Jimmy Doolittle's men, Sergeant Jacob D. Deshazer, pla to return to Japan as a Protestant missionary. He was prisoned by the Japanese when his Hornet-based B-25 w forced down in China. In spite of the cruel treated which he received at the hands of the Japanese, he is firm convinced that love, understanding, and education are th weapons powerful enough to change the Japanese.
No prisoner ever said that Christianity had failed Japan, for most of them realized that before the war Ic than one per cent of the Japanese people were profession Christians. What Japan needs is more Christians, th testified.
THE PRISONERS' SENSE OF HUMOR
Never have I seen a group of people who possessed finer sense of humor. They told wonderful stories abo everything from the communal bath tubs which they sat to keep warm to the bushels of flea powder (sorely needed
Some of the healthiest of all the liberated prisoners of war dropped on their camps by the B-29 planes. The follow
in the ambulatory ward of the USS Sanctuary. ing is a typical story:
Outside one prison camp the Japanese guards had the factories, in the fields, and in the camps. Many re- prisoners build an entertainment platform. The Japan ported that they had met one here and one yonder. Such often demanded entertainment, and our prisoners
 nished it. One prisoner composed a song entitled "Boots
people told them that they were Christians on the sly and wished it. One prisoner composed a song entitled "Boo. then went on to express their Christianity by little acts of In this song he sought to portray the endless marching kindness and mercy. For instance, a Japanese Christian and from the mines, fields, and factories. He sang it de kmdOness and mercy. For instance, a Japanese Christian ...".
, . ,.,  ens of times, and it was a Japanese favorite. When 11 would bring them a little rice, an onion from the fields, or ens of times, and it was a Japanese favorite. When B-29's dropped food and clothes on the camp, it so ha give them the half of a cigarette. It seems that sincere cmtsh > ..o opened that five hundred pairs of boots landed on the plt Christians will express themselves, even in a type of cata- nd h tered i o osandep comb life, form and splintered it into a thousand pieces. comb life.
For a while one prison camp had a guard who was a A CROSS DOMINATED DEVASTATED NAGASAKI
Christian. He did all in his power to make life bearable In the heart of atomic-bombed Naasaki we saw a s . In the heart of atomic-bombed Nagasaki we saw a sig for those prisoners under his jurisdiction. He liked to that etched itself on our memories There had been sing hymns, and one of the prisoners often accompanied beautiful Christian Church located in central Nagasaki. n him on a guitar. His favorite hymns were "Blest Be the Tie That Binds" and "Onward Christian Soldiers." the midst of complete devastation the frame of this chur
One prisoner related the story of meeting a devout and was still standing. The tower stood tall and erect, carryi sincere Japanese youth who was studying to be a Chris- on its peak a cross. The church tower and cross dominate the mass of ruins and stood as a silent but unfailing test' tian. He read the New Testament and asked many ques- the mass of ruins and stood as a silent but unfailing te tions about the teachings of Jesus. His mind was alert and money to a way of life where love and brotherhood philosophical. He hoped that one day he would be eligible supreme instead of hate and destruction. Nobody V to claim the name "Christian." forget the mystic beauty of this scene, and nobody, I prm
One group of prisoners made some splendid contacts will fail to profit from the experience of seeing such
One group of prisoners made some splendid contacts ?8
with a Japanese Salvation Army worker. This Christian sobering and worshipful sight. did dozens of merciful deeds for them. He even succeeded 1 1 in getting them some Bibles and prayer books.
Another group of prisoners became acquainted with a I Saw Missions in Action In New Guinea Japanese Catholic priest. He succeeded in getting permis- (Continued from page 1) sion to say Mass for the Catholic personnel in some of the It is their own responsibility and their own mission fid prison camps and also to conduct devotional services for Reports from other mission fields in other lands a the Protestants. similar to that from New Guinea. The younger Christi The prisoners expressed interest in the future of Japan. Churches evidence a strength and a devotion which W They were unwilling to believe, like some of our people, evident in the early centuries of Christianity. The streng that certain groups of God's children could not be taught of the young Churches is always evident in these th decency and respect for their fellow men or the love and areas, the actual practice of the faith, separatism and in worship of God. Certain of the prisoners fervently ex- est in missions of the extension of God's Kingdom. pressed themselves about how the present time is the great Obviously this power of God, inherent in His Gospel, opportunity for Christian missions in Japan. They declared not the sole property of any one denomination. Got that this was the plastic stage in Japanese life. The "seven Gospel will work wherever men and women open th devils" have been cast out. Something better has to replace hearts and their lives to its message. I saw it work in N the devils or else they will return. This is why one of Guinea. 10 The Army and Navy :haplo