The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1912-01-22
HOW He BECAME CHRISTIAN
Determined to Come Here so
He Might Become Better
Missionary.
Rev. Havigliurst Tells How Religion
Can be Made Useful and Helpful.
Rev. Miles breaches Agaln-Spirit
SIN Alive in calvary.

jap and senior In the theological de-
partmcnt OF the Dcnison university
gave an address before a large aud
lencc at the First Reformed church
yesterday morning. Rev. L. II. Zech.
lcl gave a brief discourse in German
prior to San Useugis address.
The life Of san Uesugi does not vary
To great extent, from the lives OF
many Japanese converts, who have
been tempted to the christian Bible
class with a promise OF acquiring a
nuent use Of the English language.
10 this the Japanese Is not only an
cnviable accomplishment, but an es.
sential accessory to the man who
hopes to attain high political and ma
uonal preference.
To the ambitious zap an offer from
n missionary to teach him his tongue
Is bait which wins hundreds Of
Christians.
In opening the speaker stated that
the opportunity to speak in Marion
was to him n happy one. He deplored
his inferior English which hindered
him from expressing his thoughts
nently. "G hope YOU will pray for
me-" said he. "for without God /
could not speak at all
In speaking Of the religion of his
country. he said: I'm Japan there are
many gods There are gods Of the
sun, the moon. the stars, the clouds,
the god Of the mountains, Of fire and
the storm. The Japanese worship all
of these. The majority of the Jap
anese are Buddhists, Shin Toists or
Christians. / was born Buddhist
and my people are devoted to that
god. MY grandmother worshlped at
the shrine Of Buddha day and night
and twenty thousand times day she
spoke his name.
''She used to say to me, If you only
would repeat the name OF Buddha
many times n day you will go to
the beautiful paradise when you die.
She used to hire me to speak his
name and after | had said it hun
dred times she would give me pen.
MICS. knew nothing OF the happy
paradise and cared nothing for the
name of Buddha, but l wanted the
pennies.
"Thcrc is great need of mission
aries in the heather hand TO tell tho
people of Jesus Christ There are
many devoted Buddhists to whom the
name Of Jesus Christ Is "A stranger
II only they could hear the story
Of him they would be as devoted to
the religion Of Christ.
Fourteen years ago / was a stud.
cnt I'm the high school in Tokyo,
which is my home. one day / met
missionary on the street. She took
me by the hand and gave me a tes-
lament. she said that 1t was a good
story book and that / should read it,
tookit home and went to my room
and there | read the first chapter. /
thought it was a strange book and
burned it in the fire.
"A few days later ! again saw the
missionary. She asked me If / had
read the book and when | told her
It was burned she gave me another.
',rhen friend told me about a
church whore 1t cost nothing to at
tend and where there was beautiful
music and the folks who attended act.
cd strangely. We went and there the
missionary asked me to attend tho
English bible class. 1 wanted to learn
the English language so / assented
one year later / became a Christ.
ian. Two years later there was a
great revival in Tokyo. The Holy
Spirit came to me and / could not
keep silent. / spoke to a group of
men on the street and a policeman
came and dispersed the crowd. l went
to another street and started to speak
there when 1 met with the same OBJ
stacle. This time the policeman told
me he would lock me up, so l thought
II would be "A good plan TO preach
the gospel 10 those officers at the
prison, 1 took out the bible and read
to them The story OF Jesus Christ
They thought / was crazy and order
ed me taken home. l told the police
man who took me home the story OF
the Savior and he later became a
Christian"
San Uesugi told of his determine
ton to come to America where he
could better prepare himself for a
Christian missionary. lie told of how
he went 10 his home TO say good bye
to his father and mother ana they
closed the door and told him never
TO come back.
Dear friends" he said in closing
pray for my parents. pray for my
country and pray for me-"
Eyangelistic Spirit still Alive.