Kagawa's Tears

No Japanese hates war in general, and the present war in China in particular, more passionately than Dr. Toyohiko Kagawa, Japan's No. 1 Christian. The war has stalled Kagawa's co-operative enterprises, has almost completely halted sales of the many books from which he financed his work and his modest home life. Last Christmas U. S. Christians raised $1,000 as a gift to the myopic, soft-faced little Japanese. Last week Miss Helen Faville Topping, Dr. Kagawa's devoted American amanuensis, was circulating among his friends a poem, To Tears, which he wrote to voice his feelings on the Chinese war. Excerpt:

Ah, tears! Unbidden tears!

Familiar friends since childhood's lonely years,

Why dost thou come again to dwell with me?

Ye come; nor wait thy coming nor delay;

Nay, fearless with what scorn,

Ye picture China by my brothers torn.

Thy scorn I must accept,

But I'm no coward; pray heed ere more ye've wept;

I love Japan so fair,

And China too ; this war I cannot bear ...

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