“Forgive Japan”
PLEA BY PACIFISTS SINGAPORE, Dec. 6. With tears in their eyes two Japanese asked a Singapore audience, which included a number of Chinese, to forgive the sins of Japan to-day. They were Dr. T. Kagawa, famous Japanese evangelist and pacifist, and Michi Kawai, a pioneer Y.W.C.A. worker and educationist. They were addressing a meeting of Singapore women of many races when they passed through with a party of 17 Japanese delegates to the World Missionary Conference at Madras. “Unfortunately the Gospel is not reaching the Japanese, soldiers. Christian teachings must be expanded in Japan and applied to politics, society and the Government,” said Dr. Kagawa. “Whether people listen or not, we ask your forgiveness for the sins of the Japanese people to-day. Really I love China, because we have received so many great and wonderful things from her.”
“If my generation has made a mistake it does not mean that the next generation will repeat it,” said Miss Kawai. “Thefe are two sides to everything. To-day in Japan we are like the cactus, growiug in a desert —an ugly, unseemly plant, but bearing a beautiful flower.
“Perhaps from this unseemly ugly state a beautiful flower will be found.”
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Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 309, 30 December 1938, Page 3
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