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Title: Christian missions and social progress; a sociological study of foreign missions
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Dennis, James S. (James Shepard), 1842-1914
Subjects: Missions Christian sociology
Publisher: New York, F. H. Revell
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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ich passes intact into another life, the popularopinion being that any mutilation of the body in death must be con-tinued in the existence beyond. The use of opium has had a tendencygreatly to facilitate and multiply suicides.0 The Chinese New Year isa favorite time for accomplishing the act. A missionary physicianreports having been called to ten cases in a single month, and to nearlyas many in the month following.7 In Japan suicide has occupied a position of historic honor which hascharacterized it nowhere else in the world. It has been even canonized 1 Du Bose, The Dragon Image and Demon, p. 453 ; Norman, The Peoplesand Politics of the Far East, p. 278. 2 Moule, New China and Old, p. 50. 3 The Mission Field, London, March, 1894, p. 89; The Messenger, Shanghai,May, 1895, p. 74. 4 Ball, Things Chinese, p. 434; Medhurst, The Foreigner in Far Cathay,p. 105. 5 Ball, Things Chinese, p. 435. 6 The Missionary Herald, Boston, February, 1895, p. 57. The Missionary Record, March, 1895, p. 88.
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A Mendicant est, China. (In fulfilment of a vow to raise a certain sum of money, he has pierced his cheek with a skewer, hoping thereby to excite sympathy and hasten the collection of the amount desired. The beating of the gong announces his approach.) THE SOCIAL EVILS OF THE NON-CHRISTIAN WORLD 95 and admired as an object of heroism and a sign of distinction.1 Japa-nese history and fiction mention with pride the various heroes andheroines, sometimes by the thousands, who have distinguished them-selves by committing hara-kiri, the theory of which is that it is anexhibition of supreme loyalty to conviction, of patriotic sacrifice inthe interests of family pride, or for the honor of ones country.2 Thevanquished samurai in the old feudal days preferred death at his ownhand to falling into the power of his conqueror.3 Later the practicecame to be regarded as a privileged way of dying in the execution of ajudicial sentence rather than having the punishment inflicted by otherhands. The modu

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