Both Testaments on a Single Scroll: Student's Industry "Ten thousand prayers are in the writing of this manuscript; when it was finished at 15 minutes after afte, on the 18th day of the fourth! {month of thel2th year of Taisho, 1 fell down at sin a deep swoon for a long time.
This is the expressive way in which Mr, Ishizuka describes the writing of the entire Bible, Old and New Testaments, on a scroll, or Japanese "kakemono," six shaku, four sun long, and 2 shaku, nine sun wide.
The work is marvelous. With a! hand glass one can clearly read) every character, of which there are over a mi The work was done, with a fine pointed "tude," Japanese brush and "'sum," Japanese ink. Mr. Ishizuka used no magnifying glass while doing the work. worked with the naked eye. ing this fact in view, it i remarkable how beautifully clear and distinct from the others each char-laeter appears.
The arris is a member of the! Friends Mission, his work being di igious tracts.
"In arranging for meetings and {selling Bibles, I got a vision of interesting people," said Mr. Ishizuka ito "The Japan Times." "For this purpose of writing the Bible on one sheet, I practised writing for six years, and then started the work. It took me just four years and three months, and ten thousand prayers."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.