meeting opposition from anyone, for there were no guards there — only one person standing on a narrow bridge. Scarcely had that throng reached him when it halted in its march and was overcome with shame, for they saw him kneeling in prayer; and it turned back at once the way it had come.

In 1925 Kagawa, by the force of his influence, abolished the unjust law that forbade the assembly of trade unions, for the farmlands of Japan at that time had become open ground for the Communist bands. In the novels he wrote he said a great deal about the farmers' project, besides the fiery speeches he addressed to the thousands of the people the length and breadth of the country. And when the farm-ers' delegates accepted his coun-

sels, he made them the nucleus of the movement concerned with the orderly division of estates. Then he brought out a new magazine entitled "Land and Liberty," and the result was that the first spark was struck for a congress of the peasants of all Japan, and the Union of the Peasants of Japan was founded. Thus his projects went on advancing from good to better, until the war came and destroyed all that he had built — schools, orphanages, and churches — with the bombs of the air raids. When the war laid down its burdens, weariness had worn out Kagawa's strength; even so, he spared no effort in serving those of his flock who remained, in holding them together and watching over them. He pitched tents and built orphanages for the refugees of

the war, and went about from street to street preaching the Gospel, feeling that that time was a fitting opportunity for the guid-ance of the Japanese. And we see that this intrepid man has, to this hour, lost not an atom of his resolve and his energy, though he is afflicted with trachoma and other tormenting diseases. We see too that his books sell by the thousands, and that all who work with him possess great strength. He directs three factories and has founded many schools for the workers. And we see him now preaching to the millions of the people, spreading among them the message of love and brother-hood, and proclaiming to them his single program: Serve all.