HYMNS YOU LOVE By Phil Kerr
A School fo r the Bolivian Indian
the whole of the Far East, having spent some time in India, Japan and the Philippine Islands in recent years as well. He is well known for his ministry of counselling both among young missionaries on the field and missionary volunteers, as well as his extensive speaking in conferences and Bible schools throughout this country.
C limaxing its first graduation serv ice, Bolivia’s only Quechua Indian Bible Institute, near Cochabamba, awarded three diplomas recently. The occasion, according to the Rev. Leslie M. Shedd, founder and director of the school, crowned many years of hard work and earnest prayer. From an original two rooms built on property purchased with $1,000 given by Dr. Oswald J. Smith in 1946, the Institute now comprises 24 stu dent-built dormitories and classrooms. This year’s enrollment was 36 and represented men and women of eight extensive Indian districts occupied by workers of the Bolivian Indian Mis sion. “ Our students work their way by toasting and grinding wheat cereals, making peanut butter, weaving cloth and printing tracts,” Shedd said. To augment the many subjects taught by a competent staff the In dians gain experience in practical work assignments, and during school vacations go out two-by-two, evangel izing their own districts. — Sally Hawthorne. International Missions, Inc., with North American headquarters at 97 Summit Avenue, Jersey City 4, N.J., is the new name of the foreign mis sionary society formerly known as The India Mission, Inc. of the same address. Rev. B. R. Opper, who served as General Director of the parent or ganization, The India Mission, is the General Director of the new organi zation. The enlarged work already has six missionaries in a large, new field in West Pakistan, two of them being registered nurses. A survey team is at present in Ceylon but is also considering East Pakistan, Mala ya, and several island areas of the Indian Ocean and southeast Asia. The Mission was founded by Rev. B. Davidson (formerly founder and Director of the Ceylon and India General Mission— 1893), and started work in central India in 1932. Since World War II the Mission has had a large and rapid growth both in personnel and scope of the work in India proper, and is at present one of the largest interdenominational faith mission staffs in India. Most types of missionary work are engaged in, and probably its Bible Institute program in the India field is the largest of its kind on the sub-conti nent. The Mission is a member of the India Mission Gets Name-change
Someday He9ll Make It Plain Words by Lida Shivers Leech Music by Adam Geibel
T he husband of Dr. Geibel’s only daughter was burned to death in an explosion in a steel mill in which he was a foreman. The couple had recently been married and Dr. Geibel was inconsolable; he could not understand why God had allowed the tr a g e d y — the young man had been an earnest Christian. A few days later he came to his friend, C. Austin Miles, and said, “ I was lying in bed last night, thinking of my sorrow and of my daughter’s terrible distress. I heard a voice say to me, ‘Child, you do not understand it now, but some day you’ll understand — some day it will all be plain!’ I cried out, Yes, Lord, I believe: help Thou mine unbelief. I know that Thou wilt make it plain to me some day! In that moment came a melody into my mind, and the sen timent for a song.” He wrote down the tune and a rough outline of the lyric he wanted and sent them to Lida Shivers Leech. After three attempts, her fourth poem satis fied Dr. Geibel, and the song was published, becoming widely popu lar. Adam Geibel was born in Ger many in 1885, came to America in childhood, became an organist, teacher, conductor, composer and headed the Adam Geibel Music Company (which later merged with the Hall-Mack Company and thence into the Rodeheaver Com pany). He attained widespread reputation as an arranger of male quartet selections. He was totally blind, the result of an eye infec tion at the age of eight. Death came August 3, 1933, in Philadel phia. After many years’ residence in Merchantville, New Jersey, Mrs. Leech moved to California in 1944 and now lives in Hollywood with her son. COPYRIGHTED Interdenominational Foreign Mission Association of North America (the IFMA), which fellowship contains some 35 mission boards representing some 5,500 of the Protestant mission aries of the world. END.
R. E. THOMPSON Missionary Counsellor
Mr. Thompson was bom in Bel fast, North Ireland, where he began evangelistic work at the age of 18. In 1920 he went to China under the China Inland Mission. His first sev en years were spent in Wenchow, Chekiang, where he first saw the tre mendous possibilities of the native church in action. Driven out of South China in 1927 by Communists, Mr. Thompson spent seven very success ful years of intensive tent evangelism in North China with a team of na tional workers. In 1936 he became superintendent of the mission work in Hopei Province, and in 1941 was elected northern regional director of the China Inland Mission. During the war years, separated from his wife and family who were interned by the Japanese, Mr. Thomp son traveled in every province in China but one, conducting confer ences. In 1944 he was appointed by a group of evangelical missions to direct the evacuation of missionaries from China. To perform this impor tant mission, he was stationed in Cal cutta, India, for eight months. After coming to the United States in 1949 with his wife and three chil dren and finding it impossible to re turn to China, he accepted the posi tion of personnel secretary with the Far Eastern Gospel Crusade. At present the Crusade is working in the Philippine Islands and Japan, having a total of 125 missionaries and 31 accepted candidates in preparation for the field. Its purpose is to help establish a strong indigenous church in each field. Stateside headquarters is located at 902 Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis, Minn.
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