Covenanter Witness Vol. 53 - Rparchives.org

you."perish."me."us?"repentance."older ones all went for a swim about two o'clock ; theyreturned at four. Mrs. Chao, like a good shepherd,missed one. "Where is Ai Kwong?" " Is she not withyou ?" they said. "No, I thought she went withThen the hunt began. She used to go every day tothe Boyles' house to find Gladys, so they beganthere; then the neighbors. One had seen her goingdown the hill, but she knew what she wanted andrefused to come back. There are many places wherea child could fall over a cliff, so they searched thehill side and the valleys below. They told the police atthe foot of the hill, and they notified all the police inneighboring towns ; they searched the seashore, andthe two railway tracks, the park and the playground.The sun was about to drop behind the mountains, andit would soon be dark. Finally at half past seven, amessage came from the police at Shioya, the firsttown to the west, saying that a little girl had beenbrought to them. A taxi soon took Mr. Chao toShioya, and there at the police station was Ai Kwonghappily playing with some Japanese children. Aworkman had seen her as she leisurely crossed therailroad and he thought she might be hungry, so hegot some cakes and took her to his dormitory room,where she ate and went to sleep. He waited until shewoke, then took her to the police station. She toldher father she went to buy some candy, and that shewas not afraid. It takes a grown person half an houror more to walk to Shioya, so it was quite a longwalk for a small girl along a highway with manycars and trucks speeding along all the time. Surelythe Heavenly Father gave His angels charge overher.We held two Vacation Bible Schools, one atIchinotani, and the other at Ohashi where we teacha group of children on Friday evenings. At the former the attendance was between fifty and sixty ; Mr.Katayama was in charge, and with the help of twoyoung men, Ogasawara San and Arichika San, theNittas and others, we had plenty of help. At Ohashi,Mr. Morikawa who is helping to write and mimeograph Psalms, did some interpreting ; Mr. Maeda andMrs. Hansen helped with the teaching, Mr. Katayamaagain being in charge. For the first time we wereable to get a course in Japanese, which made ourwork easier.The church work goes on, with Mr. Hansen, Mr.Katayama and Mr. Chao taking turns preaching. AChinese preaching in English through a Japaneseinterpreter to a Japanese-Chinese- American audiencemay sound a bit complicated but it works very satisfactorily.Miss Edamatsu and Mr. Katayama now havecharge of the children's S. S. while I teach the adultdeeper into theology than Iclass. That means I digdid for the children; it is an inspiration to teachfifteen or more intelligent earnest men and women.The Shinoda family have been absent for some timebecause the children have had measles and whoopingcough.The two midweek meetings for women werediscontinued for several weeks during July and August because of my vacation and the Vacation BibleSchool. I had a very pleasant two-week vacation innot far from the mainland. Though they are educated and refined people,they knew nothing of Christianity; though I speaklittle Japanese and they even less English, she wrotea farm home on Awaji Island,214me that they had become "much influenced" by mystay in their home. I hope to take Mr. Katayama totalk with them.The work at the Book Room continues as usual,with the business and clientele growing. Mr. Mitais a conscientious and efficient manager, and MissEdamatsu a good assistant. Mr. Mita's English isabout a match for my Japanese, but I find he isstudying Biblical Theology by Dr. G. Vos in his sparetime. Strong meat, as to English.Mr. Hansen continued language lessons threetimes a week through the summer and now has twoweeks to rest before school begins again. We all enjoyBarbara Ann, who is now over three months old, andnot at all spoiled by the admiration and devotion ofall her friends.We do need additional workers, and it is ourprayer that the Lord will provide and send themto this work in this critical time.The Far East Missionary Crisis and theHistoric Christian FaithBy the Rev. Antonio F. OrmeoAn address delivered at the Third Plenary Congressof the International Council of Christian Churches,Philadelphia(Condensed in the Christian Beacon)A Missionary VisionProverbs 19 :18 says, "Where there is no vision,the people Yes, it is that missionary visionof Christian churches supporting and sending missionaries, the vision of the missionaries themselves,and of the churches they have established in the mission fields that can save the situation of the nowperishing millions for whom Christ died. It must be atransforming vision, like Isaiah's (Chap. 6), throughwhich he saw his own sinfulness and which resultedin self-condemnation and humiliation before a holyGod. And after the cleansing that followed, he heardthe voice of God saying, "Whom shall I send, andwho will go for Isaiah readily answered, "Heream I, send We must keep the vision of the crossbefore us. He tasted death for every man and He is"not willing that any should perish, but that allshould come toThere is life in thatblood of Calvary's cross, and without shedding ofblood there is no remission of sin. Without first seeing the vision of the cross we will also lose the visionof a dying world. Dr. Oswald Smith in his hymn,"I Have Seen the Vision," put it this way:Weary and helpless, souls are dying in the night ;No Christ, no Saviour, and no Gospel light.I have seen the vision, and for self I cannot live ;Life is less than worthless till my all I give.Chorus :Saviour, dear Saviour, Thou didst give Thyself forme.Saviour, blest Saviour, I will go for Thee.Hark ! they are calling I can hear them night andday,Moaning and dying, let me speed away.COVENANTER WITNESS