Poems for Meishu-sama’s Birthday at Hawaii Church of World Messianity
Poems in Eikô, Issue 241

January 1, 1954

         
  万邦 を 救いの館建ちし今日 芽出度く祝う今日の御祭
 415  

Today’s festival
Auspiciously celebrates
Building of
The mansion of
Salvation of all nations.

S6-419A.
         
    東方の 光は日に日に拡ごりて 外国までも隈なく照らさむ
 416   The light from the East
Spreads day by day
And will shine
To every corner of
Nations abroad. 
S6-419B.
         
   

大いなる メシ ヤの御手に地の上の 一切万有救わるるらん

 417   Each and every thing
In creation on the
Surface of the earth
Will be saved by the hands
Of the great Messiah.
S6-419C.
 
   

外国の 救ひの 館の魁と 布哇の都に建ちてけるかも

 418   The pioneer of the
Mansions of salvation for
Nations abroad has been
Built in the capital
Of Hawaii.
S6-420A.
 
   

顔形 色は変れ どおしなべて 神の御眼には同じ国人

 419   The features and
Colors differ, but
All, in the eyes of God,  
Belong to the
Same nation.
S6-420B; previous translations in Prayers and Gosanka, page 86B, Prayers and Poems, page 86B, and Sounds of the Dawn, Volume II, pages 62 & 216.
Prayers and Gosanka & Sounds of the Dawn translation
The colors differ, / The features are different. / In the Eyes of God, / However, we’re all His Own, / Children of His great Kingdom.
Prayers and Poems translation
Our colors / And our features differ, / In the eyes of God, however, / We are all the same / Residents of the earth.
 
   

顔形 色は変れ どおしなべて 神の御眼には同じ国人

 420   In order to save
America,
I first place
My foothold on
The Hawaiian Islands. 
S6-420C.
  
   

諸々の 人草混 る布哇こそ 大八島の型にやあるらむ

 421   Hawaii, the place
Where all peoples
Are mixed together,
Is the prototype of the
Future great island of humanity. 
S6-420D.
 
   

地上天国 先ず 布哇より開かれむ 神の仕組のさきがけとして

 422   Paradise on earth
First begins
In Hawaii
As the pioneer
Of God’s plan.
S6-420E.
 
   

惟神 地上天国 は布哇より 世の涯までも拡ぎゆかなん

 423   In accord with God
Paradise on earth,
From Hawaii
Will spread to all
Corners of the world.
S6-421A.
 
   

病なく 貧なく 争いなき姿 布哇の島に見るぞうれしき

 424   Happy am I to visualize
The future Hawaiian Islands
Without illness,
Without poverty, and
Without conflict.
S6-421B.
   
   

東西の 文明結 ぶ要かも 太平洋に浮かぶ布哇は

 425   The pivot that will connect
The civilizations of the
East and West,
Hawaii, floating
In the Pacific Ocean.
S6-421C.
 
   

神の火は 布哇 の都に灯されぬ やがて隈なく照り輝かん

 426   God’s fire will illumine
The capital of Hawaii
Finally,
It will shine
Into every corner. 
S6-421D.