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native preachers, manning thirty-four preaching centers, together with Bible women and student evangelists, a work which is resulting in the salvation of hundreds of precious souls every year. At the end of the first year, the group o f missionaries had grown to ten, with a well-established work in full swing at Iloilo, with the new Doane Evangelistic Insti tute in the heart o f the city, and student preaching cen ters and medico-evangelistic stations at strategic points. Money for all o f this had not been i/iraised” by high- pressure modern business, methods. God sent it in, in answer to the prayers and challenge o f faith that this group made to Him. He never fails His own who are depending on Him, and who are following His program. Numerous friends heard of this “ adventure o f faith,” which was a return to the New Testament message and method. They, too, were getting tired o f giving the Lord’s money to missionary work and having it used for everything but the salvation of souls. They admired the courage and independence o f vthese modern apostles. They found themselves drawn by the Spirit o f God to the prayerful support of this work. Every need was supplied, provision was made for expansion, and God received the glory.
[The Bible Institute of Los Angeles has a special interest in the work described in this article, because of. the fact that one of its graduates, Miss Bethel France, ’24, is serving as Field Treasurer o f the Mission and as a teacher in the Manila Evangelistic Insti tute .—E ditor .] J P iv e y e a r s a g o , a little group of consecrated Bap tist missionaries at Iloilo were faced with this dilemma: They must give up their work and go home, or they must step out on faith in an independent work and look to God alone for support. To continue longer under exist ing conditions forced on them by the “ inclusive policy” and the non-evangelistic, medico-educational program o f the Board was impossible. They could not go on and still be loyal to their Lord. S m a l l B e g in n in g s They prayed, and God answered their prayers by giving them the conviction that they should launch out into the deep alone—alone, in that they had no board back o f them to pay salaries, but not alone, because God was with them and Christ was the Captain of their ship. So in 1927, with only a few individuals in the homeland in sympathetic agreement and support, and with only three experienced missionaries on the field, the Associa tion o f Baptists for Evangelism in the Orient was born.
I loilo D istrict W orkers —E ager to E vangelize T heir O wn P eople in the O rient .
From this small beginning, God has been pleased to develop in only five years a marvelous work, with almost twenty missionaries on the field, as well as twenty-six *Pastor, First Baptist Church, Atlantic City, N. I., and Secretary o f Executive Committee of Ass’n o f Baptists for Evangelism in the Orient, Inc.
E x p a n s io n There was no Baptist work in Manila, the largest city of the islands, the great university center, with forty thousand students. Many Baptist students, finding them selves in Manila with no Baptist church to attend, were weakening in their faith, and some were even returning
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