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Greece is a predominantly Greek Orth odox country with a small Protestant minority which seeks to preach the Gos pel. To be a Protestant in Greece many times means persecution and discrimina tion. It costs something to be a born- again believer in Greece, but it costs more to serve the Lord. In a town called Volos, the 4th largest in Greece, there was a terrible earthquake which destroyed 80% of the buildings, among them houses of the believers, the Evangelical Church and the parsonage. The Gospel worker here is Rev. Basil Sakellis, supported by the American Mis sion to Greeks. From this missionary, who with his wife and two little children is living in a room that is ready to fall on them and kill them, came the following word after five new tremors which they recently experienced: “If you could only for one moment enter into our experience, you would be able to understand the pain of our hearts. An earthquake is the worst thing that one could experience. If you are ill, you know what to do; if you are thirsty, you know where to go to quench your thirst, but when the earth is furi ously shaking under your feet, and you cannot even stand upright, where can you go, how can you support yourself? With the help we have received from the American Mission to Greeks, you have allowed a ray of hope to come to us. Rescue us from death. We need shelter. We need to move out of the ruins. During one of our recent tremors part of the ceil ing fell on the bed on which our little boy and girl were lying and almost killed them. We have been able to build two rooms in an earthquake-proof manner, but we need another $300 for the doors and windows and the roof in order to move in.” Just think of these servants of Christ in the cold of winter. If you were in their place you would like someone to come to your rescue. Do unto them as you would have liked others to do unto you. And from Nitsa, the dear wife of this missionary, there came the following letter: "It is the utter need in which we are found that has forced me to write. My husband has no shirts to wear. I have been mending what he has over and over again, but there is nothing much I ' can do anymore. They are rags. Could you not please send him some? Our need is beyond description. I haven’t been able to buy milk or an egg for my children for two months now. I am ashamed to write this, but it is the heartbreaking need of my children that forces me to do it.” We hope that every reader’s heart will be deeply touched by the urgent need of this missionary couple laboring for Christ in Greece. W e hope and pray that their appeal to you will not go in vain. Send your gifts for them to: American Mission to Greeks, Inc., Box 423, Dept. K, New York 36, N.Y. (In Canada: 90 Duplex Ave., Toronto 7, Ontario.) Any good used clothing you wish to send, please address to: 265 West 79th Street, New York 24, N.Y. (Do not send clothing from Canada.)
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text as it attempts to deal with Revelation 3:10. Does “keep from” mean “rapture out of”? If I may refer to the warning of our Lord in Gethsemane (“Pray that ye enter not into temptation” ) I may well ask: Did Jesus mean to pray to be raptured out of the world? If this cannot be proved, then neither can it be proved from Revelation 3:10. To be kept from the hour of world wide temptation does not necessar ily involve a pre-tribulation rap ture. To those who are about to be rap tured, all talk of the horrors of the tribulation would to all practical purposes be meaningless. What is the point of warning the Church about the antichrist if the Church is never going to meet him? But Paul emphatically does warn the Church on just this subject. It is an interesting phenomenon that pre- tribulationalism’s complacency is also coupled with a great amount of idle curiosity about the tribula tion. I don’t need to tell you about this. It is the stock in trade of many a prophecy speaker. I remem ber once T h e K in g ’ s B u sin e ss car ried a prophecy article by Louis Bauman entitled, “God and Gog in 1936 (? ).” That question mark didn’t quite save his reputation as far as I was concerned. But it illus trates perfectly what I am saying. San Francisco, Calif. Rev. Edwards E. Elliott First Orthodox Presbyterian Church Forty Years a Subscriber Sirs: I had thought I would have to do without the magazine this year but while reading the last issue, I decided that I could not well afford to do so. If I recall correctly I have been a steady subscriber for over
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Sirs: Couldn’t help but notice the ad vertisement on the inside front cover of your January issue. Inter esting . . . but frightfully disturb ing! My roommate and I agree the little stick figures in the ad repre sent the 134 student teachers re ferred to. So we counted the stick figures. Our fast count produced 181. What’s the answer? Los Angeles, Calif. Laura Johnson Betty Freberg Sirs: That ad . . . the artist is haywire. I count 179. Portland, Ore. William Sprigs Th e answer (h igh ly unofficial) is 183. W e quizzed the artist and h ere’s his version: T h e little stick figures do represent the 134 student teachers. T h e 49 extra ones are a product o f over-enthusiasm, “. . . I just got started and couldn’t stop.” R eaders wishing to verify the num ber o f stick figures can take a crack at it again this month. T h e sam e ad appears on the inside front cover. —ED. Sirs: I would like to commend you highly for short items in the Christ mas issue this year. Althea Miller’s “Ready for Christmas” contains tre mendous truth. God bless you for printing this article. It should be made into a tract and given out by the thousands to Christians. Morro Bay, Calif. Ralph G. Wooding Pre-tribulationalism Sirs: The article on pre-tribulational ism (K.B., Oct., 1956) contains sev eral examples of reading into the Ready for Christmas
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