The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1915-09-18
Religious Work

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Tokyo. within which members were
discussing the question Of China, there
recently stood a big tent. fronted and
fianked by many bright colored Japa-
nesc banners. Through the flaps came
the sound of a mans voice. pleasant.
resonant and powerful. The voice was
exhorting the audience to come to God
and be saved.
The correspondent of a newspaper
on his way to the diet stopped Mt the
entrance of the tent. A little group of
smiling. welcoming Japanese were
there.
who is that man speaking?' was
asked.
why, don't you know?" came the am
swer. That's Kimura, the Billy Sun
day of Japan
At the same moment the notes Of a
Christian hymn sung in chorus filed
h great tent and. bursting without,
caused hundreds of persons to stop,
listen and inquire. They were INFORM
ed that it was all a part of the great
Christian evangelistic movement now
under way throughout Japan and that
Seimatsu Kimura. the young revival
ist OF Japan, friend and student Of
Dwight L. Moody, vas conducting the
Tokyo meetings.
The picture was much the same as
American r~evivalist meetings. with the
added interest lent by the rich colored,
flowing kimono, the black hair of the
japanese women, the occasional clatter
of the wooden shoe and the many
hued japanese decorations.
The music ceased; then a Japanese
with regular, handsome TEXTURES, me-
dunn in height, rather stockily built,
dressed In European clothes, stepped
forward from his coworkers on the
platform and began to talk in Japa-
nese. He began quietly, but soon his
voice rose and his face changed as,
becoming i~mpassioned, he discoursed
eagerly upon the theme OF salvation.
Leaning forward and shooting out a
clinched fist before him, the evangelist
cried to the men: You students of To-
kyo, sitting there on YOU Webster die
tionaries. you think you are fine and
mighty indeed. You think how much
better you are than other people. But,
/ ask, have you found the love Of Je-
sus Christi"
Then, turning to the young women,
he shouted: you with -FOUR pretty XII
monos and pretty faces. think you, per-
haps, that you are saved by these
things alone? Prepare yourselves ere
it is too late. Come into the kingdom
of Jesus Christ and be saved" Then
he went on hammering away at the
different sections of his audience, ges-
t%iculating violently at times, moving
nervously back and forth upon the
platform, jumping up and down,
crouching to his knees, and especially
using his wonderful black Eyes and his
expressive face to bring home the
thought he was trying to communi-
cate.
Suddenly he swung his right arm
upward toward a sign which rested
above the platform and read it both in
Japanese and English.
"Christ for the citizens of Tokyol
The citizens of Tokyo for Christi"
"Hearken to the words, my brothers.
Hearken to the words, my brothers
and sisters. My aim is to convert to
Christianity every one Of the 100000 600
souls in Japan today. J believe in sud-
den conversions. Come here now and
give me your hand as an emblem that
you have accepted the faith"
A number of persons walked up to
the reviyalist and accepted Christian
ity. Then there was more music, and
the correspondent was introduced to
the Sankey of the Tokyo revivalist
movement. He is called ''Vio" Sakai,
because he loves the violin, and as
Sankey was singer for Moody so Sakai
is the player for Kimura.
Seimatsu Kimura, who is known by
his American friends as Henry Kfmu
"a, was born In Japan about forty
years ago.
II was the son of a wine seller" ne
said, "and when ! was a boy OF SIX
teen l was converted to the gospel OF
Christ"