ety and lead men to heaven. Christ's character and teachings stand for
ever."

With a brief reference to one or two further points suggested by Mr.
Loomis' table, I will bring this, my last chapter, to a close. One of
these is the distinction he draws--and it is a distinction quite worth
drawing--between married and unmarried missionaries. Of course, the Roman
clergy are all unmarried, as are also the four missionaries of the
Orthodox Church; but when we come to the "Protestant Missions," we find
the numbers of married and unmarried clergy to be 205 and thirty-seven
respectively. Indeed, with the exception of the Church of England, the
Scandinavian Alliance, and the American Methodist Episcopal Church, which
supply six each, there is no mission with more than two unmarried clergy,
and several have not even one. Now it is certain that this is not the way
in which great mission work has been done in the past; but is the newer
way better than the old? Beyond observing that the presence of female
missionaries is in a very special degree needed in Japan, be they the
wives of the clergy or not, I will not presume to answer that question
myself; but I may, perhaps, be allowed to record the opinion, emphatically
expressed to me, of one who has lived in the East for a great many years,
and is by no means in sympathy with the compulsory celibacy of the Roman
priesthood. "It is," he remarked, "far too hastily assumed that the fact
of the married missionary usually bringing another valuable ally to the
work sufficiently determines the question. But I am convinced that,
speaking generally, it is to the unmarried missionary that wider
opportunities of usefulness are extended. Nor is it merely that his
movements are entirely free and unhampered--that he is exempt from domestic
obligations and anxieties--that he has more time for study--and that he is
thrown more in the society of his brother clergy. As a man's children
begin to grow up, educational and other considerations in connexion with
these, urge upon him the desirability of returning home, with the result
that, just as he has begun to master the difficulties of language, and to
enter into the thought and habits of the people, his place is taken by a
tyro, who, however well-meaning, cannot but have all his experience to
gain." No doubt, there is plenty of room for both married and unmarried
clergy in the mission field; but the great preponderance of the married in
the case before