policies of AMGaand UNRRA; POW situations with u h the judgment of God which has come upon this city, and problems for assigned chaplains, both American and those this people, and which is crushing these defendants, the POW priests and clergymen working under American leaders of Germany, I am going back to America to cry out chaplaincy direction or supervision; insurance adjustment with the loudest voice I can muster: 'It is time that we turn for chaplains having no dependents; GI Bill of Rights in back to God, lest a worse fate befall us!' its application to the chaplaincy; Regular Army commis- For we have souls after all, souls accountable to God. sions; Reserve Corps; garrison cap insignia (cross instead It is the glory of the Chaplaincy to help men discover that of rank); recognition for chaplain's assistants; favoritism fact, and it is the privilege of the Chaplaincy to reveal Him in matters of promotions and decorations; conscription who saves to the uttermost, Him who is Himself "the way, and its effects on the teen-age group; the ministry in hos- the truth, and the life: No man cometh unto the Father pitals and permanent prison installments; and a number but by Him." of other problems, some personal in character, others of a
general relationship to the work the chaplain is called upon to promote.
From all this we hope that it is apparent to anyone that I
these conferences were conducted in a spirit of earnest Japanese Christian Chaplains regard for the many serious difficulties encountered by
chaplains in the performance of their arduous duties. How THE question has often been asked-Did the Japanese heartening it was to see how serious and earnest were these IL have any Christian clergymen from their country as men, some of whom had seen long service in combat zones chaplains in either the Army or the Navy? We have heard from Africa to Austria, so many wearing ribbons de- that Shinto and Buddhist priests were often used as such noting many and significant decorations, almost all of them with duties that might be classified as morale-building still ready to give their utmost for men called to serve in rather than spiritual. An answer to the question regarding army or navy, and practically all revealing a sympathetic Christian chaplains is found in the following extracts from understanding of the desperate lot of those who yesterday a letter by a Navy chaplain, which appeared in the 13 as our enemies wanted to rule the world with ruthless vio- September 1945 issue of The Watchman Examiner: lence and who now as the vanquished realize they have in- "This morning, I attended a native worship service herited nothing but hatred and contempt and misery, de- which is conducted every Sunday morning in my little, struction and chaotic tragedy. thatched chapel preceding my own morning service. The native pastor of the congregation is Castro P. Quimba, a
CosT OF AGGRESSION graduate of the University and Union Seminary in Manila.
One cannot travel by car as we did approximately five Won to the Lord by Baptist missionaries, he was the pastor thousand miles through these war ravaged lands and not of the First Baptist Church, Manila, until the Japanese be brought to realize how the judgment of God has come forced all Protestants to form a single federation of to these disillusioned people. Cities totally ruined, homes churches. gone, churches no more, means of livelihood destroyed, "I was amazed when he told me that Japanese chaplains transportation centers, bridges, roads, railroads, rolling were very much in evidence during the occupation of the stock bombed out of existence, nations and peoples para- Philippines. These chaplains were commissioned officers lyzed, starvation, sickness, suffering, death stalking the in the Japanese armed forces and represented all faiths land like the furies of the Apocalypse-nothing but chaos -Protestantism, Roman Catholicism, Shintoism, and so and tragedy everywhere as the result of the evil ambitions on. It was his privilege to work with three Nipponese of those who persisted in leading men away from paths of Protestant chaplains in Manila. Imagine my surprise when personal, civic, national, and international righteousness I learned that one of these chaplains was none other than and good will. We saw with our own eyes the depth of Akira Chiba, a Crozerite and former roommate of mine at degradation to which a people can stoop at the Dachau Baylor University, Waco, Texas. concentration camp where 238,000 persons met horrible "It was our fellow Baptist and Christian brother, Akira death, at the Dachau and Nuernberg trials where indi- Chiba, who posted a notice on the Protestant church in viduals and a nation sat facing the judgment seat of civili- Manila warning all 'Nip' servicemen to respect and not nation and the wrath of God. to mutilate church property. While posting this notice, he was singing 'What a Friend We ,Have in Jesus.' Mr.
"TURN BACK TO GOD!" Quimba sincerely claims that Chiba is earnestly preaching
We shall long remember, however, the prophetic words Christ and Him crucified to Japanese troops.
of the ETO psychologist, a young Jewish professor from "Trusting that this information will encourage your Columbia University, who during the long days of the heart, I am Nuernberg trial was charged with the responsibility of Fraternally yours, recording the emotions and reactions of those charged DANIEL L. CARR." with the crime against all humanity, as we concluded a
discussion at an officers' billet we shared together: "I was The editors of THE ARMY AND NAVY CHAPLAIN are one of those smart boys who at my university used to ridi- eager for more information regarding the part Japanese ule the idea of God and who helped my students mock Christian clergymen had in their armed forces. Can other Him. But now as I stand in this place of utter ruin and see chaplains supply further information? April-May, 1946 13