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...This is the worst part of the year," said Lisa M. Muto '79, director of fellowships at the Office of Career Services (OCS). "With the Rhodes and Marshall due Thursday, it is a heavy period...
Eagerness to Please. After half a year of cramming theology, Tomio Muto took the examinations of the United Church of Christ in Japan and became a licensed minister of Tokyo's Omori Church. He spent two spartan years recasting a translation of the Bible into contemporary Japanese, and turned into a spellbinding evangelist. He was an oddity: native Christian evangelists are about as rare in Japan as Japanese are in the Bible belt. Most Japanese ministers concentrate on theology, philosophy, and on earning their livings at outside jobs. Evangelist Muto found, moreover, that Japanese eagerness to please resulted...
Last summer two dozen U.S. evangelists descended on the country in an invasion planned to the last poster by ex-Propagandist Muto. Teaming up with Japanese pastors and three marimbas, an organ, harp, chorus, a public-address system and a portable stage, they had encouraging results for such a stubbornly non-Christian country: an estimated 88,520 people reached in 140 public services, and 45 baptized, with another 89 being prepared for baptism...
...Million Sympathizers? Tomio Muto's whirl through Indiana is part of a three-month campaign in the U.S. to organize a 40-man team for next summer's work in Japan and to raise some $50,000 to pay for it. "During the occupation," he tells his audiences, "there was an abnormal Christianity boom. The Japanese are adaptable and wanted to flatter the Americans, so many pretended to become Christians. They would have their weddings in churches. But the real test was baptism. Few would do it because it was a cultural break with ancestors, and sometimes with...
When the occupation ended, the number of Christians went down again. Today there are 230,000 Protestants and 200-ooo Roman Catholics in a population o'f 88 million. The only way to change the situation, says Tomio Muto, is through evangelism. "If we could use a $10 million fund for three years-using radio newspapers, the theater, all propaganda agencies-mobilize all Japanese ministers and all Christians, then I could convert 1,000,000 Japanese. Then Japan will change. Politics will change. Corruption gambling and drinking will be attacked. With 1,000,000 Christians we would have...