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McLeroy (left) stirred a congre- of some 3,000 hearers in the Church of the Open Door, when he spoke on “The Civilian’s Tremendous Re- That message, printed in the June issue of this
Before going overseas, Chaplain gation
Los Angeles, sponsibility.”
much favorable comment. He approaches with the same directness and challenge.
magazine, has elicited the present discussion
Missions?”
What About By JAM ES B. McLEROY Chaplain, United States Army Air CorpS ren. Redeemed, now, by the Lord Jesus Christ, they 'come to worship, and most of all, they give to missions. When I asked a chief of his tribe “Why do you do this?” he answered, looking up, “Because of Him. He has done so much for us.” There is much yet in which these natiyes need teach ing. But, oh, what a difference has already been wrought in them! They now have life through Christ, and
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having loved Him, they “love the brethren.” Laboring as I do among them, there has come to me an evaluation of the whole subject of missions. The missionary impulse, it seems to me, has been the identifying mark of Christians of all ages. Since that lion-hearted, silver-tongued, r u g g e d fellow with a leather girdle about his middle, whom Biblical writers call
^-|-^ODAY I LIVE on an island where not many years ago people wore no clothes; and where, in many cases, they do so now only to avoid entanglements with the authorities. In the last decade this very atmosphere has been pol luted by the smell of cooked human flesh. In my chapel service each Lord’s day are men who, in former days, actually have eaten their breth-
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