Covenanter Witness Vol. 54 - Rparchives.org

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By Rose A. Huston
Mr. Joshua Tamada, a young man whose father is
Interpreter for an Army Chaplain, interpreted for
me a few times, as I taught Matthew in the adult
Bible Class on Sabbath. He asked to keep the manu
script, hoping sometime to use it in teaching some
Bible in the school where he teaches English. At
their first teachers' meeting before school started, he
announced that he is a Christian, and learned that
he is the only one in a large school. He passes these
manuscripts to the other teachers who know English,
and they are interested in reading them. One of them
is interested enough to come to S. S. and church
when he is free to come.
Mr. Nozawa says that "with all his heart" he
wants to come to church, but he must work seven
days a week in order to keep his job.
A patient in the Suma hospital recovered from
T.B. and went home, interested in the Gospel, but
when she found that two of her children were run
ning fever, she said God must first heal them, then
she would believe in Jesus. Mrs. Takihara told her
that her husband first believed, then God healed
him.
The latest report from Mr. Takihara, January 10,
proves the wonder working power of God. After the
October operation, the doctor said he could probably
operate on the other lung about March. To his sur
prise, while the first lung is healing, the spot on
the second one has almost disappeared also. The
surgeon was incredulous. "It can't be true," he
said, "Not one in a thousand heals like that and so
He was astonished when he saw the Xray
picture and said it was very remarkable. The oper
ated lung is about ready for the second operation,
and if he continues to improve as he has been doing,
he may be able to leave the hospital in August.
Mr. Masunaga is almost fully recovered, and hopes
to do some work in the Seminary beginning in
April.
Miss Edamatsu gave up her work in the Book
Room, as her mother needed her help in their res
taurant. Her Christian life there is not without its
difficulties; she is the only Christian, all the others
being ardent Buddhists or very worldly. Her sister
thinks only of her 'own beauty and pleasure and
continually finds fault with her hard-working sis
ter. "When I bow my head to pray before eating,
she calls the attention of all in the restaurant with
sneering remarks. The land on which our restaurant
is built belongs to a Buddhist temple, so every
month several Buddhist priests come to collect
money, and to eat a feast. My parents command me
to attend their worship service which lasts for an
hour. But in this, I must disobey them. The only
service I do for them is to pour hot water for them
while they Mieko soon graduated from the St.
Michael's School, and would like to take a course in
a Bible School, but her mother says, "If you go to
us."
a Christian school you will not belong to
Miss Kizumi is now helping in the Book Room.
She too has burdens. Her father had reverses in
business and had to sell his home, and begin a new
smaller business. Her grandparents are eighty years
old, one of them bedfast; her aunt who lives near
here, is about seventy and almost blind, a widow
with no children. Miss Kizumi is the only Christian,
March 2, 1955
but she is trying to help the family to know the
way of life.
Mr. Maeda, in whose home we have had a Bible
Class for children, formerly claimed to be an agnos
tic, and in earlier life was opposed to Christianity,
has been doing some special work for me for a few
weeks, now says he would like to join the Book
Room Bible Class.
Mr. Mita, when chided for working long after
closing time in the Book Room, said: "Never mind.
This work I like."
A recent letter from Mr. David Leung, son of
Rev. Leung Mau Hing, our first pastor in Tak Hing
many years ago, says he has just graduated from
the Canton Medical School, formely Ling Naam. He
has a year of internship there, and hopes he may
be allowed to work in Canton Hospital after that.
His younger brother graduated possibly in engi
neering a year earlier and is now with a National
Construction Company in Honan province. He says,
"I think it will give you great consolation that my
sister has been baptized, and is now more close to
the Lord than ever before. She is now in Peking
as my brother-in-law was transferred there. I always
have opportunity to see Sister Jeanette Li when I
am in Canton. She is still living in the southern
capital safely. Her physical condition has been quite
good, and she is also serving the Lord with all her
heart."
Praise God from whom all blessings flow. And
pray that His Word faithfully sown may bring forth
abundant harvest.
STRATEGY FOR CHRISTIAN MISSIONS .
Continued from Front Page
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with babies going around behind the temple. I fol
lowed them and to my horror saw those mothers,
one by one, take their babies and hold their little
faces under the flow of sewage that was draining out
of the temple through a small pipe in the rear. It ran
into mouth, eyes and nose. As I watched, a Hindu
gentleman stepped up to me and explained in Oxford
English that this was "holy and the mothers
did this thinking it would bless their babies. He re
luctantly admitted, however, that it was probable
that many of the babies would die of infection be
cause the "holy was "much
However, he remarked that his poor people "were
ignorant."
How can Satan bind people in this way
But he does.
Christians are respected in India. There is an esti
mated five million constituency of them. These all
really won to Christ, filled by His Spirit and given a
vision of the lost masses about them would make
the best missionaries to 600,000 villages where
Christ is not known. The India Church needs revival.
Buddhism
Five hundred years before Christ a Hindu
prince, Siddhartha Gotama, was born in India near
the city of Benares. Early in life he became more
sorrow and death than the plea
sures of an immoral high caste Hindu society. He
turned to meditation, poverty, and doing penance to
atone for his sins. To become "enlightened" or free
he concluded that re-incarnation
concerned over sin,
from "worldly
or the transmigration of one's soul might be neces
sary through a series of lives on earth until one could
finally live a sinless life and be permitted to enter the
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