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...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...
That hundreds of Japanese students formerly attending universities in Germany and France will come to this country at the close of the war was the conviction expressed by Toyohiko Kagawa a graduate student of Princeton, who has studied the question carefully...