An American teacher was employed in Japan in a government
school, on the understanding that during school hours he should
not utter a word on the subject of Christianity. The engagement
was faithfully kept, and he lived before his students the Christ
life, but never spoke of it to them. Not a word was said to
influence the young men committed to his care, but so beautiful
was his character, and so blameless his example, that forty of
the students without his knowledge, met in a grove and signed a
secret covenant to abandon idolatry. Twenty-five of them entered
the Kyoto Christian Training School and some of them are now
preaching the gospel which their teacher unconsciously commended.
(1873)
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