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THE K I NG ' S BUS I NES S
August, 1937
Junior King's Business By MARTHA S. HOOKER
LIVE ENEMIES AND FRIENDS IN AFRICA A Letter from L ucilda A. N ewton *
ica, too. In God’s Word we read about “that old serpent, . . . the Devil” (Rev. 12:9), who “ as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour" (1 Pet. 5:8). Satan, the devil, is cer tainly very busy here trying to make Christians sin and trying to keep un believers from accepting the Lord Jesus as their Saviour, and he is doing the same thing in your city, too. And let me tell you this— if you have given your heart to Jesus and are born again, it doesn’t matter if a snake does poison you, or a hyena does eat you, or a lion does tear you to pieces, because then you will go to live with Jesus forever and forever and they can’t ever hurt you any more. But if you let Satan get hold of you and keep you from believ ing in Jesus and from obeying Him, it will be a lot, lot worse than being in danger of these wild animals, for Satan has power to separate you from God forever and forever and to make you suffer not only here but in eternity. So, my young friends, be sure you are safe from the temptations of Satan by being hid under the blood of our Lord Jesus Christ who died and rose again to save us from our sins. And as you read this letter, don’t forget to pray for the little black boys and girls all around me here—children who are just learning about the Lord Jesus and who want to believe in Him. But Satan doesn’t want them to do that, so you need to pray every day for them that they might choose the Lord instead of Satan and that they might give themselves to Him. You would love these dear little children if you could see them with their dark brown skins and their black curly hair and their big, big eyes and happy little hearts. Pray for them and for me, that I may know how to tell them about the Lord Jesus and His love for them. Lovingly, L ucilda A. N ewton Memory W ork fo r August Question: In view of God’s law of right and wrong, what is sin? Answer: “Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression o f the law” (1 John 3:4).
Dear Boys and Girls: I am writing this letter principally to my young friends in the homeland —the boys and the girls who want to know all about Africa. I know you are all interested in snakes, so I’ll tell you what I can about them. We have many kinds of snakes out here—some are poisonous and some are not, but I can’t tell the difference yet, so I stay away from all of them. The biggest snake I have seen was killed down by the school» It was a big, big cobra. When we got there, it had hidden itself 'way down in a hole and couldn’t be found, so the boys dug and dug and dug. And all the time, guess where I was! Yes, sir, up in a tree watching the whole thing. Finally they found the snake, and it lifted up its head and spit. You know the danger of a cobra is in the poison it spits out which it tries to get in your eyes to make you blind. But Mr. Hess shot it “ dead,” and then we took the skin off it, and I hung it up on my back porch as a warning to all other little and big snakes to show what would hap pen to them if they dared to come around and bother me. Perhaps you would like to see. one of our hyenas, too. We have lots of them here. They like to come around at night and eat up our little kittens and sheep and goats. They make a noise like this— oooooooooo — all the way up the scale and down again. I remember the first time I heard one. I had only been in Africa three or four days, and I was visiting at the home of one of the missionaries, when I heard a hyena in the distance at about nine o’clock. After that, I had to walk the two blocks back to my own house alone—and some of the nights are terribly dark in Africa. I clutched my lantern tightly in my hand and walked as fast as I could (I was afraid to run) back to my own house, shaking like a leaf. Now wasn’t that silly—because if that hyena had come near me, he would have been more afraid of me than I was of him! I haven’t seen a lion or a leopard or a *Missionary of the Africa Inland Mission.
giraffe or any of those interesting things yet. We have conies — little animals that look like rabbits with short ears—that live out in the rocks right behind our house, and they come down into our back yard quite often during the night, but we are not afraid of them. Then we caught an animal up in a trap one day that looked like a little bear—it had long claws and sharp teeth, and its main delight is to come around and dig holes into our chicken houses with its sharp claws and eat up our chickens. Then as we were crossing the swamp one day, a jackal—a kind of wild dog—ran right ahead of our car for a long way so we got a good look at it. We have some beautiful birds out here, too. If you will look in the encyclopedia you will find the pictures of African birds; and let me tell you, they look just like those pictures—they are bright red, and blue and yellow—you never saw anything like them in America. I think God painted them bright like that because we can’t have the beautiful flowers here that you have in America. But, boys and girls, we do have one “ animal” out here that you have in Amer
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