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Whatever the environment, the supreme need of human hearts the world around is for the good news of salvation In Christ Jesus. From top to bottom, the accompanying pic tures portray: Tropical vegetation along the Malayan coast; a tea house at Shanghai, China; the Bund at Shanghai; and a Moham medan mosque In India. These Illustrations, as well as the reproduction of the painting of an ocean liner, which appears at the beginning of this article, are being used through the courte sy of the Dollar Steamship Lines. senger on a Dutch freighter gave me many privileges. Who can describe the scenic beauties o f the Java Sea and the tropical island cities and ports of the Dutch East Indies? But with the beauties o f nature comes the sense o f the need among 50,000,000 perish- ing souls of many races, for whom very little true gospel effort is being put ^ forth. What a field of opportunity waits wide open for Christian man hood and womanhood today! Do none hear the call ? [Continued on page 277] opened to gospel work on the ships; tracts were printed in 25,000 lots in several o f the dialects, in two of which there previously had been ho tracts at all. The work is continuing with great blessing in these three ports. T he S tory of the P ipe L ine One little incident which occurred at this time will no doubt prove in teresting and helpful in its indication that God allowed our vessel to be de layed in the port o f Cebu long enough to accomplish His p u r p o 's e . Our Dutch freighter was on a definite schedule, and we were due in Cebu on Sunday afternoon (I hoped, in time for evening service). W e sailed into port in good time, but we did not dock. Instead, we were, ordered to proceed miles away to discharge at an oil dock. The plan was for the vessel to pump out oil all night, move into Cebu Harbor the next day, and sail soon afterwards. How I wanted to see Mr. and Mrs. John Dunlop, for mer Institute studen ts, thirty-five miles away at Carcar! I longed also to see the port work^ established, but God alone could allow for time in this district. The unusual came to pass. The oil discharge pipe broke down, and a new one took a long time for in stallation and proved unsuitable. Thus the ship was delayed two or three days. As a result, the visit to Carcar was immensely enjoyed, Cebu port work was established, and we moved on to other fields, praising our God who had speeded up a ship in one in stance and had used for greater bless ing the delayed sailing o f another. “ With God all things are possible.” B atavia to R angoon My three weeks as the only pas
bor—Japan’s largest— tens o f thou sands o f Japanese, in many instances whole families, have been given the Word of God as they have gone out to colonize Brazil. How G od U sed an I nterview and a G ospel After an all-day trip in Korea, we reached Mokpo, a city of some 50,000 souls in Southwestern Korea. There we were reminded o f the power that there is in the Word of God, and of the value o f a single conversation. Near by are 1,335 inhabited islands under the jurisdiction o f Mokpo, only twelve of which had been evangelized at the time that one o f the islanders called on our evangelist. W e learned that after an interview and the pre sentation o f a Gospel to this visitor from one of the unreached islands, an urgent request had come to our evan gelist to come over and tell the Story, and that, as a result, sixteen souls were saved. Later a church was built, as others were added to the number o f believers, a worker was stationed on the island, and the work spread to fourteen other islands within one year. F urther E xpansion Upon our return to Japan, we visited Mino Mission, where the mis sionaries extended a warm welcome. Great persecution has been their lot; but God has owned the work, and it was a joy to meet with missionaries and some twenty-five or thirty Japa nese believers to plan the opening of three ports near by. With a second new station opened in Korea, this ex pansion brought the number to ten harbors opened in about one month of travel: In China we saw God working on our behalf in opening a new phase of service among British Army and Navy men and Indian policemen in Hong kong, for whom we had the privilege o f supplying literature. Space forbids details o f our visits to Shanghai and Canton harbors, where two of our large stations are located. W e went next to Manila, where our vessel ar rived early on January 1. Here we spent one month in Philippine and Dutch East Indian waters. In Manila we saw much blessing, our work being reopened with new helpers. We had the joy of ministering to missionaries and native pastors and evangelists from all over the Philippines, as they met in conference just at that time. From them we learned much o f the gospel work and needs in these three thousand islands where some eighty- six dialects are spoken. Here in these islands, too, we saw the Lord at work, as Iloilo Harbor and Cebu were both
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