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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Feb 7, 1884

A Growing Church in Japan

The church in Inesbori, Japan, Mr. Ise pastor, begun about four years ago with seven members, now has two hundred. Mr. Ise is the only son of a man of high rank (killed fighting for his sovereign in Kioto fifteen years ago), and was one of the first class graduated from the training school. Though inheriting his father's rank, he went down to this little handful of Christians on Shikoku, who could give him but three or four dollars a month, took what they could give him, cooked his own rice, washed his own clothes, and now, after four and a half years, has a church of two hundred members.