KOREA by ALFONSO N. ANDERSON

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C.

FromReview and Herald, Harvest Ingathering Number

KOREA

By ALFONSO N. ANDERSON

The Bible Shelf

A row of Bibles and Christian books, instead of an idol shelf, is what I found in the home of a Tokio police sergeant recently. A sweet Christian spirit pervaded his little home. While we could converse but very little,—as I am but a new recruit in Japan,—still I had a most delightful visit, for we both knew the joy of Christian fellowship that no human language can express. By the light in his eyes I knew he had caught the spirit of the Book, and he showed me a Testament that he carried constantly in the bosom of his blue uniform.

After the lady had served refreshments, he purchased a copy of our Japanese paper, Owari No Fukuin (Gospel of the End). Then we knelt, and each prayed in his mother tongue, while the Spirit that maketh intercession united our prayers in one offering of incense before the Lord.

Count this not a trifling incident, for it contains a world of meaning. Many who read the pages of truth that are being scattered like the leaves of autumn in a heathen land are receiving the same joy as beamed from the soul of this Japanese police sergeant who had erected a Bible shelf instead of a heathen idol shelf in his home.

ALFONSO N. ANDERSON.

Tokio.