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...Lamb of God, an ancient symbol dear to most Christians, is an offensive notion to the Japanese. To them the lamb is "a dirty, stupid and cringing animal." The word lamb is "an epithet of contempt and derision . . . perhaps the vilest word in the language." Thus, in Christianity and Crisis last week, wrote George S. Noss, Japan-born son of U.S. missionaries, himself a missionary in rural Japan for eleven years, now a teacher of Japanese at Columbia University. His thesis: the reason Christian missionaries to Japan have converted only one-half of 1% of the population is largely that...
...lamb, ex-Missionary Noss would substitute the mirror popular in Shinto temples. Says he: "For the Japanese, Jesus the Mirror of God would be a tremendous symbol." He would also adopt the cherry blossom as a Christian symbol...
...down for missionary work because of poor health. So he became the London Missionary Society's secretary for India, the South Seas and Papua. He likes to putter in his garden, play the violin, go to the theater with his wife, a doctor. He reads Anthony Trollope, Charles Lamb, John Donne, can take Hemingway "in small doses." On his office wall is a photograph of himself taken in India. It shows Mr. Goodall in shorts, squatting before a bearded Indian Christian. Says the International Missionary Council's new secretary: "That is symbolic. It shows where an administrator should...
...Ranking. In the number two spot, Ed Slater lost to Dean Mathey, 6-0, 6-1, and Frank Rinaldi, number three, lost to Don Mathey, 6-0, 6-2. Number four man Don Willner defeated Bruce Baine, of Deerfield, 8-6, 6-3; Bill Mayleas, number five, beat Dick Lamb, 4-6, 6-2, 6-2; and Fred Holpon toppled Deerfield's 75-pound Gordon Amar...
...Horatio Lamb Lecturer on Music, Copeland will conclude his five lectures "Music in the American Scene next week...