1893 JAPANESE BILLY SUNDAY in CALIFORNIA. Small Group of Ephemera Related to H. S. Kimura.

A fine little group of ephemera related to important Japanese and California evangelist, H. S. Kimura and his work as an M. E. Evangelist in California. The group is comprised of an original Japanese M. E. Hymnal, with no copies traced for sale or at auction, a small autographed slip by H. S. Kimura with the opening line of the evangelistic hymn Come to Jesus, an MSs of the hymn Come to Jesus, a single sheet with a pronunciation key for Japanese Kanji, and a printed business card with the Mission information on the front and Kimura's lithographed signature on the rear.  Kimura Kiyomatsu (木村 清松), known in the United States as Henry Seimatsu Kimura, was born in 1874 to a family of sake brewers in Gosen City, Niigata Prefecture. At seventeen Kimura was baptized during an evangelistic service held by Teiichi Hori in Niigata. His conversion to Christianity led to conflict within his family, especially with his father, who disowned him After the fall-out over his conversion, Kimura left hom