Ruby Miller ’48, late secretary in the Jewish Department of BIOLA, and now missionary serving in Cochabamba, Bo livia, S.A., writes: “Nine months in Bolivia, the Land of Church Steeples, has deepened my burden for these peo ple. Our country is beautiful with ma jestic mountains, fertile valleys and pic turesque people. We have Quechiia and Aymara Indian, then our Cholos—half- breeds—part Indian and part, Spanish, who are our middle class. Our gente or high class people are of Spanish origin. There are many foreigners in our land —Arabs, Germans, Jews, other people of British lineage, and our Americans. All of these languages are spoken in our city. But, oh, it is a land of darkness as well as of beauty and intrigue. Roman ism, Communism, nationalism and philosophies of various kinds are holding the people in spiritual and mental dark ness and bondage. Last Sunday at our open-air meeting for children, three of our little gente girls accepted Christ as their Saviour. One was from a Jehovah’s Witness home, and the other two from Roman Catholic homes. The first little one, as she was leaving, called out, ‘I’m not afraid to die now, because I’ll go to Heaven!’ Pray for our work here. There are many opportunities, but the laborers are few.” Margaret J. Hart ’38, has been called to direct the Christian Education work of the First Baptist Church of Montrose, Calif. She is a sister of Dr. Edward B. Hart ’17, pastor of Immanuel Baptist Church of Pasadena. Ruth Charlton-Uhlinger ’42, now fur loughing at the home of her parents, the Rev. and Mrs. C. H. Charlton ’17, 4978 Maywood Ave., Los Angeles 41, says her heart is still in the Congo. “ I’d love to be driving my new Jeep pickup truck, Robin II, out on week-end safaris to the bush schools where teachers begged, week after week, ‘Oh, Madam Ruth, please come and stand up your tent in our village and show us the gospel photos and teach us more of the words of God.’ One tall Watusi came to Ruan- guba a heathen, searching for the white man’s wisdom. He found Christ in the Bible Hour in the boys’ school, and later trained at Bible school. He wrote, ‘Peace to Madam Ruth: Greetings in our Sa viour, Jesus Christ. Again we bring thanks to God for protecting you on the long paths that you arrived in America in peace. We are praying for you that God may bless the words that you say there. I am teaching the fourth grade in the mission school here where I found Christ. When I returned to my village last January my father was filled with happiness to hear I had finished Bible school. Pray for my father when he hears the words of God again he will believe.’ ” Late recruits to serve in Japan are
his own people, but today his radiant and faithful testimony makes him a strong ‘lay leader.’ ” Many and varied are the experiences of these emissaries of the cross as they see the transforma tion of the lives of the heathen who turn to the Light of the world. Lawrence and Meta Powell ’39, R. 11, Beattyville, Ky., with winter weather approaching, are still living in a house that is badly in need of repairs and paint. Cooking is done on a wood stove, and coal for heat is very expensive for the missionary family. Water, also, is a premium problem much of the time. The well, which was sunk for water, blew in for gas, and even that is now exhausted. Well-digging is an expensive proposition and hard work. Rural schools have opened, and more will soon open, so that arrangements must be made for Bible teaching. It is clear that much prayer is needed to help these worthy and hard-pressed missionaries in the problems they face at this time. Grace Pike-Roberts ’21, ’39, and her husband (Dr. Charles A. Roberts) are busily engaged in Kowloon, Hong Kong, in taking care of the book room and ministering to the needy souls of that great and over-crowded city. Heat is in tense, accommodations for living are meager indeed, and while the labor in the Lord is foremost in their minds and hearts, yet the physical is often sorely tested. One of their twin daughters, Joyce, in Los Angeles at this time, is making preparation to go to India where she will be a missionary nurse. Their plea is for prayer warriors to present their work and workers to the throne of God’s wonderful grace! Timothy Pietsch, Director of the Tokyo Bible Center, 179 Miyamae Cho, Tokyo, relates a story of the Communist riots which led to banning by police of all meetings in front of Shibuya Station where he had preached to great crowds for a long time. This caused him to move to the front of the Jiyugaoka Rail way Station, which is even a better loca tion for their work. They have inaugu rated street meetings for children, and display the flannelgraph from the hood of the Jeep! There is always a large crowd as the children gather in groups, and Timothy is organizing them under Children for Christ. He has renewed his gospel radio broadcast for another six months. There is a good letter-response showing the real interest of the people. Claude Pearson’s Sailor Work, 386 W. 5th St., San Pedro, relate their joy over the salvation of three Italian radio op erators aboard one of the ships recently visited. All three are earnestly memoriz ing the Scriptures, and bid fair to be come active winners of souls, showing a deep concern for lost men. Pray for them, and thus share with them in their victories for Christ.
“ They that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever ” (Dan. 12:3).
Mr. and Mrs. John Bergen and family
Joseph ’40 and Gene Gilbert-Copeland ’41, who have been accepted to work with the Pocket Testament League, their support being underwritten by the Eagle Rock Baptist Church, where they have their membership. Following service in China in World War II, Joe graduated from Westmont College at Santa Bar bara, and from USC in the department of Asiatics, thus making himself “ a workman that needeth not to be ashamed” in spiritual ministry to the Oriental peoples. The Copelands have three children, David (10), Donald (7), and Sharroll (6). Sailing is set for the latter part of September. The Bergen family, Johnnie, Violet, Bemie and Danny, pictured here, serv ing under the SIM, at Jos, Nigeria, de scribe the thrill of missionary endeavor among the Moslems: “ In language school we met one whose testimony proved the reality of Christianity in his life. Being a good Mohammedan he had three wives, and was at this time looking for a fourth! He had memorized much of the Koran, but there remained an unex plained emptiness of the heart. One day he heard the gospel message, and though he outwardly rebelled, inwardly he real ized that Christ was the answer to the longing of his heart. An inward struggle ended by his making public his decision to follow the Lord. Immediately he set his house in order, dismissing two of his wives, retaining the first as his real wife. He suffered much persecution from
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