OUNCE OF PREVENTION
One of the most fascinating biographies I ever read was that of Irene Webster Smith by Russell Hitt. The title of the book is Sensei which means “Teacher” in Japanese. Irene Smith was a Quaker and a missionary to Japan for some 50 years. Sensei became her name to the Japanese. She first went to Japan about 1915 under the Japan Evangelistic Band from her native Ireland. Her first assignment was to serve in the Tokyo Rescue Home which sought to save protitutes from their entrapment in the government-licensed brothels. In this early experience, Sensei learned how these young girls, who were unwanted by their parents, were sold into a life of vice and trained from their earliest years to know no other experince. These days in the Tokioy Rescue Home were very discouraging to Sensei, because these girls, no matter how they seemed to repent of their past — would so often revert to the life of vice as soon…
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