Our Tent-Meeting in Japan by H. KUNIYA

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 25, 1910

Our Tent-Meeting in Japan

By H. KUNIYA

H. KUNIYA

When we closed our tent-meeting the first of June, more than one hundred twenty signed their names in response to our call; but they would not come to the mission hall unless we visited them. So we began to labor with them at once. I am still preaching in the hall every night. Thirty persons are especially interested.

I baptized eight young men in the ocean, and they were very glad to join with us. Some of them are having a hard time to keep the Sabbath. You will be interested to hear how one of these heard and accepted the message. He told us: “One night I was going to the military office to attend to some business which I had left undone in the daytime. When coming home, the wind blew very hard, and I was obliged to return. By the way I found the tent and went in. I listened to the message, which I had never heard before.”

He continued to come to the Bible studies, and is now keeping the Sabbath. He has a good education, and is planning to enter the school this winter. He moved to the island of Skikoku, where several others began to keep the Sabbath when Mrs. Kuniya and some of the sisters went there to canvass during the tent-meeting.

All the young men who have been baptized, and who are going to be baptized, expect to devote their lives to the Lord’s service. I am glad that we have so many noble youth who desire to become Christian soldiers. This is a sign of the coming of the King. If we have hundreds of young men who have Elijah’s spirit, they will turn the hearts of the Buddhist fathers to the true faith.

Some of these young men are driven from their homes for their faith’s sake. What shall we do? We must not leave them exposed to temptation. We must have an industrial school to help these youth in this country. Some of the young men and women who were in the school last winter have helped in the tent-meeting in Hiroshima. They are now canvassing. Three of them went down to the island of Kushu, and they

are sending back good reports. If we do not help these youth who earnestly desire to get an education for the Lord’s service, they will become discouraged. No general can have victory without brave soldiers, who have been well trained. We hope you will pray for us, and help us to build a school soon.

Hiroshima.