Word: kagawa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thought-provoking words came last week from Japan's best-known Christian, Toyohiko Kagawa, who is currently evangelizing for Japan's United Church of Christ. Said he, in the Christian Century...
...faith must not lag behind contagious diseases in spreading." This was Toyohiko Kagawa's new watchword for the Japanese faithful. He gave it to the 3,500 delegates of the Christian churches of Japan who had assembled on the windswept campus of Tokyo's bombed...
...most U.S. Christians, Kagawa still symbolizes Christianity in Japan. Author of an ambitious three-year plan to evangelize his country, he spends much time training young Japanese to spread the gospel, once again preaches almost daily in his emotional Holy Roller style. He is still a preacher of the social gospel...
...Kagawa's place is not unquestioned. Many Japanese Episcopalians and Catholics frown on what they consider his avid fondness for the limelight. Newly appointed to Japan's House of Peers, he is among those whose seating General MacArthur has ordered delayed, pending determination of their status as "desirable personnel." Headquarters rumor predicted last week that he would not be purged, despite an unfavorable report by SCAP's Civil Intelligence Section...
...Kagawa was unconcerned. Said he to reporters: "I have been an evangelist from the start. The Gospel never changes. If they bar me from office it is all right; I will still march...