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by Betty I n t h e y e a r 1941, Irene Ferrel, of Jerome, Idaho, a beautiful, intelli gent girl in her twenties, entered the Bible Institute of Los Angeles to train for missionary service.- Graduating with a B.A. degree in 1944, she chose for the verse to accompany her pretty, smiling face in the school annual, Isaiah 50:7: “ For the Lord God will help me: therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.” Irene did indeed “ set her face like a flint” to do the will of God. After another year spent in the Fundamen tal Bible School, she was on her way to Africa where she served faithfully under the Baptist Mid-Missions So ciety for fourteen years. She and her co-worker, Ruth Hege, ran the mis sion station at Mangungu, Kwilu province, Congo, where they headed four schools. During the rioting in 1960, in connection with independence in the Congo, the girls were evacuat ed but with a full knowledge of the risk they were running, they returned to their work the next year for an other four-year term. On January 27th word reached this country of the brutal slaying of Irene and serious injury to Ruth. Ruth described what happened: “ Irene was hit right in the face by an arrow, over the nose, when we opened the door to the terrorists at 2 in the morning. I was hit in the arm hy an arrow. Irene was killed instantly. I was struck down first and she fell on top of me and they left us both for dead. The terrorists smashed up our home completely. I just lay there, not dar ing to move. Somehow, I managed to crawl to the garage after they had left me and there friendly Christian vil lagers found me and brought me to
Bruechert the village to hide me from the Muleist [JeunesseJ terrorists who were look ing for me. They are named for their leader, former Congo Education Min ister Pierre Mulele, who was trained by the Communist Chinese. They have sworn to kill all missionaries. “ I was carried on a bicycle to safety but on the way there we were inter rupted by another gang of terrorists and taken back to the mission where Irene still lay dead. They left me there along with a Congolese nurse until a UN helicopter came and got me out.” When Miss Hege was under attack she managed to scribble a note which said: “My co-worker (Irene Ferrel) slipped away to higher planes. My heart is near breaking. The Jeunesse left us as dead, but I am alive. But God (and these lines were heavily underlined) — God, come and help us.” Irene’s sister, Mrs. Winifred Grings, with husband Robert (also mission aries in the Congo) and their three children, were evacuated at the time of this tragedy. Winifred also is a graduate of the Bible Institute. Our hearts go out in heartfelt sympathy to the parents, the Dwight Ferrels, and other relatives. This father, a rugged pioneer, has known many tragedies and triumphs in the rearing of his remarkable family. When Winifred was 15 and Irene 14, their mother died and Mr. Ferrel brought them, son Dwight and youngest daughter Ruth from Nebraska and South Dakota to Idaho. Ruth — a radiant little Christian — died at age 11. Mr. Fer- rel’s second wife Elsie, who lovingly stepped into the breach, was a gradu ate of Biola and it was at Biola too that the lives of the Ferrels became (continued on page 47)
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Our ears are deafened and insulted by cacophonous music, but we fearfully recall that Beethoven was condemned by tradition alists, and without protest we go to be deafened and insulted again. We hear the wits laugh at the old copybook maxims, and we haven’t the nerve to say that those maxims are still true. . . . Let us say, humbly but publicly, that we resent corruption in politics, dishonesty in business, faithlessness in marriage, por nography in literature, coarseness in language, chaos in music, meaninglessness in art. It is time for all good men to come to the aid o f their party, whose name is civilization.
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