Japan by S. A. Lockwood

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Dec 10, 1903

Japan

By S. A. Lockwood

KOBE.—The work among the Japanese people continues to grow, and it seems quite likely that there will be a Seventh-day Adventist church organized in Kobe before the new year. One of the largest churches in this city had the Sabbath truth preached to them. A man and his wife received a tract, and then came to the house for Bible readings. They decided to accept present truth, and asked to have their names withdrawn from the church roll. It created no little commotion. Others have decided to go out with them. Thus this whole church has heard the truth, and is stirred over the matter. But they do not feel very kindly toward us for distributing the tracts, thus seducing their members. However, our nurses went to all alike, Christians and non-Christians, in distributing publications. We can not tell what the end will be, but we are sure that the Lord is working upon the hearts of the people; and we leave the result with him. The foreign leader of the church referred to above tried to ridicule one of his men by saying that his church was very large in America, while the Seventh-day Adventist Church was insignificant. The man replied: “This is the truth which they have, and I should follow it if there were only one other on the earth who believed it.”

Our Sabbath-school averages sixteen adult members, and is held in the sanitarium dining room.

S. A. Lockwood.