Japan by Benjamin P. Hoffman

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 21, 1914

Japan

By Benjamin P. Hoffman

At present I am not attending language school, but am working with private teachers. In this way I am having more opportunity to talk the language, and also study along special lines, as it is Biblical vocabulary that I need.

And now I am happy to be able to report to you that I have begun speaking in this language, that is, giving talks and leading meetings. Not long ago a call came for meetings to be held over on the other side of Tokio. A man who had heard of the truth offered his house, and promised to get a congregation of his neighbors if a foreign worker would come and speak to them. I saw in this a special opportunity, and so went. It has now developed into a regular appointment for Sundays. Thus the Lord opens the way when we are ready.

It takes hard work and study to prepare, but the Lord verifies his promise of help, and I rejoice to be able gradually to take up the work which I have longed to do. I realize the force of the words of Paul in 1 Cor. 13:1, and am seeking God for the fullness of his power, that this gift of God may be "the pen of a ready writer," and all the glory go to God, who gives the power. In apostolic times we read that every man heard the wonderful works of God in his own tongue. We in Japan still need your earnest prayers.

Benjamin P. Hoffman.