Hepburn of Japan and His Wife and Helpmates
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Excerpt from Hepburn of Japan and His Wife and Helpmates: A Life Story of Toil for Christ Of the four great pioneers of the gospel and Christian civilization in Japan, Verbeck, Brown, Hepburn and Williams, this volume completes the biography of that one who was second on the ground and possibly the first in general usefulness. America´s greatest gift to Japan was in these men. I knew them all, during four years in the Mikado´s empire, as neighbors, friends and fellow workers, in perils and in joys. Though not technically a missionary - my calling being that of an educational pioneer - I loved and rejoiced in their work, as if one of them. From 1870 until Dr. Hepburn´s decease in 1911, we were always friends, and also occasional correspondents. But without that noble work of God, the "help meet for him," there would have been no such Dr. Hepburn, as all Japan and we his friends knew, and so I have in this volume much to say about Mrs. Hepburn. She wrote me, on March 21, 1895, concerning her husband, as follows: "I think you have understood him. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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