One of the outstanding personalities in the Sunrise Kingdom for more than forty years was Daniel Crosby Greene, born in Roxbury, Mass., Feb. 11, 1843. He began work in Kobe in April, 1870, and was the first of many missionaries sent out by the American Board. Perhaps no American ever came into closer touch with high officials than he. Count Okuma and other Japanese statesmen were his intimate friends. Guests in his modest, but always hospitable, home in Tokyo were struck with the number and character of those who came singly and in groups "to have a word with Dr. Greene" on subjects covering all phases of society, statecraft, education and religion. He was often invited into the most exclusive diplomatic circles when grave questions of international relations and treaties were under consideration. As Matthew Arnold said of Sophocles, he saw things steadily and he saw them whole. Many honors were bestowed upon him by the Emperor. When the Imperial Order of the Rising Sun was conferred upon him in May, 1918, the official notice accompanying it spoke of his "valuable services in promoting international relations between Japan and America, and in introducing a knowledge of Japan to other countries while he has been engaged in the propagation of Christianity."

On this occasion a public dinner was given in his honor, and what pleased him more than anything else

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AGACIOUS and courageous, diplomatic yet forceful, a pioneer in following up the opening made by Commodore Perry, his was a long, fruitful and deeply appreciated service in behalf of Japan.

was the tribute paid to his eight children, all born in Japan and now in different parts of the world using their influence to cement ties of friendship between East and West. He took a justifiable pride in his kinship with some of America's most eminent statesmen-Roger Sherman, William M. Evarts, George F. Hoar and others. More than one person said at a time when a new American minister was to be appointed, "No one could be better fitted than Dr. Greene to take the office.' He was president of the Asiatic Society of Japan and one of the committee who made the first translation of the Scriptures into Japanese. This translation had no little influence upon the language, many of its words and expressions being freshly coined or invested with a new meaning.

No native Japanese in the seventy years since the country began to have intercourse with western nations has exerted a more salutary and far-reaching influence than did Joseph Hardy Neesima, the founder of the university in Kyoto known as the Doshisha and the most conspicuous Christian leader of his generation. But Joseph Neesima derived the ideas and impulses that made him such a blessing to Japan from distinctively New England sources. He received his education at Phillips Academy, Andover, one of New England's most famous fitting schools, and at Amherst, a typical New England college, and at Andover

Theological Seminary, the oldest school of the prophets in New England. Moreover, in Alpheus Hardy, an honored and successful Boston merchant, Neesima, who arrived in Boston Harbor in August, 1865, as a stowaway on a vessel owned by Mr. Hardy, found the friend and benefactor who made possible his future career. The ten years spent in New England, during which he was received as a son under the roof of Mr. Hardy's beautiful and characteristically New England home, furnished the foundation on which was built a life that not only helped to shape the native Christian community in Japan, and to found a great school sometimes called the Amherst of Japan, but reached out influentially into high government circles. His services as an interpreter were deeply appreciated by the commission which took him, soon after his student days, to Europe on their tour of inspection of western institutions. He assisted his government to start the public school system in Japan, on the New England model, although in later years the system became somewhat Prussianized. Neesima was among the very first of the Japanese to receive in their formative years the impressions which New England at its best could make upon their plastic natures. At his funeral he was characterized as the Japanese Puritan who built colleges and schools. He was in due time followed by a considerable succession, including among others