Shin’ichi plunged into a personal struggle against sickness in the Osaka Campaign.​

Shin’ichi could not get up on the morning of January 3 because of fever. Since he was on New Year’s vacation, he did not have to go to work. He laid quietly in bed until noon. Several friends called on him, but he was in no mood to entertain. After making small talk for a while, he asked them to leave. He felt sorry for them, but his mind was totally occupied by the campaign in Osaka. Once again he plunged into the agony of contemplation. Suddenly without trying, he recalled a phrase he had once read – Edmund Spencer’s words, “Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.” ​

Wasn’t such resolve, Shin’ichi thought for a moment, the same as the ideal of faith in the Mystic Law?