HB4Faith&Family - Magazine - Page 17
Toyohiko Kagawa was a Japanese
Protestant Christian paciÞst, Christian
reformer, and labour activist. Kagawa wrote,
spoke, and worked at length on ways to employ Christian principles in
the ordering of society and in cooperatives. His vocation to help the
poor led him to live among them. He communicated this theme so
eloquently, ÒNot everything in manÕs life is summed up in the
question of food.Ó
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ÒHE GIVETH MORE GRACEÓ
By Annie Johnson Flint
Back-Story And PeterÕs Thoughts On This Poem
Annie Johnson Flint was born in 1866. Her mother died in 1869. At
the same time AnnieÕs father had an incurable disease, and he died
while Annie was still very young. Before he died Mr Johnson sent
Annie, and her sister,
to live with a widow.
But, it was not a happy
arrangement. Later,
Annie, and her sister,
were adopted by Mr &
Mrs Flint. They loved
the girls and provided
them with a good but
modest home. But,
their adopted parents
were frail and they
soon passed away.
It was around this time
that Annie was
informed by her Doctor
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