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Kanzou Uchimura(1861-1930) was a Christian who pursued two J (Jesus and Japan) in the Meiji era. The Meiji government aimed at state religion of Shinto at that time. In the next year of the Imperial Rescript on Education promulgation, Uchimura refused to salute to the photograph of the Japanese Emperor Meiji, and it developed into the so-called “disrespectable case”. By this “disrespectable case”, Uchimura was considered as a traitor and thrown away from the society, church, and the people. Through this tribulation, he became isolated and later, he was linked with a spiritual communication with a saint when he was in a terrible communication and this has been linked and affected every stage of journey of his faith. In this study, I’d like to pay attention to the work of “The Holy Spirit” affected to journey of his faith. I am going to study about Uchimura’s faith in a point of view of the work of “The Holy Spirit”. I think that his faith is based on a recognition of Korean, Buddhism and “the Second coming of Jesus”. In these three aspects, I would like to compare the work of “The Holy Spirit” with other ways for understanding of other denominations in Christianity and find out the originality of Uchimura. And I would like to confirm a difference of soul which is considered in other religions except Christianity.