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The Diary of a Japanese Convert
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- GenresJapan
240 pages, Paperback
Published January 28, 2013
About the author
Kanzo Uchimura
44 books3 followersUchimura was a Japanese author, Christian evangelist, and the founder of the Nonchurch Movement (Mukyōkai) of Christianity in the Meiji and Taishō period Japan. He is often considered to be the most well-known Japanese pre-World War II pacifist
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March 4, 2019
Read for personal research. I found this work of immense interest and its contents helpful and inspiring.
Overall, this work is also a good resource for the researcher and enthusiast.
One can immediately see that this work is only the commencement of the new life experienced by a young believer in Christ; one who genuinely seeks to know the living God and not practice empty religion, of which he had already experience far too much.
In this diary, Konzo still equated Christianity at a country level at time: "Christian of Christian countries".
Though 'Lands' as entities are at best only Christianized Heathendoms. "We also like to have no Americanianity and Anglicanianity imposed upon us as Christianity."
"I was often told upon good testimony that money is all in all in America, and that it is worshipped there as Almighty Dollar; that the race prejudice is so strong there that the yellow skin and almond-shaped eyes pass for objects of derision and dog-barking; etc., etc. But for me to credit such statements as anything near the truth was utterly impossible. The land of Patrick Henry and Abraham Lincoln, of Dorothea Dix and Stephen Girard,—how could it be a land of mammon-worship and race-distinction! I thought I had different eyes to judge of the matter -- so strong was my confidence in what I had read and heard about the superiority of the Christian civilization over that of the Pagan. Indeed, the image of America as pictured upon my mind was that of a Holy Land." -Konzo Uchimura - November 1884
It took Konzo some time, most certainly related to the effects of being raised within erroneous sociological, religious, and philosophical mindsets, to begin to come around to the importance concerning the centrality of God's Word. In many it can take a lifetime.
"... for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name." -Psalm 138:2b
"But the Helper, the Holy Spirit... will... bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you." -John 14:26
"So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God." -Romans 10:17
- Excerpt:
"It was well said by a Chinese sage that 'he who stays in a mountain knows not the mountain'.
The fact is, distance lends not only enchantment to a view, but comprehensiveness as well. A mountain in its true proportion can be viewed only from a distance.
So with one's own country, as long as he lives in it, he really knows it not. That he may understand its true situation as a part of the great whole, its goodness and badness, its strength and weakness, he must stand away from it."
- Kanzo Uchimura (1861-1930)
The diary of a Japanese convert by Uchimura, Kanzo, 1861-1930
https://ia800207.us.archive.org/19/it...
Overall, this work is also a good resource for the researcher and enthusiast.
One can immediately see that this work is only the commencement of the new life experienced by a young believer in Christ; one who genuinely seeks to know the living God and not practice empty religion, of which he had already experience far too much.
In this diary, Konzo still equated Christianity at a country level at time: "Christian of Christian countries".
Though 'Lands' as entities are at best only Christianized Heathendoms. "We also like to have no Americanianity and Anglicanianity imposed upon us as Christianity."
"I was often told upon good testimony that money is all in all in America, and that it is worshipped there as Almighty Dollar; that the race prejudice is so strong there that the yellow skin and almond-shaped eyes pass for objects of derision and dog-barking; etc., etc. But for me to credit such statements as anything near the truth was utterly impossible. The land of Patrick Henry and Abraham Lincoln, of Dorothea Dix and Stephen Girard,—how could it be a land of mammon-worship and race-distinction! I thought I had different eyes to judge of the matter -- so strong was my confidence in what I had read and heard about the superiority of the Christian civilization over that of the Pagan. Indeed, the image of America as pictured upon my mind was that of a Holy Land." -Konzo Uchimura - November 1884
It took Konzo some time, most certainly related to the effects of being raised within erroneous sociological, religious, and philosophical mindsets, to begin to come around to the importance concerning the centrality of God's Word. In many it can take a lifetime.
"... for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name." -Psalm 138:2b
"But the Helper, the Holy Spirit... will... bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you." -John 14:26
"So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God." -Romans 10:17
- Excerpt:
"It was well said by a Chinese sage that 'he who stays in a mountain knows not the mountain'.
The fact is, distance lends not only enchantment to a view, but comprehensiveness as well. A mountain in its true proportion can be viewed only from a distance.
So with one's own country, as long as he lives in it, he really knows it not. That he may understand its true situation as a part of the great whole, its goodness and badness, its strength and weakness, he must stand away from it."
- Kanzo Uchimura (1861-1930)
The diary of a Japanese convert by Uchimura, Kanzo, 1861-1930
https://ia800207.us.archive.org/19/it...
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