MR PAUL KANAMORI

Hokitika Guardian, 25 September 1924, Page 1

MR PAUL KANAMORI

FAMOUS JAI’ANKSE EVANGELIST. A Hi!‘YES ON WEST COAST NEXT WEEK. Air Paul Kaiintnri, tile di.stingui-li-ed Japanese Evangelist, anives :11 Hokitika next Thursday. Ho "id spend two Sunday,s at Hokitika and' (■ leyniciltli iind tlio time hutween, giving addresses on the Coast. Tie is aL N\ellington and reaches Christehiireh on Saturday. For four days he "ill he li nil;,- occupied giving ad&r<.v**?s in churches of almost every denomination, including Anglican, Baptist, Aleth()di.st and Presbyterian, besides addressing University students. Mr Kaiismori has I,ecu no"’ about three months in tko Dominion, and has concluded a tour of the North Island, having visile:! must of the larger places from Auckland to Wellington and front Wanganui to ■Napier and Gisborne. He spoke in some thirty chunhe.s in Auckland city alone. AVheit he arrived in Auckland the folk,"'iii;.; notice of him ap] eared in the.

“A noted Jaj ancse • Evangelist. Air Haul Kaimmnri. arrived at Attck.and from Sydney l:v the Alarnma on June •Jth. Air Kaimmnri is loth a Japanese and English .scholar, and speaks English fluently. Two years ago he* made a lour of the United States of A mere, a. speaking in .‘!S out of the -IS State--, an 1 travelling over -Id,II!)') miles, lie spoke : t hundreds of schools and universities mul visited the smallest towns and villages. His life covers the whole of modern Japan. In his own limnin' he is an itinerating evangelist, and in the last 10 years has preached the Gospel to over three-quar-ters of a million people, while some 70.000 of his countrymen have given in a written acceptance of the Christian faith. lienee he is known as the Moody of Japan. Invited to visit Australia and New Zealand Air Kanamori lists heen in Sydney for the last two months and lm.s given addresses in the .churches of :ilI Protestant denominations, including Anglican. Presbyterian. Baptist. Brethen. Congregational. Methodisl. and Church of Christ. l!e has invitations to give his address from towns all over .New Zealand. Air Kanamori "as met on arrival by a number of ministers, and arrangements "ere made for address in churches in the city.

At Nki| ier a fortnight ago he "its entertained by tin: Betary Club, and gave an address on Japan "bieh was great I v appreciated. No man knows Japan heller, and 1 rohahly lew me-u aiv better known in bis own country, lie has heen a great power in his own country for hall a century, "hetlii'i- as a patriotic, lender or as a Christian Evangelist. For twenty years under the auspices of his government, he delivered economic lectures to hundreds of thousands of his countrymen, and did mm h to lay the foundations of thrift and hanking among his people. But in the hist twenty years he has ike-ail known as the greatest Christian Evangelist of his country, and has addressed probably .more of his lollowcoiiiitrymcn, and in the mass, likewise of liis fello"-eicature.s. than any other man living. He is due to leave New /,. aland lifter he finishes at lnvcr-,-u-ill in ah,ml a m-,nibs' time, l’.v tlmt time, he will probably have s,token people in tin’ Dominion than any other of our most Unveiled and l-rid'l i-f. ‘ I-■ ' The Auckland ”II , tuI , I” g." e a :■"»'- marv of Ids address to the Napier 11..ti „.y Club, "-hieh is of interest, as h>llo" s: - - , , . , ‘•At the Napier It'dary Clubs lun-ch,->n. hist Tuesday, the Bev. Ikt'd Kannimui. explained tlm Japanese attitude ,•.interning America's exclusion ol Japan. ■ • immigrants. It was. Mr Kanamori said, a qucxI i 1111 national honour. A eats ago Al a had made overiutvs i f friendship to Japan and the Japanese had some" lull diliidently ae. ' plel theta. Amici ian iliinti.grautx then .settled in Japan and Japanese in America, and hat h nations "eic oil terms ol amicable ftiendly. Bui Slow Anieriea alter so many yea:.;, had turned to Jilt an and said her immigrants v.-re not "ant, d. simply heeituse they "ele law skinned. The iiiaU-rial asj.e.-t <>f the ease did not eon; ern the Japanese they had span- ami icsoiiives stilliI'jelit lor themselves, in their o" n eoitntry. hut the Japanese | < ople jestlv leganle.l the Alltel ieait attitude a> an insult t,» their honour, and he agreed with ihein.

PA.,- New Zealand and Australia, on the oilier hand, said the speaker. Japan and her people fell only good" ill. and it wax apparent that in the future Japan "odd need to look to these countries for the supply of many staple lo.idstiilfs. Japan "as now at. the crossroads. She was turning from agriculture I > maiiiil'neltiling, and eomlitimi.s ol life and la hour "etc changing | K..nve it wus probable that there would he some demand for loodstiills from outside, and Japan would thus become an important, buyer irom No" Zealand with " Imm it "as the lirmest- " ish that .Japan should always he ou terms of h:vo and friendliness.