Kanamori’s
Life-Story
Told by Himself
How the Higher Criticism wrecked
a Japanese Christian—and
how he came back
Introduction by
J. Ross Stevenson, D.D., LL.D.
Philadelphia
The Sunday School Times Company
1921
The author recounts his spiritual journey from an early conversion under foreign teachers through a period of doubt and estrangement caused by modern biblical criticism to eventual repentance and renewed commitment to evangelical ministry. The narrative traces influences that shaped his faith, the personal and communal consequences of abandoning and reclaiming belief, and his later work preaching and gathering disciples. Organized into stages of calling, disobedience, restoration, harvest, and concluding reflections, the memoir blends autobiography with testimony about faith, doubt, and the practical labors of evangelism.
Told by Himself
How the Higher Criticism wrecked
a Japanese Christian—and
how he came back
Introduction by
J. Ross Stevenson, D.D., LL.D.
Philadelphia
The Sunday School Times Company
1921