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Religion. Camp Susupe's makeshift Buddhist "temple" has a tin roof, no front wall, but its priest has all his trappings. Shinto (Emperor worship) poses more of a problem in religious freedom-thus far, U.S. authorities have made no attempt to stop Shintoism, but no facilities have been set up to encourage...
...torii is spoken of as though it were Buddhist, but it is Shinto...
...feel at home in "the ugly and incongruous West ern chapel," or "even in a fine Gothic church." He recommends that future Christian churches in Japan be built in "the shrine form of architecture, with its clean lines and austere beauty." He would even have the churches include the Buddhist torn (ceremonial gateway). The churches should not stand on streets, but be "hidden in groves of trees with torn and mossy stone steps, fountains of water, and old flowering shrubs." He also 'recommends drastic changes inside the buildings. Noss says the Japanese are repelled by a minister who "wears...
...Japs had snatched back miles of the railroad from Chinese guerrillas and regular troops, had swept westward to buttress their holdings against attack. They had driven south through ruined Changsha, contested for the fourth time in five years. They marched on through quiet little Hengshan, near the five sacred Buddhist mountains. This week they pierced the outer gates of a vital rail junction, Hengyang-most important city sought by the Japanese since Canton and Hankow...
...Chinese magistrate in Foochow, Chen Wenyuan was born a Buddhist. At Foochow's Anglo-Chinese College he learned about Christianity from Methodist Bishop John Gowdy,* adopted the faith, promptly converted his mother (his father was dead), several cousins. In 1917 he came to Syracuse University (he helped pay his way by teaching Chinese) later took a Ph.D. at Duke, followed by summer courses at Cambridge University, the University of Berlin. After a year of European lecturing, Dr. Chen, who had been ordained to the Methodist ministry, returned to China to be Dean of Fukien Christian College. Five years later...