Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Hepburn of Japan and His Wife and Helpmates: A Life Story of Toil for Christ
American missionaries the educational, invasion of the Mikado's empire.
When on September 22, 1911, the newspapers of Japan printed with headlines this Official telegram sent by Baron Uchida, the Mikado's ambassador at Washington: Dr. James Curtis Hepburn died Thursday morning, December 21, 1911, there were some who wondered Why this message was sent. How was it, that while great and notable men in America might pass away Without official notice, a private citizen in New Jersey should be thus honored?
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