Hi, ladies!!
Sunflower, it’s my mistake. I confused names of Sadako and Takeko Kujo. Thank you very much! And I’ll welcome the new comer you’ve introduced us.
Azalea, there are a lot of women recommending the TV drama Sex and the city, but I haven’t seen it yet, because I feel that I will get deeply involved in it if I once start to watch it. These days’ dramas are so attractive that I can’t dabble in watching them.
Well, it’s time to go to the kitchen for supper. See you next time, Bye!!
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Hello, friends!
Today I went to see the movie'Sex & the city', too.
I liked it so much. I often watched the TV series of it and became a fan of Carry who is a successful writer of a fashion magazine. She is talented, fashionable, charming and sincere. She has good friends of 3, Samansa, Miranda & Sharlotte, who are all characteristic and interesting people.
I could enjoy the story as well as their sophisticated fashion.
Above all I confirmed that the friendship is very important to live a comfortable life.
Hello, everyone.
Alice, why did you know the movie theater staff stopped me before entrance. Ha~~~~~R12 So, it was too stimulus to me. R12 Is it wrong? R18? Indeed you can see too salacious scenes, but I enjoyed it. We would enter the movie 20 minutes ago so I could not enter. This is New Yorkers life style in a sense, I suppose English is fastly spoken but not so fast.
Magnolia, you had a good choice and have a meaningful time. I think so.
Dear Cherry and friends,
Hello.
All right, Plum. I'll send it to you tomorrow.
We had a heavy rain and thunder this afternoon.
Lightning bolts struck somewhere near here.
It sounded as if they cracked the ground.
I was told a river in my town was flooding and an old man evacuated.
It was scary.
Now, the humid night has come back.
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Japan and the Japan Mission
The last 2 dioceses are South Tokio and Hokkaido.
Missionary work in the capital, Tokyo, was at a low ebb.
Miss Julius who came from Fukuyama expressed her disappointment in a roundabout way.
Considering the industrial progress the city made during the past 30 years,
the church is small and old and “its Sunday congregation of about fifty Christians, almost entirely from quite the poorest classes.”
The diocese of South Tokio includes Gifu, Nagoya, and Toyohashi.
The book mentions a blind school established by the CMS and Miss E. C. Payne.
No information was obtained about the connection between the school and her.
The Canadian Church Missionary Society sent missionaries to Nagoya and Toyohashi.
So they were Canadians.
In Nagoya, people were bigoted and missionaries were not able to approach many people.
Mission work was often obstructed by Buddhists or Shintoists.
The northern diocese is Hokkaido.
Lucy Payne was still working in Kushiro when the book was written.
It mentions 4 schools for the Ainu in Kushiro.
The work of Mr. Batchelor who wrote the English-Japanese-Ainu dictionary was most admired.
Mr. Pole contributed Conclusion to this book.
Although I wrote this book was more objective than Otis Cary's, Mr. Pole's Conclusion was written from the completely a Christian missionary's point of view.
He had a dream that one in 10 would become a Christian one day in Japan. It was his satisfactory victory. What a aggressive speculation he had when the number of Christians was decreasing in his own country!
Reynolds, K. D. “'Many to Take Care of': Charity, Philanthropy, and Paternalism” from Aristocratic women and Political Society in Victorian Britain
This is one of the articles recommended by Plum.
Aristocratic women had different philanthropic motives from middle class women.
Their philanthropic efforts started from their own land. Their charity was personal.
They helped the poor who lived their land.
On the other hand, charity conducted by middle class women was organized activities as observed in Prochaska's books about philanthropy. Doing charity was an activity of upper class women. Middle class women followed their custom of helping the poor. However, they weren't wealthy enough so they had to join organized charity. Charity organizations required donation and support of upper class men and women. Although aristocratic women rarely joined such activities, some of them took the leadership to raise funds for charity.
Harriet Sutherland was one of such influential aristocratic women. She was against slavery and lobbied Gladstone. She even invited Harriet Beecher Stowe who wrote the famous antislavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin to her house.
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Good night.
Hi, everybody!
We had a sudden shower after a long dry season as if we were in the tropics. Now it seems to be letting up, but I am afraid that there have been damages in some areas.
Well, welcome Rose. Let’s talk a lot together.
Alice, I have enjoyed your researching report about Christian Missionaries.
You cited, “He (Mr. Pole) had a dream that one in ten would become a Christian one day in Japan.” I know his dream hasn’t come true yet. I read a book unrelated to our studies and happened to find the following data in the book.
“Among total population, 6.7 billion people on the earth, one out of three is Christian, one from five is Muslim and one out of seven is Hindu. However this religion’s statistics is not fit for Japanese. Assuming Japan’s population is 100, there might be 32 Christians, 20 Muslims and 14 Hindus in Japan, if the world ratio of religions were adopted. In reality there is at least one Christian out of 100 in Japan. Muslims and Hindus are far less to one in numbers. I think it was very difficult for missionaries to propagate in Japan.
Thank you for reading, everybody. Good night. Have a nice sleep!
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