The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-07

tle. w nen the pig QuakeS would come we felt the earth would just open and swallow us. How thin the crust seemed!
 There's a lovely, we1l-built highway over the mountains, going from Ga temba to Hakane. There were great Assures made in this. Houses were moved from their foundations and in Gotemba many crushed in. They re- ported six killed down there, but all of our houses stood, even though damaged, Reports come of a mill suffering horrible loss. It was the F'uji mill where thousands are em- ployed. They say hundreds were killed. This Is lovely place and Fuji has been wonderful, but now that this has happened l imagine it will make people nervous about com ing back, but it Is as safe as any summer place in Japan. It may never happen again in that region. It is well that 1t happened at the end of the summer. Everybody had had a to leave anyway.
 Live Under Volfcano Shadows.
 These missionaries are a brave set Some of them live under the shadows of volcanoes One lady said they were accustomed to the quiyerings of this old earth. She has been in Japan nearly 40 years and has always lived in the volcano districts. Another told me she lived in an old crater. There are nearly a hundred villages in tho crater and just beyond the noun which really are the walls of the crater, Is a volcano, and all spring 1t has been throwing out fine ashes. She says they get into everything and 1t Is very disagreeable; and L added "a very dangerous situation" l. it's done that at intervals for years" When I asked her why she worked Tn such a dangerous place, she said: 1 The people are there and the need Is great" I have come more and more to know that in selecting this life they have truly "counted their | lives as nothing" And of course that is the real meaning of true service. A mother does 1t for her childi a pastor does it for his people. If we stopped to count our lives, dear, wed never do anything for anybody else that required risk.
 In Goteta or rather here in Mimoke there's a brave little woman whose husband Is a doctor. He comes up on Saturday returning on Monday All summer he has kept up his work in Tokio. The wife has not heard from him since the earthquake She smiles and comes over to her meals, but we can see now she's getting more and more nervous and anxious. Last night when we had another hard quake she jumped out of bed, caught her foot in her long kimona stumbled but finally got to her baby of four months, quickly took her from the bed and ran to the steps; there she stumbled again falling out the door onto her baby. She was sure she had killed her, but she was not even bruised. She said it served her well for wearing kimona and sleeping i indoors.
 Wear Clothes Four Days.
 We did not change our clothes from Saturday morning till Tuesday morning. Tuesday we improvised an outdoor bath room by pinning I'D sheets around a clump of trees The servant brought in big, high wooden Japanese bath tub, the kind that has charcoal fire beneath, and we had our baths in a zinc one using the hot water from the big one We felt simply made over. But when I was taking mine I got through with 1t in hurry as I was afraid big tub of hot water before I could get Into 8 suitable costume in which to run.
 The cook was fine He gave us al most as much as he did ordinarilv, although he had to cook everything
 
 September 4. Had to stop several times in the above to run.
 Last night q typhoon ragged so we
 were forced 10 sleep in the house.
 consequently l didn't sleep until al
 most day. Once a quake came and
 Miss Clarke and 1 jumped and ran
 out in the rain. l had put sheet | near so l could grab it but never | thought of it. l did havo my um-
 brella where I could get it. Fortu-
 nately l did not take off my shoes.
 Sunday morning we he'd a lovely
 service, on the lawn of one of the l missionari ss' home. His wife (Mrs | ObD and daughta~ had latt for Tol<io | the morning of he earthquake, and | he had not heard whether they ar | rived or not Later, three days later
 he did hear thpt they were safe, but l he led the morning service using
 text which ne had chosen two
 weeks before. 2siah 41:10 He said
 in thinking of his sermon in ad-
 vance he simply could not get away
 from that text, so he used it and certainly could not have found in all
 the Bible q more appropriate one for | that day, Everyone was simply at 1 tained to the highest pitch, and no | wonder, for as we sat there the earth trembled seVesal times but not l severely. It was marvellous the faith l MT, Obi exhibited. We all felt and knew the Everlasting Arms were be-
 heath and that no matter what came | wOlltd he rared for Wa