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Title: Strange peoples & customs
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Evans, Adelaide Bee
Subjects: Children Missions
Publisher: Mountain View, Calif., Pacific Press
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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would be putto death. After a while the rulers were sure that therewere no more Christians in Japan. But allthe years that Japan was shut up, as I toldyou, as if it had a great wall around it, therewere men and women, hundreds of them, whoremembered the name of Jesus, and loved it.Some met in hidden places to worship Him.But they were very careful not to spread theirprecious secret abroad, as they would surelybe killed if it became known. But the time came when every nation musthear the good news that Jesus is comingagain. The Lord opened the way for thepeople of Japan to hear too. The rulers firstallowed a few people to live in certain cities,and by and by men and women who lovedJesus came to teach the young Japanese toread English and to study other things.Some of these boys and girls learned thegospel, though for many years the teachershad to be very careful. Guido F. Yerbeck was one of the Christianteachers who went from America to Japan.There were still public notices against the
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(114) MISSIONARIES IN JAPAN , 115 evil sect called Christians, but Mr. Verbeckfound ways to tell the people about Jesus.He worked for nearly forty years in Japan;and before he died, he had the joy of seeingthousands of Japanese boys and girls in Chris-tian schools, reading the Bible, and singingChristian hymns. He loved Japan and herpeople so much that he said, If I had a hun-dred lives, I would give them all for Japan. A few years before Mr. Verbeck came toJapan, the king had set watchmen in thelovely harbor of Nagasaki to see that no onefrom other lands came to Japan. One of these watchmen was Murata Wa-kasa no Kami. One day while he was on duty,he saw a little dark thing on the water; andwhen his men brought it to him, he saw thatit was a book. It was really a Bible, which insome way had been dropped into the water.Murata learned that it was a book that toldabout the One who made all things. Thenhe heard that the Bible had been printed inthe Chinese language, so he sent a man toChi

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