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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

*

e

* f

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.

-

Such

helping

the

jo b

hi

(Ht

H-

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CD

0

r

c

o

3

X

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3

q O

3

T

o

3

3

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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9

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,