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THE SHINTO CULT
A CHRISTIAN STUDY
OF
THE ANCIENT RELIGION OF JAPAN
BY
MILTON S. TERRY, D.D.,
Lecturer on Comparative Religion in
Garrett Biblical Institute.
Cincinnati: JENNINGS AND GRAHAM
New York: EATON AND MAINS
Copyright, 1910,
By Jennings and Graham.
NOTE.
The following pages are the substance of a course of lectures on the oldShinto cult which the author has been giving for a number of years tohis classes in Comparative Religion. They are here condensed and adaptedto the purpose of a little manual which, it is believed, may interestmany readers, and bring together within a small space informationgathered from many sources not easily accessible to ordinary students.At the same time it is hoped that this little volume may serve tosuggest some valuable hints to the Christian missionary who is to comeface to face with the Japanese people in their "beautiful land of thereed plains and the fresh ears of rice." It is possible that someportions, if not every jot and tittle, of this ancient cult may, likethe law and the prophets of Israel, find a glorious fulfillment in thepure gospel of Jesus Christ. The principal authorities relied on in thepreparation of this essay are named in the Select Bibliography given atthe end.
CONTENTS.
| 1. | The Country | 7 |
| 2. | Is Shinto a Religion? | 10 |
| 3. | Origin and Relative Age of the People | 12 |
| 4. | Meaning of the Term Shinto | 14 |
| 5. |