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I x w a s b a c k four-score years that Olive Rohrbaugh was bom in Ohio. Her life was ordained of God to reach untold numbers for Christ on the mission field. Following her train ing at the Bible Institute of Los An geles, she applied to the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions. From there she was sent in 1917 for missionary work in the Philippines. She was assigned by the Mission as matron of the Emerson Dormitory for girls at Cebu, Philippine Islands, a residence for students coming to the government school of the capital city. Her influence over 20 years there was appropriately summarized by a friend who said, “ Olive, the reason you have never married is because you are too universal a mother to waste on one family.” Revealing her own sense of con scious privilege, she declared, “One time on furloughj when thinking just what I should say at a church service, I stopped to ponder just what we, as missionaries, do on the field. Teach? Yes, we do that. Preach? Yes, we do that. Heal? Yes, our medical force does that, but there was something else that could not and would not come under any of these headings. In trying to define it, I concluded that what we did was to adopt a people. We rejoice over the arrival of a new life. We seek to alleviate the ever-present financial conditions. In other words their joys become our joys, their griefs become our griefs, but ever and above all we seek ways of pointing them to the Saviour.” Despite international tensions, Miss Rohrbaugh stayed on Luzon. Japanese attack appeared imminent and before Pearl Harbor, she wrote friends at home, “ Some of you have expressed concern as to the possibility of these Islands becoming involved in war. I came back, and I decided I’d rather come back here, work and die, if called upon to do so, than to be ‘sit ting pretty’ at home.” The war came close to Olive Rohr baugh in the experience of three years’ internment in the Los Banos camp, from which she was released, with many others, in March, 1945. Death came to Miss Olive Rohr baugh in mid-1963 at her home in Ohio. At 83, she continued to radiate the winsomeness of the Lord whom she so faithfully served.
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