us a letter from his sister in Canada who had become a ; Christian and urged him to receive Christ. Then Mr. Tung was sent to Kumming, and, strangely enough, we were also sent there by our Board (then the C.I.M.) One night Mr. Tung came to our house and said he wanted to receive Jesus Christ as his Saviour, and he did, kneeling on our living room floor. Later we came in contact with the sister in Canada and she told us it was through the testimony of a Christian worker who visited her in a T.B. sanitarium that she had found the Lord. Thus the Lord reached His arms around two continents to find two seeking hearts in one humble Chinese family.” We now turn from individual inci dents to a glimpse of the work as a whole.
before, and a Bible Institute found ed.” Dr. Herbert Cassell of the Central American Mission reports: “ In East ern Guatemala where we labored for nineteen years we saw the work grow from several congregations to an indigenous Council of 15 churches and some 25 congregations.” Mrs. Cornelia Hattema Hibbard of Wycliffe Translators in Peru tells of the Christian growth of the Piro In dians. She encloses copies of two let ters from two converts which go right to the heart of the Christian. The . first is from White Condor, chief of this tribe, who says this about the Bible: “ I will tell you why it sometimes appears that we cannot read our own translation. When we ourselves have done something evil and we find it w r i t t e n i n G o d ’ s W o r d , we are shocked. We cannot pronounce what we see because we are thinking about ourselves. We cannot tell it because it is a shameful thing in the ears of every one. It is as though our sins were told right out in the daylight. We are ashamed of what we have done in the eyes of God. It is a very good translation because it makes us remember our sins. It is a strong word of counsel.” The Lord brought a whole com munity of people to Himself as a result of the testimony of Hwacha whose letter follows. After he helped Miss Esther Matteson complete the translation of the New Testament, he addressed a communication to Ameri can Christians: “My brothers in Jesus: “I greet you. I have not seen you but I have heard about you who have received Jesus. I also have received Jesus, and I have translated the New Testament. My joy reaches out far! “ I think of my father who is dead. He kept searching God’s Word. He always went far in the search. He said he was waiting, wanting to know
Mrs. Nancy Jane Zurfluh, Berlin, Ger many. A student at BIOLA for 2 V 2 years, she is working with refugees. The missionary will have plenty of work, for the African Church wants us, and we are theirs to use until that wonderful day when we will be need ed no longer.” Rev. Frank L. Jertberg of the Bible Institute of ABWE at Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, writes along similar lines: “ In accordance with indigenous principles, our mission withdrew its subsidy. We had misgivings, but one native church immediately assumed the full support of a pastor. The rest followed suit, with only one not com plying. This is a big step forward in establishing a strong national work.” Sometimes small incidents may be outstanding when the Lord’s hand is revealed: “We had prayed,” says Joan Collett of Brazil, “ for a certain woman for five years. She had stopped coming to the services. One day as I drove past her house, I cried out to the Lord: ‘Oh, bring her tomorrow, and save her!’ And He did. The following Sunday she brought her ancestral shrine along and burned it while we sang songs of victory. She is now a radiant Christian.” A1 Mace speaks of something that is upon the hearts of Christians every where: “ I received word that people were praying for us that people might come to us to be reached for Christ. At that very time three came and be lieved.” It is as true in Malaya where A1 labors under CIM as it is in Amer ica that if men and women will not hear, they will not find the Lord, for “ faith cometh by hearing.” Mrs. Sydney Best of Far Eastern Gospel Crusade in Japan tells an inci dent that occurred when they were still in China. It illustrates how God “moves in mysterious ways His won ders to perform” in the human heart: “When electricity was installed in Borden Memorial Hospital, Mr. Best made a friend of a Mr. Tung of the Electric Light Company, presenting the claims of Christ to him and invit ing him to our home. But he held out against the Lord although he showed 12
Rev. and Mrs. Peter Nicolay, FEBIAS, Manila, Philippines (1948 graduates). “So m ightily grew the Word of God and prevailed” (Acts 19:20). As is to be expected, the growth of the work on the mission field is re lated to churches and schools. Dr. Van V. Eddings, founder of the Orinoco River Mission, states in char acteristically modest fashion: “Many churches have been established [in Venezuela] where there were none
Native children from Portuguese Guinea, West Africa. Sent by Missionary G. H. Mac- Kenzie. By taking these children at birth from the government leprosorium, they are saved from leprosy.
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