The Murderer Who Called Out
Tokichi Ishii was known as the most brutal criminal in early twentieth-century Japan. Convicted of multiple murders, he sat in a Tokyo prison cell awaiting...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Romans 10:8b-13.
Tokichi Ishii was known as the most brutal criminal in early twentieth-century Japan. Convicted of multiple murders, he sat in a Tokyo prison cell awaiting execution, utterly unreachable by human compassion. Chaplains visited; he spat at them. Guards feared him. Fellow prisoners avoided his gaze. Then two Canadian missionaries slipped a New Testament through the bars of his cell. Ishii ignored it for days.…
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