&P A monthly column of names in the news. In Oakland, Calif., death has taken Emma Belle Lawler, 80, a missionary in Japan and China for more than 45 years. Mrs. Lawler was spiritual ad viser to members of the powerful Soong family and she is credited with giving Chang Kai-shek his first Bible. Chang later married one of the.Soong sisters. Nineteen-year-old Peggy Vallett of Herrin, 111. was trekihg around the
WHAT IF THIS WERE YOU? “ This letter comes to you from the Sanitarium of Soteria, in Ath ens, Greece, where I am a patient. How I praise God for the salva tion I have found in Christ. I could not live without Him. “ For nine years now I have been struggling against tubercu losis, and I cannot regain my health. My poor children are be ginning to show signs of the dis ease and I am afraid it is because they do not have anything to eat or a Mother’s loving care. Their father has suffered from pleurisy and is unable to work. You can not imagine the suffering in which our little family is found. I just cannot describe it to you. How is it possible for me to get well, knowing that my children lack even their daily bread? I am afraid they will die and I shall never see them again. My despair is beyond d e sc rip tion . Sometimes I feel it would be bet ter for me to die first so that I would not have to endure the sor row of burying my children. Please put yourself in my place for just a little while and you will feel some thing of the untold tragedy that exists in my heart. My clothing is all worn out and my children are almost naked. They are two boys, ages 13 and 15. Please have mercy on them and don’t worry about me. You cannot imagine how a Mother feels when she cannot take care of her own children. Oh, how I wish I could send them some thing to bring just a little joy into their lives! My only comfort is prayer and the reading of God’s Word. I have faith to believe that the day of miracles is not past and that the Lord Jesus Christ is able to restore me to health so that I may return to my family and give them what they have lacked for so many years. “With much respect and much hope,” Mrs. Polyxeni Terzopoulou NOTE: What a despairing cry from the heart of this dear mother! What if this were you? What would you have liked others to do for you? Dare you do less for this dear Christian tubercular mother and her beloved children? The medicine she needs will cost $25, and with $6 a 22-lb. package of warm clothing can be sent, and with $10 they can purchase locally 80 lbs. of nourishing food. There are many like her who constitute a modem Macedonian call, “ Come over and help us.” You can do it through the American Mission to Greeks, Inc., Dept. K, P.O. Box 423, New York 36, N.Y., Rev. Spiros Zodhiates, General Secretary. In Canada write to 90 Duplex Ave., Toronto 7, Ontario.
Chosen But Not Divine DAUGHTER OF NAZARETH by Florence Marvyne Bauer
By sharing the bitter and the lovely experiences of the mother-to-be of Jesus from the time she was promised to Joseph until the momentous climax months later, you will realize the problems faced by the mother of the Saviour of the world. Don’t fail to get your copy of this emotion-filled novel at your favorite bookstore, for the very low price of only $1.50 BROADMAN PRESS Please mention "King 's Business" when writing to advertisers. CONGRESS ON PROPHECY plans to itinerate The capacity day-time attendances and jam-out •evening crowds at the Second International Congress on Prophecy held November 6-13 in Calvary Baptist Church, New York, have induced the American Associa tion Board to authorize the offering of similar Congress programs to other cities. You can arrange for a Congress on Prophecy in your city. To be sure of your choice of dates, we urge that you write us promptly. Place your order now, too, for the book "Understanding The Times" which will present the cream of the Congress addresses. Price $3.00. And write for free copy , of the Manifesto adopted by the Congress, embodying the unanimous eschato logical views of 37 outstanding speakers representing 16 nationally recognized schools. Write to Dept. KB Dr. A. B. Machlin, Executive Director AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR JEWISH EVANGELISM, INC. Winona Lake, Indiana
Peggy as a puppet. nation this winter, dutifully chaper oned by a watchful mother, trying her hand at a one-girl religious show. Peggy’s talent turned out to be wide ly diversified, running thè gamut from piano to violin to vocal and puppets. The puppet act was aimed at the young fry and she appeared to have little difficulty in holding their attention. Christian leaders are calling Billy Graham's recent mission to college stu dents in England the most unusual the young evangelist has yet held. The mission was held at Cambridge and Oxford Universities to packed audiences for more than 10 days. Sev eral hundred students made decisions for Christ at both universities. Among those converted: Dr. Roger Bannister, the British athlete, world-famed for running the four-minute mile. Assist ing Graham was Dr. David Cowie, pas tor of the University Presbyterian Church of Seattle and J. R. W. Stott and Maurice Wood of England.
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