Kanamori's life-story : $b Told by himself; how the Higher Criticism wrecked a Japanese Christian—and how he came backKanamori, Paul M.
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Kanamori's life-story : $b Told by himself; how the Higher Criticism wrecked a Japanese Christian—and how he came back
Kanamori, Paul M.
Kanamori, Paul M., 1857-1945
No, I cannot do it. I always feel that the only place from which I
can go to my pulpit is “the mercy seat.” Thus I prayed and fasted for
this blessing of getting three thousand decisions, and God answered
my prayer, and gave me exactly 3,061 decisions. Is not this a real
Pentecostal outpouring of the Holy Spirit? God is working mightily
through his Holy Spirit throughout the length and breadth of my country.
This condition is not confined to the large cities alone, but in more
than two hundred places where I conducted similar campaigns we found
the same conditions. Of course there are some differences in the
results of the campaign. From my own experience I can say the result of
such a campaign almost entirely depends upon the pastors and churches
which have undertaken it. I always tell those pastors with whom I
work that the work of the evangelist is like that of a woodman who
goes to the forest and cuts down the trees big and small, and brings
them to the shop of the carpenter. There the woodman’s work ends, and
the carpenter’s work begins. Now the carpenter must work upon this
raw material which the woodman has furnished him. He must cut and saw
and plane, and make posts and boards and build the house. But if the
carpenter does not work, and lets the timber lie piled up outside his
shop, the rain and frost will come, and the timber will surely rot and
decay. Who is responsible for the rotting of the timber? The woodman or
the carpenter? When I had faithful pastors and working churches I have
always seen fine results.
I have received a printed report of the result of my five-months’
campaign on the Pacific coast. Out of sixty-four places on the Pacific
coast where I worked during five months, fifty-six churches have sent
in a report, one year after the campaign. There are two churches which
have received on confession of faith all converts within one year,
three churches took all but one, and thirteen churches have taken in
more than half of the converts during the same period. Altogether, out
of 1,773 in these fifty-six churches, 625 persons were taken into their
respective churches within one year of this campaign, and 382 persons
were still under probation. So that altogether 1,007 decisions should
be regarded as the fruit of that campaign.
And from Hawaii came another report, which is as follows: Out of 2,040
converts during a three-months’ campaign 245 persons were taken into
the different churches on confession of faith. I think these figures
show how sound are these decisions, especially when you remember that
the large majority of my audiences hear from me the Gospel of Christ
for the first time in their lives.
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