Japanese Experiences

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 6, 1913

Japanese Experiences

“LAST summer my brother-in-law,” writes one of our native workers in Japan, “a young man about twenty years old, came to Tokio to study to become a novelist. He had seemed to be proof against any influences his elder brother could bring to win his interest in the serious things of life. After he came to us, he began to listen to our study of the Bible, and soon was willing to study it with us. One day I found him painting the borders of an envelope addressed to his elder brother, black.

‘What are you doing that for?’ I asked; ‘you are not in mourning.’

‘I am convicted of my sins,’ he said; ‘and I must die to sin so that I may become a new creature in Christ Jesus. I am writing to my brother and telling him that my old life is dead, and from this time I am going to be a new man, with God’s help.’ He is now in our training-school, earnestly studying the Bible, with new desires and a new aim in life.”