TOYOHIKO KAGAWA, D.D.
From Oslo
This afternoon listeners are to hear one of the most distinguished figures in Japan talking direct from Oslo on the occasion of the World's Sunday School Convention that is this year being held there.
Dr. Toyohiko Kagawa was born in Tokyo in 1888. It was intended that he should enter the Diplomatic Service, but, converted to Christianity, he preferred to live among the poor in the Shinkawa slums of Kobe in Japan.
Kagawa himself once gave this account of how he came to write his first book : ' I was ill and they had sent me to a fishing village. I nearly died there. But I still had work to do, so I hadn't time to die. While I was there I began to write down my thoughts on any old paper I could lay my hands on. It is a sort of novel, and I have called it "Across the Death Line ", for I myself crossed that line, but the great need of the world drew me back '.
For this book Kagawa received the sum of C250 which he spent in helping those around him who were in need. The profits from his forty odd books and countless newspaper articles have been devoted entirely to his Christian settlement work in the slums.
An article on the World Sunday
School Movement will be found on page 1