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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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tian 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 toChina to buy a copy. This he read in secret. By and by Muratas younger brother cameto Mr. Verbeck to school. And so, after atime, Murata learned more about Jesus, whomhe already loved, and he gladly gave his heartto Christ. About this time, a young man came fromJapan to Boston to study. The owner of the
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(116) MISSIONARIES IN JAPAN 117 ship on which he sailed liked the lad, whowas called Joe, and he took him to be hisson, and sent him to school. This young man,Joseph Hardy Neesima, as he was later called,became a Christian; and when his school dayswere over, he went back to Japan to teach thepeople, and to tell them the Good News. In these days there are many Christianteachers and many mission schools in Japan,and thousands of Japanese have heard andread of Jesus, and how He gave His life tosave those in every nation who would ffivetheir hearts to Him. I sometimes wonder if children who havebeen born in Christian homes remember tothank their loving heavenly Father that theyare taught to love Jesus when they are little.A number of years ago a man who lovedchildren came to Japan for a visit. He lovedall children, but he especially loved the chil-dren whose fathers and mothers had died, andwho had no one to take care of them. He hadgathered hundreds and thousands of thesechildren into ho

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