CHRISTIANITY IN JAPAN

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 113, 10 February 1928, Page 11

CHRISTIANITY IN JAPAN

WORK OF ORIENTAL MISSIONARY SOCIETY.

Bishop Nakada, of the Oriental Missionary Society, gave a lecture on the progress of Christianity throughout the Orient in the Vivian Street Baptist Schoolroom on Wednesday night. The Rev. F. E. Harry presided. Bishop Nakada said that he startea his mission in 1901 in Schooltown, tin centre of Tokio, where hundreds of thousands of students gather, this being the educatioual centre of the Orient. Hen the mission started a Bible school, whence it sent out missionaries to Shanghai and Harbin. All Japanese could read and write, anti the mission spent six years in distributing portions of Scripture and tracts to every house in Japan. This work cost £200,000, and at present they were reaping the results of this sowing. Paul Kanamori, who was here two years ago, took £15,000 back to Japan for this missionary work, as the result of his lecturing tour, and used tli money to print a million copies of his book, “The Three Fundamentals

Christianity.” Evangelistic missions among the factory gii;ls of Japan were being held with . marvellous success. Bishop Nakada said that he had 160 churches under his control. In addition, the mission had five churches among the Japanese in California, one in Brazil, one in Harbin, and one in Siam. In addition, there were sixty churches in Siberia and Manchuria. The mission was very anxious to work in Siberia.