A THOUGHT THAT LED TO A STRATEGY
One of the missionary biographies I found inspiring to read a few years back was Sensei by Russell Hitt. It is the story of Irene Webster Smith, a Quaker lady who served as a missionary to Japan for half a century. She first went to Japan back 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 prostitutes from their entrapment in the government-licensed brothels. In this early experience, Sensei learned how these young girls, unwanted by their parents, were sold into a life of vice and trained from their earliest years to know no other experience. These days in the Tokyo Rescue Home were 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 as they regained their health. In the midst of…
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