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The Japanese Church of Christ opened a 101-year-old time capsule.

The cast iron box contained, Bibles, Japanese and American flags and newspapers.

The University of Utah prepared the items for preservation and display at the church.

Lois Hide Hashimoto’s mother gave her a Bible when she left her native Japan to live in the United States.

The handwritten inscription on the inside cover reads:

“To Lois Hide from her mother when she started to America. 20th June, 1906. ‘The Lord is our strength and refuge.’”

Eighteen years later, Hashimoto added these handwritten words on the same and adjoining pages before the Japanese-language New Testament was entombed in the cornerstone of the Japanese Church of Christ in downtown Salt Lake City:

“Donated by Mrs. Hide Hashimoto. Inscrib

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