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selves"snakes"to put his sons in school, saying that he could notpay more than 50% of what we asked for tuition.I do not know if he is poor or not. But running onsuch a small margin as we do, we have to try hardto collect the last we can in tuition and cut expenses as much as possible, even to the extent ofhiring teachers as cheaply as possible. This mansaid he used to go to one of our village schools in thedays of Dr. Edgar and liked our teaching very much.To prove it, he recited to me from memory the TenCommandments and the Lord's Prayer without mistake, and he is over 50 years of age. Now the question is how much tuition would you charge him?What per cent of the catalog price? What wouldbest serve our purpose here?We are anxiously looking forward to welcomingthe Sandersons and Miss McElroy back to our foldin about three weeks. We are pleased to know thatthe Hays family are happily situated in Beaver Fallsfor their furlough year.Please remember us in your prayers, each andevery worker here.Yours in His service, and that of your church.A Final Letter to HerCorrespondentsBy Rose A. HustonSchools will soon be out for the summer vacation, and we shall try to have two or three Vacation Bible classes, probably in August. My class atOhashi runs well over fifty, and last week therewere fifty-eight. Several of the older ones have professed faith in Christ,leadership. I have been keeping these after I disand should have a pastor'smiss the little ones, and we are going through asimple catechism, based on the Shorter Catechism,and they are becoming better acquainted with theBible by looking up the proof texts, using the newcolloquial edition of the Bible,which is much easierto understand, though there are some things aboutit that we cannot wholly approve.Mrs. Tanaka is a believer and has interestedher husband in the Bible. Another neighbor attendsthe class, with her four children, this being herfirst contact with Christianity. Mrs. Maeda, in whosehome we hold the class, has not openly acceptedChrist, their twelve-year-old son being the only onein the family who has done so. Pray for this family,that the Lord may soon draw them to Himself.Miss Edamatsu, who was my helper in the BookRoom for some months, has been in a Bible schoolin Tokyo this spring. She was needed to help inher father's restaurant, but when she was requiredto deliver food in the middle of the night to brothels,when the owners of these placesand especiallyurged her to join them because she was attractiveand could earn much money, wear fine clothes, andmake life easy for her mother, she determined toquit. Since her schooling would cost him nothing, thefather gave his consent, and later wrote congratulating her for having chosen that course.One of our young men is attending the Christian University in Tokyo, largely because expensesare cheaper. You may judge something of theirstandards from the fact that one of the professorsapologized to a man who was inquiring, for having216so conservative a man on the faculty as Dr. EimilBrunner. We are glad this young man has Christianfellowship with Bible-believing Christians.Since March, I have been livingwith the Hansen's in the wonderful Mission House at Suzurandai.During the past forty-years, I have moved into quitea number of houses, and for the comforts and conveniences of modern living, this tops them all. Nomud, cement, or brick floors ; no half-inch cracks tokeep your feet cool ; no tubs, pots, and pans necessaryto catch streams of filthy water coming through amud-and-straw roof when it rains; no great stacksof bean vines or corn stalks to drag in for cookingand heating the brick "kang" beds; and no filthyvermin to be exterminated. In fact if the rent werenot so cheap, it would seem entirely too palatial formissionaries representing One who was rich but became poor for our sakes.The place is not difficult of access if you don'tmind a road "as crooked as a barrel of following a rockymountain stream through a narrowvalley for a few miles. The road is narrow with noprotecting wall to keep you out of the rocky riverbed, and is paved only part way. There are also frequent trains, though usually so crowded one has tohang to a strap and risk getting an arm jerked outof joint as they swing around the curves. Severaltrips out every week, with 12 to 20-minute walks atthe other end, I confess, are rather wearisome thesehot days. However, I shall soon pass this privilegeon to others if they decide to continue these classes.And now I must close this my last letter to youas your representative in carrying the Gospel Message to other lands. I thank God for you all, for "giving your own in generous support, for yourearnest prayers, and your faith sustained throughnearly half a century. And I plead the same interestand prayer for all who continue to witness for Christin all these lands.Yours in the Love of Christ,Rose A. HustonVINEYARD GLEANINGS . . . frompage 211The Brazilian censorship ban came exactly seven daysafter LCP announced a plan to sell 16-mm. prints of thefilm to churches, schools, libraries and individuals. (Ordersfor many hundreds of prints were received during the firsttwo weeks the film was available.) Recently, in a report tothe LCP Board of Directors, Mr. Lee said that theatricalshowings in America were terminated August 31. Morethan 20,000,000Americans had seen the film producedby Louis de Rochmont Associates, in more than 4,000 different places. It had been shown in 27 foreign countriesand has been translated in 12 languages. "Despite the demand for theatrical showings which would have kept thefilm in theatres for several years Mr. more," Lee said, "wefelt that the time had come to make 'Martin Luther"available to churches and schools for extensive and frequent use in their educational and inspirational programs.After all, this was the original purpose of the filmprovide a dramatic and forceful teaching aid that churchleaders repeatedly said was urgently needed."It was only after the motion picture was completedthat it was decided to show it in the nation's theatres sothat the story of the Proestant Reformation could be carriedto millions of people who might otherwise never understand the issues and the importance of that momentous erain human history."toCOVENANTER WITNESS