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for service for the Master. The latter are well patronized by the natives on Sundays. Here all classes may be seen: the more or less sophisticated natives in their mar- adadi (dressy) clothes, and the shenzies (raw natives) in their rags, blankets, or greasy skins; their heads covered with greasy red clay, and kuku (poultry) feathers stuck jauntily behind their, ears I “ ‘Expect great things from G od; at tempt great things for God.’ W e are eager.” Blessing in Disguise H 7 T iss G race H illman gave up a very JYJL promising career as a musician, came to the Institute from Australia, heard and responded to the call o f her Lord, and is now happy as a missionary in India under the Ceylon and India Gen eral Mission. She writes as follow s: “I f one could voice the all-absorbing de sire o f the new missionary—in a foreign land, among a foreign people, listening to a foreign tongue—how often it would be: ‘Oh, if I only knew the language, that I might tell the people of the Saviour’s love!’ How useless one feels, just study ing! But it is not long until the voice of praise is heard, thanking the Lord that one may be, for a time, just studying. “ For instance, on one occasion I went visiting with the senior missionary. As we moved among the people, quite fre quently I would exclaim, ‘Oh, what a love ly baby!’ I was then told that I must never say a baby is beautiful; and the rea son was given. I f a baby is well de veloped and beautiful, the parents fear
part of our responsibility in con nection with world-wide evangel ization is indicated by our Lord’s command in John 4 :35 : “ Lift up your eyes and look on the fields.” And He reminds us in Matthew 13:38 that the field is the world. If we see the field as He saw it, we, like Him, will be “moved with com passion” (Matt. 9:36). W e again share with our readers some o f the experiences o f former Bible In stitute students who, having gotten the vision and having been moved with com passion, are now on the field. Opportunities at Every Turn ' everal years ago, a young business man living in Canada heard God’s call to train for His service. Although it in volved much real sacrifice, he obeyed, spent three years at the Bible Institute o f Los Angeles, and then went to Africa, where he has been laboring for several years under the auspices o f the A frica In land Mission. A glimpse into the activities of this missionary, Samuel Anderson, is here given: “ Though we are located near Victoria Nyanza, quite a distance from the Kikuyu Country, the trouble that commenced there two years ago with the murder o f one o f our veteran missionaries has continued to greatly interfere with our work at Lumbwa. However, more than one hun dred attend our enquirers’ class and morn ing church services on Sundays. In our open air evangelistic meetings, hundreds come within the sound o f the gospel. This witnessing, however imperfect, cannot fail to have an effect to the glory o f God.
Kericho Jail. Practically every prisoner attends. From there, we pass on to the native hospital. Here the government doctor has very kindly placed the out-pa tient dispensary at our disposal on Sun days. In dry weather, we prefer the open space between the wards, as it offers a more strategic point. From here, the bed ridden patients can also hear the message. “ Besides all these, the native market and Hindu shops offer further opportunities A tablet on the wall of a Presby terian church in Aneityum, in the New Hebrides, contains the follow ing inscription: “When the Rev. John Geddie, D.D., came here in 1846 there were no Christians, and when he left in 1872 there were no heathen.”— S unday S chool T imes . The Zeal of the Missionary “Now let me burn out for God.” — H enry M artyn . “Yonder in India is a gold mine. I will descend and dig, but you at home must hold the ropes.” —W illiam C arey . “ Prayer and pains, through faith in Jesus Christ, will do anything.” — J ohn E liot . “ I have one passion; it is He and He alone.” — C ount von Z inzendorf .
the evil spirit may notice the child, and that the little one will be affected there by with sickness or de formity. Therefore, the child is never named for anything beautiful, but is given such a name as Koopai, which means ‘rub bish’ or ‘darkness.’ This little artifice, it is felt, will deceive the evil spirits, who will not notice a child that is so named. “ A missionary had been waiting a long time for en trance into a certain ze nana. A t last the doors were opened, and arrange ments were m a d e for weekly meetings to be con ducted. One week, a new worker, in company with the older missionary, vis ited the zenana. They were seated in the room. One by one, the girls entered, and one girl came carrying a beautiful baby. The new missionary exclaimed in the native tongue, ‘Oh, what a lovely baby !’ At once, the girls fled; the [Continued on page 244]
“ For more than a year,, we have been itinerating in the Kericho District. No vember 14, 1931, marked a distinct triumph for our Lord. On that date, a cor rugated iron church (eigh teen by twenty-four feet) was completed. The tea plantations surrounding Kericho Township employ many thousands o f na tives ; and our new church, born in faith, travail, and prayer, provides the only place of worship and in struction in the things of Jesus Christ. “ Kericho Township is situated twenty-one miles from Lumbwa. Once or twice every week, in burn ing heat, rain, and mud, night and day, we have itinerated there. On foot, or by the aid o f Hindu and native lorries, we press on as the evangelists of the cross o f Christ, ‘holding forth the word of life’ (Phil. 2:16). “ Every Sunday, we hold a gospel meeting in the
Courtesy Africa Inland Mission A HEATHEN MAN AND TWO OF HIS WOMEN FROM A TRIBE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD WHERE MR. SAMUEL ANDERSON WORKS.
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