Life and light for woman . hospital, though the little white-gowned patients are few ; Mr. Ishiis own home where, alas, he is lying illwith an incurable disease ; while the haid times in Japan and America haveonly added to the debt incurred for the famine relief work. But lovingthoughts and prayers cluster around his Chamber of Peace, and we wait andhope and pray, and rejoice to see the children growing daily in strengthand SUPPER IN ONE OF THE COTTAGES, OKAYAMA ORPHANAGE On the way to Kobe you must make a quick detour for one look at theminers camp near Yamaguchi, where Mr. Homma, by
Life and light for woman . hospital, though the little white-gowned patients are few ; Mr. Ishiis own home where, alas, he is lying illwith an incurable disease ; while the haid times in Japan and America haveonly added to the debt incurred for the famine relief work. But lovingthoughts and prayers cluster around his Chamber of Peace, and we wait andhope and pray, and rejoice to see the children growing daily in strengthand SUPPER IN ONE OF THE COTTAGES, OKAYAMA ORPHANAGE On the way to Kobe you must make a quick detour for one look at theminers camp near Yamaguchi, where Mr. Homma, by his remarkablepersonality, has led more than a thousand souls to Christ. Arrived at Kobe you must stop long enough to get a glimpse, atleast, of Mr. Muramatsus Home for ex-convicts, where these society out-casts are welcomed and loved into a higher, better life than they have knownbefore, Mr. Muramatsu himself knowing whereof he speaks. See the happyface of that man over there, as he tells of his growing delight in daily, hon-est toil, and knowledge of the Bible given him in prison. In Kobe, too, is an orphanage under the care of a Congregational church 354 Life and Light {^August member, whose lOO children are gatliered in a Sunday school, taught bystudents from our own Kobe College for Girls. Also, in Kobe is School for the Blind. Himself sightless, he and his devoted wifehave gathered around them blind boys a
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