Maxey Mark Pauline 1984 Japan

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A

Report by

Mark

and

Pauline Maxey

/uNKLerre t^ /

To the F r ie n d s o f th e

Kyushu

C h r i s t i a n

Mission

Kagoshima 893 Japan-Box 417 N.Vernon IN 47265

LINKLETTER 238

APRIL,

1984

ISTER ISABEL

C E N T E R

OF

J A P A N

ea r

C h ri st ia n f ri en d s

Greetings

for 1984 even i f i t

i s

a l ready one- fourth

The Year of

th e

Rat i t i s Once eve ry twe lv e years,

in t h i s par t

of

th e world t r i e s to think

of

some

good

to say

about this

c r i t t e r

Tha t' s o ft en enough

my way of

thinking.

Everybody l i k e s

to

t a l k about

th e

weather

so w e l l

a l i t t l e

b it

of

that , too. I t s

been a

long,

cold

wint

r made thoroughly miserable by th e daily dososof ash from

r neighboring volcano , Mt.

Sakurajima.

I t blew up 450

l a s t

year and promises

to

do

th e

same this year.Every

the

air is f i l led with volcanic dust that is a

misery

th e eyes,

nose and throat.

And

every morning

everything

covered a

dull grey

from the ash that

fell

dur ing the

are

enduring

t i l l summer

when

the prevailing

winds

take

i t

in t he oppos it e

direct ion.

Last December

21,

th e Kanoya

church

and th e Christ

n

Center cooperated in showing the two hour

f ilm, J esus ,

our city's cultural center i t is a splendid building

seats

about 1200 people. We

advertised

by personal in

by

posters

and by

inserts

in

the daily paper

two

650

people

attended.

We

were pleased with the turn

t

and with

the

chance to share the deeper meaning of

ristmas more fully with our city.

We

were

able

to pay all

for the very

nominal t icket fe e

charged.

Chr is tmas was a very full time as

always, but espec

so

this

year

because

i t fell

on Sunday.

We

sang a

lot

Christmas songs and preached a lo t of Christmas sermons.

also ate a

lot

of Christmas goodies that Pauline pre

fo r

each

place.

David Semrau Rotary Exchange

student

our

town

this year from Seattle, Washington relieved his

mesickness by

putting

up our Christmas

decorations.

Rhonda

Juve

spent

a

week

with us. They went with us to

ueyoshi where they

are

planning to spend their

summer

va

and also to

locate

after

their

language study is

language ability is progressing very nicely.)

amily Christmas was delayed until

December

26 when Walter

d Mary Shelley and

Trent , joined

us

for

a very

special

day

The end of January and the first part of February is

here

as The

Great Cold. Nevertheless, i t

was a

warm

me of teaching and fellowship as Bro.Hideo Yoshii taught

s the

Book

of Ephesians for our

nd

Leadership Training

messages were wel1-prepared and

well-received

t

only

in

the four nights atthe Christian Cen te r but also

the

two

night sessions held

at

Yoshino Kagoshima Kushik-

ino and Nishinomote on the island of Tanegashima.

The

Bible

remains the

finest

textbook for teaching the

Christ

n f a i t h

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January

17 was

the

first

meeting of the year for the ladies of the

Kanoya

church. It was an

meeting

as

it

gets the year off to a

good start.

Pauline

spoke on

the

theme My times

are in

Hands using Psalm 31. Adelicious

Japanese

meal followed, each lady brinqina her own specialty.

Pauline gave the same message at

the

leoer colony and

at

the

Suevoshi

andKushira

churches to

the

of

al l .

I am

enjoying teaching English Bible

classes

on

Friday night

and

a ll Saturday

afternoon. On

night, we are studying 30

minute

segments of Zeffirel l i s film, Jesus of Nazareth using video

I

am

writing a

lesson

guide each week for each

of th e thir teen sessions.

Also for

Saturday clas

am writing

lessons

each week

for courses

on

Great

Characters

of

th e Bible

and Let's Look

a t th e

I

am learning

more than my students, o f cou rse, in p reparing

these

lessons.

Pauline

goes with me

twice

a month

to

the leper

church

out

in the

country,

once

on Sunday and

on

Friday. After

our Friday

class

we

have

time to drink

tea

and

vis i t

with t he se lo ve ly Christ ian

At a

recent meeting of

th e

Councillor's of

Osaka

Bible Seminary,

I

visited the new dormitor

being bui l t . I t will

be ready for the

new

term starting

April 10 . I t will not,

however, be debt

free

any special cont ribut ions

for

this

purpose

are

s t i l l

welcome.

The seminary will

have

four new men students this year: two from Okinawa and two from Kagosh

is Koichi

TOKUDA

a

family

man

of

43 from Kagoshima

church.

The

other is

Motonobu

IKEDA youngest

f

Bro.

Ikeda, min is te r o f

the Nishinoomote

church.

I supervised

their entrance

exam

taken

a t

the Chri

Center

on

Friday,

March 2. Both passed handi ly with Bro. Tokuda

having exceptional

marks. We

are

encouraged

by t he dec is ions

these

two have made

to preach the gospel,

one

in

his

youth

and

the

in

his maturity.

In years past we have had two singing groups from Ohio.

This year

we

will

have another from

themselves, Ohio Singers 3. Four men make up the group, all graduate students

at

Cincinnat

Seminary:

Toshiaki

Chida, 32, from Iwate Prefecture, north of Tokyo;Makoto

Yoshii,

24 , from

here

in

Kanoya; Chris Crossgrave, 25,

of

Modale, Iowa and Jim Green, 24,

of

Ft.

Lauderdale,

Flo

Hideo Yoshii and

myself

are sponsorina them

in

Japan. They will have seven weeks here

singin

d speaking in camps,conventions and churches.They

are

going to

work

very hard and share

the ir fai th

lo t of people. They are

trying

to raise 1500 each to buy their round trip tickets and to help pay t

in Japan. If you would

l ike

to

share

with them, you can send

i t through

th e Kyushu Christian Missi

417, North Vernon, Indiana 4726,

Make

your

check

out to th e mission but

mark

i t

for 1984

Summer

you a re w ithin dr iv in g d ista nc e

of

Ctnctnnati^nd

would^ike

to have them vis i t your

write to

Jim

Green a t

2700

Glenway, Cincinnati ,

OH 45204.

Looking ahead a few months, Pauline and I

are

planning to be in

the USA

for approximately on

this

fall to be on

the

program

at th e National Missionary

Convention

in Phoenix, Arizonai

Septe

We

will

be making

this

t r ip

at

ou r

own

expense

and

expect to

vis i t each

of

ou r

children before r

Our

next regular furlough will begin in the

summer

of

1985. We

will

be

teaching at

Minnesota

College

that

fal l quarter.

All

th is ,

i f

the

Lord

wills, *

of

course.

A highlight of March was the two week vis i t of

Isabel

Dittemore, eldest of the nine Maxey

ch

n and

now proudly

owning up

to being

75. She was a

co-worker in

this area

for

four

years beginnin

The

churches a t Kajiki, Kushikino

and Kagoshima

remain

from he r

work. Also

many

people

w

he r converts and students. We made sure that she got

to

visit as many

of

the churches and th e peop

sh e

knew as possible . She has

every reason

to be proud of

the missionary

years sh e spent

Ofi the

betan border and in Japan and Taiwan. We were proud

to

have

her

vis i t with us once again af ter a lo

Once

more

i t is time to say

thank

you for sharing your prayers, your mi^onary

your

love and your

means

wUh

us. IN HIS SERVICE,

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Report

by Mark and Paul ine

Maxey

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To the Friends of the

Kyushu

Chris t ian Mission

Kanoya,

Kagoshlma

893 Japan-Box 43 7 N.Vernon IN

47265

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JULY 1984

J u u. j. 0

:T

ese i- tee

I

CHART SERMON

FOR

PENTECOST

D

Dear

Christ ian fr iends

I t was Elizabeth Akers Allen who said

(i860),

Backward, turn backward, 0 Time in your flight, Make

me a

child again

jus t f or t on ig ht

Forge t th e second part.

I have

never wanted

to be a child again. But I

wouldn't mind i f th e sun's shadow fel l back te n s teps any day of the week.

I t takes

15

hours of uninterrupted time

to

find the

pictures,

la y ou t the pages,

type

and

re-type

th e copy,

make

address co rrect ions , p rint ing ins t ru c tion s

and mail--each

time

I write

th e

LINKLETTER. Finding

that

kind

of time

is

getting harder

to do

a ll

th e time.

So,

I'm going

to

try harder

but

no t guarantee^more

l tt rs

Pauline and I went to Osaka by overnight ferry to be

p re sent f or

th e graduation ceremonies a t Osaka

Bible

Seminary on Friday, April.

30 .

In

the

afternoon I

spoke for the dedicat ion of the

new

dormitory. That

was a

lo t

of hard work

preparing

but a sat isfact ion never the l es s .I n l es s than two years from th e time

th e

pro

jec t

was

approved in board meeting t he bui ld ing

was up and

ready for

use.

A

lo t

of

money was

raised both in

Japan

and

the

USA. We thank you

fo r sharing

in this

project.

A

debt

of $20,000 remains

for

removing

th e old

building

and

rehabilitating

the

grounds.

Saturday

night, we enjoyed th e hospitali ty

of George

and Ethel Beckman. Sunday

morning,

April 1, we

spoke

fo r the Mennonite church in Kobe where two of ou r Kyushu gir ls attend.

That

night we wer e down in Okayama

Ken

speaking

for Audrey West

a t

th e Okayama

Christian

Center in

Hayashino.

We spoke for three nights on th e

church and the

Christian

l i fe Two days

of

driving

through

t he count ry si de t ur ni ng spring

green

brought us

home again. We visited the Hideto Yoshii family and Ben and Nobuko Hirataka in northern Kyushu en route.

30

years

ago Denzo Shimoda

buil t

an

all-purpose Japanese

house to

th e

rear

and

at

one

corner of the

mission house. I t

had

weathered

many a

typhoon but

i t

had began to

sag.

We

had

i t jacked

up

again

and

the

same

man

has spent a

couple of

months

rebuilding

and modernizing

i t I t will

be

put to

good

use.

May

5 and 6 was the week-end f or Wa lt er 's spring

EBC

camp. He asked me to give two

ta lks,

on the

sub

ject :

Society:

Shall We Change-

I t or

Shall We Let

I t

Change Us? I t al ked for an hour on each side of that

equation and

then

we divided

into groups

fo r another hour' s d iscuss ion . I was

refreshed being with

these young

people. Rain,rain,rain bu t

ou r

spir i ts were no t a b it damp. Our campground is

fu l f i l l ing

i t s function.

May

14 found

Pauline

and I back

in

Osaka

again

fo r

th e

seminary board meet ing and

again

enjoying

th e

hospitality of

Martin

and Evelyn

Clark.

David Semrau, Rotary Exchange student

in

Kanoya this

year,

went

with

us .

Jenann Beckman spent a day

taking

him to

see the ancient capital city of

Nara.

On

a

previous

t r ip she

had

taken

him

sightseeing

in Kyoto, th e

only city

in

Japan

undamaged by

the

war. Thank you Jenann

We went

by bus to the

Okayama

Christian Center. This time

i t was

Pauline's turn to speak for the area

women s meeting there.

Her

subject,

She Has Done What She

Could. She

had spoken

on the

same

subject the

week

before to the Kagoshima

churches women s

meeting in

Kanoya.

The women at Okayama also expressed appreciation

for her talk. After a delightful

lunch

served by the

men, we had

a couple of hours'discussion about the points

Pauline had talked about.

The

next

morning Audrey West and

Keith Summers got us back to

Osaka

in time for the

f i r s t

plane

home.

Mid-morning,

May 18, Pauline

began

to have unbearable chest pains.

When

we got her to the hospital,

Dr.Tsuzaki took x-rays and found that a lower, left rib was

broken.

As she

had

not fallen ror bumped anything,

the

Dr.thinks it was

dueto osteoporosis - a drastic lack of

calcium

in her

bones. She was

put in a tight

bind

er

and

pretty

much

immobilized for a month. June was her

first time

out of the house - and that to

go

to

the hospital again.

The

Dr. said the

bone

is healing slowly but properly. Pauline's pain is almost gone.

Re-



building the calcium in her bones will take time but Pauline is determined to do so.

o suffering

is without

its blessing.

Pauline has had hers in the

many many

people

who

have prayed

fo r her.

Also in

the

many

people who

have

come

to

see her.

The house has been

fi l led

with

th e

flowers

they

brought

for

over

a month now. I keep reminding he r

that she is

a much-loved woman,

beginning with

me.

Pauline

wants to be

strong

enough

to

attend

the

annual

convention at

the end

o f J uly.

Also

to enjoy

the

visits

of

ou r

children

in

July. Paula,

ou r o ld es t, is

b ringing her four children f rom Canada. I t

will

the

f irs t

time back

since

th 'emigrated to Canada eight years ago. Paul and Faith (our second daughter)

are

a lso returning

to

Japan, they

hope

permanently.

They

will

spend some t ime

with

us

before

Paul

begins teach

ing

in a special

Japanese high

school

in

Tsukuba,

north of

Tokyo. So

i t looks

like

the

NoRoom in

the

Inn

s ig n w il l

be out

for th e

month

of July

anyhow. But

i f

you stop

by ,

we ll

find

you some

kind of

a manger

for

you to s tay in .

Resurrection

Day

was a

great

day

of

preaching

and

rejoicing

in many

places

from

dawn

to

dusk.

In

Sueyoshi

we have enjoyed

th e

fellowship of new

Christian,

Kohei Hayashi, o f Kaj ik i.

Bro.

Daikusono baptized

him there, March 31 ,

but

before and af ter that he was an eager s tu de nt o f God s word each Sunday a t Sueyoshi.

I t was a p le as ur e t o teach a man so happy in his new found fai th. Pentecost was a great

season

fo r me. I

preached about th is day,

th e

birthday of th e church, three Sundays in a row.

Grandniece, Lisa

Lewis

spent

a few happy days

with

us

early in June.

She was on

he r

way back to Canada

af ter

a year of teaching a missionary

child

in Aparri, P.I .

Als o, June

13 and H we enjoyed the

vis i t

of

Susan Knudsen of Kenai,

Alaska.

Her husband,

David,

works fo r Marathon Oil and comes to

Japan once

a year

to service

the electronics

on a

special

ship

hauling liquid petroleum gas

from

Alaska.

She came

with

him

this

time.

We

gave her

a

smorgasbord of missionary exper iences in

a

very

short time.

,

,.Jhe_Ohio Singers

III began

their

sixty day

mission

in

Japan, June

24..Makoto

Yoshii, a rr iv ed ear ly

to

spend a few days

with

h is paren ts here in

Kanoya. We ar e

glad

to say

that enough money was

raised

to pay

fo r

their

round

t r ip

tickets and much

of their expenses

in Japan. Again,

thanks

to

each

one

of

you who

shared.

Three experiences

to

close: (1)

I baptized a young man, a

school teacher,

and worked

closely with

him

fo r

two

years.

Early

th is

year

he

quit

coming

to c hu rc h.

He

did

however,

b ri ng h is p ro sp ec ti ve

bride,

and a

time

and

place

was

set for

a Christian

wedding.

Then he was

transferred

to a

distant city.

He came back once

to

le t

me

know no t

to think

about the

wedding anymore . He would

no t give his

new

address

and phone number.

Which means, I will

no t

be having any more

connect ion with you. n

aching

sadness

that will

no t

go away. (2)

A young woman, a convert of many

years ago,

had

not

attended

church

fo r th re e

years. Suddenly, she

phoned to

tel l me,

very happily,

that she was moving to Tokyo to work and would be attending church there faithfully.

Gladness and bewilderment. (3)

After

preaching

last

Sunday at Kushira to

near

empty pews. I choked up

telling

Pauline how

lonely

and

hopeless

I fel t . But just now a member

of

that church came to call . She was

bubbling

with

joy, with fai th, with hope,wi th p lans

fo r the f ut ur e o f

that church.

As we

all three prayed together

be

fore

she le f t

I was choked up

with

joy. nd so was

fulf il led again.

Psalm

126:6,

Hethat goes forth weeping

bearing the

seed

for

sowing, shall

come home with shout s of

joy,

bringing his

sheaves with him.

IN HIS SERVICE,

Sgo

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u n d e r

c o n t r o l . . .

OCT

98

A

Report

by Mark and Pauline Maxey

To th e F rie nd s

of the Kyushu

C h r i s t i a n

Mission

Kanoya, Kagoshima

893

Japan-Box

417 N.Vernon IN 47265

LINKLETTER #240

OCTOBER

1984

C h r i s t i a n f r i e n d s

Hebrews

12:32

says

that time will fail

to

t e l l of Gideon,

Barak.

mson and Jepthah.

Well,

we ar e not

only

going

to negl ec t

these

ancient

wor

for

lack

of

space

we

alsomust neglect

some recent

ones

as

well.

34

years

ago

this

month

Pauline

and I began

ou r

l i f e s

work

in

Kanoya

have always been

thanking God bringing

us

to

this s pe cia l s po t and

to these

people.

David Semrau,

Rotary

Exchange student, has been a speci al b le ss ing

us this

year. Visiting

whenever he f e l t like

i t

and

sharing

hi s l i f e

with

. He also

studied

with

me and

joined our Engl ish Bible Class

each

Friday.So

t

was a pei^sonal joy

to

baptize him

the

l a s t Sunday before he

r et ur ned t o

Many

of

hi s

high

school friends gathered

at

th e

Kanoya

church to

this

great

event

in his l i f e .

Then

things

began

to buzz. Passports exp ired.

Pictures,

fees,

visas

work.

Finally

done.

Driver's

l icense

here

l a s t

three

years

and

expires

your birthday.

This was

my year.

More pictures, reading

test , fees

(would

believe 19 fo r a

driver's

license?) plus a mandatory two hour session on

safety.

Pauline

began to mend

and sh e

was able to be up and

around

as

ou r

a rr iv ed f or

long-expected v i s i t . Paula

Yanagimoto,

ou r oldest,

arrived

2 with her

four

children, Megumi,16; Temujin, H; Takanobu, 13; and Tamon,

We had lots of good

times

together and

th e

yard was soon full of young

wanting t o g et a cqu aint ed.

Paula

met many of

her old friends.

One

night

Seguchi.

Lydia Kishi

and Mr.

and

Mrs.

Yoshii

came

for

Japanese food and

old times.

Meanwhile Paul Axton finished h is g raduate work in Louisville and

Fait h resigned her

school

t eaching job

and

they

came

to

Japan to

English

in Meikei Gakuen, a

high school

in Tsukuba

City, about

two

hours

of

Tokyo.

Faith

arrived

July 3 and Paul July 19 after

visiting

his

pa r

in

Phoenix. Now every

bed was

full

and

all

the

leaves in

th e

dining table.

Walter,

Mary and

children

came over

July

19 fo r a

joint

celebra

ion of f ive family birthdays in July and August. Thirteen of us pret ty

fi l l e d th e place where we

went

for dinner. Bir thday

cake

and ice cream

a t

me was

pret ty nice

too.

Mary' s twin s i s t e r

Linda, and he r husband, Mark

Johnson

and two

visited

in

Kagoshima and

also at our

place. Mark is

assistant

minister

t

Shively

Christian Church,

Louisville,

Ky, where we attend when in the USA

The preache r' s spent all day

July

16 ,

cleaning

up

th e

camp

ground.

t was a

very

hot day amd volcanic

dust

was

everywhere. My

overexertion

that

ay may have beenmy

undoing.

At any

rate

my

l e f t

eye was completely

clouded

up

th e time we

l e f t for

miss ionary convent ion ,

July 23.

I t

took

two

days

of

and a night on

th e sea to get to the

camp

grounds

where

the convention

held.-

Shinshu Camp in

Nagano

Ken. Warren

Christiansen

was in

charge of

a

program.

Also

very

refreshing was th e superb singing and witness

of

th e Ohio

I I I

in

Japan

for th e

summer

from Cinc innat i B ib le

Seminary. Makoto

had a dream

o f b ring ing such

a group and his dream fulfil led

brought

blessing to

us

in

Japan

from Tokyo

all the

way

to

Kagoshima. Thank you Makoto,

shiyuki Chida,

Chris

Crossgrave

and Jim Green. Also

to Martin

Clark

who chauf-

them

in

h i s

va n f o r th e

e n t i r e t o u r .

The missionary

convention

was

July 25-28.

The Japanese

convention in

July 28-30.

Our

families were there for both conventions except for

ary and Trent and Shelley who had chicken pox and had to

stay

home. The clos

g

session

of

th e convention,

host minister,

Stephen

l i j ima, thanked th e

mis

o na ri es f or

our contribution

to

t he Ch ri st ia n

cause

in Japan and

especially

of

us there who had served

fo r

30 years or more. We received g i f t s

and

c e r t i f i c a t e of thanks. Very nice indeed Martin Clark f igures t h a t 26

mission

of

our people

have

given over

850

years

of s er vi ce

to

Japan.

I

doubt

f

that can

be matched on any

other mission f i e l d .

EYE

SURGEON,DR.IDETA PATI

PAULA V I S I T S AFTER 8 YEAR

BACK

TO JAPAN

- PAUL F A

DAVID SEMRAU

B A P T I Z E D - J U L



Convention over,

the

family had to go their own ways. Paul and

to Tsukuba, Paula

starting

the

long

trek

back to

Millet,

Edmonton, Al

Canada with

her

children, and Pauline and I A1 and Rhonda Juve and

back to Kagoshima. But f i rs t we enjoyed an overnight vis i t with Mark

Lynn Pratt in Machida. 24 hours by

ship

and 5 hours by car and we were

again, Wednesday night, August 1.

On

th e

way we le f t Rhonda and

A1

Juve at Sueyoshi church where

y served for the

month

of August -preaching, teaching, visiting, holding

I was

no t able to

be

with

them

a t a ll b ut they served well,

were well -

by t he peopl e, and will be back in Sueyoshi permanently af ter

they

language school nex t June.

Duty done i t was time

to face

up to my eye

problem.

Thursday I

to the

local eye doctor. He recommended I go

to

the

University Hospital.

talking

with

Bro. Yoshii I

decided

to

vis i t

Dr.

Hiyata,

a

specialist

a

large

clientele in Miyakonojo City, an hour and a half northeast

of

He and his

assistant

were puzzled

a t

what they saw but

set

a date

fo r

an

I

went

home

to get my

work caught up before

that

date.

Suddenly

sent

word to come for another examination on August 11. Sti l l no t satis

he said

that

he was

referring

me to Dr. Ideta in Kumamoto City. Pauline

I

arrived

at hi s hospital on August 13.

The retina is a

delicate

mult i- layer

l ight-sensi t ive

membrane

l in

t he inn er

eyeball and connected by the optic nerve to

the brain.

At

th e

of

his examination, he said t hat t h ree -four th s

of my retina

was detach

and th e impo rta nt th ing was

to

keep

th e

other

one-fourth

from doing

th e

e. He said, We can do the operation here

or

you

can

go

to

Boston. I

You do i t . I had

a lr eady learned

that he was the only eye doc to r in

who had

trained

i n Bos ton, a world center f or r et in al detachment sur

y. I knew I was in competent hands. His

hospital

was

clean,

orderly. His

competent

and

fr iendly,

and

th e

daily

routine well -ordered .

I entered the hospital August 14 and didn t leave t i l l Sept. l . I

a mask on

to

keep my eyes from working t i l l the operat ion on

th e

20th.

I had

time. Also for

th e

f i r s t

time in

my

l i fe I

didn t

have th e

of

my

eye s. P au lin e s ta yed in a nearby

hotel.

She came everyday and

to

me hour

after

hour. What a

precious

time we had together.

Suddenly,

my surprise I

found out

that a

lo t

of

people cared.

All our

children

ed. Younger brother

Victor

and wife Lois called from Cincinnati. Phone

from all over Japan. Visi tors , cards, gif ts of money,

flowers,

food,

prayers

- nobody was ever more

prayed fo r

than I was. I t was a spiri tual

I will

never

forget and that I

cannot

recall

without

tears. I

am

there is not space to give

the names

of all who visited, some of them

many hours

to

do so.We

will

always be grateful.

Dr.

Ideta waited t i l l

August 20 to

operate

so he could have a U.S.

anesthetist. The scheduled two-hour

operation lasted

four

hours.Paul

watched

th e

entire

procedure

on a

television

monitor

in

the

corridor.The

fi l led th e scr een. Only th e finger tips of the surgeon were

visible

as te

the eye

ball , cu t

open the

outer

membrane, repaired the break, put

dots of

cement, slid a

strip of

silicone fo r a

seal

over that and

then

ed up

th e

membrane to finish

th e operation.

The operation went well and Dr. Ideta assures me

that the

result

good, though

t he re wil l

be

some loss of

vision.

But

the

eye

that

was

is

now f il led

with

glorious

l ight .

After

th e

next

vis i t

to

th e doc to r

hope to wear a contact lense

again

and pu t th e eye to

full

use.

Walter

to

spend th e night after my operation. Then again to drive us back to

We were very sorry

to

have missed speaking a t

the

National Mission

y Convention in

Phoenix

and the

chance

to §5^om£ o^

vou

again.

Looking

to that next

year. IN HIS SERVICE,

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