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A
Report by
Mark
and
Pauline Maxey
/uNKLerre t^ /
To the F r ie n d s o f th e
Kyushu
C h r i s t i a n
Mission
Kagoshima 893 Japan-Box 417 N.Vernon IN 47265
LINKLETTER 238
APRIL,
1984
ISTER ISABEL
C E N T E R
OF
J A P A N
ea r
C h ri st ia n f ri en d s
Greetings
for 1984 even i f i t
i s
a l ready one- fourth
The Year of
th e
Rat i t i s Once eve ry twe lv e years,
in t h i s par t
of
th e world t r i e s to think
of
some
good
to say
about this
c r i t t e r
Tha t' s o ft en enough
my way of
thinking.
Everybody l i k e s
to
t a l k about
th e
weather
so w e l l
a l i t t l e
b it
of
that , too. I t s
been a
long,
cold
wint
r made thoroughly miserable by th e daily dososof ash from
r neighboring volcano , Mt.
Sakurajima.
I t blew up 450
l a s t
year and promises
to
do
th e
same this year.Every
the
air is f i l led with volcanic dust that is a
misery
th e eyes,
nose and throat.
And
every morning
everything
covered a
dull grey
from the ash that
fell
dur ing the
are
enduring
t i l l summer
when
the prevailing
winds
take
i t
in t he oppos it e
direct ion.
Last December
21,
th e Kanoya
church
and th e Christ
n
Center cooperated in showing the two hour
f ilm, J esus ,
our city's cultural center i t is a splendid building
seats
about 1200 people. We
advertised
by personal in
by
posters
and by
inserts
in
the daily paper
two
650
people
attended.
We
were pleased with the turn
t
and with
the
chance to share the deeper meaning of
ristmas more fully with our city.
We
were
able
to pay all
for the very
nominal t icket fe e
charged.
Chr is tmas was a very full time as
always, but espec
so
this
year
because
i t fell
on Sunday.
We
sang a
lot
Christmas songs and preached a lo t of Christmas sermons.
also ate a
lot
of Christmas goodies that Pauline pre
fo r
each
place.
David Semrau Rotary Exchange
student
our
town
this year from Seattle, Washington relieved his
mesickness by
putting
up our Christmas
decorations.
Rhonda
Juve
spent
a
week
with us. They went with us to
ueyoshi where they
are
planning to spend their
summer
va
and also to
locate
after
their
language study is
language ability is progressing very nicely.)
amily Christmas was delayed until
December
26 when Walter
d Mary Shelley and
Trent , joined
us
for
a very
special
day
The end of January and the first part of February is
here
as The
Great Cold. Nevertheless, i t
was a
warm
me of teaching and fellowship as Bro.Hideo Yoshii taught
s the
Book
of Ephesians for our
nd
Leadership Training
messages were wel1-prepared and
well-received
t
only
in
the four nights atthe Christian Cen te r but also
the
two
night sessions held
at
Yoshino Kagoshima Kushik-
ino and Nishinomote on the island of Tanegashima.
The
Bible
remains the
finest
textbook for teaching the
Christ
n f a i t h
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January
17 was
the
first
meeting of the year for the ladies of the
Kanoya
church. It was an
meeting
as
it
gets the year off to a
good start.
Pauline
spoke on
the
theme My times
are in
Hands using Psalm 31. Adelicious
Japanese
meal followed, each lady brinqina her own specialty.
Pauline gave the same message at
the
leoer colony and
at
the
Suevoshi
andKushira
churches to
the
of
al l .
I am
enjoying teaching English Bible
classes
on
Friday night
and
a ll Saturday
afternoon. On
night, we are studying 30
minute
segments of Zeffirel l i s film, Jesus of Nazareth using video
I
am
writing a
lesson
guide each week for each
of th e thir teen sessions.
Also for
Saturday clas
am writing
lessons
each week
for courses
on
Great
Characters
of
th e Bible
and Let's Look
a t th e
I
am learning
more than my students, o f cou rse, in p reparing
these
lessons.
Pauline
goes with me
twice
a month
to
the leper
church
out
in the
country,
once
on Sunday and
on
Friday. After
our Friday
class
we
have
time to drink
tea
and
vis i t
with t he se lo ve ly Christ ian
At a
recent meeting of
th e
Councillor's of
Osaka
Bible Seminary,
I
visited the new dormitor
being bui l t . I t will
be ready for the
new
term starting
April 10 . I t will not,
however, be debt
free
any special cont ribut ions
for
this
purpose
are
s t i l l
welcome.
The seminary will
have
four new men students this year: two from Okinawa and two from Kagosh
is Koichi
TOKUDA
a
family
man
of
43 from Kagoshima
church.
The
other is
Motonobu
IKEDA youngest
f
Bro.
Ikeda, min is te r o f
the Nishinoomote
church.
I supervised
their entrance
exam
taken
a t
the Chri
Center
on
Friday,
March 2. Both passed handi ly with Bro. Tokuda
having exceptional
marks. We
are
encouraged
by t he dec is ions
these
two have made
to preach the gospel,
one
in
his
youth
and
the
in
his maturity.
In years past we have had two singing groups from Ohio.
This year
we
will
have another from
themselves, Ohio Singers 3. Four men make up the group, all graduate students
at
Cincinnat
Seminary:
Toshiaki
Chida, 32, from Iwate Prefecture, north of Tokyo;Makoto
Yoshii,
24 , from
here
in
Kanoya; Chris Crossgrave, 25,
of
Modale, Iowa and Jim Green, 24,
of
Ft.
Lauderdale,
Flo
Hideo Yoshii and
myself
are sponsorina them
in
Japan. They will have seven weeks here
singin
d speaking in camps,conventions and churches.They
are
going to
work
very hard and share
the ir fai th
lo t of people. They are
trying
to raise 1500 each to buy their round trip tickets and to help pay t
in Japan. If you would
l ike
to
share
with them, you can send
i t through
th e Kyushu Christian Missi
417, North Vernon, Indiana 4726,
Make
your
check
out to th e mission but
mark
i t
for 1984
Summer
you a re w ithin dr iv in g d ista nc e
of
Ctnctnnati^nd
would^ike
to have them vis i t your
write to
Jim
Green a t
2700
Glenway, Cincinnati ,
OH 45204.
Looking ahead a few months, Pauline and I
are
planning to be in
the USA
for approximately on
this
fall to be on
the
program
at th e National Missionary
Convention
in Phoenix, Arizonai
Septe
We
will
be making
this
t r ip
at
ou r
own
expense
and
expect to
vis i t each
of
ou r
children before r
Our
next regular furlough will begin in the
summer
of
1985. We
will
be
teaching at
Minnesota
College
that
fal l quarter.
All
th is ,
i f
the
Lord
wills, *
of
course.
A highlight of March was the two week vis i t of
Isabel
Dittemore, eldest of the nine Maxey
ch
n and
now proudly
owning up
to being
75. She was a
co-worker in
this area
for
four
years beginnin
The
churches a t Kajiki, Kushikino
and Kagoshima
remain
from he r
work. Also
many
people
w
he r converts and students. We made sure that she got
to
visit as many
of
the churches and th e peop
sh e
knew as possible . She has
every reason
to be proud of
the missionary
years sh e spent
Ofi the
betan border and in Japan and Taiwan. We were proud
to
have
her
vis i t with us once again af ter a lo
Once
more
i t is time to say
thank
you for sharing your prayers, your mi^onary
your
love and your
means
wUh
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A
Report
by Mark and Paul ine
Maxey
u N K L e rre R
To the Friends of the
Kyushu
Chris t ian Mission
Kanoya,
Kagoshlma
893 Japan-Box 43 7 N.Vernon IN
47265
LINKLETTER
#239
JULY 1984
J u u. j. 0
:T
ese i- tee
I
CHART SERMON
FOR
PENTECOST
D
Dear
Christ ian fr iends
I t was Elizabeth Akers Allen who said
(i860),
Backward, turn backward, 0 Time in your flight, Make
me a
child again
jus t f or t on ig ht
Forge t th e second part.
I have
never wanted
to be a child again. But I
wouldn't mind i f th e sun's shadow fel l back te n s teps any day of the week.
I t takes
15
hours of uninterrupted time
to
find the
pictures,
la y ou t the pages,
type
and
re-type
th e copy,
make
address co rrect ions , p rint ing ins t ru c tion s
and mail--each
time
I write
th e
LINKLETTER. Finding
that
kind
of time
is
getting harder
to do
a ll
th e time.
So,
I'm going
to
try harder
but
no t guarantee^more
l tt rs
Pauline and I went to Osaka by overnight ferry to be
p re sent f or
th e graduation ceremonies a t Osaka
Bible
Seminary on Friday, April.
30 .
In
the
afternoon I
spoke for the dedicat ion of the
new
dormitory. That
was a
lo t
of hard work
preparing
but a sat isfact ion never the l es s .I n l es s than two years from th e time
th e
pro
jec t
was
approved in board meeting t he bui ld ing
was up and
ready for
use.
A
lo t
of
money was
raised both in
Japan
and
the
USA. We thank you
fo r sharing
in this
project.
A
debt
of $20,000 remains
for
removing
th e old
building
and
rehabilitating
the
grounds.
Saturday
night, we enjoyed th e hospitali ty
of George
and Ethel Beckman. Sunday
morning,
April 1, we
spoke
fo r the Mennonite church in Kobe where two of ou r Kyushu gir ls attend.
That
night we wer e down in Okayama
Ken
speaking
for Audrey West
a t
th e Okayama
Christian
Center in
Hayashino.
We spoke for three nights on th e
church and the
Christian
l i fe Two days
of
driving
through
t he count ry si de t ur ni ng spring
green
brought us
home again. We visited the Hideto Yoshii family and Ben and Nobuko Hirataka in northern Kyushu en route.
30
years
ago Denzo Shimoda
buil t
an
all-purpose Japanese
house to
th e
rear
and
at
one
corner of the
mission house. I t
had
weathered
many a
typhoon but
i t
had began to
sag.
We
had
i t jacked
up
again
and
the
same
man
has spent a
couple of
months
rebuilding
and modernizing
i t I t will
be
put to
good
use.
May
5 and 6 was the week-end f or Wa lt er 's spring
EBC
camp. He asked me to give two
ta lks,
on the
sub
ject :
Society:
Shall We Change-
I t or
Shall We Let
I t
Change Us? I t al ked for an hour on each side of that
equation and
then
we divided
into groups
fo r another hour' s d iscuss ion . I was
refreshed being with
these young
people. Rain,rain,rain bu t
ou r
spir i ts were no t a b it damp. Our campground is
fu l f i l l ing
i t s function.
May
14 found
Pauline
and I back
in
Osaka
again
fo r
th e
seminary board meet ing and
again
enjoying
th e
hospitality of
Martin
and Evelyn
Clark.
David Semrau, Rotary Exchange student
in
Kanoya this
year,
went
with
us .
Jenann Beckman spent a day
taking
him to
see the ancient capital city of
Nara.
On
a
previous
t r ip she
had
taken
him
sightseeing
in Kyoto, th e
only city
in
Japan
undamaged by
the
war. Thank you Jenann
We went
by bus to the
Okayama
Christian Center. This time
i t was
Pauline's turn to speak for the area
women s meeting there.
Her
subject,
She Has Done What She
Could. She
had spoken
on the
same
subject the
week
before to the Kagoshima
churches women s
meeting in
Kanoya.
The women at Okayama also expressed appreciation
for her talk. After a delightful
lunch
served by the
men, we had
a couple of hours'discussion about the points
Pauline had talked about.
The
next
morning Audrey West and
Keith Summers got us back to
Osaka
in time for the
f i r s t
plane
home.
Mid-morning,
May 18, Pauline
began
to have unbearable chest pains.
When
we got her to the hospital,
Dr.Tsuzaki took x-rays and found that a lower, left rib was
broken.
As she
had
not fallen ror bumped anything,
the
Dr.thinks it was
dueto osteoporosis - a drastic lack of
calcium
in her
bones. She was
put in a tight
bind
er
and
pretty
much
immobilized for a month. June was her
first time
out of the house - and that to
go
to
the hospital again.
The
Dr. said the
bone
is healing slowly but properly. Pauline's pain is almost gone.
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building the calcium in her bones will take time but Pauline is determined to do so.
o suffering
is without
its blessing.
Pauline has had hers in the
many many
people
who
have prayed
fo r her.
Also in
the
many
people who
have
come
to
see her.
The house has been
fi l led
with
th e
flowers
they
brought
for
over
a month now. I keep reminding he r
that she is
a much-loved woman,
beginning with
me.
Pauline
wants to be
strong
enough
to
attend
the
annual
convention at
the end
o f J uly.
Also
to enjoy
the
visits
of
ou r
children
in
July. Paula,
ou r o ld es t, is
b ringing her four children f rom Canada. I t
will
the
f irs t
time back
since
th 'emigrated to Canada eight years ago. Paul and Faith (our second daughter)
are
a lso returning
to
Japan, they
hope
permanently.
They
will
spend some t ime
with
us
before
Paul
begins teach
ing
in a special
Japanese high
school
in
Tsukuba,
north of
Tokyo. So
i t looks
like
the
NoRoom in
the
Inn
s ig n w il l
be out
for th e
month
of July
anyhow. But
i f
you stop
by ,
we ll
find
you some
kind of
a manger
for
you to s tay in .
Resurrection
Day
was a
great
day
of
preaching
and
rejoicing
in many
places
from
dawn
to
dusk.
In
Sueyoshi
we have enjoyed
th e
fellowship of new
Christian,
Kohei Hayashi, o f Kaj ik i.
Bro.
Daikusono baptized
him there, March 31 ,
but
before and af ter that he was an eager s tu de nt o f God s word each Sunday a t Sueyoshi.
I t was a p le as ur e t o teach a man so happy in his new found fai th. Pentecost was a great
season
fo r me. I
preached about th is day,
th e
birthday of th e church, three Sundays in a row.
Grandniece, Lisa
Lewis
spent
a few happy days
with
us
early in June.
She was on
he r
way back to Canada
af ter
a year of teaching a missionary
child
in Aparri, P.I .
Als o, June
13 and H we enjoyed the
vis i t
of
Susan Knudsen of Kenai,
Alaska.
Her husband,
David,
works fo r Marathon Oil and comes to
Japan once
a year
to service
the electronics
on a
special
ship
hauling liquid petroleum gas
from
Alaska.
She came
with
him
this
time.
We
gave her
a
smorgasbord of missionary exper iences in
a
very
short time.
,
,.Jhe_Ohio Singers
III began
their
sixty day
mission
in
Japan, June
24..Makoto
Yoshii, a rr iv ed ear ly
to
spend a few days
with
h is paren ts here in
Kanoya. We ar e
glad
to say
that enough money was
raised
to pay
fo r
their
round
t r ip
tickets and much
of their expenses
in Japan. Again,
thanks
to
each
one
of
you who
shared.
Three experiences
to
close: (1)
I baptized a young man, a
school teacher,
and worked
closely with
him
fo r
two
years.
Early
th is
year
he
quit
coming
to c hu rc h.
He
did
however,
b ri ng h is p ro sp ec ti ve
bride,
and a
time
and
place
was
set for
a Christian
wedding.
Then he was
transferred
to a
distant city.
He came back once
to
le t
me
know no t
to think
about the
wedding anymore . He would
no t give his
new
address
and phone number.
Which means, I will
no t
be having any more
connect ion with you. n
aching
sadness
that will
no t
go away. (2)
A young woman, a convert of many
years ago,
had
not
attended
church
fo r th re e
years. Suddenly, she
phoned to
tel l me,
very happily,
that she was moving to Tokyo to work and would be attending church there faithfully.
Gladness and bewilderment. (3)
After
preaching
last
Sunday at Kushira to
near
empty pews. I choked up
telling
Pauline how
lonely
and
hopeless
I fel t . But just now a member
of
that church came to call . She was
bubbling
with
joy, with fai th, with hope,wi th p lans
fo r the f ut ur e o f
that church.
As we
all three prayed together
be
fore
she le f t
I was choked up
with
joy. nd so was
fulf il led again.
Psalm
126:6,
Hethat goes forth weeping
bearing the
seed
for
sowing, shall
come home with shout s of
joy,
bringing his
sheaves with him.
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Don't worry,
everything^
u n d e r
c o n t r o l . . .
OCT
98
A
Report
by Mark and Pauline Maxey
To th e F rie nd s
of the Kyushu
C h r i s t i a n
Mission
Kanoya, Kagoshima
893
Japan-Box
417 N.Vernon IN 47265
LINKLETTER #240
OCTOBER
1984
C h r i s t i a n f r i e n d s
Hebrews
12:32
says
that time will fail
to
t e l l of Gideon,
Barak.
mson and Jepthah.
Well,
we ar e not
only
going
to negl ec t
these
ancient
wor
for
lack
of
space
we
alsomust neglect
some recent
ones
as
well.
34
years
ago
this
month
Pauline
and I began
ou r
l i f e s
work
in
Kanoya
have always been
thanking God bringing
us
to
this s pe cia l s po t and
to these
people.
David Semrau,
Rotary
Exchange student, has been a speci al b le ss ing
us this
year. Visiting
whenever he f e l t like
i t
and
sharing
hi s l i f e
with
. He also
studied
with
me and
joined our Engl ish Bible Class
each
Friday.So
t
was a pei^sonal joy
to
baptize him
the
l a s t Sunday before he
r et ur ned t o
Many
of
hi s
high
school friends gathered
at
th e
Kanoya
church to
this
great
event
in his l i f e .
Then
things
began
to buzz. Passports exp ired.
Pictures,
fees,
visas
work.
Finally
done.
Driver's
l icense
here
l a s t
three
years
and
expires
your birthday.
This was
my year.
More pictures, reading
test , fees
(would
believe 19 fo r a
driver's
license?) plus a mandatory two hour session on
safety.
Pauline
began to mend
and sh e
was able to be up and
around
as
ou r
a rr iv ed f or
long-expected v i s i t . Paula
Yanagimoto,
ou r oldest,
arrived
2 with her
four
children, Megumi,16; Temujin, H; Takanobu, 13; and Tamon,
We had lots of good
times
together and
th e
yard was soon full of young
wanting t o g et a cqu aint ed.
Paula
met many of
her old friends.
One
night
Seguchi.
Lydia Kishi
and Mr.
and
Mrs.
Yoshii
came
for
Japanese food and
old times.
Meanwhile Paul Axton finished h is g raduate work in Louisville and
Fait h resigned her
school
t eaching job
and
they
came
to
Japan to
English
in Meikei Gakuen, a
high school
in Tsukuba
City, about
two
hours
of
Tokyo.
Faith
arrived
July 3 and Paul July 19 after
visiting
his
pa r
in
Phoenix. Now every
bed was
full
and
all
the
leaves in
th e
dining table.
Walter,
Mary and
children
came over
July
19 fo r a
joint
celebra
ion of f ive family birthdays in July and August. Thirteen of us pret ty
fi l l e d th e place where we
went
for dinner. Bir thday
cake
and ice cream
a t
me was
pret ty nice
too.
Mary' s twin s i s t e r
Linda, and he r husband, Mark
Johnson
and two
visited
in
Kagoshima and
also at our
place. Mark is
assistant
minister
t
Shively
Christian Church,
Louisville,
Ky, where we attend when in the USA
The preache r' s spent all day
July
16 ,
cleaning
up
th e
camp
ground.
t was a
very
hot day amd volcanic
dust
was
everywhere. My
overexertion
that
ay may have beenmy
undoing.
At any
rate
my
l e f t
eye was completely
clouded
up
th e time we
l e f t for
miss ionary convent ion ,
July 23.
I t
took
two
days
of
and a night on
th e sea to get to the
camp
grounds
where
the convention
held.-
Shinshu Camp in
Nagano
Ken. Warren
Christiansen
was in
charge of
a
program.
Also
very
refreshing was th e superb singing and witness
of
th e Ohio
I I I
in
Japan
for th e
summer
from Cinc innat i B ib le
Seminary. Makoto
had a dream
o f b ring ing such
a group and his dream fulfil led
brought
blessing to
us
in
Japan
from Tokyo
all the
way
to
Kagoshima. Thank you Makoto,
shiyuki Chida,
Chris
Crossgrave
and Jim Green. Also
to Martin
Clark
who chauf-
them
in
h i s
va n f o r th e
e n t i r e t o u r .
The missionary
convention
was
July 25-28.
The Japanese
convention in
July 28-30.
Our
families were there for both conventions except for
ary and Trent and Shelley who had chicken pox and had to
stay
home. The clos
g
session
of
th e convention,
host minister,
Stephen
l i j ima, thanked th e
mis
o na ri es f or
our contribution
to
t he Ch ri st ia n
cause
in Japan and
especially
of
us there who had served
fo r
30 years or more. We received g i f t s
and
c e r t i f i c a t e of thanks. Very nice indeed Martin Clark f igures t h a t 26
mission
of
our people
have
given over
850
years
of s er vi ce
to
Japan.
I
doubt
f
that can
be matched on any
other mission f i e l d .
EYE
SURGEON,DR.IDETA PATI
PAULA V I S I T S AFTER 8 YEAR
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DAVID SEMRAU
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Convention over,
the
family had to go their own ways. Paul and
to Tsukuba, Paula
starting
the
long
trek
back to
Millet,
Edmonton, Al
Canada with
her
children, and Pauline and I A1 and Rhonda Juve and
back to Kagoshima. But f i rs t we enjoyed an overnight vis i t with Mark
Lynn Pratt in Machida. 24 hours by
ship
and 5 hours by car and we were
again, Wednesday night, August 1.
On
th e
way we le f t Rhonda and
A1
Juve at Sueyoshi church where
y served for the
month
of August -preaching, teaching, visiting, holding
I was
no t able to
be
with
them
a t a ll b ut they served well,
were well -
by t he peopl e, and will be back in Sueyoshi permanently af ter
they
language school nex t June.
Duty done i t was time
to face
up to my eye
problem.
Thursday I
to the
local eye doctor. He recommended I go
to
the
University Hospital.
talking
with
Bro. Yoshii I
decided
to
vis i t
Dr.
Hiyata,
a
specialist
a
large
clientele in Miyakonojo City, an hour and a half northeast
of
He and his
assistant
were puzzled
a t
what they saw but
set
a date
fo r
an
I
went
home
to get my
work caught up before
that
date.
Suddenly
sent
word to come for another examination on August 11. Sti l l no t satis
he said
that
he was
referring
me to Dr. Ideta in Kumamoto City. Pauline
I
arrived
at hi s hospital on August 13.
The retina is a
delicate
mult i- layer
l ight-sensi t ive
membrane
l in
t he inn er
eyeball and connected by the optic nerve to
the brain.
At
th e
of
his examination, he said t hat t h ree -four th s
of my retina
was detach
and th e impo rta nt th ing was
to
keep
th e
other
one-fourth
from doing
th e
e. He said, We can do the operation here
or
you
can
go
to
Boston. I
You do i t . I had
a lr eady learned
that he was the only eye doc to r in
who had
trained
i n Bos ton, a world center f or r et in al detachment sur
y. I knew I was in competent hands. His
hospital
was
clean,
orderly. His
competent
and
fr iendly,
and
th e
daily
routine well -ordered .
I entered the hospital August 14 and didn t leave t i l l Sept. l . I
a mask on
to
keep my eyes from working t i l l the operat ion on
th e
20th.
I had
time. Also for
th e
f i r s t
time in
my
l i fe I
didn t
have th e
of
my
eye s. P au lin e s ta yed in a nearby
hotel.
She came everyday and
to
me hour
after
hour. What a
precious
time we had together.
Suddenly,
my surprise I
found out
that a
lo t
of
people cared.
All our
children
ed. Younger brother
Victor
and wife Lois called from Cincinnati. Phone
from all over Japan. Visi tors , cards, gif ts of money,
flowers,
food,
prayers
- nobody was ever more
prayed fo r
than I was. I t was a spiri tual
I will
never
forget and that I
cannot
recall
without
tears. I
am
there is not space to give
the names
of all who visited, some of them
many hours
to
do so.We
will
always be grateful.
Dr.
Ideta waited t i l l
August 20 to
operate
so he could have a U.S.
anesthetist. The scheduled two-hour
operation lasted
four
hours.Paul
watched
th e
entire
procedure
on a
television
monitor
in
the
corridor.The
fi l led th e scr een. Only th e finger tips of the surgeon were
visible
as te
the eye
ball , cu t
open the
outer
membrane, repaired the break, put
dots of
cement, slid a
strip of
silicone fo r a
seal
over that and
then
ed up
th e
membrane to finish
th e operation.
The operation went well and Dr. Ideta assures me
that the
result
good, though
t he re wil l
be
some loss of
vision.
But
the
eye
that
was
is
now f il led
with
glorious
l ight .
After
th e
next
vis i t
to
th e doc to r
hope to wear a contact lense
again
and pu t th e eye to
full
use.
Walter
to
spend th e night after my operation. Then again to drive us back to
We were very sorry
to
have missed speaking a t
the
National Mission
y Convention in
Phoenix
and the
chance
to §5^om£ o^
vou
again.
Looking
to that next
year. IN HIS SERVICE,
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