MISSION WORK.
CONDITIONS IN CENTRAL JAPAN. LECTURE BY MISSIONARY. Slidies showing how at o.uoi time of the year the temperature in Japan was over 100 degrees and then in the winter time the snow was 15 feet deep were presented in the Baptist Church schoolroom last evening by Mr Hessell Troughton, of the Central Japan Pioneer Mission. This mission was founded by Miss M. A. Burnett in 18*25 and to-day has annroximately 50 stations and outstations in the country districts of central Japan. Mr and Mrs Troughton have beien in these fields for 5-j- years. Mi* Troughton said that the houses were nearly all doushle-storeyied, so that people could live in the upper part during the winter months.
. The mission work, he said, was progressing well, but it had an uncertain future. An attempt was being made to ■establish churches among the workers so> that if the missionaries were compelled to withdraw these could continue.
He was not inclined to say much of the political side of Japanese life. The military section, he said, were definitely pro-Nazi.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 246, 25 July 1940, Page 4
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