.. ........... imiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiininiiiiiiiiHiiniiiiiiHniiiiniiniiiiiiiinnHiiiiiiHiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiliiniliinirtiiiniiiniinitniiiiüiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii^ I THE EBENEZER MISSEON ( Suppmtmû. &y Failli and Consecrated Demotion o f Its Founders | By A. M. ROW j liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiffiiimiiiiiiliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiliiiiii iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiliiiiiiiiiiiiiiii T T ERE is the story of a mission among the Chinese that reads like a fable. It the writer, “but soon afterwards this same splendid woman (who, by the way, is now living in Los Angeles), first announced that she would pay our way to Los Angeles
is told by William H. Nowack, a mission ary, who, with his entire family, is now in Los Angeles for a year’s recuperation, after twelve years’ strenuous endeavor at Miyang, Honan, China. Twelve years ago, Mr. Nowack and his wife were living in the mountains of Tennessee. They had, in an indefinite way, taken upon their hearts an uplift work among the progeny of the Tennessee Moun taineers. A year previously they had been married, at the close of their course in the Bible School conducted by Rev. J. R. Pratt in Wisconsin, now pastor of a Presbyte rian Church in Pasadena, Cal., and well known in connection with the early work of the Los Angeles Bible Institute. During this same period in their lives Mrs. Nowack had been converted under the ministra tions of Rev. T. C. Horton, now super intendent of the Los Angeles Bible Insti tute, but then preaching in Wisconsin. As Mr. and Mrs. Nowack sat in their humble Tennessee home one evening, read ing a missionary paper, they received an instantaneous vision that their call was to China, and that settled it. They were entirely devoid of means, but their faith was great. Almost immediately following their irrev ocable decision to go to China, a wealthy and consecrated woman wrote them offer ing to provide a farm in Tennessee, that they might begin a work among the boys of the mountain people. They replied that they regretted their inability to accept the offer, as they had determined to go to China. “We thought that ended the matter,” said Mr. Nowack, when talking it over with
MRS. NOWACK And Six Native Bible Women
from our home in Tennessee, and then when we reached Los Angeles she announced that she intended to pay our way to China. “It was our intention to merely conduct a quiet little work of our own, relying entirely upon faith for our support, but the Lord seems to have had another purpose for us.
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