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Instead, Tomio Muto was barnstorming through Indiana last week, drawing capacity crowds night after night with his charged oratory, and raising dollars by the hatful. His hope: a million Japanese Christians in four years. "Evangelism is war," says Presbyterian Muto. "As we fight for Christ, we must move on the scale of Alexander and Genghis Khan...
Guilt in the Heart. Fighting is something Tomio Muto understands. As a poor peasant boy of 14 he made his way alone to Tokyo and got a job as servant in a lawyer's house. He did so well at night school that a group of businessmen sent him through college and law school. Two years after graduation he was a judge. The same year (1929) he was baptized a Christian after six years of persuasion by Methodist Missionary Samuel Wainwright and a Japanese Presbyterian. While Muto was helping to run the conquered Chinese territory of Manchukuo, he served...
...postwar punishment by the U.S. military government, but banished from political life, grateful Tomio Muto became an active Christian for the first time. He helped famed Christian Leader Toyohiko Kagawa start a magazine called Christian News (present circulation: 30.000). But when his old boss Tojo was hanged by the Allies in 1948, says Muto, "I felt the rope. Now I knew I must work for Christ. I definitely decided to become a minister...
...from climax to climax in a Roman courtroom, the unfolding story of Italy's sensational Montesi affair seemed more and more to be leaving behind its protagonists: obscure young Wilma Montesi, whose dead body was found on a beach near Ostia nearly a year ago, and Silvano Muto, the editor who stood on trial for spreading "false and adulterated news" about her death. To the millions gobbling up each day's revelations of debauchery in high places, the fate of Wilma and Muto seemed of secondary importance compared to the speculations swirling about the "Marchese" Ugo Montagna, stage...
...Piccioni were on call to testify at the next session. But before they could take the stand, prosecution and defense agreed that the "serious accusation" of the letter "had brought an entirely new element to the trial." The judge concurred and this week ordered the trial of Editor Muto suspended indefinitely. Instead, he recommended, there should be a new and wider investigation of the whole shocking affair...