Drew Theological Seminary 1867 1917 a Review of the First Half Century
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Y. Honda. He is spoken of there as the "president" of the "An- cient School" of the Daimio, or Feudal Lord, of Hirosaki, in the northern part of the main is- land of Japan. He was at that time acting as native preacher in that city, and was giving his time gratuitously. He and a few others in Hirosaki had become Christians a few years be- fore and were members of the Dutch Reformed Church. After a careful study of Methodist 186 IN ALL THE WORLD polity they requested a change of church relation-... ship. Honda became prominent as a trusted Christian leader. In the face of splendid oppor- tunities of political preferment he decided to put all such suggestions aside and devote himself to the work of Christ and the Church. In order to fit himself the more thoroughly for his chosen work he came to America and took a special course at Drew during the year 1889, thus be- coming a son of Drew, the most illustrious of all her foreign graduates. Returning to Japan, he was soon made the head of the Aoyama Gakuin, the leading Meth- odist college in Japan, and later when the Japan Methodist Church was formed Honda was elected the first bishop of the new church.
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