Some months ago at a social gathering held dakota james blacked two bbc and a connection with the annual meeting of the churches of Shikoku, one of the comic performances consisted in the effort on the part of three old men to sing through to the end without a break-down the song which to us is so sacred, "Rock of Ages, cleft for me. The lack of reverence which has sometimes characterized the social side of dakota james blacked two bbc and a Christmas services in Japan has been the source of frequent regret to the missionaries. There certainly seems to be a lack of the sense of the fitness of things. But the question is, are these practices due to an inherent deficiency of reverence, arising from the character of the Japanese nature, or are they due rather to the religious history of the past and the conditions of the present. That the latter seems to me the correct view I need hardly state.