permitted us to stop over two days in Asuncion. The medical missionary we had hoped to see was out of reach up the jungle-lined Paraguay River. But as we wandered we knew not whither along the sidewalks of this skyscraper town, a Volkswagen bus pulled up beside us and the driver called, "Can I be of any help?" We soon discovered that the friendly man at the wheel was a missionary with the New Tribes Mission. When he learned that my traveling companion was a sur geon the missionary asked Dr. Ben son if he would care to visit the Southern Baptist Mission Hospital. Why not? This was just what we wanted to see. It was during the guided tour given us by the young missionary, Dr. McDowell, that we stepped in side room seven and up to the cage-covered bed. There Don and May McDowell related the story of
the burned girl with the big brown eyes. They admitted that before her conversion, Pabla's mind was filled with hard-to-answer ques tions: "Why do I have to suffer so? If God is love, why this burning hell, this unbearable torture?" But as medicine, time and loving care began to heal her, a different kind of question looked for an an swer: "Why are these strangers in the hospital so patient and kind to me? Why do they work so diligent ly to keep me alive? Why do they always seem so happy? Why?" The young Paraguayan girl found all the answers at the Billy Gra ham Crusade. And now, in spite of the pain she suffers, she thanks God for what He has done through her tragedy: "Apart from my accident I would never have heard, and now that I have heard others must hear from my lips of the love of God."
Dr. Dick Hillis is General Director of Over seas Crusades, Inc. in Palo Alto, California
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