Identifier: seeingourmission00unit (find matches)
Title: Seeing our missions across the seas
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: United Brethren in Christ. Foreign Missionary Society
Subjects: United Brethren in Christ
Publisher: Dayton, Ohio : (s.n.
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Princeton Theological Seminary Library

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g for the best from every nation. Five United Brethren Churches in Tokyo. In visitingJapan our steamship brings us to Yokohama. Looking east-ward we see clearly the famous Fujiyama snow-capped.On going ashore we get into a jinrikisha, Japans time-honored conveyance, in order to catch the first train forTokyo, eighteen miles away. Tokyo is the capital of Japanand has a population of more than 2,000.000 people. Thisis the headquarters of our mission. Here live our superin-tendent. Dr. Joseph Cosand, and his aunt. Miss EllenMoore, and Rev. and Mrs. Warren H. Hayes. Scatteredthroughout tJiis qrcat city, zvhich ranks sixth in siac amongthe largest cities of the ivorld, are five organi.:ed UnitedBrethren churches. Our Honjo Church in this city furnishes a practicalillustration of the influence of our Sunday school and church.One member, who in his student days was superintendentof this school, is now a major in the navy, and was recentlyin England on an important mission. He is an active 41
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Y~^9t) worker in the church. Among- other members who werewon as boys through the Sunday school is an architect, abanker, and an influential dentist. The latter is the presentSunday-school superintendent. The young men of thischurch go out frequently and hold meetings in differentsections of this manufacturing district, and also in neighbor-ing towns. Right dozvn in the very heart of the business sectionof this great city is located our Nihombashi Church. It issituated in the oldest and most congested section of Tokyo.Our pastor here was an honor student in a law school beforehe decided to enter the ministry. He likewise carried thehonors later in the Theological Seminary. This churchis beginning a campaign to raise funds for a new church.Their plan is to put up a building which will be open everyday in the week and be the social center for the young menemployed in this congested business district. They willneed help from friends in America in order to build a churchwhich will meet th

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