Hepburn of Japan and his wife and helpmates; a life story of toil for Christ . of his young colleague must have seemediconoclastic to Dr. Hepburn, and no doubt they wereoften ill chosen. Both of us held pronounced opinions,which, upon occasion, were forcibly expressed; but,in spite of all, we worked well together and veryrarely were we obliged to refer a question in disputeto our colleagues. Indeed, I cannot recall a singlequestion which we did not succeed in settling byourselves, though not always to our complete satis-faction. ^ It was a thrilling epoch in the life of Dr. Hepburn,when, after
Hepburn of Japan and his wife and helpmates; a life story of toil for Christ . of his young colleague must have seemediconoclastic to Dr. Hepburn, and no doubt they wereoften ill chosen. Both of us held pronounced opinions,which, upon occasion, were forcibly expressed; but,in spite of all, we worked well together and veryrarely were we obliged to refer a question in disputeto our colleagues. Indeed, I cannot recall a singlequestion which we did not succeed in settling byourselves, though not always to our complete satis-faction. ^ It was a thrilling epoch in the life of Dr. Hepburn,when, after ten years of labor, the New Testamentin Japanese was ready for the nation and an event might be in its celebration as modestas the advent of a Bethlehem babe in the manger,though in the sweep of its significance, it mightthrow battles and campaigns into shadow andoblivion. No legate of the Mikado or the govern-ment was in the Japanese church in Tokyo, when,on April 19, 1880, the representatives of fourteenmissionary societies using the English language and[1461. DR. HEPBURN IN 1880 At the time of the completion of his translation of the New Testament into Japanese THE NATIONAL INTELLECT of all the Protestant churches in the capital wereassembled to celebrate the completion of the NewTestament translation into Japanese. N Most of the exercises were in Japanese, includingthe singing of hymns, Nearer My God to Thee,Rock of Ages and Hold the Fort. Rev. NathanBrown, who had made revisions of the whole NewTestament into two languages, read the NineteenthPsalm. Prayer was offered by the translator. Piper of the English Church Missionary Society. Dr. Verbecks address was in the language of thecountry. He told of the various attempts to givethe Mikados people the New Testament in theirown tongue. He then outlined the great work andorganization of the Bible Societies, in Great Britainand the United States, all of which showed the trueunity of all believers in the Go
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