Zoshigaya

| I ,20SHIGA¥A.; Beg i fining a . .,T;p5:sbigay 1 came like atroubled dream; it remains asaa troubled r e a 1 i t y. On returning. to Japan in 1901, after our first furlough home I had made up my mind to specialize to a certain extent on young men. $he work was begun in rented houses which proved very en satisfactory. In the meantime a fund was being collected and a suitable lot sought on which to build.; this required about six years, and this is the period which represents the troubled dream. ¥ou know a troubled dream is suoh that one never quite gets there, there are so many things that intervene to impede his pro- 1 gross that the dream usually wears itself out before the end is reached. So with that "meantime* and a very, mean time it was, judging from outward appearances. But in the end it proved the saying true that all things work together for good. One Boris, Gorobe, or as we pould arrange nis name, Gorobe Boris, was my chief lot seeker in those days. The whole period covered about six years, from 1901 --to 1907, for it was the fall of 1907 that we opened, Zosbigaya Gakuin to students. The old man has long since gone to his reward, but not before it was my privilege and pleasure to baptize hi® into Jesus- Christ, paring those six years we went over a large part of the great city of Tokyo looking at, vacant lots, but only to find that something stood between us and a pruchase, till I had almost come to feel that there was no use to try longer. If the lot suited the price was so high that, with my limited f undent o^eao^^tT Jf the price was right then some one else had spoken for it. We finnally did succeed in aotually closing a. deal and it really seemed th§t at last our search was over. But not; so, for the president of the Girls’ University came and said we eould be so dose to his prospective dormitories that it would not do at all, and again we were routed to seek onoe more. This time it was there time to be interested for us and they were not long- in finding our present, lot. f! Ill lot fronts toward the west, and is 226.5 feet wide and about twice as long as itds %fljj|tj ^п:':Ш^Й№Шп¥а£п1л1№'ЧаиЬ1, j§|l 2$ of ' which blong to the ohuroh and ^do-ol. |o make it more intelligible to an America® reader, about one acre and a quarter in all, and a little over half an acre to the school and church. Imagine yourself to be