55847 A bridge off which Christian youngmen were thrown into the river.
55848 The dispensary in connection with the Missionary Hospital.
55849 Hospital cottage of five rooms.
55850 Gathering mud for house building.
55851 A rest house prepared by Mr. Vorhees on the roadside where people
come in from the sun and find literature and a Bible. One Buddhist priest
reading the Bible in the rest house, gave his heart to Christ and is now a
preacher of the gospel.
55842 A rest house prepared by Mr. Vorhees on the roadside where people
come in from the sun and find free literature and a Bible. One Buddhist
priest reading the Bible in the rest house, gave his heart to Christ and is
now a preacher of the gospel.
55830 A place of worship where Buddhist pray, when children are desired.
The priest of this temple told the missionary their prayers were invariably
answered.
55831 Father and child doing the work of horse or ox.
55832 Common street scene.
55833 Children playing by the roadside.
55834 Missionary Hospital for tubercular patients, built with five
bedrooms and a sitting room much like the hand, each room representing a
finger, and the sun reaching three sides of each rooms.
53897 Garden gate and arch formed by two trees whose branches are trimmed
and trained. Ladies are members of deputation.
53898
53899 Family in poorest of slums, Tokyo, wife looking over rice before
cooking. (She had already found a heaping teaspoonful of white gravel, put
into increase weigh.)
53557 Filling the watering cart. Tokyo city ordinancies require
householders to water the street in front of their own house a certain
number of times each day. Many water it in person with dippers and bucket
others hire men with such carts. Man had just dropped handle as I snapped.
53524 Storm God covered with spit ball prayers, in gate to monastery and
shrine foot of Miogi Mountain. Prayers on paper are chewed into spit balls
and thrown at image. If they hit and stick, it is a favorable omen. Hugh
straw sandals, big enough for the god are hung as offerings made by
pilgrims.
53519 Cliffs of the first and second stone arches, Miogi Mountain trip.
(first arch at left)
53520 Second stone arch, Miogi Mountain trip. Bill Vinton and R.S.
Spencer on the 40 foot chain necessary in climbing up or down. Pinnacle at
left is side view of first arch seen in another picture.
53388 Pillar of the invented pattern on left, in Yomeimon. Designed to
mar the perfection of the work and so ward off the jealousy of evil
spirits. Ieyasu Temple, Nikko.
53317 Faithful old Christian and children and grand children. 3 miles in
country from church at Ebtsu. 5 sons married, all Christians. Home in
background. Ebtsu, Hokkaido.
53318 Shinto Shrine near Methodist Church. Sapporo, Hokkaido.
53319 Methodist Church and parsonage. Sapporo, Hokkaido.
53274 Building for exhibits from Toyama Ken. Small building with crossed
flags a reproduction of one of the moat famous of palace gates from Kyoto.
Japan.
53233 Women's Foreign Missionary Society Girls school. Hakodate, Japan.
53234 Miss Wagner, Miss MacIntyre, Mr. C.H. Fabis teachers -
Superintendent and Principal of Women's Foreign Missionary Society Girls school. Hakodate, Japan.
53235 Japanese pastor and daughter. Hakodate, Japan.
53236 Women's Foreign Missionary Society Girls school recreation. Hakodate, Japan.
53112 Logs field in yard of Noshiro lumber mill. Overhead trolley belongs
to copper mine and refinery. Japan.
53113 Street in Noshiro, near lumber mill.
53114 Property owned by the board in Noshiro held for church building.
Japan.
53115 Church at Noshiro with pastor and C.W. Iglehart. Building is a
Japanese house with 3 rooms 6, 10 and 12 mats each, that can be thrown into
one. It serves as pastors house as well. Japan.