Japan. Kagawa's Message.

Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume 29, Issue 12, 1 December 1937, Page 4

Japan. Kagawa's Message.

"Japan has her shortcomings. Her present militarism is m that category. The world abhors * this, and is endeavouring to isolate her. This attempt, however, will simply drive Japan to take advantage of the chance and become more perverse. Now, above all things, the Christians of the West should show m concrete fashion the real inwardness of redemptive love. Oh, how desperately difficult, it is to love sinners; to differentiate between sin and the sinner; to. hate rthe sin and show the sinner the.redeeming love of the Cross! The

Cross of Christ, however, makes imperative not only reproof, but love. Christ opened a way of salvation even for Japan. Yes! Though the whole world forsakes her, Christ, the revealer of eternal love, will never cease to woo Japan until He wins." Such a message as this, and such a book as "To the Mountain," stirs up a deep pity and compassion both for those few Japanese who know the truth and for the many whom censorship prevents from hearing any but their Government statements.

Now, Uganda is the Central Misjsionary Church of Africa. "It has developed strongly to the east, to the borders of the Mombasa Diocese. It is extending with increasing rapidity to the north, m the Southern Sudan. Through the devotion of Apolo of the Pigmy Forest and those who worked with him it has extended some 350 miles to the west into Belgian territory. And with remarkable enterprise of the Ruanda General and Medical Mission, under the courageous leadership of the two doctors, Sharp and Stanley Smith, it has extended 500 miles and more to the south into Ruanda and Urundi, and continues to extend. The fact that by the end of the year 1936 there were no fewer than 3700 outstations m connection with the Uganda Mission (now the three Missions of Uganda, Elgon and Ruanga) shows how very far-reaching has become the influence of the Uganda Church. "And the Church m Uganda is not only large and organised, it is becoming increasingly educated. There is no part of East Africa where the people have evinced so keen a desire for education as m Uganda, and there is no part of East Africa where education has been carried to so high a stage as at Maderere College."