CHRISTMAS FILM
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This last scene is very different- from what has gone before. It is Christmas Day in a Japanese city, and the year is. 1909... Noth ing of any particular importance seems to be happening, but then that was the case on the first Christmas Day of-all
Here comes a young Japanese student of 21, passing through the streets of Kobe with a bundle of bedding on his back. He stops at "the door of a wretched hovel, six' feet by six. Surely he will not go in there! The floor has not been swept for months, it is alive with vermin, and its history is terrible. even for a neighbourhood such as this. Murder has been committed In it, and it hus only, stood tenant- less so long because of the rumour which declared it hauntel Here. with the gambler. the murderer and the prostitute at his door and often entering it Kagawa has come to live. it is the beginning of a marvellous life. of self- "sacrifice, all the, môre marvellous in or eyes because it is being lived in our own time and in one of the world's greatest industrial centres. When Kagawa took upon himself the burden of the slum population of Japan, he not mere- ly won the hearts of those among whom he came to live, he roused the conscience of the nation, till the government thok action and · launched a grént programme of clearance and rehousing for these people 'whom none had 'valued till this man did. Listen to what he says himself, his own statement of
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the faith which led him to hear and to accept the call to such a life as this. He wrote afterwards: 'I am fond of men. The worst," most fear-inspiring, demonized
GIVE THE CHILDREN
KLIM
FOR
Christmas
So They Will Be Well and Strong and Be "Able to Enjoy "All the
Fun."
YUEN
murderer, somewhere in his make-up has that which is irre sistible. Nature, is fascinating. but the children of the slums also abound in interest. If I am pri-
vileged to play with them I will not say that Nature surpasses them in attractiveness. I cling to men. I love them. I can't help loving them.'
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