HI, ladies!!
It is Wednesday, September 10, 2008, today, and it has been dry weather, which encourages me to do things smoothly.
The other day, I happened to watch a TV program introducing us a tour around the Tahiti islands. Since the traveler in this program was my favorite TV personality, I kept watching it with my kids. The sea around the islands was so beautiful and highly-transparent that we could easily catch the figure of colorful fishes in the water. To my surprise, then, he and his staff were trying to swim with a gam of whales, without an oxygen tank! The reason why doing so was that whales get frightened of babbles from the tank. They succeeded in swimming with whales, which seemed to enjoy swimming with human beings peacefully. It was a fantastic scene…My kids were greatly fascinated with the story, and told me that they wanted to try swimming in such wonderful sea someday. I replied that we would go somewhere next summer.
Well, see you next, good bye!!
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Hi, ladies!
The sea around Tahiti islands is surely fantastic dreamy Paradise for fishes. I also want to visit there someday as your daughters do. Cherry, please bring me together! The name of Tahiti reminds me of Gauguin, whose paintings give us an image of peaceful world filled with the blessing of nature. Gauguin might think it was a heaven on earth.
By the way, women again have taken attention in the Presidential election in U.S.
McCain’s wife, Cindy and his running mate, Sarah Palin, both are very intelligent great mothers and have powers and energy to face the harsh political showdown. I respect them. Even though, I don’t favor them. The reason is only that they are the mothers, who are ready willing to send their sons to Iraq in order to fight under the name of peace.
Bye, see you again, my precious friends.
Hi, ladies!!!
How are you enjoying this afternoon?
I do not know whether you still remember my remark on my research into American male Lutheran missionaries who came to Japan for their duty for 20 years from 1892 to 1912. I think I said there were 10, but actually the number was 11.
I have made a table that explains the dates of their birth and death, their birthplaces, the occupations of their fathers, the colleges and theological schools they graduated from, the years and their ages when they got married, their wives, the length of their stay in Japan, the ages when they arrived in Japan, the places where they worked, their publications if they have, and their ages at death. Sounds very interesting, doesn’t it?
I was very surprised to know that many of them enjoyed long life. Three of them lived to their 90s, another three to their 80s, and two their 70s. One died at the age of 66 and one died of typhoid in Liberia that he visited on duty at the age of 47. The age at death of one missionary is unknown. The reason why they lived so long is, perhaps, that they were healthy by nature. If they had not been so, they would not have applied for this profession, in the first place, I believe. Also, they were missionaries and thus they were not required to get into excessive manual labor or physically dangerous work. (Of course, they would have been exposed to danger or violence all the time in this heathen country, but perhaps they did not feel threatened to death due to their work, I suppose.) Their main work was preaching indoors as well as outdoors.
All of 11 missionaries were married; they got married before or soon after they came to Japan. None of their wives were Japanese. It is very intriguing, I suppose. (I will let you know why I think it is intriguing when I have a chance to do so.)
All of them were ministers, and so after they finished their work in Japan and returned to the USA, it was probably not so difficult for them to find a position at church, and actually most of them worked at church. At least four of them got a doctoral degree while they were working in Japan (interesting, isn’t it?), as far as I know, and two taught at university and two more at theological school in the USA.
There are more fascinating pieces of information I would like to tell you, but some other time, not today.
I hope you enjoyed my talk about 11 missionaries, my lovely friends. Have fun!!! Goodbye to you all, my precious friends.
Hi, ladies!
Cosmos, I quite agree with you. Supporting the candidate who is willing to send his or her son to the battle field is agaist my will.
I was even shivering when I heard Ms. Pain' s advocacy. Plum, it is very exciting to know the hidden lifelong history of the missionaries to Japan. I'm sure it takes long time.
As for Kamichika Ichiko, I think I must know about false accusations as she supported those who were accused without any strong proof.
I think it is time to say good night to you all.
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