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日本の末日聖徒イエス・キリスト教会歴史
See Introduction to this Series
Part 6
A LETTER FROM BROTHER TAKAGI
Dear Senator Thomas and Mr. Taylor:
I heartily congratulate you both on this occasion for your best effort in doing for your country in your good health.
I think you have already read my letter of April 30, 1934. Although I have not yet heard your opinion on that matter, OPPORTUNITY is a very hand. At this fine time, Brother Fujiwara visited me and I understand that the Church has just about the same idea and principle for the church works in Japan as we have expected. Therefore I humbly repeat the same point of my opinion. In is my sincere happiness if you kindly consider for what I state in my letter.
As I stated in my last letter, a decade has already passed since the Japan Mission of the Church had been closed. During the years of a decade we can see that the general trend of the world has brought forth rapid changes and transitions and that in human life a great reform has been brought out. That is the great powers of the world desire nothing but PEACE, and the whole human beings on the earth desire nothing but the sound stability of livelihood.
Nevertheless, why has the desire of those countries and human beings not been easily and smoothly obtained?
I believe that in general without sound spiritual stability in the foundation of human life, we can not by no means attain PEACE that that there will be no spiritual stability unless religion is not based on it. I firmly believe that there will be no other way but to rely upon the Power of God, found only in religion, who can share noble, natural and happy human life equally life equally to whole human kind without adhering to the worldly want and avarice and without inclin(in)g to the exclusiveness of the others.
Editor's Note: This partial letter from Brother Tomigoro Takagi is to former missionaries in Japan, Elbert Thomas who became a US Senator from Utah and Alma Taylor who served in Japan for almost nine years. Brother Takagi is the father of Sister Toshiko Yanagida, columnist for Meridian Japan. Brother Takagi remained faithful through the dark night of the Japan Mission closure from 1924 to 1948. After the war, he assisted greatly in the work after missionaries arrived back in Japan.