Mission Opportunities in Japan
By W. D. Burden
Mito, Japan.—Wherever we go, we find the harvest ripe, waiting for the reapers. Only a few years ago this place was closed to Christianity; but we came here ten days ago to begin a tent-meeting, and from the very first we found interested persons. It is wonderful, the way the Lord is opening the doors for work. One young lady, whose parents are very bitter, was hungering for truth, and, though she did not dare to come into the tent, for fear of being seen, every night she stood outside just behind the stand, and listened to every word spoken. A little girl who comes to the children's meetings, said her parents were angry when they saw her praying, so every morning she goes out into the garden to pray. We asked her what she prayed for. She answered, that the Lord would help her to be a good girl, and help her parents to love God, too. Think of it, brethren! Such cases as these in the midst of heathen darkness! Yet we find them wherever we go. O, that we had workers to go to every one of the hundreds of cities of Japan, to tell the people the good news of salvation!