THE K I N G ’ S BU S I N E S S
August, 1941
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understand the Spanish nor the ges tures that time, and solemnly put down, “My cup boileth over.” Another worker found that he had called the "prophets” “gossips,” the difference again being the breath in the middle of the word. Only a breath, but what a difference it makes! And truly it is the breath of the Spirit that changes some of the missionaries’ unsaved “informants,” who normally would speak out of the evil fullness of their hearts, and makes them into God’s own prophets. God’s Word at Work The Holy Spirit has transformed some of the Indian helpers who are working with the translators in the primitive languages of Mexico; Vicente, a broad faced Totonaco boy, is a new man. The new love of the Lord in his heart seems to have crowded out everything else. Drink and the other vices which are such pitfalls to the Indians have no at traction for him. He can read some Spanish, and his greatest desire is to sit down beside some one, in a smoky kitchen or by a dusty stone wall, and tell of his Saviour. Martin, who was the drunken mayor of his Aztec town, and a notorious evil doer, was chosen to help in language study because he could read and write. But the Lord chose him “before the foundation of the world,” that he might be “holy and without blame before him.” As be read the Gospel of John and dic tated a rough translation to the mis sionary in his village, the words got into his heart, and he was born again. He has since gone to Bible School, and now acts as pastor of the little chapel built by the group of believers who have risen largely as a result of his testi mony in that town. Nalo, the Mixteco who lost his fear of the old stone idol after he came to believe, was joined by four more, who first came to work as tafpenters on the log house that was being built for the translator’s living quarters, and stayed to hear more of the message of life of which he was continually telling them. The men all could read some Spanish, but to understand it was quite a different matter. Because of this difficulty, one fellow substituted in John 3:16 the word “angel” for “whosoever,” thus implying that everlasting life was not available to human, beings! He found out the truth afterwards, however, and now this little group, with others, are meeting for Bible study and are becoming more and more faithful in the practice of the
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TtxUy, thegreatest peace' tim e m obilization o( armed forces in the his« cory of our country is un der way. Uprooted from civil life; separated from home, friends and church for at least a year. . our boys need, more than ever, the spiritual guid ance, wise counsel and f inspirationof the Gospel.
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T ONELY outcast child of JLi lepers, this. boy needs love, care, food, a house, a bed, a doctor to see whether he also is a leper or not— the love of Christ for his whole Life. You can give him all these. Send $30 for a year’s care, or less for some part of it to THE AMERICAN MISSION TO LEPERS 156 Fifth Ave. New York end refer to File 5-A These believers are the products of the beginning of the work of transla tion. They have come to believe in Christ through the witness of the lan guage students who are Working on the translations, and through the attempt to help them. But the day is not far distant when translations of the Gospels into the several dialects will be ready for printing and distribution. The Word always bears fruit, and thus there will be groups of Indian believers rising up in some of the Indian villages scattered among the high sierras of Mexico, on the shores of its beautiful lakes, among Bible, as well as the attempt at its translation.
THE GIDEONS, International, has been granted permission to assist in equipping the men in our armed forces with I compact, neatly bound, pocket-size Testament and Psalms... presenting the Sacred Word of God without regard to creed. Over a period of many years THE GIDEONS have placed hundreds of thousands of Bibles io hotel rooms,- hospitals, schools and other public institutions. Now we are unde** taking our greatest task . . . to equip America's armed forces with the Gospel! And . . . W E NEED THE HELP OP EVERY CHRISTIAN MAN AND WOMAN! EACH DOLLAR W ILL ARM 4 BO YS W ITH TH B GOSPEL. These Testaments are bound in durable Keratol leather with overlapping edges, and are provided at the nominal cost of 25 cents each. SEND YOUR CONTRIBU TIO N , TODAY, to . . THEGIDEONS, Int. 202 So. State Street ":*■ L CHICAGO, ILLINOIS /. J “ EVERY MAN . . . IN HIS OWN LANGUAGE” [Continued from Page 295] parable of the Prodigal Son apparently could not understand thè father’s for giving love, and instead of saying that he “fell on his neck, and kissed him,” he said that he “took him by the scruff of the neck.” The difference is only a few letters in the middle of the word, and this escaped the translators till they had learned more of the language. In translating the Twenty - Third Psalm, a native tried hard to express “my cup runneth over," but he did not
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