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J. Arthur and Mrs. Mouw, Sintang, West Borneo, Netherlands East Indies, hope to move, with their two children, far ther into the interior to be nearer to the Dyak people. Mr. Mouw, whose itinera tion trips take him away from home much of the time, tells of the friendliness’of the Dyaks and of their readiness to receive the gospel message. He adds : “I remember that when I was a boy in Iowa I would go out with my sled, and, when a grocery cart would come along, I’d hook on for a ride. Now, as I chug along in my little boat, oc casionally I throw a rope to the Dyaks in their dugouts, and give them a tow up stream. You should see them smile and their faces brighten up as they cease from paddling and hang on to the rope. That is just why we are here—to teach the Dyaks to cease holding to their supersti tions and fears, to let go and let God ■ lift them through His Son Jesus Christ out of their darkness into the ‘light of the glorious gospel of Christ’ ” Anna J. Thiessen, ’25, Winnipeg, Man., Can., working under the Northern Dis trict Conference of the Mennonite Breth ren Church, is happy in her work of car ing for homeless girls, looking after their spiritual and physical welfare. She writes: “The Lord has helped, and supplied all the needs, and I have a building of eleven rooms for these girls. We call it the Mary-Martha Home. A number of these girls have become Christians.” C. N. Hiebert, ’21, has been pastor of the Mennonite Brethren Church of Win nipeg, Man., Can., since 1925. Clara L. Keuhny, ’20, Basna, via Raipur, C.P., India, with the General Conference Mennonite Board, tells of evangelistic ef fort at the hospital where she is a nurse. After describing the cholera epidemic which raged in the Central Provinces some months ago, she adds: “In Champa, a few Christian lepers in the asylum were ill, and one or two died, I think. Other wise, in our whole mission not one Chris tian died of cholera, and very few were ill with it. The non-Christians spoke about the protection God gave the Christians, but it did not go very deep. They are all fa talists, and ‘We cannot escape our fate’ is continually on their lips. It has strength ened the faith of some of the Christians, however.” Alice Foote, ’32, Ceres, Calif., an ac cepted candidate of the Bolivian Indian Mission, has been granted a military per mit to enter Bolivia, and asks prayer that she may be thrust forth soon, if it be the Lord’s will. She has been engaged in Daily Vacation Bible School work under the American Sunday-School Union this summer. Married Norman Dirks, ’33, and Effie Schrotz- berger, ’34, August 16, Inglewood, Calif. Walter Pauli, ’35, and Lois Smith, ’35, August 23, Los Angeles, Calif. Allen Rosecrans and Edith Nowell, ’31, July 11, Red Bluff, Calif. Marshall Welles and Helen Antisdale, ’29, July 15, Pasadena, Calif.
rious races are united in the Lord’s work. There are three Epworth League groups, and the Sunday-school is very active, with an average attendance of ninety. Mina Septer, ’20, Bolivian Indian Mis sion, Casilla 701, Bolivia, S.A., has been helping in the Mission’s school in Oruro. She expects to return to the United States, in October for her furlough. Daniel (’30) and Mrs. Berg (Esther Suderman, ’31), Christian and Missionary Alliance, Wilton, Ala., have been having very full Sundays, with regular Sunday- school at 9:45 a . m . and preaching services at 10:30 a . m . and 7 :00 p . m . in Wilton, as well as two afternoon Sunday-schools out in the country. During the week, evening meetings in the surrounding country dis trict have been a further part of Mr. and Mrs. Berg’s ministry. Mrs. John Irwin (Flossie Sowell, ’31) has been blessed in her work as superin tendent of the Sunday-school in the Hughson First Baptist Church, Hughson, Calif. The attendance has doubled during her term in office. Lucile A. Bagley, ’27, has been aiding in radio services with gospel songs and Bible study over one of the stations in Madison, Wis. She asks for prayer for this min istry.- Ellen Scheidt, ’20, has been teaching in the high school at Platteville, Colo. Eugene M. Riddle, ’30, received the de gree of Bachelor of Education at the Uni versity of California, Los Angeles, in Feb ruary. Marguerite Rouse, ’25, has been in China for the past five years, and has been Sec retary and Assistant Treasurer of the Nanking Theological Seminary, Nanking, China. In addition, she has had two Bible classes and an English class. She wrote that she expected to leave for her fur lough early in the summer. Fred H. and Mrs. McKenrick (Betty Pierson, T4), Africa Inland Mission, Ki- jabe, Kenya, E. Africa, have finished the second year of their new form of service in the academy for missionaries’ children at Kijabe, and have rejoiced in the work. Mrs. McKenrick reports that the native work is very encouraging also. At a Sun day service some time ago, over fifty na tive young people confessed Christ for the first time. Forty young people dedicated their lives to God for His service any where. Mr. and Mrs. McKenrick are praising God for His deliverance in Mr. McKenrick’s two serious illnesses this past year. Though their furlough is due, they had hoped to stay another year or two because of the need for workers, but Mr. McKenrick’s need for rest has made a furlough advisable as soon as possible. Ava E. McSpadden, ’22, San Diego, Calif., has been engaged in young people’s work and church visitation for the past three years. Since last fall she has been ill and unable to take part in much active ser vice, but she is praising the Lord for His wonderful love and care.
Witness in Near and Far Fields T ordis C hristoffersen , ’29, with the American-European Fellowship, Og- rodawa, S3, m. 22, Warsaw, Poland, writes, in the European Harvest Field: “I spent my holidays in a Deaconess Mission Home. A group of ladies from the nobility also happened to come for a short holiday, and to these ladies God gave me the privilege of speaking. I went before them in a spirit of much prayer and dependence, thinking how true it was that God had chosen the weak to con found the mighty. God graciously used the message, for the next day one of these ladies came to my room, wanting to know how she could get such assurance as I had. In fact, she was willing to give everything in order to get it. How blessed the privi lege of showing her that our assurance is altogether based on His Word! We prayed together, she believed what God said, and she began a new life of faith and trust. She wrote in her Bible, which was a new book to her, ‘This day I surrender my life.’ A few days later, she called me on the telephone and asked me to come out to her estate to speak to her relatives and employees. I took it as a call from God, and so it came to pass that I once more walked inside an old castle, with all its beauty, feeling the constrast of the ghetto of Warsaw. After the late dinner, we sat around the open fire in a very spacious room, and I gave some facts, all from God’s Word, about God’s eternal plan and purpose for Israel, their past setting in history, the present purpose of grace, the tribulation, and into the millennial glory for Israel, when the Jews will be restored to their own land and they will be ‘the head, and riot the tail.’ Thus, God permit ted that into the German aristocracy, with its growing hatred of the Jews, there came a voice—not speaking of itself, for it was God’s Word altogether—telling of our debt to the Jews, all that we have that means anything having come through them, and our great responsibility toward them. ‘I will bless them that bless thee and curse them that curse thee’—that was the whole substance of the message God gave me for them. If you knew what it means to be a Jew in Eastern Europe—in Poland— today, you could not but pray more ear nestly for the much-neglected work of evangelization among the Jews, the calling out of the number of the remnant accord ing to the election of grace.” Lyman Wendt, ’34, has been assigned to the pastorate of the Missionary Church of Denair, Calif. While completing his work at the Institute, Mr. Wendt taught in the college department at the Glendale Pres byterian Church, Glendale, Calif. Richard K. Reigart, ’30, has been in the pastorate of the Farmersville Methodist Community Church, Farmersville, Calif., for more than a year. Of the sixteen ac cessions to the church during the period of a year, half were on confession of faith. The congregation, drawn from the sur rounding farming community, is outstand ing for the way in which members of va
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