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Into al l
th e world
and preach the Gospel
to every
c r e a t u r e
H o m e
Addres s :
A7 Shishigakuchi
Koyoen
Nishinomiya
Shi
Osaka Christian Mission
Osaka, Japan
Mr.
an d
Mrs. Paul
Nielsen,
Missionaries
Osaka Chr is t ia n Mission
APO
25
e/ o Postmaster
San Fransisco, California
Aug
15th
1951
OUR AIM
T o
establish
N ew
Testament Churches
oChrist in Japan
Seminary:
74 7 Nakamiyacho
Asahiku
Osaka
Japan
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n
te
D e a r M a o .
On such a
terr if icpot
days I am sweating and trying to get in
the l i t t l e
b r e e z e
a n d w r i t e letters
a t
t h e
same t i m e .
Paul has busy with Ray M^ngs and the
Native
preachers in three nites of
s t r e e t meeting
and then
the
f i n a l climax with an a l l day
meeting
a t Aaahi church
t has been t e r r i b l y hard on
them
because
o f
t h e t e r r i b e h e a t wave anl it
i s
l a s t i n g
so long, but
I read i n
the
papers t h a t
you
are having
one a t
home also .
Paul preached
Sunday
morning and
I
don t
know who preached
a t
nite and in
the
afternoon
I am enclosing pic tures
for your
birthday
calender.
I t o l d the photographflf
t h a t
I
wanted
them
f o r c u t s .
I am a
l i t t l e
concerned
about
R u ss el l s p ic tu re .
e
i ^ o t
here.
e
is in Nojiri with
Beckmans
Paul and I
aren t
going this year.
In
t h i s
heat though I wish we
had
of. Paul wanted to work on
the
house and do
what was
delayed
by his being laid up for a month. The men are
working
on the
cement work outs ide , it seems good to have a few steps t o use enstead of
climbiig
dirt
I am
enclosing
an
older picture
of
Russell
to use
just
in
case
the recent
one won t make a good cut.
He
has grovm so much
since
the f i r s t ens was
taken.
I
don t know just
what all
information
you wish
regarding
our
birthdays
but
here are
th e d ate s.
?-larcia ^arch 21
s t . Russel l
April
27th
19^5^ Martha
f^nn
May 25 rd,
95^
Paul Oct. Jls t xF^la Dec 24th 1945.
I f you have half
a
doaen
pisrthdays fal l ing on
the
same day how
can
you
get
them a l l
in
the
day
space
on
the
calender?
.Von t that
complicate
things
some what?
i enjoyed
our fellowship
with .the Tokyo and Kyushu ?^issionaries.
in
the
camp.
Every
one learned
some th ings t h a t
should
have been
done and
some
t h a t
s h o u l d n t
have
been
done.
e are s t i l l r ece iv ing inqu i res
about
the
undemonational
churh
as a r e s u l t
of
t h e
meeting i n the b ig auditor ium down town.
I c a n t think
of
anything else from t h i s end
of
the
l i n e
to
write about.
And I
have
some
other l e t t e r s to get
written
beside
a
couple
of f in ical stalements
How i s a l l of lyour family? I suppose they are so bio- t h a t one wouldn t ha rl dy
knwo them. Our c h i l d r e n
have
c e r t a i n l y
had b e t t e r h e a l t h s i n c e we moved out h e r e
into
o u r
n e w
h o m e .
Martha
Ann ate some r a t poison l a s t Monday morning through t he car le snee s
of
the maid but we
got i t
up after a rush
t r i p
to
the
hospital and she wasn t
sick
from
i t a l i t t l e
t i r e d
the r e s t of
t h a t
day.
I n H i s S e r v i c e
.
M a r c i a
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:
D e a r H a r o l d
Aug 20th 1951
Koyoen J a p a n .
Would
you
l i k e a
bucket of
sweat : to
water
your lav;n
with
I can
f u r n i s h
you a l l
you can
u s e .
I am
t r y i n g t o answer t h i s
l e t t e r f o r
Paul and
I hope
t h a t
it
mfeets
with
his
approval. He has turned over the buying
of
the
jeep
chasis to
Ray Oarnahan
i n
the Pomona church. He also s e n t the information
to hira
t h a t you gave us.
And
t o l d
Ray
t h a t i f t h i s
i s cheaper
than what he can
do to
use
his judgement. 3o you may
be
hearin-
from
Ray d i r e c t .
We
are praying
constant ly t h a t th e
funds
w i l l come
i n
if it i s th e
Lord s 1^11 for i f
it
doean t come
then
Paul will
not
be
able
to do h is
r u r a l evangleism
t h a t
he has h i s
h e a r t
s e t i n .
We have
ano ther ma tt er
t h a t we
want
to w r i t e t t o
you about.
The
preacher
of Tanabe
has prepared
h i s
autobiography and wants
it
published
and
the proceeds
of
t h i s p ut h im se lf through school i n nraerica. V/e f e e l
t h a t
he i s a lr e ad y th e b e s t
preacher we
have
here
on th e
f i e l d . He
has
n6t
said anything to us about it but has been corresponding direct ly
with Cha rle s Matthew of
the
Creighton Ave
church
in Ft. Wayne
Ind, who
t o
giving
him
support .
They f e e l t h t he
t h i n k s
t h a t e i t h e r
the m i n i s t e r
himself or
the church
could finance
the
thin g to
have
i t published.
N e i t h e r a r e a b l e
t o do
s o and we
h e e i t a t e t o
use m i s s i o n f u n d s
f o r tw o
reasons.
I f
we do
so
for him then w would
be
putt ing ourselves i n a
p o s i t i o n
t h a t we would have to help any
other
Japanese who decided t o
do l ikewise. And
t h i s
would be a source of jealous among t he people.
We have to watch
t h i s fhing
so
close ly among
them d o n t
do
for one what
you
aren t
prepared
to
do
fo r a l l .
Second reason and
this is not ready
f or pub li cahl on
yet .
That
a
worker
may
be
coming to
the
Tanabe
f i e l d
soon and the
funds
will be needed in
this
respect. The plans
are
just in
the making so v/e
can t publish i t
yet .
I f t h i s looks l ike i t might be well to have pub li shed both
from
the
s tandpoint of what it would c o n t r i b u t e to missions which Brother Matthews
feels i t v^ould then we have the problem of financing i t . Do you know of
anything
t h a t
you can offer in the l i n e of suggestions? I have never
published a
book
but I know t h a t i t
costs
mor^ey. I know t h a t severi l
missions have published books but
what they
did with the
proceedi
I
don t
Imow bi^
suppose
that i t went back
into mission
work ny
ideas
that
you
might ^11
be most
welcome
because
we are starting with
none.
The chi ldren think
they
should
give
us
plenty o f
v a r i e t y
i n
l i f e
so t h e y
manage
one way
o r another
t o s u - p l y it This noon
because she
has learned t o climb before
she
walks,
i found Martha Ann s i t t i n g iup
i n
the d ish
cupboard,
with
an impis h smile on her
f a c e . But
then
you
being
a
f a t h e r
o f f i v e
should be a b l e t o a p p r e c i a t e such
a
s t u n t .
We are on th e
o u t s k i r t s
of TlTyphoon Ilargie we have had a
good
breeze
t h a t
l a s t three
days and looks
rainyvbut as yet
none
had come.
Thanky
you f o r a l l your
help.
H a s t i l y
Marcia
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This
is
the
next
morning
Bid
I say that the children liked
to give s plent '
of variety?
Last
nite a robber
came back
for the second time. .6 nites
ao o
he
came into the
dinning
room and
took two
of Paula
white
ahi-ts and a pair of
his trousers. e think that he came another
time
and got a pair of Paul d shoes
anyway they are gone, last
nite
he was after shoes.
And
Paul saw
him
come to
the window the first time and raised his
head
and evedently the robber
saw
him.
About
an
hour
later he
cane
back
and
was
on
the floor
besides
the
bed
picking
up
the shoes when
Paul
woke
up
and made a dive for him he aliped on the rug
and the robber got part way out of the
window,
I
heard
the Tioise and thot some
one was having a
real
nite
raare
so went
in
-and saw Paul
trying
to hold the
man
at the
window
so T went over and ^^tarted to beat up on the guy and Paul said
don t
do
that
help
me
pull
him
inside.
So
I
gave
a pull too
and
got
him
inside.
Then I turned the light on and called the man who
we
have working for us.
He
came
and they held
him
while the
inaid and
I ran
down
the hill for the
police.
He had Faulda white shirt and
trousers
on
that
h had- stolen 6
nites
before.
I had to
read
a ll
the Lookouts in the house before I could
o-et
back to sleen.
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helping
the
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is l i fe in the
orientt-
The fellow was one
of
the
work men who had worked
to^
lay cement for a week.
He
came the first
nite
after they finished
artha Ann slept through a ll th e no is e.
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Septedser
1S^51
i > 6 ^ r i cla oxid
all
Thank
you
f o r ycjur l e t t e r o f 20 August. I wish I could aicourage a
Brother preach^to
publish
an autobiography but the
scale
which
pri vat e
pnblicati-ncan
be c i r c u l a t e d th e re wojld be no raoney /d th ;vhich
to
go
to school. An Organization
l i k e t he C hr is ti an
Standard w i l l not-go
in
f o r publications
o f
tha t nature because t he c ir cu la ti on is usually
too
s
l i E i t e d to
Eutke
i t f i n a n c i a l l y po3 j iblothey d o n t tnate an:ything on
i t ,
I
mean
I f ho ha s
a real ly
gccxi
s t o r y o f
a populir ni^tiu-e ~
liico
The Preacher
of th e
O^ arks - walV.iQi; that
is
- he might get a anni-crciaJ. publisiiei- t o
publ i sh it and have r.oi:.e
iiico^c from
i t .
I think ./ou are r i g h t in not uiiciortaking the financirig o f i t fo r an y
roason
-
Xhi:ailci
also
fo** p ic tu res
fo r th e
calei idar .
Pray f o r
u s .
\
we hope you are allw ell a^d
we pray
fo r
youi .vork a 3 yoa
look
forward to the new
y e a r s program a t s c h o o l e t c .
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D a a r
H a r o l d
Koyoan
Japan
Oct , 1 3 t h
1951
I
raoeivad
your l e t t e r some days ago
but
i t seems that I
just
can t
use any b r s i n power t o w r i t e
l e t t e r s
u n t i l
th e week end. Then I have t o
get my
l e t t e r s done
and
a l l
the
other ext ra
things t h a t come up. I j u s t
got
one
maid
f a i r l y
well
t r a i n e d
so
I
f e l t
. t h a t
I
could
be
gone
from
th e
house,
and
then I had to
l e t
them go. I looked
for
another and one came
she worked 5 days and had t o
have
t ime o f f to get two
t e e t h
pul led ,
then
l a s t
n i t e sh e became suddenly
i l l
with appendicts
and had
to go to the
h o s p i t a l . 3o I went down to the c i t y and got another woman t o come who was
t o work two
days a
week.
She
has
nevered
worked
before so
I am
having to
te ac h h er ev ery th in g. So i n between showing her how I w i l l t r y t o get t h i s
l e t t e r
done. I,
was anxious
for
her
t o come
today
because I could get a
littl o f t h e newness
worn
o f f before I t r i e d t o have language c l a s s on
Konday.
-Sometimes it
seems t h a t
it
i s o nly sh ee r s tubborn
d e t e r m i n a t i o n
t h a t keejps
me a t
language.
So
many
t h i n g s happen t o bother me it
would
bd 30
easy to
stop
and
have a wonderful good
reason
for
doing so.
Nov 6, Paul and I begin ou r 6 weeks of t each ing in th e Seminary than
we
w i l l
have our
t ime
t o
study
a g a i n .
We began s e r v i c e s
i n our
home The
t h i r d week i n
3ept .
They had outdoor
s t r e e t
meeting i n
t h e v i l l a g e next to u s . Only th e f o l k
from
the I t a m i
church
showed up.
The next
week
we
put hand b i l l s i n the newspaper t h a t
went
out t o
this
a r e a
and
Russel l went
down
t o th e t r a i n
s t a t i o n and
passed o u t
hand
b i l l s
as the f o l k
came home
t h a t n i t e .
V/
had 49 t h a t n it e .
8 of
them
are
church
members 5 of* the Temma church
t h a t
Madden had
when
he was h e r e . 5
bad
been
s p r i n k l e d . The fol lowing week we found 5 niore members. I t h i n k of other
churchs,
and t h e r e i s supposed
t o be
a woman
i n the
new
p a r t
of Koyoen who
is a member o f t h e
c h u r c h
o f O h r i s t .
Th
5
^bo
wer
menbers are
get t ing r i g h t
in and
are
working, they
ar
very
much
i n t e r e s t e d , so
it
appears
t h a t we wil l
have
a real help.
I t
also
seems-that a t ^ast we have gotten a point
over t o
them
t h a t
they must do
f o r
themselves
and
not expect everything
handed
to
them
from
the
mission.
We are going
to
t r y to get
the
garage s tuccoed
so
i t
will be warm
t h i s
w i n t e r ,
but they are working
t o
get a l l of
t h e i n t e r i o r
th ings
t h a t
they
n e e d .
We
c a n t get
a l l
the
children who come
to Bible
School
into our l iving
room so t h e
a d u l t s
meet h e r e , an d t h e o hi l r e n o u t
i n
t h e garage. As soon as
they
can get
chai rs
t h e adul ts wil l
meet
in the garage a l s o .
We thought t h a t we would s t a r t out with one meeting a week but they
asked f o r 4 a week. B i b l e school and church
s e r v i c e
on Saunday a f t e r o o n s
English
Bible class
for
^0
minutes
with an i n t e r p r e t e r and followed \^ith
a Japanese B ib le stu dy
onTue n i t e s . Then
the women asked for a
meeting
fo r
them. They want
to
know how
to
remake c lo th es f or
t h e i r
children and
study more nutrilshal food for their families and also american way of rsisnng
,_phildren.
Veil
I have
been
saaking a
study
of
that
because
ycourse
in
the
^--^ jTraining of Kindergarten te ache rs . In my study I have found some very
inter
estino-
t h i n g s . I
v i s t e d
a
place where they published
a
magazine very s i m i l i a r
t o P a r e n t s Magazine.
liJhly 120. came in fo r th e Jeep and ^ane found that she had to have a
permit
which
required
5
months.to
g e t .
Hov/ever
enough
funds
have
come
i n f o r
the
f i r s t
semester
of
schooling
for
Russell and
Paula
i f t h e y don t
r a i s e
th e
t u t i o n , I have not
received th e
b i l l as y e t . Now th e
sum
f o r n e x t
semester
is
n e e d e d .
Dinner i s ready
and Russell and Paul are
over
an hour l a t e
I think
Paula and I w i l l go ahead and e a t . They went t o
g e t
some s t rawberry
p l a n t s
and I suspect
t h a t
t h i s
fellow
where they went i s l it er a l l y t a l k i n g a
leg
off f t h e m .
Oan you p r i c e me some c h o c l a t o
faloveaied
Aurecmyoin t h e n I
w i l l
send
you a check
for
some.
Guess
t h i s
w i l l
be a l l for
t h i s t ime ,
how i s a l l o f
you r f am ily ? We
c e r t a i n l y
have
a l l .
b e t t e r h e a l t h s i n c e we moved h e r e . ^
^
In
His Service,