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Group of Christian Physicians, Japan 
 
 A Record of 1092 Leaders of Japan 
 
 uTXTE should expect to find Christian men and women 
 \ \ occupying positions of authority and influence in the 
 educational world of Japan,” says Dr. William Axling, a well- 
 known missionary of that country. “A large company ol 
 Christian leaders who as presidents and professors of the 
 Christian schools and colleges bring distinction to their insti¬ 
 tutions, are held in high regard by all classes in the country 
 and some have won fame abroad. ... In the field of medi¬ 
 cine the Christians are notably represented and rare is the 
 church that does not have a physician among its members. 
 
 . . . The movements for social reform and temperance have 
 the strong support of the Christian forces. . . . One of the 
 most interesting and hopeful evidences of the influence of 
 Christianity is the number of Christian men prominent in 
 
 the industrial lde of the nation, who in their business methods 
 
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 and in the treatment of their employees are giving practical 
 
expression to the teachings of Christ. . . . Finally, in that 
 important place of influence, the Christian ministry, there is 
 a company of men who would rank as leaders among the 
 Christian forces of any land. . . . Thus along every walk of 
 life go the Christian torch bearers.” 
 
 Among the more no¬ 
 table mission schools 
 which have contributed 
 to this large group of 
 Christian professional 
 and business men in 
 Japan “Chinzei Gakuin” 
 (“Southwestern Educa¬ 
 tional Institution”) holds 
 an important place. 
 From 1888, when the in¬ 
 stitution graduated its 
 first class of 6 members, 
 until June of 1925, 1,092 
 young Japanese men 
 have graduated from it. The record of these graduates shows 
 that of those living, 11 are school principals, 69 are school 
 teachers, 24 are pastors, 24 are in the United States pursuing 
 courses of study, while 156 are students in higher educational 
 institutions in Japan. Among the other graduates are: artists, 
 4; army officers, 8; bank employees, 23; business men, 166; 
 company employees, 196; contractors, 2; consuls, 2; govern¬ 
 ment officials, 85; judges, 2; lawyers, 2; newspaper men, 14; 
 pharmacists, 14; physicians, 31; writers, 1. Two other grad¬ 
 uates are Buddhist monks. Eighty-nine of the graduates are 
 deceased and the occupations of 46 are unknown Fhis is a 
 record of which any secondary school might well be proud. 
 
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 DEGREES GRANTED CHINZEI 
 ALUMNI 
 
 In U. S. A. 
 
 Bachelor and Master . 20 
 
 In Japan 
 
 Doctor of Medicine . 3 
 
 Master of Medicine . 2 
 
 Master of Engineering . 5 
 
 Master of Agriculture . 1 
 
 Master of Arts . 2 
 
 Master of Law . 6 
 
 Master of Commerce . 1 
 
 Doctor of Philosophy . 3 
 
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A History and a Future 
 
 W HEN the Rev. Carroll N. Long, Ph.D., left T ennessee in 
 1880 to enter the missionary service of the Methodist 
 Episcopal Church in Japan, he was given #2.00 by Mrs. N. E. 
 Cobleigh, the widow of a former president of Tennessee Wes¬ 
 leyan University. “Use this for Christian education in [apan,” 
 said Mrs. Cobleigh. With this sum as a nucleus Dr. Long 
 obtained from his personal friends several hundred dollars 
 with which to organize a Christian school in Japan. 
 
 Conference with missionary leaders resulted in the decision 
 to erect the proposed school in the then growing city of Naga¬ 
 saki. On October 23, 1881, the new school opened with three 
 
 President Noboru Kawasaki was 
 born at Obi, Miyazaki Prefecture, 
 Kyushu, on October 10, 1870. As 
 a young lad he entered Chinzei, 
 and became a Christian. In June, 
 1894, he hnished Chinzei’s Middle 
 School course. Four years later he 
 was graduated from her theological 
 department. Later he went to 
 America, where he attended Bos¬ 
 ton University, graduating in 1906. 
 The next year he received his Mas¬ 
 ter’s degree, and in 1908 was grad¬ 
 uated from Boston University School of Theology with the 
 degree of Bachelor of Sacred Theology. Upon his return to 
 Japan, he served for several years as pastor ot Wesley Church 
 (Nagasaki), and teacher ol Bible in Chinzei Gakuin. Tn 1920 he 
 was elected president ol his Alma Mater. 
 
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departments: preparatory, collegiate, and theological. A 
 three-year course of study was offered in each department. 
 Seven years later three young men were graduated from the 
 collegiate department and three from the theological depart¬ 
 ment. 
 
 In its earliest days the school was known as “Cobleigh In¬ 
 stitute.” In 1906 its present name was adopted. In 1899 it 
 was recognized as a school by the department of education of 
 the Imperial Japanese Government. With the organization of 
 the Japan Methodist Church in 1907, the theological depart¬ 
 ment of Chinzei Gakuin was discontinued, the students of 
 that course being sent to the Methodist theological school in 
 Kobe, or to the similar institution in Tokyo. The following 
 year the middle school department, corresponding to an 
 American high school, was given full recognition by the Jap¬ 
 anese government, and thus the graduates of Chinzei Gakuin 
 had the doors of all government colleges and universities open 
 to them. 
 
 In February, 1924, the main building of Chinzei Gakuin was 
 totally destroyed by fire. With a part of the hre insurance 
 money a temporary barracks building was constructed inside 
 the burned brick walls of the former structure. 
 
 It is in these temporary barrack quarters that 500 boys are 
 now attending classes. The last graduating class numbered 
 89, the largest in the history of the institution. But the school 
 cannot for long carry on its work under this handicap of lack 
 of space and buildings. If Japanese leaders of the future are 
 to be trained here, the institution must be adequately housed. 
 
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Nagasaki: The Glasgow of Japan 
 
 T HE city of Nagasaki, on the west shore of the island of 
 Kyushu, southern Japan, is famous the world over 
 to-day as one of the great shipbuilding centers of the Pacific. 
 Three miles of its waterfront is occupied by the Mitsubishi 
 Shipbuilding Company. Together with their allied company 
 and backers, the Mitsu Company, they form the most power¬ 
 ful financial and industrial organization in Japan. 
 
 This Nagasaki shipbuilding yard normally employs 12,000 
 highly trained workmen. Here have been built some of the 
 largest merchant vessels of the Pacific as well as many large 
 naval ships. The city has a total population of 176,000 people. 
 
 It was this city that Francis Xavier, the noted Jesuit mis¬ 
 sionary, made one of his missionary centers for Japan. It is 
 interesting to note also that the first Protestant missionaries 
 who came to Japan after Commodore Perry’s visit landed at 
 Nagasaki. 
 
 Shipbuilding Plant, Nagasaki 
 
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“STRENGTHEN THE CHRISTIAN 
 SCHOOLS” 
 
 “The strengthening of the Christian schools 
 is one of the salient needs of the day. No one 
 would deny the importance of laying siege to 
 the Government School student body, but it is 
 likewise important to create a chain of Chris¬ 
 tian schools of the highest quality, in every 
 section of the empire. In the long run, this 
 would be one of the most highly multiplying 
 uses of missionary men and money. Who 
 prates of the competition between the evangel¬ 
 istic and the educational work? They are one 
 and inseparable, interacting organs of one body. 
 The schools work on the most plastic minds, 
 not for a few minutes a week, but for months 
 on end. They operate by peaceful penetration, 
 not by sudden attack; but in a true sense they 
 are evangelistic. . . . 
 
 “The achievements of the Christian schools 
 are remarkable when contrasted with their 
 meagre equipment and resources. But if one 
 may hazard a guess, a fifty per cent increase in 
 the grants for maintenance and buildings made 
 by the mission boards would double the net 
 productivity of the schools.”— GALEN M. FISHER 
 
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A Missionary Writes of Chinzei 
 
 S OMETHING of the spirit of Chinzei Gakuin, and of the 
 faith and steadfastness of purpose of its staff, Japanese 
 and American alike, may he "leaned from these random para¬ 
 graphs from letters of Glen Bruner, missionary in Nagasaki: 
 
 89 Graduates in 1925 
 
 “We graduated eighty-nine hoys this spring (1925). Of 
 this number not quite half were confessing Christians, hut 
 all of them had come to know that the hated ‘Jesus religion’ 
 was a religion of love and of hope. They no longer fear Chris¬ 
 tianity as a woman fears a serpent. They are not against 
 Christ, therefore they are for Him. 
 
 “We took 124 new boys into the first-year class. They are 
 bright little fellows, and have the making of great men in 
 them if we can only live up to our responsibility. 
 
 Evangelistic Meetings 
 
 “We have just ended a series of union evangelistic meetings 
 that were held in the auditorium of the famous Mitsubishi 
 Shipbuilding Company. While I do not know just how many 
 decisions were made for Christ, I do know that thousands 
 flocked to the meetings and heard, many of them for the first 
 time, the Gospel message. The whole was planned and car¬ 
 ried out by Japanese leaders, graduates of mission schools and 
 some of them graduates of American Christian universities. 
 We feel that the meetings were a decided success, and since 
 they are the first of the sort in this city we hope that they will 
 be repeated again and again. . . . 
 
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Nine Candidates for Ministry 
 
 “The most important spiritual 
 development took place in the hearts 
 of some seventy boys who confessed 
 Christ as their personal Saviour. 
 There are nine candidates for the 
 ministry in school. 
 
 “The Student Y. M. C. A., the 
 Morning Watch, and voluntary 
 Bible classes aid in the spiritual 
 development ol the hoys. The firm 
 faith of the President, the inspiring 
 zeal of a devoted, capable pastor, and 
 the leadership of Christian teach¬ 
 ers, all count for the Master. . . . 
 
 “Any Room in Your School?’’ 
 
 “They Have Become Christians” 
 
 “A large class of young men will graduate this year, leaving 
 Chinzei with high hopes for the future. They have—a few 
 more than half of them—become Christians. Some of them 
 have been disowned, kicked out of house and home for that 
 very thing, for the hatred of ‘Yaso Kyo,’ as the Jesus religion 
 is sometimes called, is very great in some sections. Those 
 who have not openly accepted Christ have had their lives 
 changed bv contact with Christian teachers — and the ideals 
 set for them by these teachers.” 
 
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 The Architect’s Vision of the New Chinzei Gakuin 
 
A New Home for Chinzei Gakuin 
 
 F OR more than forty years Chinzei Gakuin has stood 
 upon a hillside overlooking Nagasaki City and her beau¬ 
 tiful harbor where vessels flying every flag of the world drop 
 anchor. Crammed in between mountains and sea, it has al¬ 
 ways lacked a proper campus. Its property is totally inade¬ 
 quate properly to care for 500 or more eager Japanese students. 
 It is built on several different levels, thus making playground 
 and building problems wholly impossible to overcome. 
 
 Even before the disastrous fire of 1924 Chinzei Gakuin had 
 needed new buildings to house her rapidly growing student 
 body. The dormitories, weakened by white ants, by earth¬ 
 quake, and by typhoon, have had to be taken down. The 
 fire destroyed the main building. The frame gymnasium is 
 the only suitable structure now giving service upon the cam¬ 
 pus. There are no suitable facilities—nothing but makeshift 
 equipment—for scientific laboratory work, for library, for 
 chapel, for administrative offices. 
 
 “Must Be Rebuilt” 
 
 “ ‘Carthago delenda est’ never meant half so much as ‘Chinzei 
 must be rebuilt,’ ” writes the Rev. F. N. Scott, missionary in 
 Nagasaki. 
 
 So the Chinzei Gakuin authorities have purchased in one 
 of the suburbs of Nagasaki a new site upon which it is pro¬ 
 posed to build and equip a modern school plant suitable for 
 Chinzei’s task in training leaders of the new Japan. It is an 
 old military parade ground; the government has sanctioned 
 its sale for educational purposes. 
 
 The old school site, which has greatly increased in value 
 during recent years by the growth of the city all around it, is to 
 
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be sold. The proceeds will pay for the new campus site, and 
 will provide a nucleus for the new building enterprise. An 
 American friend of the school has ottered #10,000 for the erec¬ 
 tion of new buildings, conditional upon the raising of the re¬ 
 mainder needed to properly equip the institution. Yen 20,000 
 (#10,000) is already promised in Japan by alumni and con¬ 
 stituents. 
 
 The Buildings 
 
 The buildings and work needed upon the new campus, with 
 an estimate of their probable cost (a building costing about 
 the same in Japan as in the United States) are: 
 
 Main building (recitation and administration rooms) . #85,000 
 
 Dormitories for 100 students (4 units at #6,250 each) . 25,000 
 
 Removal from old site, walls, roads, etc . 5,500 
 
 Land . 6,500 
 
 Teachers’ houses (two at #3,500 each) . 7,000 
 
 Total . #129,000 
 
 One third from Japan . 43,000 
 
 Two thirds from America . #86,000 
 
 “A Yen for a Dollar” 
 
 “A yen from Japan for every dollar from America” is the 
 slogan of the Christians in and around Nagasaki in raising 
 their share of the amount. They have pledged themselves to 
 raise yen 86,000 (#43,000) for the new buildings—and have 
 already made a good start towards securing the amount. 
 
 On all gifts for these buildings, either World Service “Ap¬ 
 portionment” or “Special,” credit will be given, as the donor 
 designates. Gifts may take the form of memorial buildings or 
 memorial rooms to some loved one in a donor’s family, or to 
 some loved member of a congregation. Gifts and inquiries 
 
should be sent to Moms W. Ehnes, treasurer, Board of For¬ 
 eign Missions, i Fifth Avenue, New York City. 
 
 No more lasting or multiplying gift can be made than one 
 which will continue through the years to exert its influence in 
 raising up Christian leaders in Japan. 
 
 Board of Foreign Missions, 
 
 Methodist Episcopal, Church, 
 
 150 Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y. 
 
 Gentlemen: For the new building of Chinzei Gakuin, 
 Nagasaki, Japan, 
 
 I will give the sum of.dollars, payable 
 
 as follows. 
 
 Name. . 
 Address 
 
 ANNUITIES 
 
 The annuity plan of the Board of Foreign Missions 
 makes it possible for a donor to secure an investment 
 and a guaranteed income, probably above prevailing 
 interest rates, and provides at the same time a gift to 
 help advance the Kingdom of God. Such a gilt, draw¬ 
 ing income for the donor during his or her life, can be 
 designated for Chinzei Gakuin or any other work of 
 the Board of Foreign Missions. Write for full infor- 
 mation to Morris W. Ehnes, treasurer, 150 Fifth 
 Avenue, New York City. 
 
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