On This Day in 1890
From Fort Worth, Tx, I had to laugh at the description of the Japanese language as young missionaries headed here in 1890:
The youngest of our missions is in Japan. On the 5th of November, 1889, Brothers Brunson and McCollum arrived, and are presently and temporarily located in the city of Kobe. It is understood, as the result of communications with the American Baptist Missionary Union and missionaries on the field, that our missionaries shall work to the south and west of Kobe. After acquiring more acquaintance with the language and people they will be better prepared, with counsel from the Board, to make a settlement judicious and satisfactory to all concerned.
Our young missionaries are full of hope, and the field is full of promise. This mission has a sacred interest in the mind of the Board, being associated with an attempt in 1860 to enter the field by our missionaries. Mr. and Mrs. Rohrer, who were lost on their way in the ill-fated "Edwin Forest." Our present missionaries have given their first impressions through the denominational press, but their main business is the mastery of the most difficult tongue of the East, to which they are applying themselves with well-trained minds and manly vigor and determination. If their life and health are preserved, the next Convention will no doubt have from them some cheering report.
The youngest of our missions is in Japan. On the 5th of November, 1889, Brothers Brunson and McCollum arrived, and are presently and temporarily located in the city of Kobe. It is understood, as the result of communications with the American Baptist Missionary Union and missionaries on the field, that our missionaries shall work to the south and west of Kobe. After acquiring more acquaintance with the language and people they will be better prepared, with counsel from the Board, to make a settlement judicious and satisfactory to all concerned.
Our young missionaries are full of hope, and the field is full of promise. This mission has a sacred interest in the mind of the Board, being associated with an attempt in 1860 to enter the field by our missionaries. Mr. and Mrs. Rohrer, who were lost on their way in the ill-fated "Edwin Forest." Our present missionaries have given their first impressions through the denominational press, but their main business is the mastery of the most difficult tongue of the East, to which they are applying themselves with well-trained minds and manly vigor and determination. If their life and health are preserved, the next Convention will no doubt have from them some cheering report.
