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gan, my wife, nephew, two Indian teach ers, and myself being the instructors.” Evangelistic services were held, increas ing the value of the opportunity and break ing the monotony o f the studies. Indian delegates from other towns came and ask ed for campaigns to be started _ among them. Examinations closed the eighteen- day reading campaign at this center. Gov ernment officials who were present at the examinations marveled at Indian men, women, and children reading in their own tongue after such a brief course. Similar intensive courses were held at other centers. At Tecpan, one young woman, who had not known one letter from another, learned to read the Cak- chiquel New Testament in eight and one- half days. Out o f a family o f five, in an other town, where only the father had known how to read, the other four learned to read and each bought a Testament. A t Patzun, the local authorities were not interested in the education o f the In dian and would not maintain the school, which the mission had opened but was forced to close because of lack o f funds. Mr. Townsend interceded for the Indians at the capital. One day, at 11 a.m., a gov ernment telegram was received by the local authorities, ordering them to open the school, and at 4 p.m. that same day, eighty- five men had signed for night classes and sixty children for day classes—ample proof that the Indian is hungry for an education. Mr. Townsend was commissioned to or ganize a National School for Indians at Patzun. Three hundred enrolled in the night classes and seventy-nine in the day classes. All the ten teachers employed were Christian Indians. Such has been the demand for New Tes taments, that the cheerful news came from Guatemala to the Bible House at Cristobal not long a g o : “The colporteurs are going to be without Cakchiquel New Testaments in a couple o f months. How about shipping us a thousand copies?” — B ible S ociety R ecord . IN THE JEWISH WORLD [Continued from page 443] the Jew ó f history, for the romance o f his wanderings, his age-long persecutions, his miraculous preservation, and his colorful customs and ceremonies all combine to make a strong appeal to the imagination and sentiment. It is to be regretted that many who seem thoroughly conversant with the Jew o f prophecy and his place in the divine program of redemption are yet but little interested in the conversion o f the ordinary Jew o f toddy. Sitting down and sentimentalizing over the sad lot of poor, blinded Israel, or splitting theological hairs over the Jew, the Gentile and the church contribute prac tically nothing toward the solution o f the practical problems involved in Jewish mis sionary work. The church o f God has too long been theorizing about the Jew instead o f serious ly engaging in the task o f Jewish evangel ization. Our sentimental and romantic in terest in the Jew should be crystalized into some definite effort to aid in the cause of Israel’s redemption. Expressions o f senti ment, regardless o f how genuine and sin cere they may be, unless they are accom panied, by the sacrifice o f time, strength, effort, and means devoted to the problem o f reaching the Jewish heart with the gos pel, leave the Jewish problem still untouch ed and unsolved.
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