Japanese Claimed for God by P. A. Webber

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 9, 1915

Japanese Claimed for God

By P. A. Webber

P. A. WEBBER

Just before the Shanghai meeting our mission committee met, and decided that my wife and I were to move from Tokio to Kiushiu, the southern island of the Japanese group, to take charge of the work on that island. Accordingly, shortly after returning from the meeting, we came to this place. We secured a good Japanese house in a healthful location, and at the close of the rainy season pitched our tent and began a series of meetings.

This place is new soil for the third angel’s message, but by no means new to mission effort. Already eight other missions are operating here. In the tent effort much good gospel seed was sown, and the Spirit of God is working on the hearts of those who listened from night to night. Three have begun to keep the Sabbath, and we expect others will join them in its observance.

One of these believers is a man over fifty years of age. He has been a Christian for thirteen years, and had received baptism, but had never been able to find that which satisfied the longings of his soul. Now he says, “I am sure I was led to that tent by the influence of the Holy Spirit.” As he rejoices in his newfound faith, he often asks, “Why was it I did not know this when I first became a Christian?” In order to keep the Sabbath he will be required to discontinue a very profitable occupation; but he says he will do that willingly in order to keep God’s holy Sabbath and to prepare for Christ’s soon return. The outlook for a good harvest of souls in this place is very bright.