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Faith Behind the Libraries. Paul Rusch now spends half his time in the U.S. getting more support for KEEP, and half his time in Japan supervising it. He has already spent half his lifetime there. A teacher of economics at St. Paul's until 1941, he refused to leave Japan on the eve of World War II, and was taken into custody after Pearl Harbor. Repatriated on the exchange ship Gripsholm in 1942 he joined the U.S. Army and eventually served as a lieutenant colonel on MacArthur's G-2 staff. While never a formally constituted missionary, he knows the Japanese as few missionaries do. He has realized that the Japanese, a naturally religious people, are happy to find a formal religious faith behind the free libraries and agricultural-improvement stations The two if taken together, make up a way of life. And, says Colonel Rusch "if Christianity is truly a way of life 'the people of Asia will follow it."
*The Brotherhood of St. Andrew, which now has chapters in 14 countries, was founded in Chicago in 1883. It has two rules: 1) the Rule of Prayer, by which members pray daily for the spread of the Christian religion, and 2) the Rule of Service, by which each member tries to guide another into the church, following the example of St. Andrew, who brought St. Peter to Christ (John: 1:40-42).