December 1931
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NEW YEAR : __. This copy M THE PIONEER may not reach our readers in time 1 to wish you a Merry Christmas, but we at,least, trusting that you ,' have had a very blessed Christqs,,want to 'wish ,you with all our? ,,, heads, A HAPPY and a PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR. Yes. we man '., if? ~ We trust that the year 1932 will be a-happyand also a properous year. What if eyeiy indicatioh is to the contra& 'What if iii the world of. finance, and in the world of s cia1 and political lift,',' everything seems to point to a time of iqccreaskg distress? We who, are'the ,Lord's sincere and trusting children can surely belieye that VP shall lack no good thing. Here is our text for you for the New : Year. "The'Lord Jesus said, - "Seek ye first the Kingdom of God. and His righteousness, and all these thing$'shall be thrown in &a. sou.", (Matthew 6 : 33). It is a promise with a condition. , "Seek .' , yr. first the.,Kingdom of God and His righteousness.". ,This is the ,.' rondition. "All'these things shall be' added",-- or "thrown in unto you." ' This'is'the promise. Yes, He'is talking about things to'eat, 1 a,nd things to drink and things to wear. ' It is a practical promise. Tefeel sure that if you as a Christian will put God first, put, His work, His will and the great thing chat He is seeking to accomplish. the witness of the Gospel in all t8e world, firzt, that He will surely see to it that you lack no'kood thing. Try it: ,,Bring all'the' , V-thes into the storehouse,...... prove Me ...... 1 will open the wind- , , . GWS of 'Heaven, and pour you out. a blessing that there shall not ba I'oom enough to receive it." (Malachi 3 : 101. You will have enough for yourself and your own, and more to give to sen$ the Glad Gospel ,lessage to those who have never yet had their first chance, than ' , , you ever have had before. We are drawing near to the End of the Age. This is sure. But while at Home you are-looking for His Secanrl Coming, remcmber I- ,. ,. , ,.~' , , .,>, , , ; " ,' ' , ' . , " , , , ',, ". ,:" : ,*:: ,, , ,,, I 8 ,T M E ,PI o N'E:-E-R ,, that there are millions out here who a's yet ham nd once heardof His, " First Coming. ,.If you could see with what eagerness they listento thc Message of Good News ,that through His Blood they,,may have ' , ' LF,P forgivemess of sins, you wduld 'do your utmost tb, hasten the Glad Tidingswo them. .. a"1. SEW IVISSIONARIES : T,heri is perhaps no day'in a mission:rr.y's life happier than the hywhen we welcqme new missionaries from the Hobe land. 'This ,? is especially so in the case of a new field where we are surrounded on , cWry side by unreaehed miIlions, whose dying cry for help is sound- I! ins in our ears night and day. It was our joy to Welcome to Makas- ,', .i! sar on Nov. 3rd. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Mouw, and Misd Griebenow, ,' .I# from the Homeland;' and.on tke 11th:; Miss Kemp who reachkd ,w from Saigon, French Indo-China, where she has been helping in secretarial work for a few months: We are looking forward to the ' ' farther pleasure of welcon~ingtwo young men for pioneer,work in Borneo possibly before the'end of the year.' One of them is already ., on the way. ' . ". ;, ,, NEW PIELSS : As the work in,.this unoccupied .part of the uutch Cast Indk ' , develops, we' are being faced from time to time with new fields of libor with which we had not been familiar before. Mr. Brill's'trip tp the Island of Saleier, south of the Celebes, is one example of this. 31r. Presswoord's trip to the mouth of,the Sesajap river, and up'into the interior of that part of Borneo, is another exadple.,'These are rcal ehallanges to prayer. Oh, let us pray in triumphant faith till these fields are actually entered, and these lands taken for Him. But, we must do more than pray, we must get up and "GO", we mukt really .' 8:' in and possess^ the land in the Name of Jesus. "You must 'do more than^ pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do nio;.e than way until you have prayed". ,. NEW CONVERTS : The article of this number irom the pen of Mr. Fisk telling ',f lhe baptism af over two hundred Dyaks in the interior of his part Lf Borneo, will bring a shout of praise to God from 'many of our ' ' waders, we feel sure. As we write these lines we are on our way back to Makassar after a' visit to Bali. This is the Lord's day. for Bnli too! Governments may forbid us preaching the Gospel in certain parts of the world, such .as Bali, ,but, blessed be the Name I r.E the Lord, no man can prohibit the Holy Spirit from working in the tearts of men. In a most wonderful way.the Spirit of God has been .marking in the hearts of people in Bali. Though our Chinese mis- < .. .,, 5' ,. ~, , ,I .. ,. THE PIO'NEER ,' 5. rionary, Mr. K. F. Tsang, has pe&ission only to preach to the , Chinese, still when Balinese come to him and ask the Way of Salva- tion, what is he to do? In conversation he must tell them that the I ' Lord Jesus is the only Saviour! In a word there are more than, thirty men, not to count women and young people, who have defini- tely decided to be Christians, 'and who have asked for baptism. ,, ?Mil now there were Balinese Christians. The writer had the joy ., no o€ baptizing twelve pure Balinese a few days ago. These are the first .' pure Balinese to receive the Lord Jesus as their Saviour. The first ' , ~ . one to be baptized' was a woman, the other eleven were men. "hey %. hnve tori down all their idols and idol shrines, and forsaken all their superstitious ways. If they know, nothing else about the Gospel, they ' , how this, -that the Lord Jesus came into the world and died and rose again to save poo~lost sinners, and that they have' accepted His atoning Blood to wash away all their sins. ;Please pray foi these new k ,converts, that they may learn more and more to know, and trust, and witness for Him. We will have more to tell about these Balinese '., .first fNits in our next issue. They are suffering fierce persmution, '. ~ lut they are standing finn. ,, . NEW ADVANCE : There are two most important fo~nvardsteps to which we are being led at this time. First, the starting of our Bible School at ,-- , . , Makassar for the education of native workers for this field. Mr. b, , Clench has come to Makassar~to~commencethis work. We expect to ,~..,I start on a small scale, but as the need is tremendous, we are belie% , , ' ing for a large number of native workers to be.truly called out by ,the Holy Spirit into the service of the, Lord. Please pray for the > ripening of the Bible School. @,' ' " Then closely connected with this, is the immediate need of Col- . ' p+teun, especially in those parts where heretofore no Gospel witness "basbeen given. Our plan willtbe to give these eolpo@?urs a short term training of a couple of months twice a year in the fundament- . ' als of the Gospel, and so help them in their work. This will be a special course in the Bible School, the regular course will probably kc a three year coarse. Pray for the colporteurs for Bali and for khe Celebes, among the Boegis people. NEW TRACTS : In previous issues of The Pioneer we have mentioned the print- ing of the first.Gospe1 tracts in the Balinese language, and also.id the Boegis language. The first of .these have already been printed, and are being used of God to make "The Way" plain,' but we need many more such tracts. We are translating new .Gospel messages from Chinese into these languages as fast as the, money is supplied for the work. Also we are working hard on the traris- lation of Gospel tracts into still new laiguages, where as yet there is nb Gospel message printed. As we explained, in previous issues, this is not easy to accomplish, for the reason that there is nothing ahatever to start on, there are no Christians speaking these languages. But, we feel sure that with the Lord to help us,, we will be able to accomplish it. Please remember our Publishing ,work in prayer. NEW NEED3 : In connection with <he printing of these new tracts there,is the need of our purchasinza font of type in the Balinese language. , This is necessary because only a few of the pliuting offices in the Dutch East Indies own BalineGe type, and these firms are so far away from us that it is necessary for us to have our 09type. Pray that we .may be able to purchase this type and produce many thousands of Gospel tracts for Bali. Then in connection with the opening of the work in the Celebes among the Boegis people, we urgently need an automobile as'soon as possible. As we have before explained, we can travel all over this sbuthwestern peninsula of the Celebes on the best of roads in an auto. We shall be glad to hear from any friends who are interested in-this, snd would like to contribute tb the cost of an automobile.