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Toyohiko Kagawa, a Japanese Christian
paciÞst, Christian reformer, and labour
activist. Kagawa wrote, spoke, and worked
at length on ways to employ Christian principles in the ordering of
society and in cooperatives. His vocation to help the poor led him to
live among them. He communicated this theme and lived it so
eloquently, ÒNot everything in manÕs life is summed up in the question
of food.Ó
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ÒHE GIVETH MORE GRACEÓ Poem by Annie Johnson Flint
Back-Story and Other Thoughts By Peter
Annie Johnson Flint was born in 1866. Her mother died in 1869.
At the same time AnnieÕs father had an incurable disease, and
he died while Annie
was still very young.
Before he died Mr
Johnson sent Annie,
and her sister, to live
with a widow. It was not
a happy time. Later,
Annie and her sister
were adopted by Mr &
Mrs Flint who loved the
girls and provided them
with a good but modest
home. But the Flints
were very frail and soon
passed away. It was
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