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Ochs; , Mickey Owens; Roger Peterson; Rachel Philbrook; Oletha Pulfrey; Sally Rich; Janet Risager; Courtney and Robert Rott; Lester Schmidt; Dorothy Scholberg; Jeanine Schreiber; Charles and Francis Stebbms; Robert Stein; Norma Stenseth; Anna and ^Reinhold Walker; Jerome Weigle; Albert Weisenbecker; Robert Wells; Arline and Yvonne Wilson; Beverly and Bonnie Woodraska, and Lois Zerr (Ann and Beatrice Hollenbeck and Elizabeth McCall, leaders). Berkeley, C alif.: Virginia Ellis; Mariem McVey; Barbara^ June Rotermund, and Janet Taylor (Mrs. Clara Dickie, teacher). Virginia Jurgensen and Louise Thacker (Mrs. Elise Fraser, teacher). Buffalo, N. Y .: Robert Adams; Carl Foehl; Janet Gervan; Eunice Holden; Charles and Mar garet Jamieson; Billy, Doris and Vera Jean Nelson; Dottielee Olney, and Verna Rhodehouse (Mrs. E. C. Hoffman, leader). Cambridge, M ass.: Jean Martin (Mrs. Grace Bennett, teacher). Canova, S. D ak.: Adrin Jackson; Lawrence Lundberg; John and Leroy Palmquist, and Alden Skoglund (Myrtle Dahl, teacher). Carthage, M o.: Pearl Allen; Cora Barcus; Donna Ruth Bowman; Helen and Mae Carnes; Mary Corley; Betty Jo and Orval Davenport; Ida Gulick; Mary Gully; Virginia Heatley; Bessie Hicks; Edna Bess and Neva H ill; Wilma Jen nings; Deloris and Wanda Kreighbaum; Eldon, Nora and Winbert Liles; Rose Miller; Peggy Mitchell; James and Martha O’Connor; Henry Ogden; Cleo Rogers; Lillian and Mrytle Russell; Doris, Fern. Joan, and Regina Seypholt; Joseph and Lela Simpson; Bess Stemmons, and Alice Thorpe (Mrs. J. T. Simpson, superintendent), Corey, P a .: Arthur and Paul Fairchild, and George C. Fox (A. N. Goldfinch, leader). Evansville, In d .: Jackie Barnes; Edwin Seibert; James D. Stanley; Harold Stubbs, and Kenneth Thorpe (Walter H. Schmitz, teacher). Galesburg, M ich.: Neva Wayne. Genoa, N ebr.: Darrel Baker; Marjorie Bock; Virginia Grape; Dorothy Green; Helen Martin; Charles and Edith Matson; Marvin Mauer; Jean Nelson; Joan Peterson; Ethel Porter; Bernard, Edith, and Edwin Roerick; Chester Taylor; Eleanor and Wilma Weldon; Jeaneal, Joan, Joyce, Marlyce, and Meredith Westring; Helen W ill; Dorothy and Fern Yelm, and Carol Ann and Eleanor Zack (L. A. Indlecoffer, leader). Granite Falls, M inn.: Idell Anding; Birdie Brenffat; Helen and Marian Hanson; Luella John son; Lorane Sherman, and Decotah Wiles (H. R. Hill, leader). Greenmlle, S. C .: Billie and Thelma Addison; Betty Cason; Tommie Cooke; Juanita Gaillard; Walton King, and Rachel Lollis (Mrs, George Ross, leader). Jennings, L a .: June Barnette; L. J. Biessen- berger; Bemetta Ann and Forrest Haddock, and Henrietta Leonard # (Frieda Zobel, teacher). Jolo, Sulu, Philippine Islands: Polonia de la Cruz; Chin Guan Go; Remedios Lagmay; Hen- nedina Laviano; Betty Lim, and Suan Wai Lu (Jerry A, Dulach, pastor). Lead, S. D ak.: Milton King; Beryl May Mac Donald; Neil McArthur; Connie and Mary Mackey; Dorothy Smith, and John L. Thomsen (Mrs. George Marthland, Jr., leader).^ Los Angeles, C alif.: Helen Agajanian; Hazel Bears; Ninfa Brcato; Clarence Gatfield; Sharon Hogan; Merton Hudson; Beverly and Glen Lind- borg; Dorothy Scharff; Dowie and Pauline Se- karian; Rupert Sessions; Judith Smith; George, Lucy, and Sam Sukiasian, and Stanley Wuestoff (C. Barkey, leader). M idwest, W yo.: Edwin Dorthy; Harold French, and Ralph Stevens (Mrs. R. L. Stevens, leader). Mt. Washington, Pittsburgh, P a .: Leatrice Chambers; Ruth Cochran; Joan Davis; Mary Alice Fiedler; Dorothy Freeman; Florence Fryberger; Mary Lou Lauman; Nancy Ruth Lewis; Patricia McAfee; Jane Minsinger; Marion Mutschler; Shirley Simpson; Betty Wadsworth, and Ann Woodworth (Vera Y. Noah, teacher). Philadelphia, P a .: Evelyn Clyde; Betty Crum ley; Betty, Harry, and Marie Grason, and David Reif (Peggy Millar, leader). Pilger, N ebr.: Betty and Neil Burnham; Keith Carson; Phyllis Jones; Galen Kennedy; Dalton Muntz; Marguarite Rennick, and Delmar Smith (Mrs. Hazel Rennick, teacher). Renter, M inn.: Lucile Oliver (Mrs. Lucian Oliver, teacher). Seattle,. W ash.: Joan Blackman; Ronald Jones; Marilyn Miller; Mary Ann Munson; Lyle Nord; Calvin Darell, and Robert Prater, and Roberta Spaner (Mrs. Hannah Young, leader). Shafter, C alif.: Paul Nikkei. Swartz, L a .: Elaine Bryant; Herbert Johnson, Jr .; Ruth Ellen Johnson; Clifford Miers; Tommie Milstead; Eugene Poe; B. W. Roper; Virginia Lee Speir, and Gloria Ware (Mrs. A. H. Johnson, sponsor). Van Wert, Ohio: Marceline Agler; Betty, Joan, and Ruth Boroff; Dick and Junior Bressler; Dottie Canny; Delores Downing; Betty Goble; Robert Halliwill; Barbara and Colleen Rise; Phyllis Smith, and Richard Watson (Princess M. Terry, teacher). W ebster, S. D ak.: Duane Wesley and Joyce Murid Sigdestad. York, P a.: Patsy Aldinger; Marian Brown; Sarah Diehl; Ruth Gilbert; Catherine Hoke; Nancy Miller, and Janet Roth (Mary Louise Kraybill, teacher).
A Day in a Mission School in India B y R uby L indblad * How would you like to spend a day with me in a Mission School for girls in far-off India? Let us close our eyes and then open them quickly, pretending we have made the long trip and are now in the land of India, approaching our Mission School. From the small, mud-floored schoolrooms comes the monotonous drone of the arith metic tables, for in India they sing their multiplication tables. But let us not stop here. W e will hurry on to the kindergar ten, where the littlest girls are. Do you see how shiny their hair is? I love to watch each shiny head bent over its slate. This morning Annabai, one of the older Christians who helps in the or phanage, gave each little girl a couple of small spoonfuls of oil. Each girl then rub bed it on her own head. Then, with a comb, every hair was put in place. There must be no waves, no stray locks. And how proud each little tot is of her braid! Are you smiling at their queer dresses? They wear long skirts, 'wayvdown to their ankles, and little blouses. I think they look lovely. Now the noon bell is ringing. Shall we stay to watch them as they gather for their meal? They sit in a large semi-circle, cross-legged on the ground. Each boy and girl has a bright brass or aluminum plate and a brass “glass.” These dishes shine very brightly because after each meal, the children scour them with fine sand. Ah, see the little tots’ eyes sparkle! Annabai is dishing the rice from the large kettle, two older girls helping her. Let us bow our heads as they sing a prayer of thanksgiv ing to God. The children must be hungry. Their plates are heaped with rice. You ask where the knives, forks, and spoons are. These children of India never use them. There is a little girl crying. She just en tered our boarding school, coming to us from her parents, who are Christians in another town. Perhaps she is homesick. Let us ask her. “I cannot eat,” she sobs. “The food is so good, and at home there was never enough—so we took turns eat ing.” Plain rice with a little curry (and for some meals only the coarse, flat bread which is the main food in this section) makes up the meal. It would never enter our minds that the food is so excellent as it seems to this new girl, although it is always wholesome and nourishing. I knew that girl over there would catch your eye, as she is the only one with short hair, and here in this part of India, short hair is considered a disgrace. Would you like to know why Giriji's hair is short? Up in the Navapur jungles some mis sionaries found this little girl, three or four years old, wandering about, apparently un conscious of wild animals lurking in the woods. Giriji was practically homeless. Her food consisted of whatever she might pick up in the woods or wherever she wan dered. Her little naked brown body was covered with a rash, but this was not so hard to bear as the pain and discomfort of her little head, which was a mass of fes- *Missionary o f the Scandinavian Alliance Mission.
tering sores. Could such a little one be one for whom the dear Good Shepherd laid down His life? Yes. When He said, “Suf fer the little children to come unto me,” it was for such as Giriji. “Have you any people?” asked those who had found her. “None but an old woman,” she replied. The old woman, when questioned, said she did not see the child for days at a time and had no idea where she was. The little girl was no relative of hers, and the old woman was more than glad to give little Giriji over to the missionaries. How lovingly and tenderly they worked with her before sending her to the orphan age! Her hair had to be cut to the scalp to enable those repulsive sores to be cleaned so they could heal. A good disinfectant in the bath, followed by healing salve, helped to heal the little sore body. Then Giriji was taken into the orphanage family. Her beautiful brown eyes shone; her hair was soon a mass of soft dark ringlets. Eating mud and improper food in the forest had quite spoiled her digestion. Poor, dear child! Who wouldn’t eat mud if she was very hungry and had no other food! But she has other “food” now which is even better than that which is served at the table day by day. She has come to know and love the Lord Jesus, the true Bread of Life. And so thankful is she to have found a home that little Giriji is constantly telling Jesus of her joy. At night she joins the other children in prayer and thanksgiving. They never forget to pray, “Lord Jesus, protect us from scorpions, snakes, and evil men this night.” Then they unroll their little mats on the mud floor and are soon asleep. They know that our heavenly Fa ther never slumbers nor sleeps and that He will watch over them. And thus the day closes for the children who attend the Mission School in India. Pray for these dear children, won’t you, and for their teachers who are telling them day by day about the Lord Jesus. Answers to Last Month’s “Bible Arithmetic” Answer worked out: 9 (Jerusalem) + 176 (Psalm 119) == 185 + 5 (The Penta teuch—sometimes called the Books of the Law, and History, Poetry, Major Prophets, and Minor Prophets) = = 1 9 0 — 10 (Ex. 34:28) = 180 -)- 9 (Zechariah) = 20 -s* 5 (1 Sam. 17:40) = 4 (The Gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke, John). New K. Y. B. C. Members The_ following have read through the Gospel according to John and are now members of the Know Your Bible Club: Aberdeen, S. D ak.: Mary Ackerman; Beverly and Donna Lou Adler; Beulah, Ruth, and Violet Albee; Alida and Richard Ballard; #Darrel and Duane Benfit; Eileen Buntrock; Ardis Burnham; Patty Chambers; Leland Charpentier; Donald and Walter Chelgren; Doris and Valetta Clark; Mary Cooper; Rolland and Rudolph Craft; Dorothy and Florence Crom; Sylvia Culp; Arthur Detling; George Eakins; Joyce Ernest; Loretta Fiechtner; Theodore Fillos; Charles and Leslie Fraser; Jack Frazer; Virginia Glaser; Paula Grosz; Muriel Groupe; Irene Hanson; Harold and Willis Haskell; Joan Hirsch; Jean Johansen; Leonard Kimball; Martha Jane Lee; Charles, Eleanor, and Elvin Lindberg; Francis and Jesse Luce; Joseph and Lloyd McBurney; Jean and Phyllis Maier; Wayne Mattheis; Beverly and Clifford Matthies; Henry Mead; Warren Miller; Delores Mitchel; Elaine Mitchell; Irene Nicholas; James Norby; Edward
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