The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-02-28
NIPP0N PREACHER IMITATES SUNDAY
 AND EAKES s'HIT''
Tries Methods He Learned Here, With Amazing Sue
 cess Tn Japan.

Tokio, Feb. 28.-In the audiences
 which listened to Billy SunCay- at Des | Moines and Philadelphia IT: gT1t have 1 been observed a middle-aged Japan
 csc He came night after night, ta- l king up his place where Ee could see i as well as hear, and with his bright 1 black eyes he studied every gesture | of the popular preacher.
 The little Oriental was to be known in his turn as the Japanese Billy Sunday" He was then in pursuit of I a great idea-the idea that the time had come to speed up the Christian ization of Japan and to try the cleo trica1 machinery of Billy Sunday in stead of the older methods which in sixty years have enrolled 100000 Protestant Christians out Of a popu- lationS of fifty million souls.
 He believed the ploddipg, sem1- educational methods of the m:ssiona- ries had to be supplemented by whir1- wind eVangeization. He had reach ed the point where a man stakes his career on his idea. He esigned a comfortable pastorate in Kyoto and set out on a journey around the world to study every method of eVangeliza- ton in vogue and introduce the creamed synthesis of them all to Ja- pan.
 But at Des Moines, Iowa, he real ized that he had arrived at the end of his pilgrimage. He abandoned the trip to England which he had project ed in order to see Gypsy Smith and other evangelists at work, and after following Billy Sunday to PhiIade1- phia to complete his study, he return ed to Japan, and presently in a dusty broad street in Tokio, nearly oppo- site the Diet buildings a tabernacle of wood was raised and nightly audien- ces locked to hear him.
 The experiment. was entered on with some doubts, Some were of the opinion that what Japan required was not whirIwind methods, but quiet ed ucation, especially of ,thr on1cia1 class es who still cherish aninaosity to Christians and Christianity. 9th CTS thought an evangelistic campaign could not be financed This point was met by one man taking on him self the whole financial responsi bility. The sma1lness of the figures will be a revelation to you. The cost of the Tokio campaign was estimated at one thousand yen, or five hundred dollars. Twelve hundred yen was raised The ftJapanese Billy Sundays share amounted to seventy-f1Ve dollars gold for one month. F<
 From an official report supplied by Rev. John Lincoln Dearing, secretary of the Federated Missions in Japan, it. is g4eaned that at twenty-one meet ings Rev. S.. Kmura (to give him his ordinary name) addressed 22.o00 people, or whom sSVO came IOEWaTO and made inquiries about Christian ity. /
 Subsequently, he conducted a cam paign in Kyoto during the coronation period, and the result was 1900 in quirers. A1campaign in his native place has been followed by the estab- 1ishment of a strong native church. In another country district, 200 in quirers have been registered, 50 in another, and so on, Summing up his work satisfactorily you can say broadly that in eight months he has brought news of Christianity to 80,- 900 people, of whom some 5000 have confessed their interest by voluntarily coming forward to make inquiry.
 His great success lies in the plain ness of his language and the home liness of his illustrations. It is not easy for a highly educated mission ary to get down to the level of peo- pie who believe that by rubbing their hand over a worm eaten wooden idol in the temple and passing that hand over the fact of their child they can relieve the chi1d's toothache. Kimu-i