor readers could be persuaded or hired to touch the incendiary documents. With all its troubles, outward and in- ward, the Yedo government failed not in its vigilance in persecution of those suspected of being Christians.
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362 HONDA THE SAMURAI.<br />
aging him at the same time. Through the influence<br />
of friends in Yedo he had the teacher, who was government<br />
spy at Doctor Grey's house, promoted to<br />
higher office in Yedo.<br />
a<br />
During the months spent in waiting he read carefully<br />
the Gospels, spending the mornings purely as<br />
an inquirer and seeker after truth. In the afternoons<br />
he occupied himself as a literary student, comparing<br />
the Chinese New Testament with the Japanese, and<br />
making a transcription of what he thought was the<br />
best Japanese expression of some of the wonderful<br />
ideas and most impressive sentences. He found the<br />
Gospel of St. John very difficult. Without a teacher,<br />
its study seemed more loss than profit, except for<br />
occasional flashes where the missionary had found<br />
the Japanese words worthy to match the thought.<br />
The Gospel of St. Mark was most easy, and this he<br />
read again and again with delight, though many of<br />
his old ideas were rudely shaken. His wife also<br />
became interested in the reading; but her favorite<br />
was the Gospel of St. Luke.<br />
The couple now came to Yokohama, and renting<br />
a little house, made their home in the nicer part of<br />
the Japanese quarter. When Doctor Grey's teacher<br />
accepted the offer of official position in Yedo, Honda<br />
had the great joy of being invited by Doctor Grey<br />
to become his assistant and instructor in Japanese.<br />
Doctor Grey wished to fix a modest salary, and at<br />
first insisted on paying, but Honda explained that<br />
his office was sufficient for his support, and that any<br />
intended as remuneration for work or tran-<br />
money