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Because he is an expert on Japanese consumers', producers', credit and medical cooperatives, a seminar on Consumers' Cooperation, sponsored by the Federal Council of Churches and to be held in Indianapolis over New Year's, was planned with Dr. Kagawa as its featured member...
...First Baptist Church of Oakland, Calif, was all ready one night last week to extend a rousing welcome to a visitor from Japan, the No. i Christian of that land. Dr. Toyohiko Kagawa. The church folk of Los Angeles would gather the following night to greet the soft-faced, myopic 47-year-old man of God whose arrival has been heralded in church papers for months. Few days after Christmas the Young People's Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in Memphis, had on its program the name of the great Dr. Kagawa, who went to Princeton Theological...
...Fourth Southwide Southern Baptist Training Conference in Birmingham counted on Dr. Kagawa making another flying trip South. Other Southern and Eastern cities had him down for addresses before he was to appear, early in February, at another co-operative meeting in Kansas City. The Illinois Council of Religious Education was listed for a speech by the convert Christian who has written more than 50 books, many of them Japanese best sellers...
...tuberculous, half-blind Japanese who used to be a Manhattan butler is not only Japan's greatest Christian but one revered all over the Christian world. He is Toyohiko Kagawa, founder of a Kingdom of God movement which was to Christianize 1,000,000 Japanese by this year and bring Japan's Christian churches together in a powerful campaign for social justice. Last week U. S. churchmen were discussing reports from Japan that the Kingdom of God is functioning none too well, that its leader has left...
Born 44 years ago to a Privy Councillor and his concubine, Toyohiko Kagawa was registered as legitimate, brought up in luxury, educated for a political career. When the child was n his father died and a rich uncle took him in. A Buddhist, Kagawa studied English in a Presbyterian English Bible Class. At 15 he became a Christian, was promptly disinherited. His health failing, he lived for a time in a poor fishing village, then for four years in the slums of Kobe. He went to the U. S., studied at Princeton Theological Seminary, earned expenses at odd times...