The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-28

Several Waiorburlana have re- ceived Chrisfnas greetings from Rev Floyd li. Roberts. former ass sistant pastor of the First church, who is now engaged in missionary work in Japan. Rev Mir Roberts gives many interesting facts of his work in Japan and conditions in that country at the present time. His letter is as follows:
 A merry Christmas and a happy New Year from the five Robertsl And that's the first time that ever happened. You know we have to sign John Taylor's name to all letters now. He was born on Oc- tober 20, at Yokohama and is a healthy, husky baby. Mrs Roberts is also regaining her strength in record time. got up to Yokohama just in time for ..the event." and Mrs Roberts sister, who is teach- ing in the American school in Tokyo visited her almost every day. Naomi is now with us here in Na- goya for the Thanksgiving holidays and will come again at Christmas. We have much to be thankful for this year, as always.
 Summer has come and gone since the last broadcast, ana it was a busy one. I had charge of the child- ren's activities again last summer. About 100 children were enrolled in our summer classes. Then there was one week of mission meeting at Karuizawa in July and the Fed eration of Christian missions to which was one of five delegates of our mission at the end of July. Lake Nojiri is a lovely place and we enjoyed it and our many friends to the full. But we were just as glad to come home again to our work and friends here in Nagoya.
 We have had no trouble in keep ing busy this fall. Don is in a Japanese kindergarten just a few minutes walk from the house and loves it. There are 60 in the kinder garten and Don is the only fore igner. His Japanese is much butter than his parents. am still teach ing in two schools, teaching a Bible class here at home, conduct ing an English worship service for students every Sunday night, preaching in Japanese occasionally, working in our two churches and at our Biwajim mission, and other odd jobs. In music, we have been continuing our regular monthly concerts here at the house with ex- cellent programs. I am directing the Nagoya Choral club of young men drown from three of the high. CT schools of the city. The Glee club sang in big concert 8 couple of weeks ago, their first appear ance. They didn't cover themselves with glory, but at least, they've made start. Our Choral society will give Mandell's Messiah" on the 9th of this month and will be accompanied by the Nagoya Symph- ony orchestra. have been train- ing the orchestra several forenoons out of every week. Our soprano soloast will be a Japanese from Nobe college; our alto, and Amer ican from Tokyo, our tenor, an American from this city; and the baritone, and Englishman from Tokyo. There are more than fifty in the chorus, all but five of them Japanese. The auditorium we have engaged will seat a little over 1000 and we hope to fill it. As result or an appeal to our American friends we received gifts of 2S copies of the Messiah for which we shall ever be grateful.
 Our work at Biwajima has been most interesting and gratifying. We have 28 enrolled in the kinder garten, which is self-supporting, an average attendance of over 50 in Sunday school and about 25 in our Wednesday afternoon school Tor pre-school children not in kinder garten. Miss Harada is still the
 
 wao helping her, had to give up Nagasaka as assistant. This fall MT Sakai has been so busy with all kinds of new work that have been using a Miss Otake, a graduate of Kobe college in the English de- partment. for secretarial work and as a teacher. So, with tour cook and maid, we have quite a family now. These days before Christmas have been and will be busy ones. The children are learning new songs and stories for the Christmas en- tertainment; the Mothers club of the kindergarten are selling tickets for a movie to raise money for Christmas presents for the child ren; we are making plans to col feet food and clothes for poor and unfortunate children; and then there will be decorations to make and hang and candy boxes to pack. Here at home we are planning a series of parties for various groups during the week before, Christmas. The Mothers club and children will come one afternoon, Don's kinder garten friends another, his neigh borhood playmates another; the Music club will come one evening for Christmas carols, the Glee club another, the Bible class another, and friends from the churches an- other. And so merrily we roll along. -'' -----"''f '-'r'-.,''' 4'-'--e- ~
 Needless to say, Mrs Roberts has been busy with the family. But the very fact that there is a tiny baby in the house has brought a stream of callers. So she has been