The Sunday Before Collection
Lucinda Glenn
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The Sunday Before Collection
Collection number: GTU 97-5-02
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- Processed by:
- Lucinda Glenn
- Date Completed:
- May 29, 1997
- Encoded by:
- James Lake
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Title: The Sunday Before collection
Dates: 1942, 1945
Collection number: GTU 97-5-02
Collector:
Hunter, Alan A.
Collector:
Binford, Gurney
Collection Size:
.1 linear feet (2 folders)
1 PDF file (49 pages)
Repository:
The
Graduate Theological Union. Library.
Berkeley, CA 94709
Abstract: "The Sunday Before: Sermons by Pacific Coast Pastors of the Japanese Race on the Sunday before Evacuation to Assembly Centers
in the Late Spring of 1942" includes sermons delivered by Protestant ministers prior to the forced evacuation of Japanese
and Japanese Americans on the West Coast to Relocation Camps.
Physical location: 3/E/3
Languages:
Languages represented in the collection:
English
Collection is open for research. Photocopy is used instead of original.
Copyright has not been assigned to The Graduate Theological Union. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts
must be submitted in writing to the Archivist. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Graduate Theological Union
as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must
also be obtained by the reader.
The Sunday Before collection, GTU 97-5-02. Graduate Theological Union Archives, Berkeley, CA.
Donated by Ruth Colburn in 1997.
Biography / Administrative History
The Collection consists of a single manuscript of sermons by Japanese and Japanese American ministers prior to the evacuation
into relocation camps.
Contents: Forward, Gurney Binford; Preface, E. Stanley Jones; Introduction, Alan E. Hunter; Chapter 1 - Facing Evacuation,
Rev. Lester E. Suzuki; Chapter 2 - The Tie That Binds, Rev. Donald K. Toriumi; Chapter 3 - Reweaving Our Lives, Rev. Royden
Susu-Mago; Chapter 4 - The Babylonian Exile and the Love of God, Rev. Hideo Hashimoto; Chapter 5 - Abraham, The Migration
Leader, Rev. Sohel Kowta; Chapter 6 - New Pilgrims, Rev. Kengo TaJima; Chapter 7 - We Shall Have Our Easter, Rev. John M.
Yamazaki.
For further information on the individual ministers, and general background reading see: Ministry in the Assembly and Relocation
Centers of World War II by Lester E. Suzuki. Yardbird Publishing Co.: Berkeley, CA, 1979. GTU Library call number: BR563 J35
S89.p>
Scope and Content of Collection
The Sunday Before: Sermons by Pacific Coast Pastors of the Japanese Race on the Sunday before Evacuation to Assembly Centers in the Late Spring of 1942 was not published until 1945.Edited by Allan A. Hunter and Gurney Binford, with a Preface by E.
Stanley Jones and an Introduction by Allan A. Hunter, Binford states that the sermons had been "prepared for presentation
in the summer of 1942, but conditions prevented their publication." The booklet contains biographical information of each
of the pastors along with their sermons. There is an extended biography for Lester Suzuki, the others are short.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in
the library's online public access catalog.
Japanese Americans --Evacuation and Relocation, 1942-1945 --Sermons
Japanese Americans --Religious life --California
Japanese Americans --California --Sermons
Binford, Gurney, 1895-
Hashimoto, Hideo, 1911-
Hunter, Allan A. (Allan Armstrong), 1893-
Jones, E. Stanley (Eli Stanley), 1884-1973
Kowta, Sohei
Susu-Mago, Royden
Suzuki, Lester E.
Tajima, Kengo
Toriumi, Donald K.
Yamazaki, John W.
Small Collections 1942-45
Location: 3/E/3
Physical Description: 2 folders
box-folder 8 : 1
Use Copy (photocopy) 1945
box-folder 8 : 2
Original 1942-1945