to the point where it is supporting 15 missionaries under 15 boards. We urge the local church to re sume the initiative for recruit ment and training of future mis sionaries. Corporate guidance by the church, rather than a highly individualistic decision, could save all kinds of frustration in later life. First and second term mis sionary casualties who should not have gone overseas in the first place m igh t be eliminated. A housewife who marries in the will o f God wouldn’t be tempted to look back with regret to an altar call at the age of eight when she volunteered to go to China. In Acts 13 it was the leaders who set aside Paul and Barnabas. No doubt God confirmed this call to these first missionaries but the Holy Spirit expected the initiative to come from the elders and not the individual. k b Mr. Philip E. Armstrong is Executive Secretary of Far Eastern Gospel Cru sade- BENEATH GOD’S BRIGHTEST STAR As Mary gazed down at her Babe That night so long ago — Perhaps she touched His hands and—crooned In tender voice, and low! His hands would one day heal the sick, Five thousand people feed; Would flex in pain upon the cross, And pierced with nails—would bleed. I think she might have kissed His feet, Adored His Baby ways, So soon her Child would walk for God; The Christian’s pathway blaze. Perhaps she touched with finger tips The brow ivhich thorns would mar; All this within a humble shed Beneath God’s brightest star. Although Christ died, praise God He rose! Such love no force could bar; Divinely planned, this holy birth Beneath God’s brightest star! —E sther B elle H eins
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in His name, as they provide basic school ing, medical care, and the training of girls for homemaking and for Christian leader ship. The helpless voices that continue calling to us are calling to you, too. Through your prayers and support, you can become a full-time partner in the ongoing minis tries of Ramabai Mukti Mission, never more critically needed than today.
Ramabai Mukti Mission, for 80 years, has responded with Christian love to the hu man needs of countless orphans, abandoned children, adolescent girls, and destitute women in the poverty-ridden Bombay area of India. In a country so unbelievably crowded, one tiny person can mean very little— except to Jesus Christ— and to the Ramabai Mukti mission workers who serve humanity Will YOU Answer?
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Executive Secretary American Council of the Ramabai Mukti Mission
G.P.O. Box 354, Dept. K New York, N.Y. 10001
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Yes, I want to help answer the needs of neglected persons in India, by sharing with your Mission in providing hope and Chris tian training for: An orphaned child— $12.00 a month. p| A teacher, nurse, matron-mother, or Bi ble woman (circle one)— $20 a month.
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