'Vol. 47 First Quarter, 1938 No. 1

THE THIRTEENTH SABBATH OFFERING OVERFLOW THIS QUARTER WILL GO TO THE MISSION FIELDS OF THE SOUTHERN EUROPEAN DIVISION TO HELP ESTABLISH TWO NEW MISSION STATIONS, ONE IN UBANGI-SHARI AND ONE IN

Batouri Mission, French . Chief and Councilors of Koba tribe requesting us to open new work in his territory. 2 MISSIONS QUARTERLY

SABBATH, JANUARY 4 The Southern European Division Says THANK YOU

ROBERT GERBER [Treasurer, Southern European Division]

It is a real pleasure to say THANK and far. One little boy leaves home at YOU to our Sabbath school members dawn and, without watch or clock, gets around the world for the generous re- to school before 8:30 in the morning sponse to our plea for a new mission (nearly always on time), having walked station near Tamatave on the island of five miles to get there. After school he Madagascar during the fourth quarter of trudges the five miles home again and 1955. We should so much like to show repeats the operation the next day. Many each one of you around the plant that come from still farther away, but they has just mushroomed out of the dense are able to stay in the nearly completed virgin forest under the most remarkable dormitories. Many others are seen each and able direction of Brother H. Drou- morning coining in their little pirogues ault. To see what has been done in the (dugout canoes). short time since the heavy bulldozer You can be really proud of the $150,- first dug into the red soil that character- 000 mission station that your offerings izes the island, is to see nothing short helped to provide. The French govern- of a modern miracle of first magnitude. ment supplied a good share of this sum. Already standing as a witness of the lib- The government attached no strings to erality of our Sabbath school family and the money they gave us, and we are the blessing of God are two lovely dor- absolutely free to run the school after mitories for the boys and girls, a com- the Lord's own blueprint. The govern- fortable home for the missionary family, ment officials extend their thanks for and a chapel building. These combine to providing such an educational opportu- make a mission station that is a real nity for their people. We also thank credit to the Lord's work. Not only has each of you most sincerely for having Brother Drouault been both architect made this project possible. and builder, but he also ran the bull- For many years now we have received dozer through the virgin forest to make calls from Ubangi-Shari (u-bange-sha.% the roads necessary to reach the station. re) on the border of French The plant now stands as a light on the near Batouri, and contacts have been hill to the surrounding community. established with some few believers in Although the construction work has Ubangi-Shari. They have expressed the occupied much of his time, Brother desire for some time now that an organ- Drouault has also gotten the school in ized work be established in their terri- operation to such an extent and in such a tory, and we feel that the time has come radius that its influence is felt both near to go ahead with this project. MISSIONS QUARTERLY 3

Four years ago when I visited The next day, when we went to com- in , we already felt fort and encourage the parents, we found that the next forward move should be that the father and relatives had run to enter French Guinea in French West away, leaving the dead child and its Africa, not so very far south of Dakar. mother alone. It is thickly populated with heathen The mother refused any help. "I will people that have not been influenced too not live to hear that I am a mother of much so far by Islamism; so the work twins and to know that one child re- should be very much easier now than mains alive," she said. later, for the longer we wait the greater What this woman said stirred our the danger that they will fall a prey to hearts. We decided to accept the offer Mohammedanism, and then it would be made us the previous day, and took the much more difficult to reach them. remaining child. Our Lord says: "Verily We trust, therefore, that through our I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have Thirteenth Sabbath Offering this quarter done it unto one of the least of these we will be able to establish a mission my brethren, ye have done it unto me." station in both of these great centers of Matt. 25:40. unentered regions: One in Ubangi-Shari, The little girl is here on our Seventh- and the other day Adventist mission compound to be in French Guinea, French West Africa. a witness to these people who live in gross darkness, who regard mothers of twins as defiled beings, and who never Should Twin Babies Be keep twin children alive. Left to Die? We sincerely solicit your prayers on R. MEZE behalf of this adopted daughter of the [Director, Aba Mission, East ] Lord. On the twentieth of November, 1951, a woman living near Ibibio gave birth SABBATH, JANUARY 11 to twin babies—a male and a female. The babies were kept unwashed for Our Great Need: A School four days. Then my wife and I arrived, R. ERDMANN heated some water, and had them [Director, French West African washed. Mission] The mother and the babies were I am thankful to God for the privi- shunned by the husband and the rela- lege He has given me of telling our Sab- tives. bath school members around the world After the babies had been bathed the about our great needs. father asked us to take them away. We At the time of the closing of the Suez were startled. Thinking that he was Canal, Dakar came to occupy a very perhaps just joking, we asked him why important place in the world. In this he offered the babies to us. He replied city of 200,000 we have begun the work that twin children were never kept alive for this great French West African ter- in their village. ritory, a region nine times larger than The babies had been so badly mis- all of . From the very first we treated that the baby boy died that night. were aware that the Lord had placed 4 MISSIONS QUARTERLY

His hand over the noble enterprise of Spirit, is the establishing of a school proclaiming the gospel to this last gen- where national workers may receive a eration. Have we not waited too long Christian education necessary to extend to execute the orders of our Master? the Word in our immense territory. Have we not let Satan get the advantage In connection with this institution we over us? Is it not time to awake and do have thought to establish a primary something to change this state of affairs? school also, in order to respond to a most As I see the masses of Moslems, my urgent need of the population of our city. heart breaks at the thought that they are Thousands of children cannot receive submerged in darkness; for in spite of instruction because of an insufficient their rites and ceremonies, their souls number of schools, and our initiative are not satisfied. Those who become en- would be enthusiastically received by lightened meet with such obstacles as to the government officials and the depart- human eyes seem insurmountable. They ment of education. Our educational sys- are black-listed, banned from their fam- tem based upon the everlasting princi- ilies and society, persecuted, deserted, ples of the Word of God has a profound pursued, in peril of life itself, if they influence on the children and produces take their stand to follow Jesus. a rich and abundant harvest. This is one It takes the faith of the martyrs and of the most effective ways in which to the heroism of a Daniel to confront these penetrate the Moslem world, and WE difficulties and to place their lives in the WILL BE RESPONSIBLE BEFORE hands of a Saviour who knows and un- GOD IF WE NEGLECT TO ENTER derstands their plight. The Lord has THIS DOOR THAT IS OPEN JUST given a promise: His Word will not re- NOW. turn unto Him void and without effect. Our work should be established also The gospel is the power of God, and it in the surrounding countries: French is placed at our disposal. Guinea, the and others. Our first victory, God be praised, was How long must these people wait? the baptism of a young Moslem—first Should we not show the same spirit fruit of the harvest to follow. Persecu- that animated the Macedonian Chris- tions have not been spared him. Chased tians, who, even though extremely poor, from his home and abandoned, he took gave their hearts to God and then gath- up the work of spreading the printed ered donations so that new lights could page. Today he is in one of our schools be established in new places? to prepare himself to carry the gospel Remember in your prayers, and in to his countrymen. Brothers and sisters, your thirteenth Sabbath giving, the work are your hearts not filled with joy at the in French West Africa, that all may con- thought that your offerings have made tribute to the rapid completion of the such a salvation possible, and that others work of God in this dark corner of the can now hear the good news of a cruci- world. fied and risen Saviour? While our progress is slow, we have bright prospects for the near future. Save your MISSIONS QUARTERLIES. Our needs are multiple, but the most They provide a helpful source of story urgent, after the baptism of the Holy material. MISSIONS QUARTERLY 5

"On the Edge of the Kingdom, for distribution to the poor and to those Waiting to Be Gathered In" who teach reading and religion to the DR. G. VUILLEUMIER children without pay. [Physician, French Colonial Administra- Strict health ordinances form a part tion North ] of the Islamic law. Each day a complete Mellah Abdelkader is an intelligent, toilet must be made before prayer. The industrious young Mohammedan. He pig, because it is an unclean animal, is lives in the country and earns his live- neither to be eaten nor to be raised for lihood as a foreman of farm workers. others' use. Drunkenness, even moderate Thus it is that he came in contact with wine drinking, is strictly forbidden. The Adventists and learned that on an Ad- eating of things strangled or of blood is ventist farm no work is done on the an abomination. The more orthodox Mo- Sabbath. Since that time, if his employer hammedans do not smoke. wants him to work on Saturday, he re- God is preparing a people among the fuses. His companions can make all the masses of . Heretofore we have not fun they please of him for losing a day's known how to find the sensitive chord work; he replies, "It makes no differ- which will put us in tune; but we are ence if I do lose my day's wages. I know confident that before the end of time that if I work on the Sabbath I will not these people will arise and will be stand- gain anything by it." ing erect and firm when the Lord Jesus * * * returns. Now is the time for us to work for them. Three years ago, accompanied by my father, who had come from France to spend a few days with me, I paid a visit SABBATH, JANUARY 18 one Sabbath morning to a sheik named El Madani, an old man living in the A Trip to the Quilengues mountains with whom I was well ac- Mission Station quainted. After offering us tea, he asked W. A. WILD me in Arabic, "How is it that you are [Sabbath School Secretary, Southern not in your office working as usual?" European Division] "Today is the Sabbath [in Arabic After several hours of driving on Al sebt, the seventh]. The Sabbath is the bumpy roads in the southern part of day of rest," I replied. Angola, our missionary brought his pick- "For the Jews," he responded quickly. up truck to a forced halt. We were fac- "Yes, but for us as well," I answered. ing the swollen Quilengues River and "Sidna Aissa [Jesus Christ] told us to there was no bridge, so we examined the rest on the Sabbath, and Sidna Moham- situation carefully in order to find a med said the same thing!" way to make the crossing. The old sheik thought a moment, and The river bottom was very sandy, the then said simply, "That is true." current rather swift, and the water at least knee-deep. The pick-up was loaded * * * with the missionary's personal effects, A moslem puts his tithe aside, for it camping beds, and public address equip- does not belong to him. It is reserved ment. 6 MISSIONS QUARTERLY

First, the entire load had to be re- many fxuit trees, and the different kinds arranged so as to make sure that nothing of crops. The people we met here also would be damaged by the water. Next revealed on their faces that the power we called a crew of natives to help us. of the Word of God had already done They all appeared with shovels, both much to transform their habits and to men and women, all belonging to the soften their hearts. Muhumbu tribe and every one of them We stopped in front of the mission of a strong and beautiful stature. In or- house and the resident missionaries, der to take some pictures of this ex- Brother and Sister de Sa, stepped from citing crossing, I asked one of the na- their home, their faces gleaming with tives to carry me across the river a joy to encounter some European friends hundred yards wide. He successfully of like faith. landed me at the other side, and now Immediately a great throng of people everything was ready to go. gathered around the truck while mis- With missionary E. V. Hermanson at sionary Hermanson installed his public the wheel of his truck and Mrs. Herman- address system connected to the battery son and Brother Casaca on top of the of the truck. load, they plunged into the waters of the river. After going about three yards Soon we heard the melodies of the the wheels of the truck started spinning familiar hymns of the advent faith, and in the sand, and all came to an abrupt the music reached every corner of the halt. Now the crew started working with big settlement around the mission sta- their shovels, removing a short track tion. Many children appeared—the stu- of sand before each one of the wheels. dents of the mission school—farm work- After another start the truck moved ers laid down their tools for a moment another three or four feet ahead, then and listened to the announcement com- stopped again. This process was repeated ing over the loudspeaker that there as often as necessary until finally the would be a meeting later on in the eve- truck made a last effort and, helped by ning at the mission chapel. Also another the pushers, was able to reach the other at 6 o'clock the next morning. shore of the Quilengues River. No sooner We had time to bathe and to refresh were we ready to continue our journey ourselves from the long journey of that than another truck arrived and the same day, and during a quiet moment we operation had to be repeated. Fortunately collected our thoughts, meditating upon during the dry season of the year the the message which we were to give to crossing can be made in just a few min- this eager people in the evening. utes, whereas during the rainy season Already well ahead of the appointed one has to count on a full hour to ford time the chapel was completely filled this river. with people, some baptized, others study- Within a few minutes we entered the ing the doctrines in the baptismal class, property of the Quilengues Mission with and still others who were there for the an area of 16,000 acres. As soon as we first time to listen to the good news of passed the borderline we found ourselves Christ's return. The Quilengues Mission in a different environment. We noticed is a powerful influence among the tribe tthe nice road, the cultivated land, the of the same name, and its influence has MISSIONS QUARTERLY 7 penetrated even into the distant towns consecrated to Jesus and His work in and cities where many white people are that part of Angola. being won to Christ. We think of a missionary as an indi- Quilengues asks for your moral sup- vidual with a proper education to teach port, and, inasmuch as the station is and preach the Word of God to those still in its early material development who live in spiritual darkness. To do it will also need the necessary funds to this, Brother de Sa is fully qualified, and complete the many unfinished projects he is well aware of the fact that this now under way such as the hospital and gospel is to go to all kindred, tongues clinic, additional classrooms, etc. and peoples. He, therefore, does not We know the Sabbath school family limit his evangelistic endeavors to the around the world will cheerfully con- native people of Angola. Aggressively he tinue to support the world-wide mis- is bringing the message also to the white sion program you have undertaken. populaton of the nearby towns and cities. Although to teach and to preach the message, to plead with and to win souls for Christ, and to baptize and admit SABBATH, JANUARY 25 them to church membership must al- ways be the missionary's first and most From Sugar Estate to Mission important job, he is expected to do Station many other things. I have rarely seen W. A. WILD such an ideal missionary couple as are [ Sabbath School Secretary, Southern Brother and Sister de Sa. They have no European Division] children of their own, and so give their The Quilengues Mission Station, situ- full time to God's children in the forest ated in the southern coastal area of and on the plains of Quilengues. Angola, was organized in 1952. Its prop- In introducing to the Sabbath school erty consists of 16,000 acres of forest family this consecrated couple I wish and fertile, arable land which belonged to say that Brother de Sa is also a gradu- formerly to an abandoned sugar estate. ate architect, a certified builder, a gradu- Although the land had been acquired as ate nurse, anesthetist, orchardgrower, early as 1932, nothing of importance cattleman, farmer; and his wife is a was undertaken until May 1952. The graduate nurse. In a sense these mis- lack of means and personnel hindered sionaries are self-supporting, as prac- its development, and for about twenty tically his entire mission is running on years this vast property lay practically the results of the products of the farm untouched. and industries. While the Sabbath At last an ideal missionary couple was schools around the world provide for found and Brother Jose de Sa and his special projects on already entered wife, both Portuguese citizens, came to ground or else make possible forward Quilengues. They have been and still are moves into new territory, the Quil- the only white people in a great area engues Mission brings up enough funds peopled by the Quilengues tribe. Brother for its own operating costs—a most de Sa is small of stature and so is his worthy contribution. Although the Sab- wife, but each of them has a big heart bath school funds help the missionary 8 MISSIONS QUARTERLY in many ways, the missionary himself from 7 to 14 years of age. There are at must find ways and means to strengthen present 35 boys and 23 girls in the his position in the mission field. school. All arrived without clothes, had A look at the Quilengues Mission is to be dressed, and are being fed and simply inspiring. In a period of five housed by the mission. But they all work years this couple have transformed the and actually earn their education. It is abandoned sugar estate into a thriving the only way to prepare responsible model farm. Fully 450 acres are already young people who at the right time will under cultivation. The remainder of the be the workers of tomorrow and will land is forest and pasture. Eight hundred help to finish the work in Angola. and fifty citrus fruit trees have been The Sabbath school members around planted, the first of which are already the world will surely keep in mind that yielding rich and beautiful fruit. These missionaries who help themselves are oranges, tangerines, and lemons are be- worthy of being helped! This quarter we ing eagerly bought on the markets of the trust French Equatorial and French nearest European settlements. In addi- West Africa can get their start. We know tion, some four hundred varied fruit we can depend on you! trees have been planted, yielding a rich harvest of mangoes, avocados, custard apples, etc. There is a banana planta- SABBATH, FEBRUARY 1 tion of some 1,500 trees bearing fruit continually. Pioneering in the Matakam One might ask who is working in the Tribe fields; who does the sowing and the reaping? It is here where we see the R. BERGSTROM [President, North happy combination of doing one thing Mission] and not leaving the other undone. There are natives working regularly on the On the mountain ranges occupying mission farm, earning a livelihood and the western part of the North Cam- establishing themselves with their fam- eroons lives a wild pagan tribe called ilies around and about the mission. As Matakam. They have no contact with a result of their association with the civilization and in the past had hardly work in the fields, they too benefit from any connection with other tribes except the sowing of the gospel in their hearts, to rob and fight. People from other they start sending their children to the tribes were afraid to pass their territory. mission school. Then they and their Many stories were in circulation about wives start down the path that leads into the fighting between villages in the the mission chapel. There they hear the Matakam area. Word of God, learn to submit to Him About twenty years ago, we ap- and commence to feel the blessings of a proached the government authorities Christian life. Where there was formerly with a request to open up mission work nothing but fear and anxiety in their in the territory of the Matakam people. lives, there is now the peace of Jesus Our request was turned down with the and their eyes shine with happiness. explanation that the people were so sav- The mission runs a school for children age that the government could not allow MISSIONS QUARTERLY 9 foreigners to enter that territory. Later us here with several thousand people in we approached the authorities again with each. Our resources in means and work- the same request. This time it was ers are insufficient. We need help in granted. order to tell all in the Matakam tribe It was interesting to make contact with the story of the great sacrifice heaven the people. Not many days after we has made for the salvation of men. arrived and had begun to build our first primitive house of mud, two neighbor- ing villages suddenly started fighting Mission Work Among the near our house. After that it was not Women of Mozambique long before we made friends with a num- ber of them. Many came to listen to the MARY A. SOMMER [Sabbath School Secretary, Portuguese Bible stories. Now a number of those East African Mission] formerly wild tribesmen are coming regularly to our Sabbath services. Some I had no sooner arrived at the Mun- are baptized members and others are guluni Mission Station to attend the in baptismal classes. annual meeting than I was surrounded In the surrounding territory we have by a crowd of women and children who several branch Sabbath schools where were regarding me with curiosity. Be- many listen to the gospel of salvation. cause of the difficulty of my conversing When for the first time I visited a vil- with them through an interpreter, I lage far from our station and talked to conceived the idea of holding special the people I had asked them some ques- meetings for them. At first I talked to tions about their life and the sacrifices them of Jesus, His love and His work they make to the spirits they worship. in our behalf. Also I told them how He They openly told me that the sacri- wants us to live a joyous and useful life; fices they make are without result in one of cleanliness and health. In the the case of illness or other hardships. other meetings I took up practical sub- I finally asked them if they had any sac- jects. The kitchen and healthful meals rifice that could hinder death. "No," was received attention. We improvised a the answer from several of the men sit- kitchen in order to show them how to ting around me. I asked them again if prepare a nourishing and at the same they had not heard of any other tribe time appetizing meal from the provisions that had found a sacrifice that could they themselves brought. The food was save a man from death. "Oh, no," was distributed to those in the class. the answer again. "Such a sacrifice does After this we took up the subject of not exist. Nothing could hinder death." the home and how to make it more Then I told them that I knew of a pleasant with the furniture they might sacrifice that saves men from death. be fortunate enough to have. Also we They listened eagerly with open mouths taught them how to care for, mend, and to the old story of salvation. They asked iron their clothing. me to come back and tell them more The meetings were crowded not only about the wonderful sacrifice that can with adults who wished to learn, but also save them from their greatest enemy. with children. I don't know where all There are scores of villages all around the youngsters came from ! 10 MISSIONS QUARTERLY

Little by little I was able to win their very brightly. He is a young man, now confidence sufficiently to discuss the so- 20 years of age, who formerly lived in cial and more intimate aspects of the Dakar, the capital of French West Af- lives of these poor women. The way rica. There he learned about the truth, these women live is abominable and in- was instructed and baptized by Elder R. credible. Polygamy and its horrible so- Erdmann, president of the Mission in cial and intimate practices are a real that city. Almost immediately after this cancer. The women are the slaves of the happy event, he left for Conakry, French men in every sense. Guinea, where his parents live. There Thanks to the gospel of Jesus, today are no other Adventists known to be we are able to find hundreds of Christian living in that country. Consequently, homes in Mozambique among the na- Francois Mendy is the Lord's only wit- tives, just as well as among the white ness for the truth in that whole section. colonies, where love reigns pure. Their An employee of the treasury depart- huts are very poor, the native food very ment of the government, he works in insufficient many times, nevertheless, the section dealing with salaries. Al- there is a family spirit where blessings though very young he is in charge of a from on high are invoked, where chil- payroll of some 400 government em- dren are considered a gift from God for ployees, and much is expected from him. life and for eternity. He accepted the position with the con- dition that he would have the Sabbath day off, and before the Sabbath of his SABBATH, FEBRUARY 8 first week arrived he spoke to his supe- rior, explaining to him his convictions Is One Light Enough in and his belief in keeping the seventh- French Guinea? day Sabbath. The superior officer was W. A. WILD deeply impressed, and recognizing that [ Sabbath School Secretary, Southern he was dealing with a young man of prin- European Division] ciple he gave his permission for our French Guinea is one of our unen- young brother to absent himself from tered fields on the West Coast of Africa. work at the office on Sabbath. There are approximately 2,300,000 Afri- Young Mendy, a conscientious Chris- cans and nearly 7,000 Europeans in this tian, did not want to disappoint his supe- area. Conakry, the capital, is called the rior, so he decided to work even harder pearl of the West African coast. It has the other days of the week and if neces- a population of 50,000 inhabitants of sary on Sundays also. The young man which only 4,000 are Europeans. The fully measured up to the expectations country is without doubt one of the of his superiors and they speak very most beautiful of the French overseas highly of him. In fact, they consider him territories, but at present we have only a model worker, being able to turn out one lonely representative of the Advent as much work in five as others do in six faith in all this region. The question is: working days. As we talked to some of Is one light enough? his associates before the afternoon work- To be sure, this one and only light ing session, we could feel that young which shines in French Guinea is shining Mendy is indeed a missionary among MISSIONS QUARTERLY 11 his people. Every one of the young men family to this as-yet-unentered terri- who work with him seems to know about tory? Will you help spread the light of Seventh-day Adventists and is well in- the message which for the moment is formed in regard to their beliefs and shining through the upheld torch of principles. Particularly were they inter- young Brother Mendy, our one and only ested to know more about the Sabbath Adventist in French Guinea? and why Mendy was keeping it holy. As a visitor, I could not do less than iden- tify myself as Mendy's brother in the SABBATH, FEBRUARY 15 faith, and during the conversation they The Role of Education in were surprised to learn that there were Our Missions well over a million Sabbathkeepers in all the world. From the conversation we 0. SCHUBERTH [Educational Secretary, Southern had with several of his associates we European Division] got the impression that the people in The overflow of this Thirteenth Sab- French Guinea are eager to know more bath Offering is to go to establish two about the message and the great Ad- new stations in fields of our division that vent movement in all the world. Surely are still unentered. The folks back home this field is now ripe for the harvest. may wonder what is meant by this. Where are the reapers? There are various ways to open a mis- Young Mendy has had the pleasure sion station. Sometimes we begin by of helping another government employee medical work. Usually a missionary fam- through the lessons of the Bible Cor- ily of nurses begin in a small way. A respondence School. Having already ob- very plain hut is built in which the na- tained his certificate for completion of tives are received for various treatments. the studies, his friend may now well ask: This is called a dispensary. As the num- "What doth hinder me to be baptized?" ber of patients grows, a physician is called, other buildings are added, and There are doubtless many others finally a more-or-less well-equipped med- among the inhabitants of French Guinea ical center is established through which who are now ready to listen to the Word contacts are made with the native popu- if only a missionary could be sent to lation with the view of spreading the them. Mighty forces are at work in this message of good hope. and other unentered areas of West Af- Another way is to establish a school. rica. The Peuls, a shepherd people, are Often the village chiefs request that we all active Moslem missionaries and are open such a school. In fact, this is per- steadily advancing upon these territories. haps the most common way to start a There are already 800,000 of them in mission station. At first the village chil- French Guinea and their aim is "All of dren are received in a day school con- French Guinea for Mohammed!" ducted by a native teacher. As the school Dear members and friends of the grows and young people of the surround- Sabbath school the world over, will you ing country become interested, dormitory not, on this coming thirteenth Sabbath, buildings are added, a white teacher is do your very best in order to provide the called, and the mission station can oper- necessary funds to send a missionary ate with good success. In most cases this 12 MISSIONS QUARTERLY is an excellent means of bringing the school, as well as the many outstation gospel to the most primitive people. At schools, is prospering. We have no med- first the children become interested. ical work here at present, but the schools They tell their parents, who in turn are are doing well. It is very touching to see influenced, and soon a chapel has to be the changes that are taking place in the erected. Baptisms take place, and be- lives of these children and young people fore long a strong mission center has through the influence of our schools. been created. They arrive naked and dirty, carrying We are planning to open a mission spears, bows and arrows. After a short station in Ubangi-Shari with the money time they begin to clean themselves we receive from the Thirteenth Sab- up and to wear light shorts and skirts bath Offering overflow. I should like to which they receive from the mission. take you with me to our well-established These children are often surprisingly in- mission three miles outside of Batouri, telligent. They learn to speak, read, and in the eastern part of the French Cam- write in French; and above all, many eroons, near the border of Ubangi-Shari. accept the message and become good We have been receiving many calls from Seventh-day Adventists. the native chiefs in Ubangi-Shari. They would like to have something like we have near Batouri. There is a house for Steadfast Youth in Madagascar the missionary family, a nice chapel, several classroom buildings, and dor- J. RAJOELISON [Bible Teacher, Soamanandrariny Train- mitories for about 200 students. ing School, Madagascar] The mission serves a large area which I recall the case of one young man in is populated by very primitive natives, our school in Madagascar. At the time some of whom still use human flesh for he came, he showed no particular interest food, if they can get it. As it is rather for spiritual matters. But the Holy Spirit warm, and money is scarce, they dress worked upon his heart as the truth be- very lightly. In some parts the women gan to penetrate into his mind, and wear only a girdle of leaves around their within a few months he accepted the ap- loins. But they are thirsting for the peal and became a member of the bap- truth. It is inspiring to speak to these tismal class. people in their village chapel. There they But difficulties soon knocked at this sit, practically naked, spellbound by the young man's door. When one of his message that is given them by the mis- elder brothers learned that he had de- sionary or visitor from across the seas. cided to be baptized, he became violently Some of our outstations in the Ba- angry. He could not admit that a mem- touri district are hardly ever visited by ber of the family would give up ancestral white people except the missionary. The beliefs by becoming an Adventist. Upon people there are still real savages out- this young man's insistence, we went wardly, about as primitive as you can to see his elder brother in order to have imagine; but they long for something him understand the reason of his broth- they do not have. They receive the gos- er's decision. Our interview, which lasted pel gladly, and the work of our training two long hours, had no other result than MISSIONS QUARTERLY 13 to confirm each of the brothers in his SABBATH, FEBRUARY 22 own viewpoint: our young friend in his decision to carry out his plan, and his With the Pygmies of Cameroon elder brother in his determination to MAURICE FAYARD [Director, Batouri Mission, French use every possible means to keep his Cameroon] brother from being baptized. Shortly after this interview, the young The pygmies represent without doubt man was taken out of school. His elder the last survivors of the oldest African brother thought he would in this way tribes. Without being real dwarfs, they succeed in having the young man give are of a very small stature, with long up, whether he liked it or not, the crazy arms but short legs. The men's bodies idea of becoming an Adventist. But he are hairy, their abdomens are rather did not have much success, apparently, large, and their skin rather light col- for the young man was expelled from ored. They live in small groups in the his home and, naturally, returned to our great tropical forest, and their occupa- school. Prejudice remained as strong as tion is hunting down the animals of the before, and his brother persisted in re- forest. They are very courageous, not fusing permission for the younger broth- even shrinking from attacking an ele- er to be baptized. It seemed that he phant with the spear and the arrow— was strongly determined to take extreme their only hunting weapons. measures in order to obtain his goal. They harvest the honey of the wild During all this time, we prayed for bees, the fruit of many trees, and ex- our candidate and asked the Lord to change the results of their hunting for sustain him and grant better feelings the bananas and game of their neigh- to his elder brother. bors, the Bantus. They live perhaps the As the date of the baptismal cere- most primitive lives of all the African mony was drawing near and the situa- tribes and are doubtless on their way to tion was as tense as ever, we deemed it extinction. These pygmies, known by advisable to suggest that the young man the name of Babingas and Bekoes, are postpone baptism. But he remained firm of a nomadic nature. They do not live in his decision. in fixed places or villages, but in grass Since his baptism, the young man has huts which they abandon once they de- not been spared hardship and trials, cide to go with their women and children but things have worked out in such a on a hunting expedition for several providential way that the young man weeks. This makes it difficult to find was able to remain at school, where he them in the forest and retards our pro- is pursuing his studies. gram of evangelization. Still, the gospel is to go "to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people," including the "The offering from the heart that pygmy tribes of Africa. loves, God delights to honor, giving it We, therefore, tried to invade the si- lence of the underbrush of the great highest efficiency in service for Him." African equatorial forest, and on one —Counsels on Sabbath School Work, p. beautiful afternoon set out to find these 146. small people. We followed our guide who 14 MISSIONS QUARTERLY alone knew the path that led to their Slowly we approached the camp. We clearing. The giant trees over our heads, spied five or six huts set in a little full of birds and monkeys, seemed to clearing. These huts are constructed out touch the sky. We came to a river in- of arched branches or reeds set in the fested with alligators and got into a ground and covered with large leaves. canoe to cross to the other shore. This As they are only about 50 inches high canoe was just a tree trunk hollowed out we were obliged to enter crouched over. and about 10 to 15 meters long. A A few branches covered with leaves and "pusher" in the rear of the boat pushed grass serve as a bed. us across with his long pole. We con- Three men small of stature came to tinued our march, passing through vil- meet us, dressed only in a loin cloth. lages so isolated that it was difficult to They looked at us with astonishment imagine that human beings could live and also with a bit of fear. Our trans- there. Each little village was surrounded lators, after trying several dialects, fi- by plots of yams, peanuts, sweet pota- nally found one they could understand. toes and tobacco. Tobacco is an impor- We asked them to gather their brothers tant source of income for the inhabitants and sisters and wives who had all disap- of that region, and often it is a struggle peared at our approach. After a long for our members to remain faithful to while they cautiously began to appear our principles. one by one. We offered them the presents The guides who accompanied us were that we had brought for them, and con- armed with very sharply pointed lances. fidence was established little by little. These men surrounded us completely, Now we were sitting in a circle either for the traveller is likely to encounter on the ground or on stones. They offered dangerous animals. Gorillas and ele- us some smoked ham (really African phants are plentiful in that region. wild boar meat) which we had to re- Sometimes we would reach a small clear- fuse. We asked them questions to which ing in our path, branches would be they responded graciously, and we spoke broken and bushes trampled down. The to them of Jesus, the Son of God and uneven ground and large holes told us Saviour of men. The Picture Roll helped that a troupe of elephants had passed to fix our words in their minds. All were there. Some elephants are as fleet in the very attentive and their eyes shone. forest as antelope in open space. Yes, there is a God, Creator of heaven But the angel of the Lord accom- and earth, a God who wishes only good panied us, and we made the journey for men. His Son Jesus has gone to without mishap. Then suddenly our prepare a place for those who believe guides stopped and put their fingers to on Him. Death is not the end of all their mouths to indicate silence. We things, which is something that touches were nearing the camp of a pygmy clan, them directly. They told us that if death and we must not frighten them with our hits their clan and they find that they voices. An old village chief who accom- are unable to do anything more for the panied us was sent on ahead to tell dying one, they abandon him and let them that the white men were coming the hut crumble on top of him. Then to visit them and to please not run away. they flee as fast as possible because MISSIONS QUARTERLY 15 they believe that the dead will be trans- rises as high as 105° F during the day. formed into a ferocious animal like At night it never gets below 25° most of those that inhabit the forest, and evil the year. The air is dry and the vegeta- will come upon them. tion becomes thinner and thinner. One of the pygmies had already heard We arrive at the plain of Maroua the "good news" from the mouth of spread out in the dancing heat and bor- Roger Hirshy. He had been in his bap- dered by the mountains of Mandara. tismal class for some time. Sunsets are no more beautiful anywhere As we returned to the mission station in the world than here in this land of we recalled the blessed hours that we light and heat. Here we find one of the had passed, and nothing in the world most thickly populated areas of the could have made us want to be elsewhere. Cameroons. And where there are people There is yet a great task to finish in there are souls for whom Christ died. Africa. The pygmies are a part of the They, too, need a chance for eternal "all nations" to whom the gospel must life. be preached. Our first objective is to Considering this area as a great island attract to the mission one of the mem- of human beings, the brethren came to bers of this tribe, and by the grace of the conclusion that here a hospital God make of him a good Christian, should be established to give medical strong in his convictions, and then let care to these interesting but primitive him return to his own tribe. Then the peoples. Some estimate that there are voice of Christ will resound under the well over 100,000 inhabitants crowded great trees of the equatorial forest. Then into a relatively small area. They are di- the command of Jesus will have been vided into two great groups: the Peuhls heeded in regard to them: "Go therefore (pals) or Folbes b6s) of Moham- and make disciples." (Matt. 28:19, medan creed and the Kirdis, or heathen, R.S.V.) so-called by the Mohammedans. The North Cameroon Mission Hos- SABBATH, MARCH 1 pital is being built in a place called Koza where work was begun by Dr. Medical Work in North F. W. Brennwald in March, 1954. At Cameroon first, medical care was given in an open air dispensary in the shade of the trees. W. A. WILD [Sabbath School Secretary, Southern Then a small building, now serving as a European Division] school house, was used. The hospital As one travels from the southern part proper opened in June, 1956. A second of the Cameroons to the north the physician, Dr. A. R. Bergman, joined change of topography and climate is this medical missionary enterprise, and abrupt. Almost without transition, one two graduate nurses also have been passes from one world into another. added to the staff. During the dry season the contrast is During the first year almost 8,000 even greater. The heavy tropical over- patients were admitted for medical treat- cast is finally pierced and the sky ap- ment. Last year 16,000 new patients pears at its bluest. The thermometer and 28,000 repeat patients were regis- 16 MISSIONS QUARTERLY

tered, making a total of 44,000 men, SABBATH, MARCH 8 women and children who have come in contact with these Christian doctors Eleven Men Die of Rabies and nurses since these doors were F. W. BRENNWALD, M.D. opened. By January 1, 1957, they were [Medical Director of North Cameroon also caring for thirteen lepers who came Mission Hospital] regularly to receive treatment. Surely One day I was called to visit a sick the spirit of the Lord is working in the man who lived near our mission hospital hearts of these people. The open books in the town of Koza in northern Cam- of the lives of our medical mission- eroon. This village is situated on the aries are being read by all,—for few of slope of a mountain with the same name. these people know how to read or write. Only with considerable effort was I able When completed, the hospital will be to get through the very low and narrow able to admit up to a maximum of 92 opening into the interior of a round patients. One of the newly erected hut, built partly out of round stones and wings is reserved for the people of Mo- partly out of clay, and topped with a hammedan creed and the other for the straw roof. The interior was very dark Kirdis or heathen, for they do not mix. and there were indications that together with the people slept also the goats and However, with this first stage of the the chickens. building program accomplished, there are many other pressing needs to be There was no bed to be seen, but on cared for. The operating building, the a flat board lay outstretched the chief service building, the water system, the of the house, who was held there with electric light plant are major needs which the steady hands of two of his friends. must be filled shortly if the hospital is At the man's side hunched one of his to function efficiently. wives with her children. Unfortunately Many of these needs can be attended I was called too late, for there was nothing more human wisdom and help to when the necessary funds are pro- vided. We feel sure that the Sabbath could do. The following night the man school members around the world will died of rabies. stand by us. You have always been loyal At the same time there died in that supporters of the world-wide mission village ten other men with the same program and have never permitted re- terrible sickness. I investigated the treat once a forward step into new terri- cause for this tragic situation and tory was made. The coming Thirteenth learned that the witch doctor of the Sabbath Offering overflow is destined village had been looking for the individ- to work in unentered areas in West Af- ual guilty of some evil that had befallen rica. Near this mission hospital in Koza one of his clients. He had hoped to there is just such a field, the Chad. It single him out among the many men in is another great center where Africa's the village by letting a dog infected with many races and different influences meet. rabies bite some one hundred men. I Why do we not penetrate these areas have never been able to learn whether or now to bring to thousands of souls the not the guilty party was found, but I saving influence of the gospel? do know that eleven men paid with their MISSIONS QUARTERLY 17 lives as a consequence of having been in a year. How shall we determine who bitten by this mad dog. Among the will live and who must die? victims there was also the witch doctor, May the Lord, our God, forgive us himself, who thus escaped from being for the self-satisfaction and self-right- sentenced by the judge of the area. eousness that prevent us from feeling Among these primitive tribes and peo- the pangs of hunger, dejection and de- ples much is to be done. I am not only feat that He shares with the suffering thinking of the thousands of heathen, men, women and children of Africa and living in the mountains around us, but elsewhere. The Lord give us above all I am also concerned about the 15,000 a determination to fight against selfish- Mohammedans living a short distance to ness and indifference to the needs of the north from our mission hospital. others, and may we be compelled by Then there is the tribe called the His Spirit to support this world-wide Foulbes, who, though fewer in number, mission work, by giving liberally on are the dominant element of the region. this coming thirteenth Sabbath. Superstition and ignorance hold these people in a terrible state of mind, and they all need the healing balm of the SABBATH, MARCH 15 gospel. In our medical missionary work we "I Will Also Be a Zacchaeus!" often face peculiar situations. Modern K. WABER drugs have been a blessing to many [Director of the Kribi Mission, French thousands of natives in Africa, but they Cameroon] also present a financial problem to mis- I met him for the first time when he sion hospitals. As an illustration, a wom- came to the central mission station to an whose arm was bitten off by a croco- buy some medicine and a reading book dile walked and was carried alternately for his children. The second time I for ten days to a hospital. Tetanus set saw him only from a distance as I in. She was given thirty dollars' worth passed through his village on the way of injections. She lived and was able to visit our little Adventist group. All to return to her many children. I knew of him was that he was the chief Before the days of serums she would of the Zinguis, that he had seven wives have received every possible care and and thirty-five children, and that up to attention, but probably would have died. now he had not troubled himself much The little children might have been or- about his soul's salvation. Even though phans, and for lack of care some of them he had tolerated our work in his village, might have died also. But now the he considered it more or less superfluous. mother lives and the children live also. He himself did not feel any necessity However, the hospital has overstepped, to believe, and for those who did, the to the amount of thirty dollars its stern Catholic and some Protestant missions instructions to keep within the limited were already there. Many of his subjects budget. Penicillin, sulfa drugs, tetanus also felt the same as he. serum may be lifesavers, but one treat- Ndibi, our evangelist, had been work- ment may cost more than a man makes ing in this village for some time, but he 18 MISSIONS QUARTERLY

did not have it easy. With the exception municated. He is a man of few words, of a handful of faithful, the village but from this one sentence I recognized seemed closed to Adventism. At the be- that the Spirit of God was working on ginning I asked myself if we had done this man's heart. Then he revealed to the right thing by sending Ndibi to me that lately "this new faith" had Zingui. Other villages had been waiting given him no rest and that there were a long time for a Bible worker. But others in the village that had had the Ndibi was enthusiastic about his work same experience. In fact, on this same and glad to take the message to Zingui Sabbath two other young men mani- and even deeper into the hidden villages fested their desire to enroll in the bap- in the forest. He was thrilled to "preach tismal class. the good Word" to them, as he often One of the sons of the chief had al- said. So we had left him at his post with- ready visited our school at the central out at first getting any encouraging mission fifty kilometers away. When word from him. anyone would ask the father why he Then came the day when for the third had sent his son so far away to school time I met the chief. Would you like when there was a good public school in to know when and where? It was on a the same village, he would answer with wonderful Sabbath morning during the all confidence and enthusiasm, "Because Sabbath school in the Adventist chapel. the Adventist Mission school is better!" The primitive bush-chapel was far too And then he would add that he had de- small that morning. Many natives were cided to send this son to the Adventist standing at the entrance, others were Mission Hospital in Roza, in North sitting outside on the ground. Ndibi Cameroon, to take the nurses' course. was right when he had invited me to "And more than that, I have told the come for a Sabbath morning service in white man already that we here in Zingui so that I could personally witness Zingui must have an Adventist school. that the interest in Zingui had been I have begged him to send us a teacher. awakened. The lot for a school is already provided, The chief was late for Sabbath school. and I will lend my own hand to the He begged pardon later for not being on building project." time. He had planned to go about his The missionary was happy that the regular duties as usual and was on his door in Zingui had opened and also way. But when he met the red and black that on that Sabbath morning the chief Adventist Mission truck he felt such a had made his decision: "I will also be responding chord in his heart, as I in- a Zacchaeus!" Then with a heavy heart vited him to come to the Adventist he thought of the limited budget which service, that he immediately turned would not allow a new church school around, went home to change his at present. How long must the chief of clothes, and came right to church. Zingui wait for that "better school" to He came up to see me at the close of be opened in his village? the Sabbath morning service. The study The gospel of Luke mentions a crowd had been on Zacchaeus' talk with Jesus. that hindered Zacchaeus from seeing "I will also be a Zacchaeus!" he corn- Jesus, and I wish to present to the MISSIONS QUARTERLY 19

"crowd" of Sabbath school members In French Equatorial Africa there the Zacchaeus of Zingui. I have faith in are also many unentered territories such this crowd. They will help and not hin- as Chad, Ubangi-Shari, Gabon and the der, so that thousands in dark Africa Middle Congo. The work has nicely may find the way to Jesus. Is it not true. developed in French Cameroon where that you will help? there are nearly 5,000 baptized mem- bers. But what are we going to do with all the rest of the population in the SABBATH, MARCH 22 aforementioned areas which amounts to nearly twenty-three million people? Unentered Territories in French When are they going to hear the gospel West and Equatorial Africa so as to make an intelligent decision W. A. WILD in favor of or against the truth in this [ Sabbath School Secretary, Southern late hour of probation? European Division] Brazzaville in the Middle Congo, cap- "And this gospel of the kingdom shall ital of the French Equatorial Africa, is be preached in all the world for a wit- as yet an open city. Its giant radio sta- ness unto all nations; and then shall the tion can be heard in South America and end come." These words remind us of in the Far East, but as yet brings no the yet unfinished task to preach the message of hope to the nations. This glad message of Christ's second coming unevangelized city is surrounded by two in many territories as yet unentered. great African villages: Poto Poto and The Sabbath school family is being Bacongo. Bacongo is occupied by the informed that in that portion of Africa Laris, people who have come from the assigned to the Southern European Di- north of Africa, and they are infiltrat- vision there are still many territories ing also the other village of Poto Poto; waiting for the fulfillment of our obli- soon they will have encircled the white gation to reach the people in those city of Brazzaville. areas. Our hearts are made sad when The Laris form fully one-third of the calls come in from many parts which entire population of the Middle Congo, have to go unanswered indefinitely for and for a long time they have looked lack of means with which to establish for a prophet and a doctrine whereby new mission stations and to send addi- they would he able to mix with their tional missionary families. belief in the coming of a christ, their old With the help of a world map these and new fetishes and their peculiar ten- territories may be easily located and dencies of accepting gladly persecution we wish to mention a few. In French and martyrdom. They finally found West Africa they are Mauritania, French Matswa, a man of their race, but had Guinea, French Sudan, Niger, and Sen- to await his death in order to proclaim egal. A small beginning has been made him as christ, who came, they say, not in the Senegal, but in all of the other to save the whites this time, but to territories there is not one single mis- bring now salvation to the black races sionary nor a single Seventh-day Ad- of Africa. ventist, yet there are altogether over Under such circumstances, what a ten million people. blessing it would be if the everlasting 20 MISSIONS QUARTERLY gospel could be preached to these Laris, However, the combined influence of to enlighten their understanding and re- our mission stations, dispensaries, hos- move their prejudice. Here, indeed, is pitals, and schools works like a wedge, one place in the field of harvest where and all perform their God-given role. numerous souls could be reaped. Today, Time and time again, village chiefs and today we have this opportunity to sow, their councilors make long journeys to and tomorrow we shall reap with re- our evangelistic centers to plead with joicing. the missionaries to send them teachers We appeal most earnestly to the Sab- and preachers. As you face them, look- bath school members around the world ing into their eyes and knowing the to help us at this time to penetrate into purpose of their visit, you feel an in- new, as yet, unentered territories in describable pain in your heart because Africa by prayer and a liberal sacrifice you are helpless before the problem. But in means. Help us to bring in the har- again we have to ask them to be patient vest which now stands ready for har- until funds and men are available. They vesting! present a signed petition, representing thousands of souls, requesting that we SABBATH, MARCH 29 open work among them. But even though they have been waiting for many years The Perfect Gift already, how much longer must they W. A. WILD make the seemingly futile journey to [Sabbath School Secretary, Southern the distant mission, pleading for these Division] same things each new year that comes All during this quarter you have been around? listening to Africa's call for help to open Africa today is a land of unprece- up new work in unentered areas. There dented opportunity for Seventh-day Ad- remain indeed many untouched terri- ventists. There is no continent in the tories, and their combined population whole world where the masses of people goes into the millions. We have been in widely scattered areas respond more entrusted with the sacred task of preach- readily to the message of Christ's soon ing the everlasting gospel to all inhab- coming than in Africa. In many places itants of the earth, to every nation and the doors are wide open, and where tribe and tongue and people. We feel there seems to be a reluctancy on the that there is still much to do and that part of some tribes, we know the hour we dare not shun our responsibility will strike when the Spirit of the Lord before God and the people. will soften their hearts and the message In the vast Equatorial forest the can quickly be brought to them. pygmies still live in a jungle twilight of I recently attended a great gathering the primitive past, and in the wide open at the Bongo Mission in Angola. Hun- bush country millions live in supersti- dreds were present and on time when tion and spiritual darkness, tracking Sabbath school started. They were all down wild animals for food. In many seated on tree trunks symmetrically ar- places throughout Africa the witch doc- ranged in the shade of many trees, pro- tor still holds power and prestige among viding a perfect outdoor auditorium. The a number of the African tribes. program followed its customary course, MISSIONS QUARTERLY 21 and I felt just as much at home there among all—the perfect gift! as I would have in my own Sabbath We are praying and trusting that to- school in Berne, Switzerland. The time day's offering in all the world will pro- came when the offering for missions vide abundant funds with which to open was taken. Since we were now in a mis- up work in the heretofore unentered sion land, I wondered would they do territories of French Guinea and Ubangi- differently? Not at all. I watched Shari. closely when the Sabbath school ushers walked through the rows first with the offering basket to receive that Sabbath's THIRTEENTH SABBATH offering for missions in money. It was March 29 exceedingly interesting to see for myself Suggestive Program how our African believers are indeed faithful in their offerings, and I mar- 9:15- 9:30 Song Service. (Choose sev- veled at the way these people responded eral missionary songs.) readily to the mission offering appeal. 9:30- 9:33 Opening Song. (Missionary After the coins were collected and song.) brought to the small table where the 9:33- 9:35 Prayer. (Be sure to pray Sabbath school officers sat, the ushers for the field benefiting once more went through the rows with from the overflow.) larger baskets, this time receiving the 9:35- 9:39 Secretary's Report. offering in fruits of the field. 9:39-10:05 Thirteenth Sabbath special And so the large baskets were filled features: with ears of corn, the most perfect and One or more of the following poems the biggest the Lord had given them. to be given by an adult or youth. The baskets were then emptied into See Missions Quarterly, Children's sacks in front of the Sabbath school Edition, for suggestive items to be given table. and again and again the ushers went into the rows to receive some more by the children. (Not more than two ears of corn. By the time they had fin- children's divisions to participate in sen- ished their collection there were hun- ior program.) dreds of pounds of corn piled up, a Regular missions reading for this date. perfect offering unto the Lord for the (To be given by someone who will make world-wide mission program. a strong mission appeal in the telling of Yes, this is the Advent spirit the world it rather than reading it.) over. It should not be otherwise, and it 10:05-10:10 Special prayer and taking will not be different today. You and I, of offering. who live in an entirely different eco- 10:10-10:40 Lesson Study. Allow the nomical environment, following a mode full thirty minutes. of life which by far transcends the av- 10:40 Close promptly on time. erage African's, are we giving of our living as the simple African brethren and sisters who present to the Lord Save your MISSIONS QUARTERLIES. their ears of corn, the most beautiful They provide a helpful source of story ones. the most perfect ones, and largest material. 22 MISSIONS QUARTERLY

Come-0 come, with hearts of pity ! Too Late Come-0 come with hearts aglow, MRS. Sus M. COLE Spreading good news of a Saviour Where is now but blackest woe. The saddest words are the words too late. And reward great and lasting 'roo late for the train; it could not wait. Will be yours when you shall see Too late, just too late to see your friend, This same host of dusky brethren she looked for you to the very end. Saved to all eternity. You have come too late, it is sad but true ; She always wept when she spoke of you. Tnere were words to you she wished to say. Wonder You have come too late; she has passed PEARL WAGGONER HOWARD away. Why do we put off when duty calls, If we could see as angels see Then too late regret the blow that falls? The stern events now just at hand, A uuty put off till some future day The trials awaiting you and me, Brings tears, and heartache, and regret Demanding strength and courage grand, alway. I wonder, would we be content To go on living as before? There will come a time, too late to speak, On worldly thoughts would time be spent Too late to search, too late to seek. Or would we read our Bibles more? Too late the generous deed to do; Others have done it instead of you. If we could see with vision bared The Master even at the door, Too late to work, and too late to try. Could see the mansions now prepared, Will you hear these solemn words? Shall And glories of the eternal shore, I? Would we more calm and patient be, Sometime for gifts there will be no call ; I wonder, while with snares beset? Bring them today be they large or small. Could ever we walk mournfully, O brother, sister, escape the fate The same small cares our spirits fret? Of hearing these words—too late, TOO If we could see the joy and light LATE! Of those we helped God's truth to know, Or see them lost in endless night Because we failed His love to show, I wonder, could mere weariness "Come Over and Help Us" Benumb our ardor, chill our zeal? Would we not face all storm and stress PEARL WAGGONER HOWARD With hearts that just for others feel? Of one blood our God has made them— If we could see! But we may know, White and yellow, black and brown— For ah, the "eyesalve" bought above Scattered o'er widespread country, Improves the sight, and helps to show Cramped in villages or town. God's secret things, revealed in love. And they all—whate'er the color— His work with guiding beacon ray Know like needs as you and I Show future scenes, unerring, clear ; Feel the same of love or heartache, Awake, 0 soul, and work, and pray ! Like our own, must live and die. Eternity is almost here! Like to us, yet with a difference: Knowing not the truth we love, Having not the hope to cheer them Of an endless life above. The Next Thirteenth What if ours were such an outlook: Not a Bible we could read, Sabbath Offering Hopeless, knowing not a Saviour, Knowing not where life would lead ! Overflow Is it nought to you, 0 Christian, Will Go to the That your brother knows it not? That your sisters long for comfort, Mission Fields of the Groaning 'neath their piteous lot? What if "helping" should mean leaving Cherished homeland?—He whose name Australasian Division You have taken and would follow For yourself has done the same. If you've heard the "Come !" of Jesus And His rest has filled your soul, Issued quarterly by the Seventh-day Can you fully rest while millions Likewise long to be made whole? Adventist Sabbath School Department, "Come !"—they too are likewise saying ; Washington, D. C. Nor can you know rest indeed, Till you share your wondrous blessings With these souls in deepest need. [Printed in U.S.A.] yra ' 7

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