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VOL. 5. JAN., FEB ., MAR., 1939 No. 1.

Arthur Graham was born in England , reared in Canada, and is a graduate of both David Lipscomb College and Harding College . After his graduation he serv,ed as a minister for th e Ingl eside Church of Christ, San Francisco, California. He began work with the Cam­ bridg e Church in September of this year and is the only minister supported by th e Church of Christ in Mas sachusetts . His address is 25 Irving Terra ce, Cambridge, Ma ss. AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLES

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Editorial THE TIDE TURNS Somewhere I hav e read that "the died out on th e ea stern seab oard. ti de of empire is westward." A fa­ Quite recently the interest in the mous Am erican used to say "Go west, church ha s been arou sed for the great young man, go west." The direction­ centers of popul ation in th e E ast. al progress of political empire is dup­ licated with respect to the church. Here the figure of th e tid e breaks At the beginning of the ninete enth down. Th e movement has not r eced­ cent ur y the Restoration movement be­ ed from the western part of the coun­ ga n in the Virginia s, the Carolina s try but is being built con stantly and other eastern states. As it gained strong er there, the while it is being momentum it spread westward. Ken­ re-e stabli shed in the Ea st . tucky , Tennessee, Arkansas, Okla­ Within the short life- spa n of WORLD homa, Texas and other s later became VISION we have report ed in its pages fields of activity for the New Testa­ great mi ssionary accomplishments in ment church . Within the memories the far Northwest, the North Central of people who are still young, the states and even back to th e Ea st We movement advanced farther westward have brought you reports of the work until it reached the shore s of the Pa­ begun and revived in the Carolinas, cific. Not many years ago California in New York and in the New Eng­ ha d so few churches they could be land states. How splendid a vision counted on the fingers of one hand. that the knowledge of th e Lord may Today there are dozens and new . ones soon cover the United States as -the are being established almost every waters cover the sea! week there. We are happy to bring you further While the advance spread toward reports in this issue of the eastern the western shores of America the work, particularly that in Massachu­ movemen t in the East grew up. It setts, along with encouragiRg reports gre w satisfie d then static and all but from foreign fields. )

4 WORLD VISION

The Cambridge Mission BY ARTHUR GRAHAM 25 Irving Terrae;

More About Massachusetts BY PAUL H. MCNIEL 69 Westbourne Street, Roslindale, Massachusetts Being the only loyal congregation ice box. We have to meet outside this of the church of Christ in this thickly building about four to six weeks every populated New England state, the summer, as all University buildings Cambridge-Boston church has great are closed during the period between responsibilities and possibilities. They the close of summer school and the feel that they are in partnership with opening of the fall term. the far-visioned sponsors of the work Although the building is provided, in a project which has for its aim the and even heated, free to us, we have building up of a large and strong to pay the janitor $2.50 overtime for church in this neglected field. each Sunday evening service and on Several of the leaders are charter other special occasions. We must also members of the congregation, first es­ pay janitors' overtime for every serv ­ tablished in 1921 by brethren from the ice during the summer school-term. South. These southern brethren were Not being aUowed by the rules of Paul Young, Chas. P. Poole, A. C. the University to erect signs outside Croom and James Harrison. They this building, we place signs in con­ were attending college in Cambridge spicuous places in the lobby of the at that time. They found no local building and refer to it in ads, etc. church of Christ at which to worship This congregation runs a standing ad and set about to arrange for the start­ each Saturday in the Boston Post and ing of one. They wrote Brother F . L. inserts notices in various local papers Rowe in Cincinnati to see if he knew from time to time. of any local members. He referred None of the brethren from the them to Br other and Sister George South remain now , having returned Wallington, who still have member­ many years ago to their homes. The ship in this congregation. These peo­ influence of this congregation has been ple and others soon united to form felt more and more throughout these the congregation that has met ever Eastern fields the past few years. We since in the chape l room of the Phil­ anticipate that it will be felt even lips Brooks house ·on the campus of much more in the future, now that we Harvard University. have the support of some southern This building was given to the Uni­ churches in placing an evangelist here versity by some friends of the famous full-time. We desire that you readers Boston preacher, Phillips Br ooks, of and our sponsors pray for the rapid the last centurv. He had a great in­ advancement of the Lord's work here. fluence over the people and was re­ Pray, too, that Brother Graham may garded as a great man of God. These provide the teaching and guidance friends of his wanted to bestow somP. needed to win strangers to Christ at lasting monument to hi s memor y and this place. so they raised funds to erect the pr es­ ent building which bears his name. It was pre sented to Harvard University A David Lipscomb College student on the stipulation that it should al­ heard an inspirationa l speech by way s be available for free use of re­ Brother Merritt, missionary from ligious bodies. Thus we are not the Africa. She immediately decided . to only religious body using this struc­ give ten per cent of her salary when ture. employed to mission work. We under­ The chapel in which we meet will stand she has just sent $50.00 to sea t about 100, counting an adjoining Africa. room. Besides these, the building con­ Some of our workers in destitute tai ns several other rooms and an audi­ fields write that encouraging letters tori um on the third floor that will seat and contributions are coming as re­ over 300, which we may use as soon sult of brethren reading WORLDVISION. as we grow to need it . We have free The publisher is grateful to his use of a modern kitchen in the base­ friends and co-workers who are help­ ment, including gas stove and electric ing to maintain the magazine. 6 WORLD VISION Missionary Work in Eastern Maryland BY A. W. HASTINGS 23 Romaine Avenue, Jersey City, New Jersey More than a year ago an effort was This is the only congregation we made to establish the truth in the know of, in this whole peninsula, that peninsula composed of Delaware and is pleading for the primitive order of the eastern part of Maryland. One things, and presents a clear call to family having three members was all the brethren to "Come ·over and help we knew of then, in that section. ,us." Here is a great field that is full That meeting was held near Denton, of Holiness, Church of God, Dunk­ Maryland, and with many hindrances ards, and Brethren churches. Much and much prejudice, little benefit was prejudice and indifference prevail, as seen. We planned another meeting to in all the eastern sections. be held in Denton, but a suitable place could not be found. Consequent­ This new work must be followed up ly, it was postponed until spring of with another meeting soon, in order 1938. The members, finding an old to reap from the Good Seed sown this theater building in Greensboro, about time. A number are interested, but ten miles from Denton, engaged it, the teaching and the worship are so cleaned it up, and sent for me. This much different than they have been meeting, lasting fifteen days, April used to, it is a slow work to convince 17 to May 1, was not as well attend­ them of their duty, even though they ed as we had hoped for, but has re­ admit it is scriptural. Plans are for sulted in much good being done. A the regular assembling each Lord's number are interested, and a congre­ Day for Communion and Bible study, gation started of six members, two in the same building where these of whom live in Greensboro, one of meetings were held, thus keeping in them driving forty miles ( 80 miles touch with the community through round trip). Two others are located, the meetings and announcements in one of whom cannot attend because the local papers, looking forward to of distance, and another who is liv­ other meetings. One of these breth­ ing in adult ery and is not inclined to ren is capable of the teaching, and turn from it. We were much encour­ it is planned to have someone visit aged by brethren from P.hiladelphia, them about once a month or more to Kelton, and Pottstown, Pa ., who at­ strengthen the saints and persuade tended on the three Sundays of the the sinner. meeting. These, and also the churches Anyone knowing of members or in Washington, D. C., and Sunbury, friends in the peninsula, send them Pa., assisted greatly in carrying the to me, or to M. M. Skipper, Route 3, financial matters. Denton, Maryland.

OUR PURPOSE 1. To call the Church of Christ to remembrance that the Lord's Great Commission is to PREACH THE GOSPEL to EVERY CREATURE has not been WITHDRAWN. 2. To encourage EVERY CHRISTIAN to do something DAILY to preach the Gospel to the WHOLE CREATION in our gen, eration . . 3. To urge Evangelists, Sunday School Tea.chers and Elders to TRAIN THE CHURCHES for THIS WORK. WORLD VISION 7 " Your Labor Is Not in Vain" BY 0. P. BAIRD Sunset Park, Wilmington, North Carolina It is in the full ing in June, and one at Rockingham, assurance of the where I preach once each month. above passage There is a great opport~nity for_ the that we continue accomplishment of good m Rockmg­ the work in Wil- ham which is about one hundred and mington, N o r th thirty miles from Wilmington. So far Carolina . I know as we know there are only six disci­ of no passage in ples there but they are worki_ng hai:d God's word that to interest others. Together with th_e1r has gi v e n me personal work the monthly preachmg more encourage- should do a great good. The woi:k ment than this there is handicapped because there 1s 0 . P . BAIRD 8nnli'Pt Park one during the no adequate meetin g place . obtainabl_e. Wilmi11i:-ton, N. C. time of a little The meetings are now bemg held m more than a year the homes of the members. that I have lab ored with the brethren I have recently been impressed that here to advance the Lord's cause. the territory around Wilmington . is I suppose our problem s are similar richer in opportunities than the city to those in the other eastern fields. itself. I plan to give more attention The chief difficulty is to get the people to the surrounding territory tha:1 I to hear the gospel. If we can only have in the past but at the same time succeed in getting the gospel to not neglei-!t the work in Wilmington enough people it is certain that we too much. shall see a great harvest of souls. One of the best ways of accom­ The greatest obstacle t~ this. is g~n- plishing much good is by a regular era ! indifference and satisfaction with radio broadca st. We began a broad­ the existing religious condition. cast last spring, and I believe we saw We have succeeded in reaching a better results from that than from few and interesting some. We have any other efforts we have made. The used every means at hand of preach- cost of a fifteen minute broad cast once ing the truth. I have done house-to- a week is twenty -four dollars per house work, distributed literat~re, month. After broadcasting two months broadcas t by radio , conduct ed a Bible we were forced to stop because of the study each T u e s d a y night, and cost. pre ached regularly from the . pulp~t. Brother s. H. Hall is planning to We have conducted four meetmgs m conduct a meeting here in the spring. the city, though one was of only four If we could resume the weekly broad­ days duration. I did the preaching in cast and continue until the meeting I three of these and L. Daniel Harless feel that it would accomplish a great of Columbia, South Carolina . conduct- good. . ed one. S. Carl Holt of Savannah, This is a field where the church 1s Georgia, led singing in one meeting almost unknown and it is very difficult and my father, Clarence D. Baird, of to get people to turn from their old Alexa ndria, Tennessee, in another. We established views to something which have just closed a meeting with El~m they look upon as new and strange. Kuyke ndall leading singing and assist- Some few are seeing the light, how­ ing in the preaching . One was bap- ever, and othe rs will if we continue to ti zed in this meeting. We believe that press on. At any rate we have the there has been seed sown which will words of the Spirit, "ye know that bear fruit later. The visible results your labor is not vain in the Lord ," at this time are two baptized and in- and we shall have an eternal gain. cr eased interest and activity on the This should cau~e us to rejoice who part of the brethren. labor in the difficult fields, and those While in this state I have baptized who have fellowship with us in our eleven. Eight of these were at Win- labors. ston-Salem, where I conducted a meet- (Continued on page 16) 8 WORLD VISION Christianity in North Carolina BY ELAM KUYKENDALL In the "Old North State" ther e are started a church . We had three bap­ relatively few people who are loyal tisms and one restoration during the Christians. Of the twenty odd con­ meeting and another restoration since. gregations in the state only three or They have about fifteen regular mem­ four have as many as one hundred bers and several children and some members while some number as low others attend regularly. I preach as ten or fift een. Among this small there on Sunday morning once each number who claim to be Christians month. The brethren there have a only, there are several factions so far mind to work and are making real developed that those of one group progr ess. They have rented a good, will not even take the Lord's Supper well-furnished house in a good loca­ with those of another group. tion. I hope that before long they can From this description of North arrange for a preacher to work with Carolina's religious condition it may them regularly. seem at first that religiou s efforts in Two other congregations have been this state are useless. But this con­ started in North Carolina during the clusion is entirely unwarranted. I past year. One, composed of about know of no field anywhere more prom ­ forty members, is at Pike Road, in ising for the spreading of real Chris­ the central eastern part of the state. tianity than here. The people of this The other is in Charlotte. state are just as religiously inclined One of the most encouraging fea­ as in Tennessee or anywhere else. tures of the work here is the zeal Many of those belonging to the Chris­ that is manifest by some of the for­ tian Church are very conservative mer students of our Christian col­ and would really be glad to leave off leges and other members of the the human innovations that have church who before moving up here been imposed on them by those of a took little interest in church work more worldly mind who have as­ but are now showing real ability as sumed the leadership. With the right church leaders. One of the most dis ­ kind of t eaching from men who are couraging features of the work is the willing to teach rath er than drive lack of . interest manifest by other many can be persuaded to leave off member s who have moved in and are these unauthorized practices . asham ed to be identifi ed with a cau se so in sign ificant in the eyes of the "The harvest indeed is plenteous public or are too indifferent to the but the laborers are few." So far as Lord' s work to make an effort even to I know there are only nine men in attend services. the state who even attempt to preach and most of these merely make talks Once I kne w a Christian; at their home· congregations . There is He had a piou s look; a great need for more preachers in He had been totally immersed­ this section: men who will live the Except his pocketbook. gospel as well as preach it and will teach the people rather than criticize. He put a nickel in the plate, Warner's Chapel, where I am now And then with might and main preaching, is one of the largest con­ He'd sing, "When we asunder part, gregations in the state. We have It gives us inward pain!" about one hundred twenty-five mem­ -Apo stolic Review. bers and a splend id new church house. Most of the time our crowds are good at both services on Sunday BRENTWOOD, MARYLAND and also on Wednesday night. With 4443 Holladay Street its building expenses the church can­ Singing, 10 :00; Bible Clusses, 10:20; Communion, Preaching, 11:00; \T'or­ not support a preacher for full time !iihip, Preaching, 7:45; Tues. & Thurs . work at present so I have another Singing, Prayer , Bible Study, 7 :45. job in addition to my preaching. Aaron A. Stone, PrenchPr Last month I held a meeting in Phone Greenwood 3053-\V Greensboro where we have recently WORLD VISION 9 Fishersof Men BY E. 0. COFFMAN Lawrencebu rg, Tennesse,e "And Jesus, walking by the sea of with pity for them when He saw Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon them in sin. "O Jerusalem; Jerusa­ called Peter, and Andrew his broth­ lem, that killeth the prophets, and er, casting a net into the sea; for stoneth them that are sent unto her! they were fishers. And he said unto how often would I have gathered thy them, Follow me and I will make you children together, even as a hen fisher s of men" (Matt. 4:18-19). gathereth her chickens under her When J esus called the disciples to wings, and ye would not!" (Matt. 23: leave their nets and boat and fish to 37). Would that th e Church of Christ follow Him, He called them from now felt for the lost as Chri st did! things to men. It was a call from a Sermons then on missionary topics low intere st to a higher one. There is would be inter esting . It would then an interest of a kind in fish and nets be easy to get help for workers who ju st as there is always an intere st in are giving all their time to mission ­ any mat erial thing, but this new in­ ary efforts. Many of our congrega­ terest in men was an interest of a tion s, perhap s, have a Paul or a Bar­ new and finer kind. To catch fish is nabus, as the congr egation at Anti­ an inter esting and fascinating thing , och did (Act s 13 :1-3), who would be but to fish for men is a sublime ready to go if he were encouraged thing. The human intere st is always and supported . Congregations must the highest intere st. become more and more like the con­ Wh en J esus called these disciples gregations of the New Testament, if to become fishers of men, He put the men and women are to be saved. The emphasis on men, not things. When first duty of disciples is to preach to He said to them, "Follow me," He the lost. struck a new note for humanity. The Jesus wa s intere sted not only in the people in Je sus ' day had plenty of re­ great multitudes, but he fr equently ligi on. Th ey needed a new interest fished for the individual heart. It and sympathy in humanity. The Pha­ should be interesting to all Hi s disci­ ris ees were interested in forms as ples to study the different methods may be seen by their attitude toward He used in fishing for individuals. If f asts, washings, mint and anise. individual disciples now succeed in They were sticklers for forms while catching men, they must know more they neglected the weightier matters of the skill, the patience and the va­ of the law . An interest in humanity riety of methods used by Jesus in became a final t est of discipleship in angling for the individual heart. How the kingdom which Jesus established. innocently He approaches the woman "Verily, I say unto you, inasmuch as of Samaria! "Give me a drink," said you did unto one of these my breth­ He (Jno. 4:7). This was a perfectly re n, even these least, ye did it unto natural request to make, and in doing me" (Matt . 25 :40). In thi s verse so He led this woman to an under­ Je sus so closely identifie s Himself standing of the true worship of the with His disciples, that He says a Messiah. Jesus uses a different meth­ thing done for "one of th ese least" od in dealing with Zaccheus (Luke was done for Him. It will be noticed 19) . The profession which Zaccheus that Jesus is not here placing the was following had ostracized him emphasis on doctrinal correctne ss. from society. He had no friendly That is necessary and seems to be neighbors to come to his house. Jesus her e assumed. Let us not miss the won him by being friendly. "Zac­ P?int where J esus placed the empha­ cheus, make haste, and come down; sis . for today I must abide at thy house." A good fisher will sit on the creek J esus in calling the disciples to be and fish all day without success. He fishers of men, was calling them to will return to the same place the follow His own example, for He was next day with hopefulness, patience the Fisher of Men . Jesu s loved the and optimism. A Chri stian must ever multitudes; His heart was , moved ( C ontinu ed on pa g e 13) 10 WORLD VISION Brother Kang and Korea In the July 1938 issue WORLDVISION otherwise in the work. He says, gave you a report of "The Cause in "T hese all have been done during 16 Korea," which had to do chiefly with months from December 1936 to April the work of Brother S. K. Dong. 1938 by the power of the gospel and Brother Moonsuck Kang is another American brethren who help my native Korean who was converted in work." America and went back to his native There are 400,000 sectarians in Ko­ people with the Gospel. We want all rea, mostly Methodists and Presbyte­ our readers to be acquainted also with rians, out of a population of twenty ­ Brother Kang. five million. The sectarians seem to Moonsuck Kang finished Vanderbilt grow tired of their confused doctrines University in Nashville, Tennessee, and teachings and are opening their and then becoming converted to sim­ eyes to the tr ue gospel. Of those bap­ ple New Testament Christianity went tized 41 were from the Presbyterians, to Freed-Hardeman College at Hen­ 19 from the Methodists and 10 from derson, Tennessee, for study and guid­ heatheni sm. One who le congregation ance in preaching. He returned to was from the Methodists and another Korea in December, 1936, preaching at whole congregation from the Presby­ Ulsan until April, 1937, when he terians, among the six congregations. moved to Seoul, the capital of Korea. The future for the spread of the gos­ As a resu lt of his preaching six con­ pel is bright, if sufficient support is gregations have been estab lished and given the work. seventy persons baptized by him. Four Brother Kang plans to build an­ congregations are in Southern Korea other meeting house which will cost and two of them in the city of Seoul. $300 and he needs more co-workers Tw o congregations have their own but he must depend upon the Ameri­ meeting houses and four others meet can churches for the support to ac­ in rented houses. Brother Kang has complish this . Address him at P. O. two co-workers who preach and help Box 22, Sutamoon, Seoul, Korea.

Church of Christ, Pansung, Korea . WORLD VISION 11 In the Philippine Islands BY T. W. PHILLIPS, II Brother H. G. Cassell left for work In October of 1937 this good fam­ in the Philippine I slands in Septem­ ily set sail from Los Angeles harbor ber of 1928. He wa s sent out from for Manila to resume their work the Southwest Church in the city of which had been going right along in Los Angeles, California. Mrs. Cassell th eir absence . They are again locat­ and the two boys followed in Feb­ ed in that field doing what th ey can ruary of 1929 to join Brother Cassell to intere st people in the message of in the effort. Christ. Their address is Box 3250, Thi s work in the Philippine Islands Manila, Philippine Island s. was started by Brother George S. The . Cassells are supported by the Ben son, who is now pre sident of Har­ Southwest Church and ar e doing ding College at Searcy, Arkansa s. their work und er the direction of the Most of Brother Cassell's work at elders of that congre gation. the first wa s carried on in the prov­ inces strengthening the group s that had already been started. Much good wa s done, a numb er were baptized One Soul and other mi ssion s were establish ed. Later, Brother Cassell spent much One soul, brought unto Christ, of his time right in Manila, the larg­ Gleaned from a whitened field, est city on th e island s. He was as­ Above the whole world's gain is priced sisted by Mrs. Cassell, and the South­ west Church feels that through their Could there be richer yield? efforts much and la sting good has been accomplished. I long to take with me Brother Cassell and hi s family re­ When called before His throne turned to the states in the spr ing of Some soul to share eternity. 1936. During the fall of '36 and the spring of '37 B'rother Cas sell did spe­ Dare I appear alone? cial work in the Univer sity of South­ One soul may many reap, ern California. While back on furlough the Cas­ For thus in humble way sells made two extensiv e trips in the God seeks and saves his straying sheep stat es telling of the work in the Phil­ Have we sought ONE to-day? ippine s. Much interest wa s creat ed as a result. -N ellie H er tzka Morehead.

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Most of our readers will remember geli stic work out side its immediate that the last edition wa s one filled area? If so, splendid. If not, why? with lessons concerning missionary You can make a definite ·contribu­ work. We should be ready now to do tion to its growth if you will interest some missionary work, not letting our the leaders in actually doing some­ knowledge and zeal spend it self in thing to carry the "good news" to mere talking. Many congregations are other communitie s. A church that is becoming alive to their re spon sibility mission-minded, and is working at it, to send th e wor d beyond their own is a growing church. Better still, it border s. It is heartening to see how is one that is pleasing in the sight of many are establishing other congre­ th e Lord. Th e possibility of indus­ gations. Read the report in thi s issue trious preachers making their own of what the congregation at Marshall, way does not relieve the strong Texas, is doing, for example. churches of their duty to "send the Is your congregation doing evan- ( Co ntinu ed on page 13) 14 WORLD VISION Seek and Save That Which Is Lost BY S. C, KINNINGHAM Marshall, Texas The Bible is a soul saving Book. go into the highways and byways and The church is a soul saving institu- take the gospel to them many will tion. All the members should be en- never hear it. Christ said, "Go." gaged daily in the soul saving work. If we could hear the cries of those When man sinned in the Garden of who have gone into eternity without Eden hi s iniquity separated betw een having done the will of God we would him and God and his sin hid his face be impressed more with the fact that from God. "By one man sin entered we should seek and try to save that into the world, and death by sin; and which is lost. If we could hear the so death passed upon all men," thus cries of all who writhe in the pains death univer sally reigned. Early in and anguish of hell we would be the Hible ( Gen. 3 : 15) , and soon after stirred into some kind of action to man's transgression, the promise of save others from that punishment. In a savior was given. When the full- Luke 16, we have the record of one ness of the time was come God sent who thus passed on. His plea as­ forth His Son into the world. God cended from the torments of hell for sent Hi s Son that th e world through someone to seek and try to save his Him might be saved. The angel that brethren that they might not come to came to announce His birth said, that place. The world is going on "Unto you is born thi s day in the today seeking after wealth, plea sure, city of David a Savior, which is and ease as this man did. They are Christ the Lord" (Luke 2 :11), and serving self and Satan as he did, and "Thou shalt call his name Je sus: for their destruction is as sure without - he shall save his people from their obedience to the will of God. Let us sins" (Matt. 1:21). Christ kept this "seek and save that which is lost." mission ever befor e him . He said, On Paul's second recorded mission­ "The Son of man is come to seek and ary journey he heard a voice repre­ to save that which was lost" (Luke senting the lost, out side world crying 19 :10). To tho se whom He called for help. The people of Macedonia into His service He sai d, "Follow were in darkness and crying for light. me." We cannot be a follow er of They were lost without the gospel Christ today without carrying out and the plea was, "Come over and His plan to "seek and to save that help us." The people in our next which is lost." community are as deep in darkness "To seek and to save that which is without the gospel as were the people lost" should ring constantly in the of Macedonia. They are lost and ears of every Christian until we are dying in sin without it. It is our duty set on fire with zeal for God and till to take the word of God to them that every effort has been put forth unto the light of the glorious gospel of our dying day to save those for whom Christ might shine upon th em that Chri st died. This is the highe st call- they might be saved. ing that has ever come to man. It The natural impulse of a true comes from heaven above. Christ Christian is to want to "seek and to said, "Go ye into all the world, and save others." The first thing that preach the gospel to every creature. Andrew did upon entering into the He that beli eveth and is baptized service of the Master was to seek and shall be save d; but he that believeth find his brother and bring him to not shall be damned" (Mark 16:15- Christ. The first thing Philip did 16), This commi ssion is world wide, upon entering into the service of the and the Savior said "Go." If we con- Master was to seek and find his fine our effort s in preaching the gos- brother and bring him to Christ. The pel to the four wall s of our building fir st thing the woman of Sychar did and wait for tho se who are lost to upon hearing and learning of Christ come to us we have reversed God's wa s to leave her waterpot and go out order. Some of th e world may come and bring others to him . When Cor­ to us seeking for the truth but the neliu s had the privileg e of hearing majority of them will not. Unless we (Continu ed on page 19) WORLD VISION 15 A Day's Activity in Africa

BY J. D. MERRITT Kalomo, Northern Rhod esia We have opened After visiting a while I went on up three new vil - about 200 yards to the village where 1 a g e schools. I a bunch of women were bu sy making think that most beer to be used in the wor ship of the of you who have spirit of one of th e headmen's wives followed these ar­ who had died a few month s before. ticle s know w11y Old women, young women, girls and we have th e s e babies made the crowd. One girl was schoo ls, so will blind. The babie s were naked. Sore not go into the eyes, itch, colds were the affliction of discus sion of that most, but one old soul was hunting now. and popping lice. Ashe s, corn shucks, J. D. MERRITT Siachibu is the bones, old worn-out ba skets , poo,· P. 0. Ka.lomo t h . s· N. Rhodesia, s. Afr. eac er 1n 1am- bony dogs, hou ses with half the afumba's village . thatch off. Dirty filth, filthy dirt. No He ha s only recently been married. wonder that they are moving their He and his wif e, who is a Christian village a half mile away! girl, moved to the new place on the 19th of June. The people had started I traveled on. Th e fields have all the brick making for the school house been harvested. The cattle have and had put up the walls of the teac h­ cleared out all the corn stalks . The er's pole and mud hou se. dust in the path added to my trouble. A couple of week s ago, Sterling, After I got severa l mil es from the our only boy, and I took a bicycle in villag e I saw a herd of about 50 Im­ the car and started for Kabanga Mis­ pala (small buck) grazing in a vlei. sion, but 12 miles before reaching They looked up as I passed within there I left St erling to take the car easy gunshot but never offered to run. on whil I rode the cycle in a circular By the time I had pulled the last route · to the mission, vi siting Siama­ long hill to the mission I was finished fumba on th e way. I thought that I -and thirsty! Sterling had arrived would have to ride about seventeen hours before and had the kettle boil­ miles but it had been several years ing. He was having fun with an old since I had traveled those paths and man who could not see well and was got mixed up so that I think I rode trying to find out which end of the twenty-three mile s instead! car was the front. When he got to By accident I came onto th e school the front and put his hand on the house as I approached the village . In headlight Sterling tooted the horn a hole in an ant -heap where the peo­ and the old fellow outdid Profe ssor ple had removed clay for making the Crane getting out of sight. teacher's hou se I saw six old men sit­ Next time I go on a bicycle trip I ting in the warm sunshine learning think I shall take along a boy who the ABC' s. I went around th e ant­ knows the road! heap. Near the house a group of twen ty boys and a girl were reciting. Down on the "creek" the boys who were to have their lessons in the aft­ "Your Labor Is Not in Vain" ernoo n were working on the brick ( Continued from page 7) field. Some were digging clay; some The brethren here at Wilmington were carrying water to make the are now supporting me to the extent mud; others were hauling bricks to of fifteen dollars per month. Breth­ the place where the scho ol house was ren elsewhere are making possible the being built. They were u sing a span work by faithfu lly contin uing their of twelve oxen and a sled. (The walls sup port, for which we are truly grate­ of the school hou se were about four ful. The average support for the feet high already.) All of these peo­ work has been about eighty dollars ple seemed satisfied and happy. per month. WITH YOUR HELP We Can Reach 100,000 Additional Homes with WORLD VISION The brethren who are using the WQRLD VISION as a means of creating a consciousness that the church has the privilege and is able to evangelize the whole world each generation are anxious to introduce it to an additional 100,- 000 homes during 1939 and here is how it can be done: r ' IF 10,000 PRESENT USERS OF THE WORLD VISION WILL EACH BUY ONLY 10 COPIES TO DISTRIBUTE TO THEIR FRIENDS THE · -100,000 ADDITIONAL HOMES WILL BE REACHED. What A Ministry! You know what the WORLD VISION has meant to your own home. Make It Mean As Much to Your Friends Fifty Cents in cash, check, or money order--either through your Sunday School Teacher or direct-will bring the 10 copies to you.

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SEND YOUR ORDER TO THE WORLD VISION P.O. BOX 173 NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE 18 WORLD VISION Why We Went to Africa BY A. B'. REESE We felt a di­ tried to get his promi se to go with us. vine urge f r om B1;1t he refu sed to talk about going havin g b e en with us. As we had one child in br ought up at th e school we had one more rea son for f eet of such men staying than he did for then he was as th e Ga1·dener not married but was thinking about br other s who sac­ it. We told him they had better go. rific ed so that we Th ey went and we went to Rector to might catch a vi­ th e superintendency of the city sion of our pur­ s~hools for a year, returning to Har­ pose in the world. dmg Colleg e for two year s as prin­ A. B. REESE Having learned a cipal of the Academy. Abil en e Christion few 1 e s s o n s of Colleg e servic e a n d t o My mother had asked us r epeatedly Abil en e, T exas tru st the L o r d not to go till she pa ssed on, and the for Hi s pr omises which He made to la st six months she made her home us that if we should leave our houses with us at Morrilton. I took her home and land s, moth er and father, broth­ ju st two weeks before school closed er s and sist er s for th e Kingdom of in June, 1928. I got my home school Heaven 's sak e, He would giv e us an to teach so as to be there where Mar­ hundredfol d of each ( according to gar et could care for her. She passed Matt. 19 :29, Mk. 10:29, and Lk. 18: away June 19. We feel we did a 29) , we felt th e blessing was too child's duty in this course and do not great to be r efu sed if we und er stood r egret it at all. I taught the home that promi se. So taking God's dare school till our plans and pas sports in Mal. 3 :10 to pour us out such a could be had, then I resigned at vaca­ blessing that th er e should not be tion time and we wer e off February room to contain it , we launched forth 29, taking boat March 12, 1929. with a similar faith to Abrah am's ex­ Perhap s another factor helping us pecting God to pr ovide. to decide on Africa was the fact that Madi son and Br oadwa y, Springfield, my sister and her family wer e al­ Missouri, sponsored our work, prom­ ready in Africa. We have been work­ ising $10.00 per month support, but ing together in school work ever th er e wer e no othe rs who promi sed. since we started to W. B. & L. C. in Far es were paid largely from bor­ 1906 at Odessa, Missouri. With these rowed money and th e requir ed en­ re as ons you can see why we chose trance money was al so borrow ed. Africa. Aft erw ard s we found thi s to be a se­ riou s hindranc e for thi s all had to be PROOF OF Goo's PROMISES paid back befor e we could well ad­ With $10.00 per month promised vance . But Brethren Sander son and for support let us now look to see if Jane s were workin g ju st as heroica l­ we can find God's fulfillment of His ly on this side to fix things up while promise literally an hundredfold. we were burying our selves in th e work over th er e. 1. All borrow ed money paid back. Having r ead, studi ed and prayed 2. We carried on eight and a half much about th e mi ssion fields we left year s, supplementing our support by Pacific Christian Acad emy at Graton, various means on the field by as California, where we had taught for much again. five year s, fully int ending to go to 3. Our average support raised to China aft er t aking my degree at $60.00 per month. Do you say mak­ Harding College in 1925. But we · ing our own support is not God sup­ found oth er plan s in store for u s. plying it? Yes, it is. He supplies the In the spring of '25 Broth er Ben ­ opportunity and we ju st take advan­ son came to our r ooms to talk over tage of it. Let us not t ell God how goin g to China. He t r ied to encour­ He is to do Hi s part of it, but let us age and persuad e our going and we do our s. WORLD VISION 19

4. Two last years in succession we Seek and Save had crops of tomatoes which netted (Continu ed fr o m page 14) us between $300 and $400. (Nobody words whereby he might be saved and else had any for 700 miles up and his house, he went out and brought down the railroad. Why us only?) others to hear the words of salvation. There are people within the reach of 5. A Jewish butcher offered me every Christian home who are lost any amount of money up to $5,000.00 without the gospel and whom we without interest or security with could help to save by putting forth which to buy cattle for him. the effort. There are communities within the reach of every congrega­ 6. Crop of cowpeas netted us tion where people are lost without the $250.00 from two fields from which gospel. God would not have us con­ we had got nothing for the past five fine our efforts to those who are safe years. within the fold, but it is our God­ 7. Corn crop cashed in $200.00, and given mission to Go, to "seek and to for three years hadn't got more than save that which is lost." $20.00 worth. 8. Acquired enough oxen to do the Marshall Is Mission-Minded farm work and turned them into cash to come home on. (These will have During the past two years the to be replaced when we go back in church of Christ worshipping at 902 1939.) North Franklin Stre et in Mar shall 9. Made a two-wheeled cart and with its local minister has held seven after using it three years sold it for mis sion meetings. Five of this num­ $85.00. ber were held in communities where there had never been a gospel meet­ 10. Last, but not least, when we ing to the knowledge of tho se who notified the brethren we wanted to live there. One was with a struggling come home, we received in Africa little congregation barely in exist­ $14.00 from them, to apply on our ence, and the other was with a con­ travel expense. We paid our own way gregation established during one of home. But funds intended for that the other meeting s. These meetings purpose reached us in Canada. With resulted in the establishment of three what the Canadian churches and De­ new congregations and the building troit churches gave us, we got a new up of the weak one to a self-support­ car in which we are traveling, visit­ ing state. Meeting houses for two of ing among the churches and acquaint­ the congregations have been com­ ing them with the · work of the church pleted and seated . Arrangements in Africa. have been completed for a third B'esides these enumerated we find house to be erected in the very near lots and lots of things along life's future. All the congregations have way that can be interpreted to be a preaching regularly on Lord's day. fulfillment of these promises. It mag­ Th e first established congregation is nifies our heart and our gratitude to­ self-supporting, and it is our aim to ward Him and His cause and assure s stay with the others until they like­ us more than ever that what He ha s wise become self- supporting and mis­ promised He is able also to perform. sionary center s. It is our aim to hold Not for our sakes only was it written from three to five such meetings each but for the sake of every one who year and est11blish congregations in cares to do the will of the Father in all the communities within our reach giving the gospel to the world. Let us if possible. We hope to be able to ta ke up our cross daily and follow establish one or two new congrega­ the meek and lowly Nazarene. Yes, tions each year until this task is com­ let us take our stewardship in the pleted and at the same time offer as­ name of his authority and acquit our­ sistance to the weak congregations selves as men. Give that it may be that need our help . given to us. Plant abundantly that The Marshall church is also con­ we may also reap abundantly. God is tributing regularly each month to able to make His grace abound unto three orphan homes five· dollars each, us for every cause pertaining to His and are sending five dollars each Kingdom. month to Brother Bixler in Japan. 20 WORLD VISION On the Field BY ALVIN HOBBY Namwianga Mission, Kalamo, NortlMrn Rhodesia At last we are Cleveland, Ohio, on their way to Scot­ on the field and land to visit their people. Then there at work. Jesus was a retired teacher and his wife said t h a t "the from Brooklyn, an · Englishman and field is the world" his wife going to their home in Sus­ and when He sex, England, and a gentleman from said "Go ye into Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. These peo­ all the world," ple were not members of the church He did not speak of Christ-only one had heard of it. that to any one Some of them were not particularly individual. Each interested in religion at all. But they individual is to were all interested in the fact that ALYIN HOBBY choose his own we had left our homes and were going P. Kalomo N. Rhodesia,o. S. Afr. "field" where he to Africa . as missionaries. About the thinks t h e r e is last meal we ate together, they gave for him the opportunity of accom­ a kind of party for our benefit; and plishing the greatest good. Our cho­ at our plates was a small box around sen field is Northern Rhodesia. Since which was a ribbon with the words, making the choice we have been look­ "Bon Voyage." On the inside was a ing forward to, and making definite little present for us, a souvenir con­ plans regarding, the work here. Now diment set, and a card, on one side that we are here and actively en­ of which were written the autographs gaged in the work for which we were of the eight who gave the present. sent, we rejoice and pray God that On the other side of the card were the seed sown may fall upon good these words: "Table 43-Queen Mary, ground, · that He may give the in­ wishes you great success and happi­ crease and that His word may not ness in your noble work." return to Him void. On the Balmoral Castle between There is probably in the minds of Southampton and Capetown members many a curiosity to know something of the crew and passengers soon about our twelve thousand mile jour­ learned who we were and referred to ney from Lewisburg, Tennessee, to us and the others as the "American Kalomo, Northern Rhodesia. Jesus missionaries." They, too, seemed to said, "There is no man that hath left appreciate the fact and on the entire house, or brethren, or sisters, or trip we did not suffer any because of mother, or father, or children, or lack of friends. The older people lands, for my sake and for the gos­ were fathers and mothers to us; the pel's sake, but he shall receive an younger, as our brothers and sisters . hundredfold now in this time, houses, Even on our nineteen hundred mile and brethren, and sisters, and moth­ automobile trip from Capetown up to ers, and children, and lands, with Kalomo the kindness we received was persecutions; and in the world to exceptional. This country is very come eternal life." On the trip, to a thinly settled. Along the "highway" certain extent, we have seen a literal sma ll towns are forty or fifty miles fulfillment of this statement which apart. It was a common thing to Jesus made. drive twenty or twenty-five miles On the Qiwen Mary there were ten without meeting another car. But people who ate at our table (eight when we needed help we got it. We besides Georgia and me.) Most of had our first puncture ( one out of them were on their way to Europe seven) just after crossing the moun­ for their summer's vacation. One tains after leaving Capetown. The was a groceryman from Toronto, first two cars to come along stopped Canada, on his way back to England and helped us, and then gave advice to visit his people after an absence of as how to best avoid some bad roads twenty-seven years. Another was a ahead. These people had never seen business man and his wife from us before, and never expect to see us WORLD VISION 21 again; but they were ready to help do not regret our choice to go and someone who appeared to be in need. to do our bit in bringing about such Things like this are very greatly ap­ a condition which alone can make this preciated. world the place God intended it to be. Neither were we without Christian friends at different points along the way-those whom we could call our Credo brethren and sisters in Christ. They Why should the darkness be our did everything they could to entertain light, us and to make us comfortable and And yesterday be our tomorrow? to make us feel at home. Their homes Why should our day be framed in were opened to us, their automobiles night, were used in taking us where we And all our songs be tuned to sor­ needed to go, and sight-seeing trips row? were planned for our entertainment. In giving up one "house" we gained For I believe that joy can be many: in Nashville, in New York, in Untrammeled as new-driven snow, London, in Capetown, in Bulawayo, That beauty springs from life and and here on the mission. There is one love, congregation of the church of Christ From which no petals ever blow. in Manhattan, New York. The breth­ ren there "received us and enter­ With what a sad finality, tained us three days courteously" and Across the ruck of hate and strife, saw that we got on the ship with The page that should be titled magazines to read and flowers to dec­ "Death", orate our stateroom. We visited two They stamp the shining name of small congregations in London. In "Life". Capetown there are three congrega­ tions and these brethren are devout I call the deed a farce, a fraud, Christians. We did not feel worthy The witless antic of a clown, of the nice things they did for us for And set this fair criterion- two whole weeks. At Bulawayo we Life pilots upward, death weighs met Sister Sheriff and others. Then down. here on the mission were B'rother Merritt and Brother Scott and their I hold that truth is not the sport families, besides the native brethren Of fashion, changing with each to welcome us and to give us what as­ spring, sistance we might need in becoming But like the ocean, girded round settled here. · With rock that flouts its measuring. Jesus said we would receive all these things "with persecutions." It And I believe that brotherhood is true that only one side of the pic­ Is real, and vibrant to the core, ture has been presented and that That lust and greed belong to death, there is another side. Perhaps the But faith and hope are more and other side will be given in future ar­ more. ticles. Now we are interested in -John Wolfe. _ showing that the trip was not with­ out a few good things as well as its inconveniences. READ THIS, PLEASE How can we account for this Chris­ In case this magazine contains a tian spirit wherever we have gone? notice suggesting that your subscrip­ How can we account for the fact that tion has expired, will you not please there are Christian brethren in New send one dollar, which will renew it York, London, Capetown, Bulawayo, for two years. and here in Northern Rhodesia? Someone had the vision of bringing Christianity to these places. What a YOUR SUBSCRIPTION blessed condition it would be if we If you have never subscribed, could find such in every nation, city someone has done so for you. Will and town throughout the world. That you not kindly send one dollar, which was the vision that Jesus had when will renew your subscription for two He said to go into all the world. We years? 22 WORLD VISION LessonsFrom Missionaries BY W. 0. DAVIS More is being written about mis­ that Christianity is a decadent and sions and missionaries today than has spent force. been the custom heretofore, and this Those who have gone into other is cause for great joy among lovers lands have observed and actually of truth. The focusing of attention faced racial differences as well as re­ on the unselfish and effectiv e work of ligious differences. They have had to the missionary has had a very .salu­ learn not only the language of the tary effect upon many. Splendid les­ people with whom they have worked, sons have been learned, and mor e peo­ but also their manners, history, cus­ ple are daily thinking of mi ssionaries tom s, ideals and even their preju­ as exemplar s of some very excellent dices. To make one's self at home traits. with all races, classe s and degrees of These men and women, generally men is a great accomplishment. It speaking, have the conviction that seems necessary to have a practical they live only in so far as they culti­ capacity that springs from tho se af• vate all their faculties and improve fection s and sympathies which are at their advantages for the glory of God. the very ba se of human character if They believe, as ever y Christian one is to do the greate st amount of should, that if the will of Christ is to good on foreign fields. Paul said, "I be done on earth it must be through am made all things to all men, that I the church which is his spiritual might by all means save some." The body. (Col. 1 :18). missionary has taught us some very good lessons in the field of human re­ Thought cannot expres s itself apart lation ships. from the body, neither can the great work of saving souls be carried on There are many disappointments, apart from the spiritual body of trials, and tribulation s awaiting tho se Christ. There must be life. A dead who would live godly, and who would church. in other words, cannot accom­ dare to stand out in exposed places plish the great ta sk before us today. for the cause of Christ. The mission­ For centurie s, in some part s of th e ary receives his full share of perse­ world, the forces of lu st, super stition, cution s without shrinking or drawing and ignorance have maintained a back from th e ta sk before him. He solid front against truth. This can­ actually puts into pr actice that ma­ not long be if enough of men ana jestic thing called courage, thereby women with the zeal and knowledge teaching a much needed lesson. of many of our missionarie s awak en It is encouraging to learn of the to the opportunities confronting the work being done by tho se who have church, and determin e by the help of gone on foreign fields and who have God to preach the gospel to those given up home, land s, and the actual who ar e lost. Every Chri stian is, or comforts to be had in this nation in should be, a missionary becau se order that lost souls might be saved. Christ himself has laid the re spon si­ Aft er all, self-sacrifice is a road to bility of mi ssion work upon the a higher life and to a larger concep­ church. There cannot be a sound and tion and deeper enjoyment of it. And health y life in a congregation where while the missionary is teaching by such work is ignored. It matter s not example that the Christian life is one where the work of preaching the gos­ of service and submission he is con­ pel is done, wh eth er at home or scious of the fact that Chri st allur es abroad, it still r emain s mis sion work, no one to follow Him by fal se pre­ and is obligatory upon every Chris­ tenses. -All of us should express our tian according to hi s ability. The gratitude to God for the inspirational missionary is actually demonstrating lessons that have come to us dir ectly thi s pri11ciple, hence teaching by ex­ and indirectly as a result of the un­ ample. . That individual who is de­ selfish lives being lived by our breth­ void of vi sion is not missionary-mind­ ren who are facing hazards in other ed, and whether intentionally or not lands, as well as those in our own he lend s aid to th e idea of the infidel country. WORLD VISION 23 A GLimpse at ALaska Craig, Alaska grand. I like it better than any bot­ September 10, 1938 tled pop I ever tasted. Dear Brother Morehead: My Auntie and I went out on a cannery tender and watched a fish Are you surprised to hear from me trap being brailled. We walked the in this part of the world? I am up logs and leaned over and had lots of fun trying to catch fish with our here eating fish and venison and get­ hands. They dipped up around five ting nice and "fat" so that I can go hundred at a dip until they filled the to school on the strength of it next big scow we were towing. winter. It is turning real cold here My uncle, Rober t Scott, has always had service s in his home each Sun­ already and has been quite chilly day, but now the crowd ha s outgrown ever since I arrived nearly a month hi s house. They have bought the ago. lumber for a church hou se and hope to build it this winter. Uncle doesn't The scenery up here is beautiful. consider himself a preacher but he There are myriads of islands which does real well, I think. There must be around thirty member s here and are tree-clad but whose banks are so some of the Indians are becoming in­ steep down into the water that we terested. They are very anxious for can run the boats right along the papa to come back up here when (and if) he comes back to the U. S. A. for bank which is usually a rocky bluff. a change and r est. The Presbyterians Occasionally there will be a tiny are about the only ones who are beach where the watershed has working among the Indians of this formed a rushing torrent or water­ section so far as I can learn. I've tried to interest folks in WORLD fall. Some of the higher peaks are VISION and though they seem quite snow covered all the year around but mis sionary minded they seem to think at this time of the year the lower that their field requires all their at­ slopes are free. tention and I mu st admit that there is a great scarcity of churches out Last week five of us cousins went in the Northwest here. over to Soda Bay. The trail from the My address is still Station A, Abi­ beach up to the springs was blazed lene, Texas, for I hope to be down or we could not have found it for the there if a boat ever comes by to take moss soon covers all th e logs and me south. In Christian love, ground . The moss is many feet deep HELEN PEARL SCOTT, in places and makes one feel odd as one walks across it for it is quite spongy and in places looks like rich We know of eleven congregations green and red thick velvet rugs. throughout the United States support­ Scarcely a ray of sunshine enters the ing or sponsoring a missionary. Four of the eleven are full-time mission­ forest, but there are occa sional aries in the States. Six of the eleven marshes where no tree s grow. It was missionaries are supported or spon ­ in one of these that we saw fresh sored by Nash ville, Tenn., churches. bear tracks. The bear had evidently At least three hundred churches; or five per cent of our 6,000 congrega­ been eating berries. The soda water tions, give monthly to some definite bubbl es up out of the ground in sev­ rp.ission program. Perhaps a thousand eral spots. One place it shoots up churches give occasionally. Let every about a foot like a baby geyser. It coJJgregation adopt a definite and reg­ ular mission program to the extent of tastes horrible straight but after we its ability and the world will be evan ­ added lemon juice and sugar it was gelized in ten years. 24 WORLD VISION The Work in Minneapolis, .Minnesota BY W. DON HOCKADAY 2750 Taylor Street, N. E., Minneapolis, Minn. As perhap s of Israel. When he thought of deal­ most of WORLD ing justly with a great peopl e that VI s I o N reader s "could not be numbered nor counted know, I have for multitude," he felt that he "did moved from Bil­ not know how t o go out nor come in." lings, Montana, God said, "Ask what I shall give you." to Minneapo 1 i s , Solomon said, "Give thy servant Minnesota. T h e therefore an understanding heart t o Billing s congre­ judge thy people, that I may discern gation now have between good and evil." (I Kings 3.) a house of wor ­ I do not kn ow how thi s group of ship and are in a sixteen member s of the church here w. D . HOCKADAY condition to take (that is, beside s my family) com­ 2750 Taylor St., N.E . care of th em­ pares to Na sh ville, Tennes see, in the ~linnenpoli s, J\linn. selve s pretty well. younger day s of Brethren David Lip­ When I vi sited Minneapolis last April scomb and the Sewells, but I have I found a little group of sixteen mem­ been told that the church was very bers. I decided that I was needed weak there then. I long to see the here mor e than in Montana because day when many of our leaders in the attention of the brotherhood had been great centers of the church will scat­ called to Montana and Wyoming to a ter and locate in such center s as this. considerabl e degree. That attention Then by putting the same energy be­ should be called to the Dakota s, Min­ hind the Lord's work that these breth­ nesota and Wi sconsin. ren did in the early days of the church in Na shville, it would not be FIRST IMPRESSIONS long till we could have a comparis on I understand that in the Twin similar to what there is in Nashville Cities, Minneapolis and St . Paul, and now. their suburbs there are about one mil­ lion people. I have before me a Jan ­ WHAT You CAN Do To HELP uary, 1 9 3 6, telephone directory. God gave to Solomon wisdom t o Among many others I find the follow­ judge his people Israel and to build ing leading denominations li sted: 19 the temple in Jerusalem . The apostle Baptist churches; 26 C at h o 1 i c Jame s said to Chr istian s, "But if any churches; 2 Greek Catholic churches; of you lacketh wisdom, let him ask of 5 Christian churches (one of the se God, who giveth to all liberally and calls itself Church of Christ) ; 19 upbraideth not; and it shall be given Congregational churches; 16 Episco­ him . But let him ask in faith, not h­ ·pal churches; 91 Lutheran churches; ing doubting." (James 1 :5-6.) He 29 Methodist churches and 20 Pres­ al so wrote to the Colossians asking byterian churches . I feel sure this them to pray "that God may open does not represent anything like all unto us a door for the Word, to speak of these churches beca u se it only rep­ the mystery of Christ ." ( Colossians resents those that had telephones, 2 : 3.) Will you not pray with us that Jan uary, 1936. It does not include we may have the wi sdom to get the St. Paul churches but only those in attention of the people with the gos­ Minneapolis. This will give you some pel of Christ? W ill you not also pray idea of the strength of the leading with us that the Lord of the harvest denominations. may send forth laborers into this When I think of the multit ude of most neg lected region of the Lord's people in the Twin Cities, of the harvest? (Luke 10 :2.) wickedness of many of the people and If you know of memb ers of the of the great strongholds of denomi ­ church in the Twin Cities, please n atio nalism, I am sure I fee l similar write us. Be sure not to neglect this to what Solomon must have felt when as it will give us a contact that may he, "but a little child," became king mean the salvati on of a soul. WORLD VISION 25 Moving Pictures BY J. M. MCCALEB 68 Zoshigaya, Tokyo , Japan The photograph shown in this arti­ cla ss ha s met thr ee times, She has cle 'was made in August, 1938, while 16 names enr olled and more in pros­ Mr. and Mrs , Rowland, and my son, pect . Five of the students in her class Hardin g, were visiting Japan. It are American-born Japane se and un­ shows a group of Christians who had derstand English better th an Japan­ come together at Zoshigaya on Sun­ ese. According to reports there are day morning, both for the Lord' s about a thou sand of the se American ­ Supper and in a welcome meeting for born young peop le now in Japan, in the gue sts, Th eir stay in Japan was order that they may have a better only one week, but during this bri ef knowl edge of their mother tongue and period we arranged for five meetings, of their own people. One of the se could not be held be­ One of the se "second generati on" cause the distance was too grea t for students is Miss Lorraine Ha segaw a, them to reach the appointment in who is typing these not es for me . She time. They found the work in Japan took a busin ess course in America be­ more encouraging, th ey said, than fore coming to Japan, including the they had anticipated. Th ey returned art of typing. After this she spent to America being full y assured th at thr ee years in a Tokyo, Kei sen J oga­ our efforts in Japan have not been in ku- en (Miss Michi Kawai's School). vain, and th at to continue the work from which she graduated last July. is quite worth while. The Cornell She is now cooperati11g with us at Church of Chicago is ready to sup ­ Zoshigaya, spending part of the time port the prop er man whenever such in secretarial work with me and par t may be found , of the time as church worker amon g Miss Hetti e Lee Ewing ha s kindl y the children. She is doing a much agreed to come to Zoshigaya twic e a needed work in visiting the homes month to t each a class in the Engli sh and getting acquainted with the peo­ Bible. She began on the 25th of Sep­ ple, As she has never done personal tember and up to the pre sent her (Continued on page 29)

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Opportunities for Missionaries SINCE 1884 Apropos the establishment of work in certain of our own great cities and the need for it in many others, this suggestion is ]!lade. The more rapid establishment of churches in these neglected places and the means for supporting workers in those fields , can both be accomplished .if more young men would follow the example of Paul. Make tents, young men, make tents! That is to say, learn a trade or profession and prac­ tice it to support yourself while you are preaching the gospel in some mis­ sion field. Perhaps not too many are graduat­ GOSPEL TENTS ing from the colleges looking for a place with a strong church at a good salary, but too few are graduating All Sizes with the vision that they will make For Sale or Rent their own way. Opportunities are of­ fered in every city for emplo yment in lines that give enough leisure time to do much work in teaching and preach ­ ing. One of the happiest memories of TARPAULINS youi:: editor is the work he did with just a handful of people in the suburbs of a large cit y while making his living working with the Western Union Tele­ graph Company. The little group AWNINGS grew until it became a church large enough to use his full time at a good wage . Young men with a zeal for the advancement of the Cause of Christ may work as clerks, tea chers , ac­ countants, or any one of a large num­ CANVAS GOODS OF ber of occupations and actually build churches whil e they are earning their EVERY DESCRIPTION livelihood in the busine ss world . Then if they are really constructive lead­ ers, the work will grow to the propor­ tion that th ey may eventually give all their time to the work of the church. Write for Prices Even in a foreign field, Africa, Broth­ er Ree se made a large part of his liv­ ing by farming . See his report in this issue. w ·e are almost of the persuasion that no preacher should be employed full time until he has demonstrated his ability in this manner really to build . NASHVILLETENT MISSION STUDY COURSE & AWNINGCO. A series of five nights was con­ ducted in early December at the Leb­ anon, Tennessee Church. This was NASHVILLE, TENN. .our seventh course with the same number of churches . 28 WORLD VISION Which Is the Greater Sin? BY JOHN STRAITON 2212 Huntingt on l,ane, Fort Worth, Texas The Present is und er stood by the ure of the churches to obey the Lord's light of the Past. History oftimes command to go into all the world and repeats it self. Graft in our cities is make discipl es of all nations; or the nothing new. Like corruption to that sin of well-meaning brethren, who found in New York, Kan sas City and are anxious to see the work done but lesser places was common even in who go about it in an unscriptural Old Testament times. Samuel was a way? great and good man; he boldly asked, The best way to prevent disease is "Whom have I defrauded? whom have to keep the body in a perfect state of I opp res sed? or of whose hand have health so that it may be able to resist I taken a bribe to blind mine eyes and throw off any disease germs therewith?" Unfortunately, his sons which may attack it . The best way did not walk in his footsteps. They to keep the church pure and avoid turned aside after lucr e, and took the introduction of innovations is for brib es and perverted ju stice. Th ey each congregation to do its full duty were grafters. Naturally the peopl e in all thing s. Thi s includes a meas­ became dissa ti sfied with this malad­ ure of respon sibility for the sending ministration of the law and cried out of the message of God's love to every for justice and reform. In their anx­ creature who has not had an oppor­ iety to get rid of th ese corrupt tunity to hear it. judges, they besought Samuel to make them a king like oth er nations who would be to them a leader and a guide. Now this was wrong for J eho­ vah himself was their king. In ask­ Read This Carefully ing for a king th ey were forsaking God and setting up a new order of government, which had not been A Chance To Earn a Religious Book commanded by God. Or Bible. Which was the greater sin? Th e sin of Joel and Abijah, the sons of Take your WORLD VISION to Sun­ Samuel, who took bribes and pervert­ day School. Ask your teacher for ed justice, thus causing the people to permission to talk to the class about seek some form of relief from their it, or ha ve the teacher' to recommend oppr essi on and dishonesty; or the sin the maga zine and ask for subscr ip­ of the people in asking a king, thu s tions. departing from God's plan of govern­ A David Lip scomb College student ment and establishing a system which wrote letters asking for subscriptions. He had not ordained? Result : a list of seve nt een names and In the ear ly day s of the r estoration eight dollars and fift y cents came in. movement there was no effort mad e He is entitl ed to books amounting to to carry the gospel outside the United four dollars and twenty-five cent s, or States. And there are many congre­ fifty per cent of amount collected. gations even tod ay who hav e not done anything in the way of carrying the You will find it easy to secur e sub­ gospel to those who liv e in heat hen scr ipti ons by asking for them. One lands. As time went by some breth­ man thought enough of the magazine ren began to realize that the gospe l to send in •one hundr ed names at his should be preached to every nation expense . and their hearts were stirred to send You may write your fri ends in the message to every creature. They other congregati ons for help. Now met togeth er to talk things over. The select the Bible or book advertised in result was the formation of a mi s­ thi s paper you want, and secur e sub­ sionary society to do the work which scriptions . amounting to double the the churches had failed to do. price of the book and let us hear from Which is the greater sin? The fail- you. WORLD VISION 29 A Passion /or Souls W. B. WEST, JR. Central Church of Christ, Los Angeles , California A whole community will become ex­ is plenteous, but the laborers are few. cited to a whit e heat over a lost child. Pray ye therefore the Lord of the Busy men will forget their business harvest, that he send forth labor er s and by the scores spend days and into hi s harvest." The greate st lover night s in a most careful search until of the souls of men is J esus. His love the lost one is found. Yet there are was sufficient for Him to die for Christian men in that community who them. are unconcerned for the lost condition Th ere are millions un saved in the of hundr eds of souls there. A mother world today. In my world and in y our will bend wit h intense intere st and world ther e are hundred s. In our daily great passion over the bed of her contacts there are score s of un sav ed darling baby brought to death's door person s. Do we hav e a pas sion for by a dangerou s illne ss. How she their souls ? Are we as concern ed watches every variation of hi s beat­ about them as the small boy was for ing pul se! In her agony she forg ets his father? The littl e lad asked, to eat; she forgets to sleep. She "Papa, is your soul insur ed?" Th e would give her own lif e to save her father replied, "Why do you ask, my precious child. Such is a mother's boy?" The young fellow an swer ed, love. The boy lives and grow s into "Because I heard Uncl e George say manhood . The d~vil gets the advan­ you had your life in sure d ,and you r ta ge of him, wraps his chains around automobile insured, but he wa s afr aid him , and is rapidly fitting him for the you would lose your soul. Papa, won't un speakabl e horrors of an endl ess you get it in sured right away?" night. Th e fond moth er negl ects to A young mi ssionary who had in­ sav e the soul of her child. valided hom e desired to r eturn to the "Brethren, my heart 's desire and mis sion field. He was a sked, "Why my supplication to God is for th em, do you wish to r eturn ?" Th e r eply that th ey may be saved" (Rom. 10: wa s, "Becau se I cannot sleep for 1). Thus Paul expre ssed his pas sion thinking of th em." A love for souls for th e souls of Isra el. Hi s love for should be the suprem e unction and them wa s sufficiently great to cau se the burning passion of every Chris­ him to say : "For I could wish that tian. Thi s love should manife st it self I my self wer e anath ema from Chri st in doing all within hi s power to lead for my brethren' s sake, my kin smen men and women to the Chri st and to according to the flesh" (Rom . 9 :3). Hi s way for th e salv ation of th eir Paul was in pain for th e Galatian souls . br ethren to have Chri stlike charac­ ters. Hear him : "My littl e children, Moving Pictures of whom I am again in travail until (Co n tin u e d fr om page 25) Christ be formed in you" ( Gal. 4: 19). work before it is all quite new to her Paul said, "Be ye imitators of me, and the scene change s with almost even as I al so am of Chri st" (I Cor . every home that she visits. Already 11:1). the increase in attendance at church Was Jesus a lover of souls? Did is quite notic eable. Just now I have He have compassion on the sons of asked her what she thinks of an men? More than ten times in th e Am erican co-worker coming out to New Testament it is said of Jesus , join her and she thinks it would be He was "moved with compas sion." a good combination. Wh en the Lord One of these instances is related in sent out the disciples He didn't send Matt . 9 :36-38. "But when he saw the them one by one, but two by two. The multitudes, he was moved with com­ same principl e applie s to women passion for them, because they were workers. If they are congenially distressed and scattered, as sheep not matced they mak e a splendid t eam in having a shepherd. Then saith he per sonal work. Thi s mean s that the unto his disciples, The harvest indeed way is open for your application. 30 WORLD VISION

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This is our fourteenth edition, sev­ WORLD VISION enteen thousand copies. Total number of copies printed to date including P. 0. BOX 173 this issue one hundred and fifty NASHVILLE,TENNESSEE thousand. WORLD VISION 31 Report A PLanned E1/ort January Through November BY R. S. KING The church at David Lipscomb Col­ B. D. MOREHEAD lege is planning a mission work P. 0. Box 173, Nashville, Tenn. through which we hope to establish a Spoke to about 120 churches in re­ working church each year in a city gard to mission work. Visited in or community where there is no some homes of nearly 200 churches. church. Assisted Arthur Graham, now in Cam­ bridge, Massachusetts, and A. B. Details are being worked out Reese, missionary from Africa, by se­ whereby two young preachers are to curing some appointments and en­ be sent into the community a month .couraging churches to support them before the meeting is to begin to go on a regular basis. Approximately from house to house personally dis­ $5,000 has gone into mission work dur­ tributing well-written tracts on gos­ ing this period as a result of my pel subjects and do personal work, work. Most of it was sent direct to thus preparing people for the meet­ workers from the churches. ing. Made arrangements for and attend­ ed mission study courses of five nights The preacher with the song leader each with the Seventh Street Church, will then begin the public meetings, Columbia, Charlotte Avenue Church, using the tent, to continue one Nashville, and Lewisburg, Tennessee, month; but the two young men doing Churches. Roy Whitfield, from China, personal work will be retained. and A. B. Reese, from Africa, were After closing the meeting arrange­ guests throughout the series during ments will be made to keep a man on two of the courses. Also worked two the field until the work is developed months with Alvin Hobby, who went to a self-supporting basis. to Africa, in July. In addition to se­ The young men who are to do the curing some funds on his travel raised personal work are to be picked from $58.00 with which to buy him a library the student body of David Lipscomb of thirty books. College and will be acceptable preach­ Printed 53,000 copies of WORLD ers, having had some experience. VISION. More than 200 churches get The plan at present is to use the quarterly bundles for distribution and minister of the college congregation, about 4,000 individuals are on the Charles R. Brewer, who is well known mailing list. We are much encouraged to the brotherhood, as the preacher by the reception the brethren have for the first meeting which is planned given the magazine. All the money for the summer of 1939, the place to solicited and sent in for the paper is be decided on later. The song leader used for its maintenance (none for my for the first meeting will be Robert services). We have secured 95½% of Niel, a well-known man and profes­ entire cost from the beginning which sor at David Lipscomb College. leaves a deficit of about $600. I am willing to take care of the deficit with The funds for this effort are to the help of mission minded brethren . come from free-will offerings. D. L. We also printed 10,000 inspirational C. Church has already proposed giv­ four-page tracts on mission work by ing one hundred dollars and an indi- Brother J. M. McCaleb. vidual fifty. . Rec e iv e d for personal support We believe such an effort will pro- . $953.60 in the following manner: duce permanent results and will not Churches giving regularly, $525.31; be a spasmodic attempt by sending a from individuals and special gifts, preacher into a community for a $232.44; from book sales, $195.85; to­ week or ten days and leave the work tal, $953.60, or $84.87 per month. to die due to lack of spiritual nour­ I am grateful for your encourage­ ishment. ment and pray for strength and wis­ If you are interested in an effort dom from above to continue my mis­ of this kind, will you not give us en­ sion educational program. couragement with an offering? Get a World-Wide Vision UFE OF C. T. STUDD HUDSON TAYLOR IN NORMAN GRUBB EARLY YEARS DR. and MRS. HOWARD TAY­ LOR The story of Hudson Taylor from birth to the end of his first term of service in China . 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The incomplete st r.wcture being built fo r a me eting place of the Me xican Christians in El Paso, Texas-a symbol of the aspirations of these Latin-Am eri can Chri stians for a comfortable and dignified place of worship: an evidenc e of the hard work and sacrifice of John Wolfe to establi sh the Cause among the Mexican s : a monument to the indiff er­ enc·e and lethargy of white Christian s throughout th e South! Editorial

In this issue of WORLD VISION we so heavi ly that you would not rest are giving you more genuinely inter­ until you hav e done some thing to help esting material from widely separated him that you will be proud of. He points on th e surface of the earth needs that building completed and than we have brought you in a long needs it immediat ely. Ind eed he time: from Africa, Japan, Hawaii , should hav e had it several years ago. Canada and other places. He ha s proceeded cautiou sly from a There is more that has to do es­ financial sta ndpoint, not going into pecially with th e work among th e debt , but buildin g piece by piece as Mexican s in the Southwest and the the funds were rece ived to do a little vision of carry ing the Gospel into more . He ha s buil t by faith, praying, Mexico, than concerning any other believing, hopin g that a great bro th­ one field. We are stressing the Mexi­ er hood would come to hi s aid. How can work thi s time but with no desiTe can we turn from it without doing to minimiz e the importance of the something to help him? needs of any other field. It took him three years to buy and We are con stantly anxious that th e pay for the lot s on which the hou se is readers of WORLD VISION may be locat ed and another year to arriv e at aroused to the calls from m any reg­ the incompl eted state of the building ions fo r th e t r uth as it is in Christ shown in the picture. It is th e re­ Jesu s ; to the urg ent need of wor kin g sult of four years str uggl e that could while it is ,fay for th e ni ght soon hav e been accomplished in one year cometh. We sincere ly hope that many had the broth er hood been awa ke to who are not now participating in any the opportunity and needs of the mi ssion work may feel impelled by work. Since J anuary, 1935, he has th e need and the urg ency of the sit­ r eceived an d expe nd ed for the lot s uation to begin helpin g actively and and building. $1,913.04. Of thi s that imm edia tely. $977.47 went for the lots and $935.57 Do not let your int eres t stop with into construction work. $500 more is a mere reading of the magazine; not needed before they can begin to meet even with say ing that it may be good in the hou se for wor ship. Th is does and that you hope the missionary not includ e inside fini shing, partitions work may continue to grow a s it ha s for clas s room s, bapti strv or benches. been doing for the last few years, but Th en t here is the splendid vision of put some of your own time into get ­ building the school to train Mexican ting acq uaint ed with the need s of a worker s, th e first unit of which is particular field that may interest yon near ly completed a few miles up the mor e than others and putting some of river from El Paso. A hundred your prayers and mon ey into th at church es should send him $25 eac h work. Do not let anoth er week go within th e next month. Won't you by without trying to get your local try to get your local congregation to congregation to send as lib era lly as be one that will do that much or pos sible to some mi ssion work. If mor e? you cannot get the congregation to do it, th en send something your self, indi­ Do not la y aside this magazine un­ vidually. til you hav e don e something about it! Consider the Mexican work a s an May th e Lord guide you into doing exa mple. Brother Wolf e h as toiled something that will .ius tif y your for a numb er of years in El Paso and claimin ,q to l?e loya l to Hi.s church and has built slowl y but surely. He has interested in saving the sou ls of had support that is tragically inade­ othe1·s. quate but he ha s kept he ro ically on the job. See that unfinished church Friends of World Vision are re­ building that is pictured on the pre­ que sted to supp ly name s and ad­ ceding page! Can you re st with a dresse s of public librari es , doctors clear conscience until you have sent office s and permanent shu t- ins to him a really generous offering, if you whom we will send the .· mag azine. are not now sen ding all you can to Kindly se cure their consent. an d some mis sion field? We wish that we maybe you will send somet hing on might press this upon your conscience the cost of pri nting and mailing. 4 WORLD VISION Southward to BY Latin America JOHN WOLFE

Mexico, South study our work with the children and A m e r i c a , the young people will be more effective. West Indies, vast In every way we will be in a better r e g i o n s in the position both to build up here at home new w o r I d un­ and to expand our work to new fields. troubled by war or the threat of We are pressing on toward the war, present to­ thing s that are before. Our plans day a m i s s i o n for this year include a protracted field · as challeng­ meeting in every vicinity where we ing as it is im­ have a group of member s living. Bro­ mense. From the ther and Sister Allen Johnson, who Rio Grande to th e great Pampas of expect to join us in the fall, will be­ the Argentine, from the rocky Andes gin the development of the Bible and from tropical island s of the Car­ School. Perhaps only mis sionaries ribean more than a hundred million who have labored for several years people, united by a common racial, alone among a foreign people will cultural, and linguistic background, realize what their coming will mean live in ignorance of the pure gospel. to us and to the work. Through the El Pa so, or The Pass, a city of 105,- free distribution of literature we hope 000 inhabitant s, ne stl es in a natural to bring th e gospel in its purity more mountain gateway looking south to strongly to the attention of the gen ­ the se regions. Here, 65,000 Mexicans eral public than ever before. With rub elbows with the remaining 40,000 better equipment, more workers, and Americans and form a friendly link an ever-growing readiness on the between us and Mexico's 17,000,000 part of th e people to learn of the gos­ people. Thousands of Mexicans pa ss pel of God' s grace we feel that a to and fro between El Paso and the great victory for Christ and His truth cities of Mexico and annual excur­ is in store. sions carry groups of Americans on If God is for us, who can be again st sight-seeing tours to that land of us? With faith, hope, and love we flowers, music, and romance. must press the battle. Unto God who Here, in thi s pass city, we are seek­ give s the increases we must ever look, ing to establish a strong Mexican and to Je sus, the author and perfec­ church, self-supporting both financ­ tor of our faith. Forw ar d to Latin­ ially and spiritually, which will act Am erica. Let us not rest nor cease as a base from which to spread the to pray and labor until these va st gospel into these regions beyond. At region s beyond hear the sweet story present we can number 60 Mexican of God' s redeeming love. Christian s, scattered from Juarez across the river to the upper valley near what is to be the Mexican Bible School. Many others converted here We know of eleven congregations have gone to other · Mexican centers. throughout the United States support­ Some of these are sowing the seed ing or sponsoring a missionary. Four where they have gone. Others are of the eleven are full-time mission­ worshipping with the Mexican con­ aries in the States. Six of the eleven gregation where they are now living. missionaries are supported or spon­ Our group here is small but the num­ sored by Nashville, Tenn., churches. ber is steadily growing, and with the At least three hundred churches, or added facilities which we are soon to five per cent of our 6,000 congrega­ have will without any reasonable tions, give monthly to some definite doubt increase rapidly. With our mission program . Perhaps a thousand new house of worship completed we churches give occasionally. Let every will be_ able to appeal more success­ congregation adopt a definite and reg­ fully to the influential class of Mexi­ ular mission program to the extent of cans. With class rooms for Bible its ability and the world will be evan- WORLD VISION 5 The Mexican BY Bible School JOHN WOLFE

One of the greatest need s of the poses was constructed and th e adobe Mexican field is the completion of our house completed with galvanized roof Bible School. Many more Mexican dis­ and flooring. Offsetting this expense, tricts along the border can be given a little les s than four acres of cotton the gospel as soon as we have a group was grown, netting a profit of $210.00. of trained young men to send out into Other asset s consi st of 30 chicken s, the harve st. The accompanying pic­ 18 rabbits, one hor se, and one milk ture shows the fir st unit of our School goat. on the acreage being bought for this This property has a present valua­ purpo se. Thi s has been the home of tion of $3,000.00, with an indebted­ Sister Wolfe and me for the pa st year, ness against it of $1,110.00, pay able in but later we plan to turn it into a semiannual not es of $120 an d $150. dormitory for the boys. At the back It is my desire to clear up this in­ of the property ther e is also an adob P debtednes s a s soon as possible. If house suitable for a small Mexican some way may be found to do this in family. Into this house Brother and the near future, we will build another Sister Roberto Pedrazo, the young building and open our school work Mexican couple shown in the picture, formally in the fall. plan to move in the spring and become Our aim is to make this a · Bible our fir st students. Brother Herman School in the true sense of the word . Jundt, also in the picture, is already Only such students will be received able to do some teaching in Spanish as wish to prepare themselve s fo r and has baptized several Mexicans in service on th e mi ssion field. The the district where he lives. number of student s will be limited During the pa st year several im­ and th e training intensified. Once a provements were made in our School student is thoroughly prepar ed and property. The front wall of the house, ha s proven him self through service which was only boarded up originally, here at home it will then be our object was rebuilt with rock from nearb y to help him get located at some other Mt. Frnnklin, the walls pla stered, a point to preach the gospel and thu s new roof put on the hou se, and the extend our labors. Let us pray the floor completed. Also an ample shed Lord of the harve st that he send forth for storing alfalfa and for other pur- more laborer s into Hi s harvest .

Th e Mexican Bibl e Bu ilding 6 WORLD VISION Needs of the Mexican Field

Every field of Chri stian evangelism gr ess law s. Such a preacher we have need s the Gospel and its power unto in Brother H. R. Zamorano, now salvation; needs zealous Chri stians working among th e Mexicans in Los who go everywhere teaching and Angeles. We need a church to spon­ preaching; needs a united church be­ sor that work. This need is very hind it that will manifest it s unity by pressing . Of course the church needs love, the bond of fellowship, that is td do more th an appoint the mission­ interest ed in every other member of ary preacher and pay him; it needs the body of Christ; need s loyalty to to pray for him, encourage him, plan God's will and His Word. with him. In applying this to individual con­ There are many other need s. A re­ ditions and races, we may discover ligiou s paper is one. The Mexican individual need s in every field, for paper, El Camino, ha s not been pub­ God did not make mankind nor nations lished regularly for lack of fund s. nor race s after a monotonous pattern. Some help from more prosp erous One very great need of the Mexican American churche s would be greatly field is prayer. The Mexican s are a appreciated . very sen sitive people . They respond More trained workers is another . quickly to appreciation, kindness com­ We stress thi s, for the workers in the mendation, spiritual intere st; likewise Mexican field are not supported at they are discouraged by indifference pre sent well enough to allow them to of other Christians toward them. Per­ do as efficient work as they should. haps we all are to some degree. They The work among the Mexicans should lose faith in a religion that by its become self-sustaining just as soon as precepts teache s that we are all possible, but will get to that situation brothers, that God is no respecter of sooner if helped a little more now persons but that in practice is in­ financially and above all, prayers. different about some of its brethren, Is it worth while to try to fill these or sorts them into classes and cate­ need s, to supply what is lacking in gories. If as many prayers went up the Mexican work? Begun hardly in private and public worship for the twenty year s ago without financial exten sion of the Gospel among the expense to the churches, largely car­ Mexicans as the Mexican brethren ried on by untr ained workers until offer for their American brethren, lately, without any one congregation surely those prayers would have a making the Mexic an work its chief very quickening effect . concern, the movement has come to There is need for a church in Mex­ be already a power for good. "Will ico City. A study of Paul's example it pay?" Well, if no busine ss con­ will show that he went to large cen­ cern did any adverti sing without an t ers like Antioch, Corinth and Rome absolute assurance that the adver­ and then made those well evangelized ti sing would pay, busin ess houses cities to be centers from which the would not grow . Sometime s salesmen Gospel could radiate into all the sur­ ar e sent over new territory several r ounding plac es . The beginning of time s at great expense and loss, with­ such a work in Mexico City would be out any appar ent results. But th<' a very helpful stimulu s to the Mexi· exten sion of th e bu sine ss into new can believer s in the United States. fields justifi es and repay s very abun­ But much more important than that: dantly all these expen ses in a few the r e are nearly nineteen million peo­ years. Ar e we to find the children of ple in Mexico who could be won to light to be less wise than the children Christ and His church. Mexico, in of this world? (Luke 16:8.) All the turn, should be our gateway to the other activitie s of the churche s and r est of Spani sh-America. all th e other fields should be contin­ To accomplish this there is need ed, ued and incr eased. neverthele ss there fir st, a preacher who is loyal, capable, are gr eat er "business opportunities" and a citizen of Mexico . Mexican among the Mexicans than in any la ws will not allow it otherwise and other new field before us. Let us, as Chri stian s we do not wish to trans· too, be about our Father's business . WORLD VISION 7 The following information concerntng son1e of the missiona.ries among the Jllexicans is furnished by Dr. H. L. Schug, head of the Modern Languages Department at Abilene Christian College. Brother Schug is a most enthusiastic and tireless 'Worker. Indeed, it was his initiating the ,vork nnd encouraging ot1her workers that has made it larg ely what it is today.

Missionaries BY Among the Mexicans HOW ARD L. SCHUG

It would be impos sible to do a work up the work at El Paso without any among the Mexicans if we had no financial guarantee whatsoever from workers. It should be interesting to the sponsoring church. Why is it that the readers of WORLDVISION to know a salary-seeker often gets big pay who some of these workers are and and a missionary gets just what's something about each of them. left over, "what the church can do Brother J. W. Treat is a Paul. without?" That is, he "makes tents" in the form Brother Jesse G. Gill is now in San of teaching Spanish and English at Antonio, Texas, at 1138 Pasadena Abilene Christian College for a living Street. He has built much, too, hav­ and puts his heart and soul into the ing been in the service perhaps a Mexican work. He and his wife both little longer than Brother Wolfe. I'm teach at the Mexican church here in not sure about the beginning dates. Abilene and give generously of their Brother Gill first established a church means and help in every way. He is in Sweetwater where there are some a good preacher and eloquent in who still keep the faith. He worked Spanish. I have never heard him in Colorado City, Texas, then in Ft. preach in English. Worth, then in Dallas and now in Brother E. B. Rodrigue z, 2215 San Antonio. He has been a great Santa Rita, Texas. While in Austin asset to the work. He has converted last year Brother Treat caused the and baptized between 200 and 300 formation of a Mexican church of Mexicans. He is now doing a solid Christ there. He and other American work, not trying to hurry or get num­ brethren arranged for Brother Zamo­ bers of half-taught converts into the rano to hold a two week' s meeting church. The congregation of Mexi­ among the Mexicans there. There cans in San Antonio is the largest were six baptisms, one of whom was we now have, I believe. Brother Rodriguez, who is a carpen­ Brother Hilario R. Zamo rano, 601 ter, as our Saviour was, and is now Enchandia Street, Los Angele s, Cali­ a valuable helper. He is one of the fornia, is well fitted for working in leaders in the work at Austin. Mexico proper. He is a Mexican Brother John W.olfe is a most origi­ citizen in good standing. More than nal thinker and is a profound stud­ that, he is in very close touch with dent of Mexican psychology. He has the leaders of national thought and built and is building a great work at politics in Mexico. We are ju.st skim­ the doorway, "El Paso del Norte," ming the surface in our work in the from the North into Mexico. He has United States. The Mexican popula­ consecrated and denied himself in a tion in the United States is widely way that can serve as a fine model scattered and almost altogether dis­ for other mi ssionaries and also as a organized and many of these have present day commentary on New Tes­ lost their identity as Mexicans. There tament time s. At present he is bet­ are barely a million of them in our ter supported than he used to be but country while there are 16,500,000 the support is still far from adequate. approximately in the Republic of Time wa s when he often did not have Mexico. With the work properly more than $10 or $20 for his own per­ supported in Mexico City as a radiat­ sonal expenses a month, and he was ing center it would be possible for us worth $200 to $300 a month. I know to influence the highest class of Mex­ of his turning down a $200 a month icans who are the traditional leaders offer in the commercial world to take and the ones best trained for lea der- 8 WORLD VISION ship among their people; the ones ers will be aroused from their indif­ whom the others respect. Brother Za­ ference and do something to help in morano should be down there with this urgent business of the King. proper equipment an cl adequate support. THE NEEDS OF THE MEXICANWORK B11ether Jose V. Dia s, 906 Eleventh Street, Las Vega s, New Mexico, lacks The prime need is better support only one semester of graduation from for all the workers. I do not refer so Abilene Chri stian College. He is a much to financial support, though born Mexican and with comparatively that could and should be better, but little difficulty could establish Mexi­ to spiritual support, prayers, interest, can citizenship. The church at Lub­ etc. I fear that the attitude of most bock, Texas, is suporting Brother all the churches is, "what we ha:ve Otis Gatewood for work among the left over after the regular collections: white people in New Mexico and they a second collection every fifth Sun­ are contributing liberally to the sup­ day, if the month ha s one, and enough port of B'rother Dias also. Brother for the preacher to live and dres:;; bias is working at secular employ­ ment to suoplement his support when Mexican style." At lea st I have heard it is insufficient from the cl:i.urches. some similar expre ssion s. If Christ should come now-a-day I imagine he Brother Rosendo Cantu, 402 West would come as a Mexican or Italian, Washington Street, Harlingen, Texas, or of some other despis ed and re­ is a worker of whom little ha s heen jected people. heard, but he is a very faithful worker and fluent speaker. He is do­ A good religious journal is another ing a solid work, aithough somewhat ' pressing need. We have done our slow, in and around Harlingen. His best in putting out EL CAMINOwhich sixteen year old daughter is a gr eat has done some good . We have not help to him. had enough money to put out such a monthly as is needed. For $17.00 we Brother Edu,ardo Fuentes , is still a can put out monthly, a good paper in student in Abilene Christian Co1lege. Spanish, but lately the local Mexican He is; very consecrated and will even­ church has been the only contributor tually be a great asset to the work I except $2.00 from Brother J. R. Jimi­ am confident. but he lacks several nez, Havana, Cuba. If we had an as­ years of finishing hi s education. sured $25 a month for EL CAMINOwe Brother Vazsuez, of Los Angeles, could put out 2,000 or 3,000 copies whose address I lack, is a great monthly and with them send as many worker and is holding together a timely tracts. small band in ~anta Pau 1a. HP. is Another need is a "press agent for genuine and solid. Mexican missions." I am not serious Brother Santos M. Rodriguez, is an and yet I am. We should not need elder in our congregation in Abilene . any special stirrer-up, but we do. We He is now doing evangelistic work get almost to having special boards un der our direction in Ozona and for the promotion of the work in Ju no, Texas. He is a fine thinker other parts of the world-but we an d a good worker and with further have none for the Mexican workers! tra ining he will m a k e greater The trip that Brother Cecil Hill made ad vancement. among some of the churches in the There are others, of course. but the interest of the work of Brother Wolfe brie f description of these will serve did some good temporarily. I do wish to show the reader that we already it were not necessary but I cannot have good men, both Americans and see how the work in Mexico City can Mexicans in the work, some of whom be established otherwise. Advice is have been doing good work for a solicited. num ber of years. They have demon­ stra ted by their activity that results can be had among the Mexicans. All Thi s is our fifteenth edition, fif­ of them have worked and are work­ teen thousand copies. Total number ing under severe handicaps. Let us of copies printed to date including c?ns ider a little their needs, with the this issue, one hundred and sixty-five since re prayer that many of our read- thousand. WORLD VISION 9 A Report on Conditions

Encounteredon the BY Mexican Mission Field JOHN WOLFE

It is true that the people of all the ligion is with them a social tradition. Latin American countries, including To deny their religion out r ight and Mexico, are mostly Roman Catholics. to embrace a new one is to be ostra­ However, the spirit in which these cized from the society in which they people hold their religion is far dif­ were born and nurtured. Religion ferent from that of Catholics in the with them may be only superficial, United Stat es. Especially among the but the social tie holds them as in a Mexicans, with whose psychology I vice . Few indeed, among the rich, am best familiar, Catholicism does are able to throw off thi s centurie s­ not present the stone wall of resist­ old weight. ance which we have become accus­ tomed to think of in connection with Among the lower class, where the that religion. This is a point which Indian blood is predominant, condi­ we must constantly bear in mind. The tions are entirely different. The poor L a tin temperament is different. have no social rank to lose by adopt­ Where the American Catholic grips ing a new re ligion. One who leaves his religion with a tenacity that can the Catholic Church may be shunned seldom be shaken, his Latin American by former friends, but this is not a cousin has more flexibility, the capa­ paramount consideration. The indi­ city for quickly dropping old attach­ vidual drifts about with no economic ments, ideas, and allegiances and or social foundation s to stay him . forming new ones . He is not sold, Consequently he has little r ega rd for body and soul, to his religion, but what others may think of him. How­ holds, over and above all, the right ever, the loyalty which among the of independent thou ght and action. In rich is given to the whole class is a word, he is more independent. His centered here in the family. The re ­ personal pride and dignity are al­ ligion of parents is held, genera lly ways in the ascend ency. Catholicism speaking, inviol able, but even this is therefore, as a religion, has no un­ a bond which is often disregarded. shakable hold upon him. He may be Aside from the natu ra l ,·estr,, .int of a Catholic, but he is still his own family ,tradition, the chief devic es of man, with the divine right of doing Rome · for holding the lower clas s in as he chooses. He hears the gospel subjection are fea r and religious pre­ with a mind more open than hi s br o.a judice . In some cases thes e verge ther Catholic in America. Especially into a deadly fanaticism. Where thi s is thi s tr ue of the typical, middle­ is the case the gospel preacher will cla ss Mexican, touched by the influ­ seek in vain for an avenue of ap­ ences abroad in the world around proach. The ear of the fanatic is deaf him. Alert and enquiring, he is ready to all appeals. Do you kno ck ~f hi s to make any change that will be for door, he will close it in your face. Do his own betterment. He stands un­ not hand him some literature, he will fettered upon the pinnacle of his own tear it in pieces before your eyes. He individualism. Let come what may, will scarcely look at a Prot esta nt, he is ready to prove all things and knowingly , on th e street lest h e be hold fast to that which in his estima­ contaminated by the very glance. tion is good . Th e chief doctrine. as sn.ch, that I B'ut that is only the background have found that hold s the se people fo r the picture. The whole situation back from acceptiong the truth is that in Mexico is colored by the complica­ of predestination or fatalism . They tions of the Mexican social ord er . In assume that God is responsible for Mexico, social and racial line s are the fact that th ey were born amid clear cut and definitive. Th e aristo­ certain conditions, and that to try to cracy, while not bound to Catholicism escape th em would be fighting agai nst by a sense of religious conviction, is God. The more ignor an t make God bound by its social traditions, for re- responsible even for their religious 10 WORLD VISION beli ef , and say that if it is God's will ing this que stion I will say, first, that to puni sh them for it they will gladly the mi ssionary must be earnest, pa­ suffer the punishment, let God's will ti ent, and willing to sacrifice himself. be done. They seem held completely Second, he must be able to adapt him­ in the clutch of an all-pervading self to the psychology of the people passivism. among whom he is working. Third, In spite of the se extreme cases, he must have the material means for however, there are many hone st, no­ living respectably and be able to ble souls among the poorer class. Many among them hear the gospel carry on his work in such a way as gladlv and respond to it s te achings. to attract respectful attention. The fact that they usually hav e large Th e greatest hindrance to the rapid familie s, live und er economic stress, spread of the gospel in Latin Amer­ have no means of getting to and from ica is our own ineffectiveness. We servic es when they live at a distance, need more mis sionaries in the field, and are often in a turmoil because more funds avail able for building of family difficulti es of one kind or another, makes it hard to weld them church buildings, supporting native into working congr el'!'ation,:;, Th ey arP. worker s, and distributing Bibles and in need of continual leadership and tracts. Just now, I know of two good guidance. Nevertheles s, they are men (American s), one of whom is a capable of a deep, earn est fa ith and preacher, who would like to enter the personal devot ion to Chri st. Mexican field. Both already speak Betwe en th ese two classe s that I Spanish. Our church building here have mention ed ther e is a very dis­ in El Pa so ought to be completed as tinct: middl e class. Thi s is comoosed soon as possible. Our School for of shoo keeper s, th e oper ator s of var­ training Mexican workers should be ious kinds of ~mr 11 bu sine,:;s, ~kill ed open ed by next year. Another mis­ workers. and member s of th e profes­ sion ary for El Pas o, $2,500 to com­ sions. Among this cla ss the hin­ dran ces to the go1mel, although more plete our house of worship, and varied, are less intens e. One may another buildin g to make possible our find something of social b-aditi on. an school work, would give us a working element of family restraint. some pre­ unit here on th e border through which judic e, and some sincer e devotion to we could make great, forward strides. the best element s of Catholicism. Brethren, let us arouse our selves. Ther e obstacles, however, are not us­ Let us press the battle . uallv in sur mount able. Her e is where one 'encoun te1·s. mor e th an eli;ewher e, the indep endent thinkers. Many are at Prese nt drifting upon a tirle of donbt concerning th e Catholic Church. Other s ar e in ooen rebellion. H ere is wher e th e door of opportunity sta nd s wide open, inviting us to enter with the gospel mes sa ge. These peo­ ple are usuall y honest and sincere. an d may be converted to Christ if one know s how to approach them . When convert ed, they make genuine Christians, and work for the gospel wit h love and devotion. Th ey have a deep r evere nce for God. and a great capac ity for spiritual appr ehension. SHOULDJOIN WITH USI They are what we often call spirit­ A Chri s tian Society for Chri st ian peop le ua lly mind ed. Although lacking the . orga ni zed n ot for profit but to American geniu s for energetic action, assist those who have bee n ber eft of thev deriv e a great individu al com­ loved ones . D eat h be ne fits , accord ing to ages, from fort and joy from th eir faith. $400 to $1000. 00. Av erage cos t $8 to $12 Th e question is how most effec­ pe r year. Minist e rs a nd others writ e tive ly to rea ch the se various classes fo r te rrit ory. of people with the gospel. In answer- WORLD VISION 11

--- The Cuba Mission Havana, Cuba

J. H. JD1IN EZ 264 Con cC'pcion Str ee t L aw ton, H ava na , C ub a

EMILIO PR JET O Of th e Cu ban C hur c h

One of the finest piece s of work typical monthly report, the following that is being done outside the United is quoted: States in spreading the Gospel of the "Brother Maza held eig ht services Lord Jesus Chri st, is that in Havan a, during the month and Brot her Prieto Cuba. Th e mis sionary is Brother J. four. Their meetings are inte resting R. Jimin ez. Th e work is und er the and lively and ar e expecting some ad­ direction of the Nebra ska Avenu e ditions, in the near future, as a re­ church of Tampa, Florida. The work sult of their efforts. Both are dili­ is supported by about twenty gently studying the Word of God; as churches in Alabama, Florida, Geor­ also the other young men whom I gia and Tennessee. have mentioned in my previous re­ Thi s work is among Spani sh speak­ ports. I am highly plea sed with their ing people and is an integral part of effort s and I believe that they will be the field and th e accomplishments in a position to give valuable help that are being featured in this issue: befo re long. the work among Spanish speaking "We had the plea sure of baptizing people in all of Latin-America. several thi s month. Mr. Prudencio Fr om the report on Brother Jimi­ Marichal, who has been with the nez' work for January, which is a ( Co n t in ued on page 14)

A small group f 1·om th e Ha vana, Cuba, chu rch. Not all th e m embers could be prese nt when the pictu re was made . Broth er and Sist er Jimi­ nez are in th e thi rd 1·ow from th e front, fourth and fit th f rom the left . 12 WORLD VISION Mission Work in a BY REUEL LEMMONS Truly Destitute Field Tipt on, Okl a hom a

I appreciate very much the invita­ been borne the ragged and shivering tion of the Editor to write an article forms of the younger. Or perhaps a for "WORLD VISION." I consider telephone conversation will send a WORLDVISION to be filling an urgent representative of the Home to some n e e d in the field of religious city where three little children have journalism. been found, deserted, hovering in an I count myself happy to be the empty box car. Not infrequently, a evangelist of a congregation very Judge or Sheriff will call and ask that zealous with respect to missionary a boy or girl be given a chance for work. The church at Tipton, Okla­ a home and a normal life in the Tip­ homa, has held five mission meetings; ton Orphans home, rather than send one debate in a mission field; and es­ it to some reform school. I have yet tablished three new congregations in my first boy or girl to see, taken from the last four months. During this such surroundings, who later had to time it has sent regular monthly con­ be sent somewhere for correction. I tributions to two destitute fields, and have seen brother R. E. Chitwood special contributions to two others. the Superintendent of the Home, g~ However, the greatest piece of mis­ on so many of these missions, that I sionary work done by the church in know when he departs this life, an Tipton, I consider to be done in the angel of mercy will have gone to his Tipton Orphans Home. As would be rest. expected, the congregation here is the Into the Tipton Orphans Home largest supporter of the home. It is have gone more than nine hundred concerning the missionary oppor­ children in fourteen years. Their tunity afforded by this home that I histories tell a sad and deplorable write. ta~e; broken homes, weeping mothers ; Be it understood that all the other suicide fathers; sad-eyed children. I homes furnish just such an opportu­ have seen m a n y undernourished nity as this one, and that it is used bodies; many ill-trained minds; many as a basis for this article simply be­ starved souls. I have seen many pic­ cause I am better acquainted with it . tures of sickness, death, poverty and and its workings. I am in no way want; many views of cast off and un­ connected with the Home. I merely wanted children. I have listened to preach for the church which meets their stories-stories of famine, cold, in Tipton. However I come in close and want. Many stories of hopeless contact _with the Home practically struggles against unconquerable odds. every day. The Home has listened to them all. Within its portals dwell some two It has done what it could. Never yet, hundred forty orphan children. They has a destitute orphan child been were made orphans by no choice of turned from its door. their own. They seem to me to be the most pitiful people in the world. These children are what they are When · these little boys and girls today, chiefly by the Christianity that should be the greatest delight of some is in the world. The roof over their parent's heart, they are-or were­ heads, the food they eat, and the but the personification of misery, clothes they wear are the gifts of want and dispair. When all the men and women who practice pure stories of our foreign lands have been and undefiled religion. I sat and told, regarding the want, poverty and watched the two hundred forty of ignorance of people without God, I them play with new Christmas toys am certain that none of them will be in the halls of the Home today, while more horrible than the stories that the north wind drove the freezing could be told concerning t h e s e weather through thick overcoats out­ children. side. I secretely thanked my God Each day brings many strangers that I have had an opportunity to to the doors of the Tipton Orphans help remove these helpless children Home. In the arms of the older have from out those chilling winds. WORLD VISION 13 If the food and shelter were all not more than one out of four had that were provided for the se children, ever heard of the church of Christ the brotherhood would have done a before they came into the Home. I Christian act. But that is the very think it would also be safe to say that beginning. Each child is given an not one out of twenty would have education-even allowed a college ever been a member of the New Tes­ education if he desires it. As far as tament church had it not been for the it is possible under the circumstances Home. Considering the circumstances each is taught a trade. And greatest of life from which they came, it is of all, each is taught of God. reasonable that most of them would Each evening as the shadows fall, have become the criminals of tomor­ the children are all gathered in the row-driven to it by want and neg­ dining room of the home for a Hible lect, had it not been for the home. lesson. They sing and pray and learn Then, too, there is the indirect mis­ God's will. I have listened many sionary work of the home. The Tip­ times as one of the larger boys, lead­ ton Orphans Home preaches a louder ing the prayer of all the children sermon than any gospel preacher on said, "Lord, we thank thee for this the field. God alone can know . the home, and all that it has · meant to impression it has had upon the hearts us. We thank thee for brother and and lives of observers. I could name sister Chitwood, and for all who have several who have been led to obey made this home possible. Father, the gospel, who were first attracted bles s them, and keep them." My by the work that the Tipton Orphans brother, they mean every word of it. Home is doing. I think that I shall never hear this side of Glory, a chorus more sweet I consider the money spent bv the than the voices of the se two hundred brotherhood in the support of the forty orphan children raised in praise Tipton Home, and all the oth er s for to God in song. I believe that every that matter, to be the wisest, sound­ one of them sing when the song is est, most lasting, and most economical started. Their voices come nearer spending that can be done in the mis­ sounding like harpers harping with sion field. Truly, a world wide vis­ their harps, and come nearer having ion could not overlook such a desti­ the sound of a mighty waterfall than tute, yet such a ripe harvest field. anything I have ever heard. I have had the happy privilege of baptizing over one hundred of these The Cuba Mission children into Christ since I came to ( Co ntinu ed fr o m p a g e 12 ) Tipton. Only last week, seven of the Seventh Day Adventist s and visiting larger girls of the home came into many churches seeking for the truth. the office and asked to be baptized. He is a highly esteemed member of There wa s no death bed stories, no the National Police Force and a-'"very soul stirring sermon, no invitation enthusiastic and a c t i v e personal song. They just came and demanded worker. Also, Messrs. Raul and Isi­ to be baptized. Three of the matrons dro Fraga, brothers of our beloved went with me to the church building, Jose Antonio Fraga who, as you will and helped me prepare the baptistry no doubt remember, died last Novem­ and composed the audience while ber. These are from Brother Prieto's these young ladies were bantized . So class at 117 Est"evez Street, Havana. it has been many times. These chil­ And Alejandro Gonzalez, a Catholic, dren make the most devoted Chris­ almost won by the Adventists. This tians I know any thing about. Five is a result from Brother Maza's of them now live in Clinton, Okla­ group of Marianao. We are glad in­ homa. They are married and have deed because of these victories of the taken their places in the world. Rec­ Truth over error. I know you will ently a stranger said to me. "As rejoice with us too. May our Lord long as that Home can produce the continue to bles s us! kind of men and women it has pro­ "I hope to announce, soon, the be­ duced and sent to Clinton, it is ginning of a new work at Matanzas, worthy of every penny that is spent in Matanzas province. I could not on it." Mine is a · loud "Amen." start last month, as I had intended, Of the children in the Home, I but Brother Rodriguez is there al­ think I would be safe in saying that ready and trying to get a start." 14 WORLD VISION Regarding Our B Y A.B. REECE Return to Africa Now in Ab i1e ne, T exas

We have spent a busy year in the doesn't show up, ju stifie S.·a: little elec­ States and not much time, not near tricity for both our oym hou se and enough is left to do what we would the church house? Or, again where like to do. Just three months left. we have to make all our own furni­ Passage has to be engaged and down tur e from the forest tree; rip the payments have to be paid to hold the log into plank; work th e plank into reservations. Car has to be ex­ furniture that it justifies our having changed and things acquired and got some power tools? The tools can be together to put into the truck which run off the battery in the electric we will drive to the boat and have plant for light. Where we have to them to set it across to Capetown make every thin g by hand and be self where we will get in and drive on to sufficient you will not think us ex­ Sinde Mission, taking all we can from travagant if we ask ror these neces­ here. sary things. I am confident you were intere sted We want to return in June to our in the message I brought to you re­ work at Sinde Mission which we left garding th e African field and work in charge of a Native, Kambol e. Soon and most of you expressed a desire to after the Brown s got to North Rho­ have fellowship with us in that work. desia, Kambole went to the brethren We appreciated that very much and at Kalomo and told them two cath­ I know the officers of 10th & Francis olics were around in the locality of St., congregation of Oklahoma City Sinde trying to get a footing and that will appreciate your gifts toward some one better come there and pre­ this return and your letting them vent that being done. Brother Brown know of your intentions of a regular, went there and stayed a while but monthly contribution for support now has gone to Cape Town to work. after we are on the field. Most of the buildings at Sinde are We are thankful for all those vol­ of the adobe type which our Super­ unteer friends accepting the responsi­ viso,i: of Native Education says must bility of supplying such helpful and come down and that we must put up anj)reciated thing s as radio, sewing, building s of burned brick. We were machine, .22 rifle, etc. If any one or not in a position financially nor con­ congregation would like to help s.up­ dition of health when we had to pay ply further things, the following are our own way out to get home to take needed: a mimeograph, hammer mill, on that responsibility of tearing down windcharger ·and battery, and some and rebuilding. But now it will have power tools. If it is more convenient to be done if we are to carry on there just send your gift to me for I know with the approval of the Government. brethren in Christ who are in busi­ Now we are our selves again and not ness who have told me they would only ready to go back but to take get me these things at wholesale. on the re spon sibility of rebuilding. This; is cheaper th an the second hand With better help, both in support and dealers sell used articles . workers the ta sk will be easier. Brother J. C. Shewmaker , wife and It take s two natives grinding all two children are going with us. day and six days a week on a hand mill to make our corn meal, their We never like to take on greater chief food. Don't you think that jus­ burdens than we shall be able to meet tifies a hammer mill where one day hence it is a very important matter will provide a month's supply? · Or, to know just what our regular where coal oil is 85 cents a gallon monthly income is. Without this we and the only lighting facilities for cannot know how to plan our work. our nightly meetings is just an old A building program is expensive but lantern and where in that dim light not so expensive over there as it is all that you can see of the individual here, on account of the cheap labor na tive is the whites of his eyes for and our ability to make our own black in a black back ground just (Continued on pag e 24) WORLD VISION 15 BY At Work ALVIN HOBBY P. 0. K a lom o, N orth e rn Rhod es ia in Africa South Afri ca

Friday, Decem­ ma!? of t~is territory, indicating the ber 2nd, closed v:1rious villages to be visited. Be­ the third month sides preaching, they will deliver of school here at tracts written \n the native language. N amwianga Mis­ 'J'.hese were prmted here on the mis­ sion. Thus far, sion after.having been written by one the work has of the nat~ve !eachers. This is a very been very satis­ helpful aid m teaching those who factory. The pu­ can not read and speak Engli sh. pils take an un­ This project is in line with the ac­ usual interest in ~epte~ method of doing mission work their books and m this country, since the chief aim is delight in doing their work well. In preachers and teachers to teach and ?ne of _the Bible classes each pupil to develop and send out native 1s required to memorize two verses preachers 'to their own people. We are of scripture daily. Everyone recog­ able now to see these plans being exe­ nizes the fact that memory work re­ cuted and to see some of the results quires considerable study; but, while of the work. studying the twelfth chapter of Mat­ thew one boy stood and repeated A good example is that of "Musa." twenty verses! He had learned all Musa is a native boy about twenty­ these in one night; and all the light five years old. He attended the mis­ he. had to st.).ldy by was a little fire sion school at Kabanga Mission where built up outside his hut. Brother Merritt was working. Here Since the rains have started and he became a Christian; and after fin­ many of the boys have had to go ishing the fourth standard ( about the home and "dig," or help their parents sixth grade), he went to the govern­ plant mealies (maize), etc., school ment normal school for native teach­ was vacated at the end of the third ers. During the past fall he has been month until January 2nd. Not all of teaching a village school in a native the boys had to go home. Part of village called Siamafumba. But he those who did not have to go, stayed has been doing more than teaching on the mission to work. Others who s~hool. On Sunday and at other are most advanced in their school times, wherever an opportunity could work and best prepared, were sent be found, he 'preached to the people out to the villages to preach during there. the month, to their own people. Musa's work speaks for itself. Dur­ This is a project of the church, in­ ing the month of November, Brother cluding the white missionaries and Merritt received a letter from him the native Christians, that meets saying that he had six converts to be here on the mission. Eight boys were baptized. It is the practice here to selected to be sent. The one that re­ let the white missionary do the bap­ peated the twenty verses of scripture !izing. Brother Merritt, went, and was among the number. For their mstead of six there were thirty-six work they will receive the customary baptized! A little later, Musa wrote amount, which is ten shillings per another letter saying he had ten more month (about $2.40) for native work­ to be baptized. Brother Merritt ers. A few dollars will go a long way went again; and this time he bap­ in preaching the gospel in this coun­ tized twenty-six, making a total of try. We feel that these boys will be sixty-one in one village within a able to do a lot of good as well as get month's time. At the present there much valuable experience for them­ are eighty-three members in this con­ selves. gregation. Originally, there were The boys were sent out "two by seven members. Brother Scott bap­ two," and will work in pairs during tized fourteen; and one was restored the month. Each pair was given a (Continued on page 24) 16 WORLD VISION George Pepperdine College

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An Ox Trip- Twenty-One Baptized - BY A. B. REECE Faithful Siamate Abilen e , Texas

F01 ; sometime Th e accompanying cut show s our rig. one village, Kan­ chele, had been FAITHFUL SIAMATE hearing and Siamate is a member of a very good obeying the Gos­ family . Converted while young, he pel. When the grew stea dily in spirit and zeal, walk­ old h e a d m a n , ing twenty miles to church every Kanchele, d i e d week for years until he established some dissention the Cause in hi s own village . His arose and the vil­ village breaking up, he moved to Kan­ lage divided, one chele, where he became the leading part going to the spirit. There he was put to a severe west taking the name, Kanchele, with test of his faith by a witch doctor. them. They were active workers in It was on this wise: the. Cause and had been preaching to There were two or three persons I their neighbor s. They asked us to whom the headman wanted to get rid come visit them as severa l were ask­ of but he was not man enough to go ing to be baptized . So we laid off to them and tell them to get out. He from work, inspanned six head of resorted to the old native custom of oxen to the wagon, and set out Satur­ calling in the witch doctor to smell day morning for the new village. We them out. The terms agreed upon camped early that evening so the were as follows: each member of his oxen could graze. While the head village must be tested and each pay boy herded the oxen we all fished. his fee in money; make a contribu­ The night passed · without incident. tion of grain (for he had to have two Starting early next morning we 200 pound sacks of grain), and give reached the village just at noon; held toward buying an ox for a feast after­ our services and at the close I bap­ ward . To smell them out he used a tized twenty one men, women and rawhide slip loop which he put over children. We took two days to re ­ each one's head and if he were a turn. All the way we followed a na­ witch or had any witch's medicine, the tive path through . the forest and not loop automatically tightened around being able to go as crooked as the the one' s neck. path we broke the top off the wagon. (Continued on page 21)

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Dul'ing the coming to p1:1ssamong th e churche s of twenty year s that the United States? First, the grow­ we hav e been in ing work and new congregations on Japan,many the We st Coast. Again, it was joy things have hap­ to my soul to visit the new school in pened to th e fur­ Los Angeles that Brother Pepperdine therance of the ha s giv en to our count r y' s young Gospel and the people. A noble group of men and salvation of be­ women make up the family . It prom ­ nighted s o u 1 s . ises to do great good. Missionary e f - My next stop at Abil ene Christian fort s both abroad College, where my daughter has been and in the United States have in­ received so kindly and was attending crea sed surprisingly and other foun­ school. It was a great pleasure to dational work in the Kingdom of the meet old friends and teachers . We Lord has gone forward. We have are always glad to meet Sister seen several hundred baptized in Ja­ Bishop. The work that Brother and pan . Several new congregations, Sister B'ishop did in Japan still goes though small, are worshipping our on in an important way. Lord in Japan. All these things are C. Roy Bixler began work with the definitely encouraging. church at 39th and Flora (th en 33rd Up on my arrival from Japan, No­ and Benton) in Kansa s City, Missouri vember 29, I was met by Brother H. about the time we began our rural R. Fox, given the welcome word that work in Japan. At this time I find Mr s. Bixler was improving, and es­ the work grown to a large congrega­ corted to the hospitable home of tion active in many important phases Brother and Sister Godfrey of Cen­ of church work. The other congre­ tral church in Los Angeles. gations in Kan sas City are likewise May I name a few experiences going forward-a great contrast to since arriving that seem to me to the size of the work in 1918. · show the great awakening that is Brother George Benson, in cooper-

A group of Japanese young people who were baptized in a recent meeting. 20 WORLD VISION ation with the splendid faculty, tried I must mention Brother J. P. Boyd and true through the years, is making at Ruston, Louisiana . He is not well Harding College to be felt both in and but the fir st year the original 15 out of the church throughout the Christians doubled to 30 and the sec­ land. ond year the 30 doubled to 60 or The visit in Nashville revealed that thereabouts . greater activity than ever is being And now I am in the home of manifest in spreading the Kingdom Brother and Sister R. B. Sweet. His of our Lord. Special mis sion plan s valuable work as editor of WORLD are being developed for both home VISION has made me anxious to meet and foreign work. Watch WORLD them. They are lovely folk. Again VISION for reports on these efforts . he is giving of himself from an al­ The homecoming and meeting at ready full program for thi s work. Martinsburg, Indiana, was a real The magazine is growing amazingly treat mingled with joy and sadness, and doing great. WORLD VISION to for several have gone on ahead and my mind is one of the greatest new we can see them no more here. The additions to the benefit of mis sions church there and at Borden and other that has been made. The Lord is points nearby-all together push for­ blessing it . And so we thank the ward for their Lord. Father for him and that indefatig­ Meeting old friends and kin and able B. D. Morehead who is always brethren in Louisville and central abounding in th e work of the Lord Kentucky wa s greatly encouraging. unselfishly and untiringly, assisted Time prevented me from getting by hi s zealous wife. around to all, but special efforts to proclaim the Gospel seems manifest by all churches, including those I did An Ox Trip not get to visit. ( Co ntinu ed f r om p ag e 17) Brother Harding McCaleb and the When he came to Siamate to col­ church at Cornell Avenue invited me lect hi s fees Siamate told him he was to come to Chicago. Again activity no witch nor had any medicine; re­ was an impressing quality there. fused to pay his fees or to have any­ Brother John Allen Hudson's work thing to do with his witchcraft . The is highly spoken of. The whole church witch doctor warned him, "Be care­ plans on a real program for missions. ful, don't resist my word. You know They are still set on supplying what happened to the headman, Brother J. M. McCaleb with the Bofu?" needed couple for the work there. Brother Harding McCaleb's and Siamate an swered, "Yes. I know. Brother Rowland's visit to Japan in he is dead." (The witch doctor had July, 1938 greatly encouraged them just come from Bofu's village.) to try to supply the need. Incident­ Witch doctor: "and the same thing ally, Brother Harding McCaleb is will happen to you if you resist my surely a son that· any parent might word." thank God for in his zeal and unself­ But Siamate . as becometh a Chris­ ish efforts in behalf of perishing pa­ tian, boldly replied. "You may kill me gans. No other man has more inter­ but I will die a Christian." est in missions or is sacrificing more It is great to lay down one' s life time in behalf of the missionaries a living sacrifice, but it is greater to than Brother Harding McCaleb . We lav it down a dead one, as a martyr . thank the Lord for him. . Brother ( See Matthew 18: 12) "Know ve not Craddock invited me to Northwest that the angel of these little ones congregation but I could only promise doth always behold the face of Je­ to visit them later . hovah?" I had reported the witch Brother Morehead called by Searcy doctor to the police at Livingstone (where we are to live until May, and they came out just in time to D. V.) and allowed me to accompany catch him right in the act of testing. him down through Arkansas, Missis­ So they gave him eleven years im­ sippi and Louisiana. It has been a prisonment with hard labor after delightful trip. We have visited many which he is to be deported. Siamate congregations and mission points . is still a faithful Christian and a Everyone is awake and up and doing. lovable character. WORLD VISION 21 Announcements All our Jack He hat h supplie d Plenteou s for the uni verse . To supporters of World Vision ­ we call your attention to our co-op­ Earthen Vesse ls, in our hands erative plans. Doth the wor ld 's one hope remain B. D. Morehead contin ues as pub­ "Go ye therefore"-Chri st commands, lisher and R. B. Sweat as editor. Its May Hi s trust be not in vain. cost of printing is to be secured as in th e past-by gifts, subscriptions , - Nellie H ertzka Morehead. sale of the magazine in bundles, and ad sa les. 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Vision is sent to the ent ire mailing list of CHRISTIAN LEADED.Thi s gives Fifteen years later she returned to the reader s twenty-four papers a the State s wit h their three children year. th at th ey might have adva ntag e of The above arrangement does not an American educat ion. a ssist Wor ld Vision with its prin ting Sister McCaleb, after an extended cost for CHRISTIAN LEADERpays only illn ess departed thi s lif e on Janua r y the printer's cost for copies needed 30, at the age of 70 year s and 20 for it s mailing list . Thi s arrange­ days. ment about doubles the sing le copy circulation of the World Vi sion . To Brother McCaleb, and children, Th e editor of the World Vi sion is Mrs. John T. Glenn of Louisville, staff writer and the publisher is cir ­ Ky., Mr s. Dr. F. E. Williams of Wa­ culation manager of CHRISTIAN LEAD­ konda, S. Dakota, and J. Harding ER. We are pleased wit h the co-oper­ McCaleb of Chi cago, Ill ., we express ative arrangement. sincere sympathy .

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The thing The apostle s could so present the gos­ about which I de­ pel that sinners would cry out, "What sire to write has must we do?" To me, the trouble is been on my not, what is the matter with the peo­ m i n d for some ple, but what is the matter with us? time. To me, it JeSIU)SMov ed With Compassion · is an urgent need, for every Jesu s wa s moved with compassion t e a c h e r of the becau se the multitudes were scattered word of God to as sheep having no shepherd. (Mark prayerfully a n d 6 :34.) The Pharisees were blind e a r n e s t ly con guides leading the mu ltitude s away sider. In Billings, Montana, I dis- from Jesus. (Matt. 15:14.) There tributed thou sands of pieces of lit­ is no doubt that the teacher s of de­ erature, written by myself and other s, nominationa lism today ar e blind with seeming ly very little results. I guides becau se they have lead the have asked my self many times, why people into the divided condition of did not these ' article s get greater re­ Christendom that exi sts in the wor ld sults? One is inclined to satisfy him­ today. The teaching of one church self my saying, "Oh! the people are will not produce another one, neither just indifferent ." But, is not that will the teaching of the New Testa­ just salving one' s conscience? That ment produce mor e churches today does not get re sults, and re sults are than it produced in N ew Testament what we want. times. It produced only one church Many denominational preachers re ­ then . (Eph. 4:4 -6; 1 :22-23.) sort to entertainment, politics, and Many of th e people today are be­ current events to get the attention of wildered because of the many con­ the people. I am sure they do it be­ flicting doctrine s they hear and be­ cause that is what the peop le are cause of the sinfulness they see in the interested in. But the Hible says, lives of many profe ssed Chri stian s. "The gospel is the power of God unto This has developed in the heart s of salvation ." Rom . 1 :16. To me, re­ some a positive disrespect for pro­ sorting to these things in either the fess ed religion. Others are positive ly pulpit or pre ss, is but hoisting the set in the religion of their fathers white flag . and like Saul of Tarsus, Gamaliel was right, even though he could not Viewpoint of the Read er an swer Stephen. Shou ld not the se The man on the mission field ha s bewi lder ed peop le have our utmost no crowd to draw a crowd. Hi s en­ sympathy? thusiasm must come from the word Winning Attention of God, prayer, and the longing of When Jesu s sent the twelve on the his heart to see souls saved. Some ­ first commission, he said, "Behold, I times, I fear, we write articles for send you forth as sheep in the midst promiscuous distribution among sin­ of wolves : be ye wise as serpents, ners, just in the same manner that a and harmles s a s doves." (Matt . 10: teacher talks to his clas s. If he 16.) The apo stle Paul said, "Let you r should think abo ut it for just one speech be always with grace, sea ­ minute, he should know that his arti­ soned with salt, that ye may know cle will not be read by very many. how ye ought to answer each one." The student is anxious to learn what (Col. 4:6.) He was a wonder at the teacher has to teach him . That practicing this thing. He stood on is why he is in the clas s. But I am Mars Hill befpre the heathen phil­ sure that the average home where osophers and said, "Ye men of the literature is left does not want Athens, in all things I perceive that the literature and many of them will ye are very religio us. For a s I let you knqw in no unc ertain term s. pa ssed along and perceived the ob- WORLD VISION 23 jects of your wor ship, I found al so how often would I have gathered thy an altar with this inscription, To an children together, even a s a hen gath­ unknown God. What therefore ye ereth her chicken s under her wing s, worship in ignorance, this I set forth and ye would . not." (Matt. 23 :37.) unto you. " (Act s 17 :22-23.) With They could not answer him, so they this opening, he proceeded into his crucified him. addres s on the Unknown God. Be­ Most everywhere the apo stle Paul fore King Agrippa, he said, "I think went, he so spoke, that he brought myself happy, King Agrippa, that I conviction to many of his hearers am to make my def ence before thee and persecution upon himself. Hut this day, touching all the things his love for his heare r s wa s shown to whereof I am accu sed of the Jews: such an extent that he lead thousands esecially becau se thou art expert in to Chri st amidst the greatest opposi­ all custom s and question s which are tion and persecution. His enemies among the Jews." (Acts 26: 2-3.) recognized the greatness of his suc­ He stood before the mob in Jerusalem cess, and they were so aroused in that had been trying to beat him to their opposition again st him that they death and so won the attention of his cried out, "These that have turned persecutors that there was a pro­ the world upside down are come found silence. (Act s 22:1.) J esus hither also." (Acts 17 :6.) talked about a sower going forth to I would not advocate calling peo­ sow and about a man sowing good ple hypo crites as J esu s did, because seed in his field and an enemy sowing we might mi sjudge hearts. But let tares among the wheat. From these us pray earne stly that •God will keep things that his hearers well under­ us humble, that we may have more stood, he drew the great lessons of love for the lost, that we may have the kingdom of heaven. the wisdom and courage to so speak and write that we may lead thou­ Convicting Men of Sin sands to Chri st. John the Baptist and Jesus came preaching, "Repent ye; for the king­ Regarding Our Return to Africa dom of heaven is at hand." (Matt. (Continued from page 16) 3:2; 4:17.) The Pharisees were brick. Yes, and it is within our abil­ proud and haughty teachers of the ity to keep any and all denominations people, but the publican s were hum­ out by taking pos session of what has ble and penitent . "And the publican s been offered to us. Would you like justified God, being baptized with the to have fellowship with such work­ baptism of John . But the Pharisees ers? Would you like to help give the and lawyers rejected for themselves gospel to the people of 100,000 square the counsel of God, being not bap­ miles who are constantly asking to tized of him." (Luke 7:29-30.) Jesus be taught? Who beg with such said to the Pharisaical class of peo­ earnestnes s that they get down on ple, "Verily I say unto you, that the their knees and pray to us to be publicans and harlots go into the taught? Or for a teacher? Whom kingdom of God before you." (Matt. we have to refuse because we have 21 :31.) To the Pharisees, he said, done all we could and who start away · "Ye blind guides, that strain out the and stop out a short distance, turn gnat and swallow a camel!" "Woe and tell us they will tell God on us unto you, scribes, Pharisee, hypo­ if we don't give them a teacher? crites! for ye cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but with­ At Work. in Africa in they are full from extortion and (Co ntinu ed f rom p a g e 16) excess." "Woe unto you, scribes and or transferred there a short time Pharisees, hypocrites! which out­ ago. wardly appear beautiful, but inward­ Such accomplishments give us much ly are full of dead men's bones and hope and e n c o u r a g e m e n t and all uncleanness." (Matt. 23.) They strengthens our faith in the efforts could indeed and in truth see them­ that are being made. Surely, the selves as they really were in the sight field here is "white unto harvest"; of God. But it seems in the same and every good Christian should pray speech, he said, "O Jerusalem, J eru­ for the success of the work and that salem, that killeth the prophet s, and the "Lord of the harvest" may "send stoneth them that are sent unto h~r ! forth laborers into his harvest." 24 WORLD VISION Southwest Cof or ado PLans to Evangelize B Y OMAR BIXLER Central Western Slope Co rtez , Co lora do

Our Southwe stern Colorado field is and the growing spiritual enthusiasm strictly bounded by the physical geog­ of the Cortez Church, it appears that raphy of the region. In this area, the gospel will most effectively grow enclosed by the Continental Divide on out from this Valley to cover the the east, the great New Mexico­ Arizona Navajo Reservation to the central western slope of the "Rock­ south, the Colorado River on the ies." west, and sparsely-populated moun­ Lebanon is nine miles north and tains to the north, are three congre­ some thousand feet higher than Cor­ gations of the New Testament tez, off the main highways. This is Church. the oldest congregation in the Monte­ Rv comparative population, and re­ zuma Valley, and the one which cent influx of "Dust Bowl" immi­ called me here for continuous work grants from across the Divide, there in the summer of 1937. At Cahone, is ripe opportunity for building con­ 35 miles northwest of Cortez, on the gregations at each of the towns in the San Juan Basin. These churche s Utah highway, is a group of 20 faith­ should then spread out toward Ari­ ful brethren, meeting regularly; and zona, Northwestern Colorado, and in Utah about 20 mile s west-by-north Utah. from Cahone is a family of six mem­ bers, one of which was baptized in the History of the churches in this area Cahone, Colorado meeting last No­ revolves around the names of half a vember, which was held by B'rother dozen young preachers, who have had Fred Conner, of Palacios, Texas. real missionary spirit, and a few brethren who want Churches of In a year of difficult progress in Christ here. this county I wa s able to get Brother C. Roy Bixler of Kansas City for a There is a small active congrega­ meeting at Lebanon (supported by tion at Bayfield, near the Divide and that congregation and Kansas City), the New Mexico-Colorado line, which and Brother Conner for two meet­ location is separated from the Monte­ ings. The latter gav e six weeks of zuma Valley by the La Plata Moun­ hi s time to thi s work at the close of tains. Durango, the largest city in 1938, and will return this year, still the region, has no congregation, and without promise of support, for we should back up from the general three meetings. He baptized twelve direction of expansion to build a at Cortez, and seven at Cahone, last church there. year. Brother Conner will also assist Fifty miles west of Durango is Brother Carl Burcham of Albuquer­ Cortez, the county seat of Montezuma que, in three mission meetings in County, where the principal highway northern New Mexico this year. from the centers of Colorado diverges Since obtaining substitute work in into the Salt Lake City route, and the Cort ez post office for my living, the Arizona-California highway. The since January 1938, I have worked year-old congregation at Cortez, of principally with the new group at thirty members, has purchased lots Cortez; before that at Lebanon, and at the exact junction of these high­ a little at Cahone. We trust we may ways, on the main street of the town, have a good building-the fir st owned where, by the labor of our brethren, by the Churches in this area-at Cor­ and financial aid of other Christians tez within this season. And it is and congregations, we will erect a hoped that in another year two or church building immediately, the three of these congregations may be Lord willing. able to support preaching for the Because of the cooperation of the greater growth of the Kingdom in Lebanon and Cahone congregations, thi s vast and fruitful region. WORLD VISION 25 Highlightsof BY J.C. BAILEY the Work in Canada R a dvill e, Sas k at ch ew a n

Canada is a country larger than no churches . In the northern part of the United State s, including Alaska, the province there are only three or but with a population of just a little four congregations. less than eleven million. Manitoba is part of the "West." There are many commendable There are two congregations in Win­ things about Canada. There are no nipeg and there is a keen interest in movies open on Sunday. There are mis sion work. A new church was re­ no Sunday new spapers published .in cently started at Lac Du Bonnet Canada. Murder is not so prevalent through the effort of one of these according to population as in the congregations. Carman is a congre­ United States, and divorce, though a gation about forty years old. Then growing evil, according to law can away out on the western border is only be obtained on the ground of Manson . This congregation was infidelity. started by one of our greatest pioneer Canada has a good public school workers, H. A. Rogers. Then in the system, and has legi slation to pro­ northern part of the province are vide for the blind, infirm and aged. four Indian congregations. While in However, most of these things are no Winnipeg this fall I took part in the doubt known to the reader s I am funeral service for Brother Trindle, addressing, but do you know that the founder of this work, a pure Canada presents a vast mission field blooded Indian and true born Chris­ with the exception of the older part tian. I trust that other worker s will of Ontario and a few of the larger be able to continue this excellent cities? work. This province lies to the north The eastern province is Prince Ed­ of Minnesota and North Dakota and ward Island and there is no church while presently still a vast mission contending for New Testament Chris­ field it is far ahead of the two states tianity known to the writer. Nova to the south. The best part of it is: Scotia has one small band that meets Manitoba is distinctly mission minded and a man and his wife who have set and expects to have a full - time up the Lord's table in their own worker in the field this coming sum­ home. No effort at evangelizing is mer. There are a few isolated breth­ being made so far as the writer ren beside the congregations men­ knows. The next province is New tioned. Brunswick and my information is not The next stop west brings us to certain but there are not more than Saskatchewan. Here the writer labors two places after the New Testament most of hi s time and in his humble order to let their light shine and pos­ opinion presents one of the greatest sibly only one. Quebec is the large st missionary possibilities we have. I province of the Dominion which have labored some in Ontario, Mani­ stretches from sea to sea and to the toba, North Dakota, Montana and Arctic on the north. It is mostly Idaho. I have preached also in Mis­ French and Roman Catholic in faith souri, Iowa and Michigan. I moved but there is a little congregation in to Saskatchewan in 1928 and that Montreal and at another place a man year and 1929 were both fruitful in and his wife and .family keep house winning souls to Christ. Since 1930 for the Lord. when the depression started, and we Ontario is the second large st prov­ have suffered from drought ever ince and the greatest population and since, more or less, yet since that a number of strong congregations are time we have doubled the number of found here. Also a number of good members and the number of congre­ and faithful preachers of the Gospel gations. These congregation s are all live here. However, even here there small, meeting in houses, school­ are vast territories that know noth­ houses, and halls, only two have their ing of the New Testament Church. own meeting houses but the faith and All the counties east of Toronto have zeal of most of the se Christians is 26 WORLD VISION commendable. There are about 35 born in several state s of th e Union . pla ces where the Lord's table is I recall the se, Iowa, North Dakota, spread on the first day of the week. Missouri, Indian a, Minnesota . We Saskatchewan lies to the north of have also baptiz ed peopl e born in the North Dakota and Montana and pre­ following countri es, England, Scot­ sents a brighter picture than either land, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, of thos e states. I do not wish anyone Germany, Ireland and Syri a and pos­ to think that th e writ er ha s done all sibly others. the wor k that has been don e in the las t On the west coast is Briti sh Colum­ ten years to say nothing of pion eer bia. Th ere ar e only four chu rches in work done by such men as H. A. the province so far as I know and of Roger s, C. W. Petch and oth ers. We (Co ntinu ed on p a g e 29 ) have some fine workers today. Most of them earning most of their own living. The writer has baptized nearly two hundred since moving here in 1928. I have als o baptized BIBLES some in Montana, North Dakota, King J a m es Ver sion An1 t,rican Re v. Ver sion Manitoba, Idaho and Ontario in that Se nd for s p ecial li st time. We have started new work in several new places and revived the MISCELLANEOUS work in several other s. Several open SERMO N OUTLINE S doors are waiting for us as soon as 150 O u tl ine s by 50 of o u r ow n we can enter. We had a Gospel pap er pr ea ch e rs. 400 p ages . B la n k pag es published at Wi shart for several fo r yo u r own n otes. T exts for t h e Ag ed , sick and fu n era ls. A lso si n gle years by one of our Sa skatchewan and doub le r ing n1arr iages . preachers. It is now publi shed at P r ice ------75 c Garman, Manitoba . COM.MUN IO N WAR E Saskatchewan is still a va st mis sion F ull s et or extra t r ays a nd gl asses. field but it has demonstr ated that it . Sen d f or spec ia l p r ice li s t. is a field ripe unto harvest. We could Tunin g Fork s use many workers of the right kind . Ch r oma ti c (for a ll k eys) ______$1.25 Yes, it is cold by tim es. I have seen Single fork K ey of A ______.15 it 54 degree s below zero. I drove five Comfort Card s miles that day to baptize a young 12 )3ea u tif ul Sc r ipt u re fo ld.er s fo r man . I have seen it 114 above. That th e s iclc , bi r t h days. In fan c y box .511 is extreme in both case s for most of TES TAMENTS WITH N OTES AND our weather is fine. REFEREN CE S At the pre sent time nearly all thes e King Jam es , 4 x 6¼ . 798 pag es . c lot h bi ndin g. Sing le c opy, $1. 25. little bands are co-operating in an ef­ Sp ec ia l pr ices in q uan ti t ies. fort to preach the Gospel by radio . An1 eri can Revi secl Ver sion . 4 ¼ x This broadca st will go for th in March 6½. 660 page s , clot h bin di ng. Sin g ln and we trust shall reach thousands . copy, $1.0 0. Sp ec ia l pri ce s in qua n ­ Next to the west in Alberta. All t it ies. have heard of this provinc e with the - - SMALL TE STA ME N TS Ho lm a n Sel f Pron. 4 x 5 ¾. Stiff only Social Credit government in the c loth bind ing . 15c eac h . Sp ec ia l p ri ce world. There is something that Al­ In q u a n ti ti es. berta needs worse than Social Credit Su ed e b in d in g. I n r ed, b lack or and that is the Gospel. Ther e is only blu e . 2 ¾ x 4 ¼. Sing le copy, 18 c. one small church in the provinc e and COMPA N IO N ATE MARRIAGE a few isolated memb er s. Th e people Pu b li c D ebate b e tw ee n G . C. B r ew ­ are not so different from tho se in er a n d Chas . C . Smit h . 52 pages. Sa skatchewan but the Gospel has F ancy b lu e bi n d ing. Pri ce, 25 c. nev er been taken to them. I want to Our S1unm er Spec ial tell you something that mi ght help Beginning J u n e 1 w e sta r t o u r you to take even a deeper int er est in ha lf-p r ice the provinc es of Alb ert a and Sa ska­ Summ e r Book Sal e tchewan. Wh en the country was open Fi fty exc lu siv e boo k s. Send your · na n1e n ow. Sa le sheet will com e for home stead, thou sands of Ameri­ Jun e 1. can s moved in and homesteaded. So F . L. ROWE , Pub li sher, some of the se who are dying for the Cin c in n a ti , O h io . bread of life are your own country­ men. We have baptized people her e WORLD VISION 27 A Splendid Service Rendered by the Ladies

In the May, 1937 issue of WORLD been sewing for orphan and miss ion­ VISION was a short article by Sister ary children. We commenced with B. D. Morehead, sugge sting that the two children from Tipton Orphan ladies of a congregation might adopt home. At pre sent we have five chil­ for the purpose of clothing a child dren, one in Tipton Orphan Home, of one of the mi ssi onari es. In two or thre e in Southern Christian Hom e three issue s since then, she has re­ and Dea n Bixler, son of Brother and newed the appeal, giving th e ages and Sister 0. D. Bixler in Japan. We locations of children who were still spend about $100 a year actual cash. not provided for in thi s manner. Th e The work is enjoyable and profitable ladies of several congregations have to all who help ;" followed the sugge st ion so that a Ruth Alexander of Ft. Wor th, number of the mis siona ry children Texas, writes: "Last June a group are being clothed by thi s method. One of about thirty women of th e Central little girl was asked for by six dif­ congregation in Ft. Worth, Texas de­ ferent groups. sired to cloth e one of our mission­ Believing that it will be of inter­ aries' children. After writing to Sis­ est to our readers, particularly to the ter Morehead we selected five-year ladies, we cull a few extracts from a old Verna Mae Garrett , daughter of number of reports that have been re­ Brother and Sister Garrett of Salis­ ceived from th e groups who are en­ bury, Southe r n Rhode sia , South Afri­ gaged in this work. The se reports ca. They hav e been there for nine were made by Sister Morehead. years without a visit home. Little From Greenwood, Tenn essee, Mrs. Verna Mae has never seen the home­ Henry W ater s writ es, "Little Paul land of her parents. We prepared a has more than twenty moth ers­ box of clothing with great joy as we though at least ninet een of them felt we were mini stering unto Christ have nev er seen him. When he was with every stitch that was placed in just a tiny little bit of a baby we the garments. Never have I seen a were told about him by Mr s. B. D. group of women so eager and willing Morehead who was guest teacher of to help. Thi s personal contact with our Sunda y School class at Green­ the mi ssiona ry is what we ne ed to wood one Sunday. She told about how awaken our zeal. Last week we had some churches or Sunday School our fir st letter from Sister Garrett classes "adopted" mi ssionary chil­ since receiving the box . . . The doll dren, and when we heard of Brother with her wardrobe, brought untold Herman Fox's brand new little son, pleasure to little Verna Mae but the Paul, the women of the cla ss were greatest plea sure was ours for indeed anxious to adopt him as ours. we have proved that "it is more ble ss­ "Little Paul is now past two years ed to give than to receive." old-a fine, sturdy, healthy little boy From Valdosta, Georg ia, Mrs. F. -and we have just lately mailed hi s W. Fogg reports that they are cloth­ fifth package of clothing in accord­ ing Thelma and Arleta Oldham be­ ance with his needs a s stated by his sides two orphan girls in Fanning mother. We feel almost as if he really home. They have been doing this for were our s, and are always so inter­ the Oldham's for about five years. ested in Mrs. Fox' s letters telling of Mr s. 0. D. Cooper of Sist ersv ille, his developments and accomplish­ West Virginia, says, "Our adopted ments, his first ste p or new teeth, boy is David Brown, son of Brother etc. It ha s been such fun shopping and Sister Brown, missionaries to for hi s little garments, or making Africa ... We have never missed a them, and packing the boxes of cloth­ time, twice a year, in sending and ing or Christmas presents for him in addition we sent him a toy or and his older brothers and sisters." candy and her print for a dress. We From Kansas City comes the re­ have enjoyed the work immensely. We port that, "for ten years the ladie s of of the women's Bible class by volun­ the church at 39th and Flora hav e tary giving do thi s work. We hav e 28 WORLD VISION never needed help from the church clothing, then, at Christmas time we treasury except the postage is paid send her an extra box of gifts which from it. I am sure it has never cut mean so much to a child at Christ­ down our regular giving. It has mas time." stimulated the missionary interest. The ladies of the church at Thomp­ We work for our own poor and are son Station, Tennessee, are clothing now helping to outfit five school chil­ Evelyn Fox, 13, in Japan. Mrs. Der­ dren. We began to clothe David ryberry says in that connection, "It Brown when he was about six months furnishes one with many hours of old." pleasure, knowing that while we work Muriel Poe Hinckley, of San Gab­ we are in a very humble way carry­ riel, California, reports, "B'efore the ing out our Lord's command of send­ birth of the fir st Rodman baby in the ing the Gospel to the whole world Philippines we, the sisters of the Al­ ... We hope others may soon help hambra congregation, made its lay­ in this work for the enjoyment re­ ette, in the summer of nineteen thirty ceived from it far outweighs the sac­ five. The next spring we started tak­ rifice s that it takes in helping." ing up a monthly collection among a Sister J. T. Locke of Lawrenceburg, few of us to furnish needed clothing, Tenne ssee reports in connection with extra food and medicines for little their clothing Logan and Ramona Fox Virginia Gayle Rodman. Since that in Japan, "It has indeed been a great time one hundred-nine dollars have pleasure . . . When I think of the been turned into that fund .... You great work Brother and Sister Fox may be sure that we all feel that we and others are doing and the many are closely related to her and are en­ sacrifices they have made, it seems so joying knowing her in person for as little we have done and are doing." you know they returned to us this Mrs. L. H. Dasher, writing for the summer and Virginia is now receiv­ ladies of the Miami, Florida church ing treatment for her leg which we tells of their clothing Robert Leon all hope will re sults in much benefit Garrett of Salisbury, Southern Rho­ for her." (Note: little Virginia Rod­ desia and adds, "We have enjoyed man was stricken with infantile par­ this work as a group very much, each alysis while in the Philippines.) feeling a keener interest in the for­ Sister Myrtle I. Gill writes from eign fields since we keep in touch Allensville, Kentuckv: "We are so with Mrs. Garrett and receiving most gfad to tell about "our little girl," interesting letter s from her at lea st Betty Brown is the eleven year old. twice a year." very attractive daughter of Dr. and Sister Emma S. Yeager writes for Mrs. W. L. Brown who have recently the Ormsby congregation of Louis­ returned to Africa. We have not ville, Kentucky, reporting on their seen her but we have a kodak picture caring for Dewitt Garrett in South of her wearing the first clothes we Africa. sent. We have had Betty only a year, The St. Marys, West Virginia la­ but it has been a gr eat jov for us to dies clothe Herman Fox, Jr., in Japan. feel that we were really doing some­ thing and while our boxes have been If you are getting this paper, but nice, and I feel sure have made Betty have not subscribed someone has happy, one of the men in our congre­ paid for you. gation remarked that our sewing for her and sending the things helped us far more than it did Bettv." Highlights of the Work in Canada Mrs. T. S. McDaniel writes for the ( Co ntinu ed from pag e 27) ladie s class of the Ho1iston Heights course it is a vast mission field. There church -0f Houston, Texas, "About are several splendid preachers there three years ago our class adopted who should give all their time to Frances Oldham who at that time re­ preaching the word. sided in Canton, China ... Frances I am thankful for the privilege of is now twelve year,; old and I must telling something of the work in Can­ say our class really derive a lot of ada and especially here in the West. pleasure in caring for this child. Her We ask your prayers that we may mother keens us informed as to her be true to our trust and we would not growth and need s and twice a year be adverse if you come over and help we send her a nice large box of us. WORLD VISION 29 Our BY B. D. MOREHEAD P. 0 . Bo x 17 3 Decision N as h vill e, Te nn.

The Church, meeting at D. L. C., preachers, having had some experi­ with the cooperation of o th er ence. churches, has decided to conduct a The plan is to use the minister of meeting during the entire month this the college congregation, Charles R. year in Winnfield, La. The nearest Brewer, who is well known to the established congregation to Winnfield brotherhood, as the preacher for the is 50 miles away . Alexandria Church meeting which is planned for the numbering about 25 members is fif­ summer of 1939. The song leader will ty miles south of Winnfield, and be Robert Neil, a well-known man Ru ston Church of about 60 members and profes sor at David Lipscomb is fifty miles north. Brethren from College. both congregations promise coopera­ The funds for this effort are to tion by attendance. Brother Sudbury, come from free-will offerings. D. L. a school teacher, 32 miles west of C. Church has already proposed giv­ Winnfield can be depended upon for ing one hundred dollar s and an indi­ some assistance . vidual fifty. Brother and Sister Claude Brock, We believe such an effort will pro­ who live in Winnfield, have been duce permanent results, and will not driving fifty miles each Lord's Day be a spasmodic attempt by sending a to wor ship. These good people have preacher into a community for a opened their home to the workers we week or ten days and leave the work propose to send. to die due to lack of spiritual nour­ ishment. Details are being worked o u t If you are intere sted in an effort whereby two young preachers are to of this kind, will you not give us en­ be sent into the community a month couragement with an offering? before the meeting is to begin to go Plea se make checks payable to R. S. from house to hou se personally dis­ King, Tr., Morrow Avenue, Nashville, tributing well-written tracts on gos­ Tenn. If you cannot send your con­ pel subject s and do per sonal work; tribution now, please let us know thus preparing the people for the what you purpose to do. meeting. The preacher with the song leader will then begin the public meeting s, YOUR BOOKS using a tent, to continu .e one month; WORLD VISION is prepared to sup­ but the two young men doing per­ ply your Bible, book, communion sonal work will be r etained. ware, map, and song book needs. After closing the meeting arrange­ ments will be made to keep a man on the field until the work is developed READ THIS, PLEASE to a self-supporting basis. In case this magazine contains a The young men who are to do the notice suggesting that your subscrip­ personal work are to be picked from tion has expired, will you not please the student body of David Lipscomb send one dollar, which will renew it C o 11 e g e and .will be acc eptable for two years.

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PEKIN, NEW YORK CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS 15 Miles From Niagara Falls (Meetings in Phillips Brooks House) Worship, Breaking of Bread, 11 A.lll. Bible Study, 2:15; Preaching and S. B. Hughes, Sec., Communion, 3:00 and 7:00. 1277 Military Rd., Niagara Falls Wednesday, Bible Study at 7 :30 P. 111. Arthur Graham, Minister 25 Irving Terrace, Cambridge, Mass. WASHINGTON, D. C. 3460-Hth St., N. W. at Meridian Pl. Sunday School, 10:00; Preaching, PHILADELPHIA, PA. Communion, 11:00; Preaching at 8:00 Fifty-sixth St. and \Varrlngton Ave. P. 111. Thursday, Prayer and Bible Bible School, 9:45; Worship, 10:45; Study, 8 :00 P. M. Young People's Class, 7:00; Preach­ Hugo McCord, 1732 Irving St., N. \V. ing, 7:45; \Vednesday Prayer and Phone Adams 7751-J Bible Study, 8:00. A. Drinkwater, 5113 Brown St. Phone Trinity 18-23 MINNEAPOLIS, llllNN ·. Ohurch of Christ 1.0.G.T . Hall, 2514 Lincoln St., N. E. BRENTWOOD, MARYLAND Bible Study, 10 A. 1\1. Preaching and 4443 Holladay Street ()om111union, 11 A. l\l. Singing, 10:00; Bible Classes, 10:20; \V. Don Hocknday, Evangelist. Communion, Preaching, 11:00; \\ 'or­ 2750 Taylor St., N. E. ship, Preaching, 7:45; Tues. & Thurs. Phone GRnnvllle 7519 Singing, Prayer, Bible Study, 7:45. Anron A. Stone, Preacher Phone Greenwood 3053- \V SUNBURY, PA. Fonrth and Arch Streets Bible Study, 9:45; Sermon, 10:30; CIDCAGO, ILLINOIS Communion, 11:30; Ev'g Service, 7:30 Church of Christ Lewis F. l\lills, Minister, 11 Hans Ave. Seventy-second and Cornell A venue Bible Classes, 10 A . M . ; \Vorship and Preaching, 11 A. 1\1. and 8 P. 111. CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA John Allen Hudson, Minister. Y.111.C.A. Building, Second and South Tryon St. Bible Study, 10:00; Worship, 11:00; PORTLAND, MAINE Evangelistic Service, 7 :30 P. 1\1. 867 Congress Street J. Harrison Dnniels, 609 Tremont Ave. \Vorship at 10:30; Bible Study, 12:00. W. H. Gailey, 258 Spring Street. BALTIMORE, MARYLAND Odd Fellows Hall, 320 S. Wghland TRION, GA. Avenue. Bible Study, 10:15; Preaching, Com­ Bible School, 10 A. 1\1.; \Vorship. munion, 11:00. 11 A. 111., 7 P. 1\1.; Prayer Meeting. C. D. Gilbert, 2246 Linden Ave. Wednesdny, 7 P. 1\1. Phone Lnf. 4618 J. F . Fulforcl, Minister. Tel. 228-111

JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY I>ENSACOLA, FLA. 880 Bergen A venue, 2 Blocks from 12th Ave. Church of Christ Journal Square Station. Bible Study, 9:45 A. M.; \Vorship, Bible Study, 10:00; Communion and 11 A. 1\1.; Evangelistic Service, Preaching, 11 :00. 7:30 P. 111.; Prnyer Meeting, A. \V. Hastings, Evangelist 7:30 P. 1\1. 23 Romaine Ave., Ph. BErgen 3-6324-J Chester Honeycut, Minister. T~l. 5237

WILl\UNGTON, NORTH CAROLINA LONG BEACH, CALIF. Church of Christ Ninth and Lime 1013 South Fourth St. 0. P. Bnird, Minister, Phone 2672-111 Jas. A. Scott, Minister Telephone, 31376

I I l\lANHATTAN, NEW YORK CITY 239 W. Sbi:ty-Nlnth St.-Take I. .R. T. COLUl\IBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA Subwny to \Vest 72nd Street. Moore and Duncan Streets Bible Study, 10:15; Preaching and Bible Classes, 10 A. 111.; Preaching, Comtnunion, 11:00. 11 A. M. and 7:30 P. 111. A. K. Gardner, Minister, 9 \V. 69th St . L. Daniel Hnrless, Minister Phone: Susquehanna 7-6907 Telep 1hone 5287

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32 WO RL D VISION How Is Christian Education rl.tggt2'lt2nt?

"Secular education" deal s only with this world. It emphasizes knowledge, material research, profession, voca tion-entirely separate from spiritual, religious values. The Bible is omitted from the curriculum. The profes so rs may be even critical of Christian faith. In such atmosphere religion appears to be of no great consequence.

"Christian education" holds that a college must educate for eternity-that knowledge research, profes sio n have permanent values because they proj ect thie:ir shadows into the world beyond. "Sec ular" and " religious" are inseparab le. Neither man nor the univer se has any proper meaning except in the light of the spir itual. Education which omits the sp iritual is pagan, destructive .

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Bible-The center of the curricula. Location-ideal. Beautiful forty-acre Studied by every stud ent every da y. campus. Half-million dollar plant . In Taught without bia s or '"ism" for what great cultural and industrial center. it helps young people to become in attitude, "ideal s," character, serv ice. Features-Medicdl service. Athletics for all. Thirty-two kinds of activities, in­ cluding journalism, academic and social Courses-Pra ctically all basic ones o f­ clubs, forensics, radio, and orchestra . fered in first two yea rs at any co llege . Special departments of art, speech arts, Taught by large and highl y trained and music. Fifteen departments. High faculty . Full credit in any senio r co llege. school. Training school. DAVIDLIPSCOMB COLLEGE~::;~~ * "Not just another College, Lipscomb Is Different" * I ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• ALL PREVIOUS RECORDS BROKEN! More Than 1,000,000 Copies Sold of the Last Issue of Cb¢Upp¢r Room Is your congregat ion or group suppli ed with Th e Upper Room, which accordin g to Time the April , May, and .June Magazine broke all record s la st year in U. S. r eli­ iss ue? If not, order at gious publi shin g, ha s this year set a new hi gh once, using one of the record for one iss ue- t hat for January , February, ord er forms below. and Marc h-which excee ded 1,000,000 copies in the Engli sh edition alone, and not including the other specia l lan guages . THE UPPER With Th e Upper Room as a dail y devot ional ROOM guide in more than a million home s, Doctor s' Buildin g What Will the Spiritual Harvest Be? Nashville , Tennessee

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OUR PRAYER

Our Father in Heaven, we thank Th ee for Th y great love which embra ced all the world, and that Thou hast revealed Thyself to us in Thy word. We pray for all who do not pray, and for all those for whom no one prays. Let Thy love be their intercessor, and give Thy word success to the end that all men may hear. We pray for all who know Thee not , and for all who are breaking the bread of life to them: for all who spend their days in good work to help others, and to glorify Thy name. Help us to serve Thee with all our strength. Help us to love Thee as we ought to love Thee, Help us to love our neighbor as we ought to love him . Help us to be diligent in making use of all th e means Thou hast provided for our growth in grace and knowledge of the truth, Help us to hear Thy voice when Thou dost speak to us, and may we be ready to say, "Here am I, Lord, send me." Fill our hearts with love for Thee and for our fellow men, to the end that Thy Kingdom may spread and cover the earth, as the waters cover the sea. In His name, Amen, ABILENE CHRISTIAN COLLEGE PHUdJIMi <'/ ~ dJIMi

Purpose-To provide Ch ristian environment in which to secure a higher education.

Teache rs-All members of the Church of Chris t .

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Rating- "A-1" Standard Senior College-M ember Tex as Association of Colleges-approved non-member of Southern Association of Colleges and Universities .

Equip men t- 34-acr e campus-s eve n fireproof brick buildings , costing $450,000.00-all erected in 1929.

Enrollment - 1938-1939-632 resident college students, 150 elementary and high school students.

Students-In 1938-1939 came from twent y states and one foreign country.

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Editorial

Fo ur year s- sixteen issue s. With issuing three number s in 1936 an d the ending of four years in the field four numb ers each in 1937 and 1938 WORLD VISION sort of paus es in this with th is the third one for 1939 and issue to look back oye1· the road it has a fourt h to follow . Only 5,000 copies trave lled and prepare for what we of the first issue wer e pr in ~ed but th e hope wi ll be greater accomp lishment volum e ha s increa sed to 15,000 copie s in the futur e in carrying the me ss ag e of this issue, a tota l of 180,000 copie s of our Lord to the four corners of of WoRLO' VISION distr ibu ted during the wor ld. it s four yea1' s. In 1935 only two is su es of th e lit tl e Th e influ .erice of WORLDVISION has magazine appeared . Th ey were hard­ greatly inc)."easing dur in g 1939 by ly more than pamp hl ets and mad e reason of its being sent to a ll th e their appeara nce witho ut ad vance ad­ sub scr ibers , :for the new Christian verti sing. They were the humble be­ Leader. We welcome int o our cir cles ginn ing in getting un der way a ma g­ of reader s all of you "L eader" sub­ azi ne with a definite purpo se and a scribers and hop e you will con sider high ideal. That pu r po : e, expres3ed it as much your ma gazine as you do a s a hop e just above, h as. app eared the "Lea der ." A s th e "Le ader' s" cir­ in t he mast head of every issue. W e cul at ion increases, and it is doing do con stan tl y hope and pray that it that very rapidly, the circu lation of may be effect iv e in creati ng a more WORLD VISION in crease s also. We active mi ss ionary consc ien ce in the fee l that in this combi nat ion we have church that wi ll result in a constant y two very excellent ma gazines that increasing stream of money and men shoul d become con stantl y more pow­ to carry the Gospel to the whol e cre­ er ful for good in th e Cause of the ation. Ma ster . Brother Robert S. Kin g of Na sh­ During all -of this time Brother B. ville edited th ose fir st two is sues th en D. Morehead, of Nashville, ha s been the pre sent ed itor took over the ta sk, (Co nti n u ed on P a g e 8) Japan

The missionary who ha s had more years of service in a foreign country than any other Jiving man in the brotherhood is B'rother J. M. McCaleb who went there in 1892-47 years ago! Here is the picture of Brother McCaleb . Following are picture s of people and places from the Japanese field.

J. M. McCALEB 68 Z oshig aya, Tok yo, Jap an- Born Septemb er 25 , 1861. Writ e him a lett er of appr eciation on hi s birthd ay ! (U se five cent s po stag e.)

WO RLD VIS ION THE CHURCH IN SAWARA, JAPAN Established by Otoshige Fujimori. This picture was made May 3, 1936.

H E R,l\lAN FOX Diago l\ln chi lbnraki K en, Ja11an

E . A . Rl:IODE S O. D. BIXLER 26 Knr asa wa Ibaraki l{ en Nnlra -liu , Y okoha1na , Ota , Ja11an Japa ,11 At pr ese nt , Ohi ca go , IU .

Th ese m en with Broth er McCaleb, who se pict ure is on pag e 4, ar e ou r prese nt m en in J apan. In writin g to any of our mis siona r ies in Chin a or J apan use a five-cent stamp . WORLD VISION 5 A G1,oup of Japanese Christian F ami lies at Hitachi Omiya.

A Growp of Japanese Young People who were baptized in a 1·ecent meeting.

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6 WORLD VISION Miss H etti e L ee Ewing, above, who,se address is: Mabuchi Honcho 177, Shizuoka -Sh i, Ja pan .

The above is th e likenes,s of Sister Ta chi of Ota, Ja pan, bapti zed in 1931, died in 1932, who was a very zealous Chri sti an. She worshiped id ols be­ fore one of our missionaries took her B elow is B rothe r H arry R . Fox, the "Br ead of L ife." Four membe rs now in Califo rnia, who has done some of her immedia te family, clue to her good wor k in J apan. inf luence, obeye d th e Gospe l during her two years service in the Mast er's Vineyard.

HARRY R . FOX At Pres ent F ull e rto n, Cali f.

In addition to the above are also : Miss Lilli e Cyper t who is now in Japan but whose picture we do not have ; Brother B. D. Morehead, our bu sin ess man­ ag er who gave five years of exce llent service in Japan . Th ere is also Br oth er Wm. J . B'ishop, deceased, who did ser vice for the Ma ster in Japan, and hi s wife , Sister Clara Bishop, now registr ar of Abilene Christian College .

WORLD VISION 7 A group of Japane se Christians with th eir Am e1-ican visito rs and Brother McCal eb, mad e in th e summ er of 19 38 . Broth er Ha rding McCaleb of Chicago is in th e f ront row, cent er. N,ote th e happ?f smi le on .his fa ther's fa ce, sitting to his right.

Editorial have mis sed a lot of the pictures ap­ pearing earlier. Many of them are ( Co ntinu ed f r om p ag e 3) still up-to-date in giving the readers the publisher and busines s manager an idea of just what some places and of WORLDVISION and it is to his un­ people look like. We are therefore cea sing energy, devotion to the Caus e making this largely a "pictorial is­ of Christianity, and his dream of a sue." Herein you wi ll find pictures great magazine that it owes its suc­ that have been run before but are cess thus far. still interesting and will be new to With 1939 came also the use of many of our readers. colors on the front cover of the mag­ Enjoy the "pictorial issue," but do azine which ha s given it a decidedly not stop with mer ely enjoying it dressed-up appearance. We have used yourself-do something to help one or pictures all along as fr eely as we more of the evangeli stic efforts that could considering the cost. WORLD are repre sented, or some other that VISION is the fir st magazine of th e we may not know about . The point brotherhood to use pictures so freely is: let your mi ssionary impulse run as part of its regular policy. The out into actual participation in car­ late addiUons to the group of reader s rying the messag e to other s.

OUR PURPOSE 1. To call the Church of Christ to remembrance that th€ Lord's Great Commission is to PREAC H THE GOSPEL to EVERY CREATURE has not been WITHDRAWN. 2. To encourage EVERY CHRISTIAN to do something DAILY to preach the Gospel to the WHOLE CREATION in our gen­ eration . 3. To urge Evangelists , Sunday School Teachers and Elders to TRAIN THE CHURCHES for THIS WORK. . 8 WORLD VISION Munitions BY M. C. FRANKLIN of War Greenv ill e, T exas

The mission of WORLDVISION, as I poses. It is interesting to note that understand it, is to foster evangelism the Disciples of Christ, for the year by arousing the enthusiasm · of Chris­ ending June 30, 1932, stood twenty­ tians. That is fine. Hut it is well fourth in the list of twenty-five. More for us to remember that religious en­ specifically they gave, for all pur­ thusiasm, apart from specific sacri­ poses, $8.99 per capita, slightly more fices, is no more conductive to extend­ than seventeen cents per week. ing the kingdom of God than is mere If my observations have not de­ flag waving, apart from specific sac­ ceived me into the wrong "Calcula­ rifices, conducive to the preservation tions, I would say that the contribu­ of a country during a time of na­ tions of the churches of Christ have tional crisis . been even less than those of the Dis­ The Russian army cut a sorry fig­ ciples. That is an embarrassing con­ ure in the military activities of Eur­ clusion. We have betrayed ourselves ope during the World War. Why? into the position of the flag waving It was not because they were physi­ patrioteer who gets a political friend cally or mentally inferior. It was to help him evade payment of his not so much on account of inadequate taxes. training, though it is admitted that It is well for us to be enthusiastic in that respect they were not equal for the extension of God's kingdom; to the Western Powers. The reason but an enthusiasm that exhausts it ­ they made such a poor showing was self in uttering great swelling word s that they were not backed up by an is a wasted enthusiasm. By the study economic organization that could pro­ of God's word we have settled the vide them with those things necessary problems of salvation, worship, and to win battles. morality. Until we go to the same source _and settle the problems of By way of contrast we might say financing the kingdom evangelism that the reason, the dominant reason, will be, to a large degree, stalemated. Americans made such a good showing Brethren, let us study the New Tes­ in the same war was that the Amer­ ·tament with a view to ascertaining if ican people provided them with ever y there is any possibility of our being thing needful, lavi shing billions of saved in our penuriousness. And let dollars in the process. American suc­ us be so enthusiastic about evan­ cess was not due to superior brains gelism that we will adequa te ly finance or physique, much as we would like the work, and save our own souls in to think so. the proces s. In the New Te stament the church is called a kingdom and is considered to be at war. Just as an earthly king­ dom sends picked and trained men to ISM AND SCHISM the battle front and backs them up Ism and Schism were two littl e cats; by the resources of the nation, if it Because of their creeds they got into would succeed, so must it be with the spats. church of the living God. I am not They fought for the word, and not complaining that evangelists are in­ for the spirit, adequately supported, though that is And as for the truth, they never got often true; the burden of my com­ near it. plaint is that we do not send more Said one to the other, "Y •ou nev er are picked and trained men to the battle right!" front to do service for the King of And so they fought on from morning Kings. till night. Th e United Stewardship Council They fought and they fought, as well Statistics, 1932, lists the twenty-five they knew how- leading religious groups of the United But neither remembered what started States with the amount of money they the row! contributed, per capita, for all pur- - Select ed. WORLD VISION 9 BOOKS FOR HIM

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10 WORLD VISION Fromthe Philippines BY ORVILLE T. RODMAN

Here are the introductory facts by one, in tracts, personal visits, etc.; concerning our work, in brief, for the difficulty of finding dependable readers who have not been reading leaders, since capable men are almost our Philippine Mission News. My 100 per cent proud, worldly and mer­ term of service in the Islands has cenary in character; the well-known been about five years, we being called deceptiveness and double-dealing that home a year ahead of our proposed make it hard to be sure a man is furlough, for reasons of health. Our really sincere, much worse than in old station of Misamis has no de­ America; the childish sensitiveness of pendable doctors or drug stores or the people, which causes many to turn dentists-only the poorest kind that away from the Truth on account of might do more harm than good. When petty slights or fusses with other dis­ our year-old Virginia had infantile ciples; and, hardest of all for us to paralysis in . December, 1936, there bear, continual begging, begging, was no adequate treatment for it even begging for money and even for our in Manila, and we were too hard up most necessary tools for service­ to pay fares to go there, anyway. which shows how hard it is for us to I was sent out by the church at get the converts to give themselves Graton, California, and Mrs. Rodman wholeheartedly to Christ and con­ from Alhambra. In addition to our tribute materially as the Lord has home churches, several churches and prospered them. scattered individuals in many states We found many of the members have helped some. Counting by years living in fornication ( common-law after I left Mindoro, our support has marriage, which is no more marriage averaged for each month: (1) $60.07, than a pair of rabbits breeding) and (2) $76.82, (3) $91.01, and ( 4) got every couple legally married. $108.64, to June 1, 1938. Brother Such immorality is countenanced by Benson and others of Oriental expe­ the Protestants and Catholics and rience can testify that each family Moros and Pagans all alike. There needs $100 for personal support and are 300,000 illegitimate children born an additional $50 each month for in the Philippines every year. These travel, printing and native helper, if distressing conditions should not dis­ best results are to be attained. courage real Christians, even though On our meagre subsistence we did there are many adversaries at this what we could, finding Brother Ma­ open door for Gospel work. The low­ cario Pones with a list of 44 members er the spiritual conditions, the great­ around Kolambugan, Lanao province, er the need of the cleansing blood of and now leaving with a list of 224 Christ. This is a challenge of diffi­ names with one more month yet to culty. go. Of course, some of these have Who will come and help us snatch died physically and others spiritually, some of these dying souls as brands but regular communion services have from the burning fire of hell to come? been held for over a year at Kolam­ By only a little compromising and bugan, Misamis, Tayasan, and Ante­ wrong use of money (if we had it) quera, with less regular meetings and we could have had thousands "con­ Bible teaching at several other places verted," but we have tried and will on the three islands of Mindanao, continue to try to preach the whole N egros, and Bohol. Three churches gospel without compromise and with­ have meeting houses either in use or out fear of ridicule for lack of num­ under construction. bers due to our scaring away most of Among the chief problems and bur­ the carnal-minded self-seekers. Pray dens that consume our strength in for our little bands to remain faith­ this tropical heat are: the dire pov­ ful while I am teaching and advising erty of the people, which makes it them by mail from America. almost impossible to assemble a class (Edi t ot's N·ot e: Th e Rodm a ns are now in of local leaders for Bible study, but A m e ri ca and may be a ddr ess ed at Box 204. rather it must be given to them one Ch owc hil la , Ca lif o rni a .) WORLD VISION 11 The Philippine Islands

From Korea, west of Japan, we turn southwestward to the Philippine Is­ lands. We are sorry that we have no scenes from this missionary field, but we have pictures of the two men who are laboring there. On the preceding page is an excellent article from Brother Rodman and below is a poem from him.

On the L ef t is: BHOTHER 0. T. UOD~IAN Box 15 l\fiso1 ni s, Occillentnl l\lisu 1nis, P. I.

On the Right is: BROTI-IEU H. G. CASSELL Box 1981 l\lnniln , P. I.

SUCH AS I HA VE Not "such as I have," poor sin-sick souls to mend, Peter and John, upon their way to But in Christ' s Church we do the sin prayer, of theft Appl'oach ed the temple's beautiful By giving only "such as I have­ entrance, where lef t." A beggar hailed them with outreach­ -0. C. RODMA N, ing hand Philippin e Islands. Above lame feet on which he could not stand. He hop ed for money, or perchance for bread; But Peter gave him Heaven' s grace THROUGH THE PROVING instead: "No mon ey have I; look and see ; Are we that city ,on a hill Such as I have give I unto thee." Whom Christ hath called the Light, The beggar, long a vile and helpless While soul s know nothing of his will thing, And wander in the night? In Christ's name stood and, leaping, prai sed the King. Are we indeed the sa lt of earth With millions yet unt aught? Now, many of us seeking Heaven' s Or has our savor lost its worth­ throne And thenceforth good for naught? T·o make our wants and thank s and • I praises known, Are we cleansed branche s bearing Pass by our feeble, pleading fellow­ fruit men Th at God be glorified? And, all relentle ss , hear their cries Or do we wither, la ckin g root? again; We must in Chri st abide. Our selfish cares obscure Christ's yearning plea, Are we disciples of the Lord? "A s unto these, you've done it unto Christ said: "C ome follow me­ Me." To all the nations preach my word, In idle pleasures, time and gold we And lo, I am with thee ." spend- -N ellie Hertzka Morehead. 12 WORLD VISION "A Missionary BY W. E. McNEELY Congregation Grato n , Calif orni a

In September of 1909 a few breth­ writer in a mi ssion meeting in Ari­ ren from Forestville began meeting in zona this year. Graton, California. Peace and good­ Why write of what this group has will have ever prevailed between the done? Surely not to boa st of the ef­ two congregations, consequently the forts put forth in an effort to gain new work has grown and prospered. praise of men. But in hope that it Graton has never been an extremely may inspire others to "Greater large congregation in numbers. Nev­ Things for the Master" ar e these ertheless it has been, and is, an out­ things written. (2 Cor. 9 :2). standing congregation in several re­ That there is a decided laxness spects. Missionary activity is one of among the church, regarding mis­ these. sionary work, none can deny. That Several of our m1ss10naries to for­ this is contrary to God's will the eign fields have lived here. Among Scriptures abundantly teach. Jesus them are: Brother George Scott and said: "Go ye into all the world, and family; A. B. Reese and family, ~nd preach the Gospel to the whole crea­ Orville Brittell all in South Afnca. tion." (Mk. 16 :15). Paul said: "To Sister Ruth Whitfield, Chiria, and the intent that now unto the princi­ Brother 0. T. Rodman, Philippine Is­ palities and the powers in the heav­ lands, also have lived here, and per­ enly places might be made known haps others. The Graton church ha s through the church the manifold been, and is, sponsoring Brother wisdom of God." (Eph. 3:10). What Rodman's work in the Islands. could be clearer? But we hear this From October 1, 1937 to October argument from many: "We have 1, 1938, a total of four hundred forty­ erected a meetinghouse, which must six dollars and eighty cents ($446.80) be paid for, and employed a local was contributed to missionaries, di­ minister, who must be paid, therefore vided as follows: George Scott, Afri­ we can't do missionary work. In ca, $162.32; Orville Rodman, ~hi_lip­ other words, Jesus said 'Go' but we pine Islands, $206.61; other m1ss1on­ 'can't go' ." This argument is false aries, $71.87. This total is an aver­ in every sense of the word. Those age of $37.23 per month from this who make it usually find enough group ' for missionary work. Some money for shows, tobacco, gasoline might -say that this is not remarka­ for joy-rides, etc. ble, several congregations do more! It is reported that one religious Possibly so, and we hope so. How­ organization whose total membership ever, the Graton church is composed numbers only about two-thirds of our of only about one hundred forty membership spends over two hundred member s · of that number only about times as much as we in foreign mis­ four or 'five have steady jobs with sionary work. Is false doctrine worth definite incomes. The rest are poor that much more than the pure truth? farmers and farm laborers in an ap­ We should be spending two hundred ple belt that has received poor prices times as much as they, and would be for crops the past several years. if we were as concerned in getting In addition to the above mission­ the truth before the peo,ple as they ary program the brethren for . the are in getting their doctrines before past twenty years have mamtamed the world. the Pacific Christian Academy, a It has been calculated that a penny school in which the Bible is taught a day from each member of the daily. A full program of local .w~rk church of Christ in America would is also supported . Two ~1ss1on support two thousand° mi ssionaries . It meetings have been sponsored 1~ Se­ is a fact, brethren, it will! Think of bastopol, within the pa st year, m an the satisfaction and thrill we would effort to reach people of ·~th~t com­ get from such a program, also of the munity. The leaders also have ex­ pressed willingness to support the ( Co ntinu ed on pa g e 28) WORLD VISION 13 China

Swinging into China in our pictorial journey around the mission fields we find deplorable conditions because of the und eclar ed war that Japan is waging against China. Befor e the outbreak of hostilitie s was even foreseen B'rother George S. Benson left the Canton Bible School which he had built at Canton, to assume the presidency of Harding College, Searcy, Arkansas. Canton is one of the Chinese cities that suffered heavily from the Japanese war of con­ quest. Conditions were such that Brother Roy Whitfield, who succeeded Brother Henson in charge of the Canton Bibl e School, and Brother Lowell Davis returned to the United States.

GEOllGE S. BE NS ON ROY WHITFffiLD LOWELL DA VIS

Brother Roy Whitfield, 2701 Donner Way, Sacramento, Calif., is doing temporary work in the states , and expects to return to China soon as war conditions justify. Broth er Lowell Davis, Harding College, Searcy, Ark., has just graduated from Harding College. He is planning on going to China in October . Ther e is also Brother Lewis T. Oldham, whose picture we do not have, who returned at about the same time from China and is now doing good work in the missionary field of the State of Wa shington. The se last named three plan to return to the work in China as soon as conditions will permit, we under­ stand. Remaining in China are Brother E. L. Broaddus and Sister Elizabeth C. Bernard. Below is Miss Bernard. Of the little Chinese girl shown with Miss Bernard she says: "A tiny war refugee from Canton. She was four and a half months old and very sick but is doing fine at nine months. I care for her myself, so am pretty well occupied . Wish I could have taken all the children who came to me but just one more is stretc hing my income."

MI SS ETHEL MATTLEY P. 0. Box 692 Hong Kong, Ch in n.

MISS ELIZABETH C. BERNARD P. O. Box 1682, Kow loon Hong Kong, China

E. L. BROADDUS P. 0. Box 692 Hong Kong, China

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Sewell Hall, Girls' Dormitory, in late afternoon. Elam Hall, Boys' Dormitory, in its setting of green. Astounding Inconsistency! In college classrooms today, there is an undeclared war on New Testament faith and morals . Yet there are five Church of Christ members in state and denominational colleges for every three in schools taught by Christians. Many who go from Christian homes to pagan schools return to their homes with a thoroughly un-Christian, immoral "education."

Tragic inconsistency! Irreparable loss!

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On the left is Leung Hoi Kit and family, former ly dean of the Canton Bible School. Don't thi s famil y and the people above impre ss you as peo­ ple worth saving?

B'elow, left, R. S. King, first edi­ tor of WORLD VISION , and, r ight, H. L. Sclmg, Abilene Chr istian College; both staunch mi ssionary workers .

WORLD VI SION 19 Africa

From China with its ancient civilization we turn to Africa that pre sent s entirely different problems with its population that was savage until recent times when mis sionari es penetrated the dark reaches of it s my steriou s in­ terior.

Besides the mis sionaries whose picture s appear here there are in Africa: Mr s. Myrtle Rowe, Orville Britt ell, W. N . Short and family, Mrs. John Sheriff, George M. Scott and family, DeWitt Garrett and family. Brother Merritt treating a severe ­ ly burned native woman at the Ka­ banga mission. The woman recov­ ered completely and soon went back to her village . Notice the bra ss rings on her leg and ankle.

J . D. l\lERRITT Kalomo. No. Rhodesia

A Native Village Near Sinde Mission, Africa . 20 WORLD VISION W . L. BROW N Dnlmorn .J Uontl La ustlownc, Ca pe Town

ALV I N HOUUY J{alo1no No rthern Uh otlcs in. One of th~ n ew l'l'Cruits ,vh o, with Siste r Hob­ by, went to Africa , Ins t year.

The pioneer work in Africa was done by Brother John S'heritf who died in J,u;ly 1935. Sister Sheriff carries on th e work . H e is shown above with his firs t African convert, Brot her Prederic k, "The Mus­ tard S eecl."

BRO. A. B. REE SE On furlough at Ab il ene, 'rexu s, hu t returning to Africa . inu1u ·diat e ly .

YOUR BOOKS WORLD VISION is prepared to su pply your Bib le, book, commun ion w a r e, R eady to start to Siiakbene, th e sort of transpor ­ map, and song book tation used by B rothe r A. B . R eese. needs. WORLD VISIO N 21 BY A Day ALVIN HOBBY Kalomo, Northe rn Rhodesia At School South Afri ca

For the sake of convenience the ing and preaching. Bible subjects are school day is divided into two parts . studied in simple form and outlines All the boys on the mission go to are given to help the boys prepare school half of the day and during the for their work in the villages. The other half work to pay for their other class includes all the boys in board . My classes are all with the Standards III, IV, and V. First, higher standards (grades) which Matthew was studied; then, Acts, have their school work in the morn­ and last, some of the shorter and ing, leaving the boys free to work in simpler epistles. the afternoon and giving me time to Native boys here take much inter­ prepare lessons, study the language, est in the study of the Bible as well write letters, garden, etc. as in other subject s. It is not an un­ The regular school day starts at common thing to see a boy walking sun-up when the boys are called out along the road with his testament for their exercise drill s which last open studying or going about his about thirty minutes. Native teach­ work with an open Bible nearby util­ ers conduct these drills. At 6 :45 the izing any time he may have for mem­ boys are all assembled in the main orizing an extra verse for the next building for chapel. One of the na­ lesson. One day, the names of the tive teachers leads a song in the na­ books of the New Testament were tive language and calls on one of the written on the board in the hope that boys to lead the praye:r. Most of the boys might memorize a few that "our" boys are Christians and there day and a few more in a week or two is scarcely one that will not make a until all were memorized. The next talk or pray publicly. Next, the mis­ morning they were able to repeat all sionary may read and comment on a twenty-seven books in their proper selection from the Bible or talk on order. Such things make the teacher any subject he may see fit. This talk enjoy his work. is generally made in English and in­ Bible is followed by arithmetic, terpreted by a native teacher. This is singing, ( taught by a native teacher necessary as the lower standards do or by Sister Rowe), reading, English, not understand English as the others writing and drawing, (taught by Sis­ do. The missionary and the . inter­ ter Rowe), history, geography, cattle preter stand side by side; and as the management, hygiene, nature study, missionary gives his talk sentence by etc., one after the other with the ex­ s~ntence the interpreter gives it in ception of a short recess until 12 :30 the native language. This is a little p.m. At this time clas ses are over awkward at first. There is a ten­ for the "morning boys." They eat dency to try to notice how the inter­ their first meal for the day and start preter is saying a thing and then to work . Cla sses for the lower stand­ forget what is to be said next. How­ ards start at 1 :00 p.m. ever, after a little practice this diffi­ Each day at school is a pleasure culty is overcome. for several reasons : the boys are re­ The roll call closes the chapel pe­ spectful and obedient, and are inter­ riod. The lower standard boys are est ed in learning. Each day brings relea sed for their work, the rest be­ them closer to the goal of being use­ ing retained for their classes. Bible ful, happy citizen s, in their own com­ comes first, and of course is the sub­ munities. And above all, each day ject that is stres sed a'bove all others. make s more and better Christians. This year, two classes · have been of­ We only hope that tho se who are fered in the regular school work. One supporting this work in any way may of the se is for the mor e advanced get as much joy out of it as do those students who are intere sted in teac h- who are working here on the field.

22 WORLD VISION Why I Believe in BY ForeignMissions GEORGE PEPPERDINE

It would be just as logical to ask mi ssionaries. Contributions would be the question, "Do you believe in the made regularly, and even if they Lord's Supper?" or, "Do you believe were very small in amount in propor­ in baptism?" as it w,ould be to ask, tion to the financial ability of the "Do you believe in foreign missionary members, still, there would be ample work?" One is just as much a part funds for a much larger program of the program of the church as an­ than is being handled by the churches other. of Christ at the present time. Many My reason for giving special at­ of the larger congregations could tention to foreign missionary work is furnish the entire support for a mis­ not because it is any more important sionary, and by the cooperation of than preaching the gospel at home, several small churches a missionary but because the foreign work has could be supported. been more neglected by our people, May I suggest that if all the generally, than the work at home. I preachers would give foreign mission­ wish it were possible to get the mem­ ary work its rightful place and preach bers in every congregation to realize on the subject occasionally, this work that the spread of the gospel in for­ would soon ,become recognized as an eign fields is a definite part of their essential part of the program of the duty, the same as communion on church . It need not be stressed as Lord's Day. If this consciousness something more important than other could be created in the members of parts of the program, but merely every congregation, there would be stress it as one of the "must" items no question about support for the on the program.

Orville Brittellon the African Field Orville Brittell on the Afrioan Field

Some of the other journals carried start in the language and customs of the announcement that Brother and the natives may be of valuabte help Sister Britten had gone to Africa. to him in later years in his work The part about Sister Britten is a there. mistake for Orville Brettdl is not "Brother Orville has gone out from married. He is single and only the church at Santa Rosa where his eighteen years of age. father and mother are members. Brother Paul M. Tucker, the min­ Brother Franklin K. Blackwell, treas­ ister of the church at Santa Rosa, urer of the local church, has been ap­ California, reports concerning him as pointed Brother Orville's treasurer, follows: and contributions for this fund should "He had one year of college work be mailed to Franklin K. Blackwell, at Harding, 1937-1938 term of nine 1543 Leonard A venue, Santa Rosa, months. He arrived in Africa about California." Thanksgiving of last year, and is tak­ WORLDVISION wishes Brother Brit­ ing up work with the Scotts in tell the truest success in his great Northern Rhodesia. undertaking. It is inspiring to know "Brother Orville had not antici­ that at his age he has given his life pated going this early in life, al­ into the service of the Master; at a though he has been planning for some time in life when most young people time to go in the next few years. Be­ have quite different aspirations! cause of the illness of Brother Scott, and as Sister Scott suggested that he "It"s not wh a t y ou'd do with a million If ri c h es should e re be your lot, come immediately, he decided to go But wh at a re you doing at present immediately. He feels that an early With th e d ollar a nd a quart er you 've got?" WORLD VISION 23 Cuba and Mexico

Getting closer home we take a look in at two young men who are rendering valuable service for the Cau se of Chri st in Cuba; the two whose picture s ap­ pear below, with their names and addresse s oppo site them. Then we see the picture of a group of Chri stians in Havana. Most anyone shou ld be glad to work with th is fine 1,ooking group of peop le. Still closer home, brin gs us to a cons ideration of Mexico. It is tragic neg­ lect that ha s kept us from having many mission points in the heart of Mexico but at the pre sent we can speak only of the work that is being done among the Mexicans on this side th e Rio Grande . There is the incomplete house of worship in El Paso and our own Brother Wolfe who would accompli sh a work of incalc ulabl e va lue if we wou ld furni sh him the tools to work with . Along with his picture we wanted to show t hat of Brother Hilario R. Zamorano, the splendid Mexican preacher who is now working among his people in Los Angeles, but we do not have one at hand .

J. R. JIMINEZ 264 Con cepcion Street Ln,v f'o n, Havn .11a, Cnba

EM ILIO PRIETO Of the Cubn n Church

A small group from the H,avana, Cuba, church . Not all the m embers could be pr esent when th e pictur e was made. B1·other and Sister Jimi­ nez are in the third row f rom the f ront, fourth and fifth f rom the left. 24 WORLD VISION SHOULDJOIN WITH USI A Ch ri stia n Soc ie ty for Ch ristia n peop le . . . organ iz ed not f or profit but to BROTHER JOHN F. WOLFE assis t thos e who h ave been ber eft of loved ones . Route 2, Box G2-E, E l ruso, 'l'exns, who D eat h benefits. according to a g es , from is on e of o ur mo st fnit h ful A n1erica n work­ $400 to $1000.00. Av er age cos t $8 to $12 ers a.u1ong tl 10 ~fcx.icn ns. B ro t h er '' 'o lfc ha s pe r ye a r . Mini ste r s and others wrttP. been i n E l Pa s o a b ou t t en yea rs a nd h as for t e rritor y. don e ev angeli st ic work ot' i nca lc ulabl e va lue . He SJ>ea k s the la 11guage flu en t.ly and see m s to und ersta nd fJh e psychology of the Mexican alm ost perfectly.

The incomplete strru:cture being built for a me eting place of the Mexican Christians in El Paso, Texas - a symbol of the aspirations of th ese Latin-American Christians for a comfortabl e and dignified place of worship: an evidence of the hard work and sacrifice of J ohn Wolf e to establish the Cause among the Mexicans: a monument to the indiffer­ ence and lethargy of white Christians throughout the South! WORLD VISION 25 In Our Own Country

Many splendid piece s of missionary work ar e bein g don e in our own coun­ try in neglected place s : but fa r too little of it. Ther e are for example Brother Arthu r Graham in Camb r idge, Ma ss.; Brother A. K. Gar dn er in New York City; Bro ther A. W. Ha sting s in Jersey City; Brother J. D. Boyd in Ru ston, La. Brother J. C. Bunn and others in the gr eat Northwest and Brother W. Don Hockaday who se pictur e is below, left, and Brother 0. P. Baird of Wil­ mington, N . C.

READ THIS CA REFULLY A Chance To Earn a Religiou s Book Or Bible . Tak e your WORLD V I SION to Sun­ day School. Ask your teacher for permis sion to ta lk to the class about it, or have the teacher to recommend the magazine and ask for sub scrip­ ti ons. A David Lip scomb Colleg e stud ent wrote letters askin g for sub scriptions. Result : a list ,of seve nt een names and eig ht dolla rs an d fifty cent s came in . H e is entit led to books amounting to PRA YER OF A MISSION ­ fo ur dollar s and twenty-five cents, or AR Y HEART fifty per cent of am ount collected. You will find it easy to secure sub­ Lord, help me kno w the urgent need scriptions by asking for th em. One F or reapers in the field today, man thought enough of the magazine To gat her gra in or sow the seed; to send in one hundred names at his Lord, help me kneel and pray . expe nse. You may wr it e your friends in When others with thy word depart, other congr ega tions for help. Now That dying soul s may learn and select the Bible or book adverti sed in liv e, this paper you want, and secure sub­ H elp me with th em to, bear a part­ scripti ons amounting to double the Lord , help me giv e and giv e. price of the book and let u s hear from you . And as I see with vi sion clear, Wh ere field s of white are bending YOUR SUBSCR IPTIO N low- If you have never sub scr ibed, At home, abroad, or far or near, someone h as done so for you. Will Lord, help me rise and go. you not kin dly send one dollar, whi ch will renew your sub scription for tw o 0, touch my lip s with clean sing year s ? flame, And my humbl ed heart reply With faith and love in Jesus' nam e, "0, Master, here am I. " -CHAS. R. BREW ER.

Among t'he co lor ed peopl e n rc s uc h gre a t vr eac hers as Lu ke l\Ull er a nll B . C. l(o ga n ; Mars ha ll n :ee ble who se pi ct ur e is next on the left nnll \\' . M. ,v 11itnk e r 1·1ext on t h e rig h t. 26 WORLD VISION PLUMBER W. Howard Grissom At Work • • 503 Boscobel Street Brethren Bennie Lee Fudge and Tel. 5-4 745 e Elb ert Young began the preparatory Repair \\'o rk a Specialty work June 7th in Winnfield , La., for WORK GUA R ANTEED a tent meeting.

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When we think of mission s why do Th e same is true mentally, "when we alway s think of money? Are we development stop s, decline begins." It Christians in danger of becoming ob­ is also true spiritually. Yes , thi s sessed with the id ea that money is truth is even more evident in the the essentia l thing in Christian serv ­ spiritua l rea lm . "When deve lopm ent ice, and if we have no mone y there is stops, decline begin s." When we cea se nothing we can do? to grow in grace, we begin to back ­ Money has its place and value but slid e. So many of us are at ease in shou ld not be overrated. Th is world Zion, and so few of us are living dili­ is in need of many things that money gen tl y the Christian life. "Give dili­ cannot bu y. One of these is Chr ist, gence to make your calling and elec­ and to have Christ in our lives, and tion sure." not share Him with othe r s is a sad Th e preacher who quits studying and painful la ck. ceases to grow as flowers tha t are If Christ is a j oy and solace in our all owed to go to seed quit blooming. lives is there anything wr.ong in tell­ The Christ ian that quit s doing, go­ ing others about it? We tell people ing, and giving soon goes to seed . of other things we find satisfactory. Be a lea rner, a thinker, and a doer. Why not tell them of Christ? Success and reward s always come to Why do we always think of money? the person wh o continues to grow . P eter said, "Silver and gold have I none but such as I have give I un to Give diligence, proper heed or at ­ you." And he wrote to Christians to tention to make your calling sure. "Give all diligenc e to make your call ­ ing and election sure," and again: "Giving all diiigence add to you! faith virtue, knowledge, temperance, A Missionary Congregation patience, godliness, brotherly kind­ (Co ntinu ed from p a g e 13) ne ss, and charity ." Give all diligenc e in the Christian life. Why do we multitude of soul s, now lost, who diligently give heed to bapti sm when wou ld enjoy with us the glories and the same sentenc e urge s that we "Go joys of heaven . Be not deceived, we te ll all nations"? Why do we give can do mi ss ionary work. Will we ac­ attention to the Lord's Day comm u ­ cept the challenge to se r vice ? nion and fai l to pass the cup to oth­ It has been refre shing to notice the ers? Why give heed to our praye rs upward trend of intere st and activity and then hoard the gospel? in taking the Gospel to the lost, both "Give diligence to add to your at home and abroad. "Wherefore, be­ faith . . .. " loved brethren, be ye stedfast, un­ One of the grave dang ers of Chri s­ moveable, always abounding in the tians is la ck of developmen t . There work of the Lor d, fora smuch as ye are stunt ed Chr istian s who , should be know that your labor is not in vain growing; little Christians who should in the Lord." ( 1 Cor. 15: 58). be big Christ ians; feeb le believer s who sho ul d be strong and rugged . There are babe s in Christ who should Thi s is our sixteenth edition, fifteen not remain babe s. thou sand copies. Total number of Someone has said, "When develop­ copies printed to date, inclu ding this ment stop s, decline begin s." That is issue, one hundred and eighty thou­ true of Christians and chu rches . It is sand. true physically, when development stops decline begins. When an ath ­ lete ceases t ra inin g, when he cease s If you are getting this paper, but to exerci se self-contro l and self-de­ have not subscribed, some one has paid nial, he soon become s a "ha s-been", a for you. Why not subscribe for a back number. friend. 28 WORLD VISION Found in Our Correspondence

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"Ye are the light of the world." ing your good work s 1:1ay_t1;1rn and "Let your light so shine before men, glorif y your Fat her which 1s m heav­ that they may see y,our good works, en." Remember he who said, "Go ye and glorify your father which is in into a ll the worl d and preach the heaven ." (Matthew 5 :14, 16). Gospel to every creat ure, baptizing them in th e name of the Father, and No one who believes in Chri stian­ of the Son and of the Holy Ghost ," it y will deny that it is neces sary for us to obey certai n commandment s to also said w'ith equal force , "Teaching th em to observe all things whats o­ brin g us to the point where we are in ever I have commanded you." (Mat­ covenant relations hi p with God and that obedience to these command s en ­ them 28:19, 20, Mark 16: 15). Th en title s us to wear the name Chri stian . why are we so thoughtle ss, so uncon­ Bu t many who have comp lied wit h cerned about our daily lives? We these ordinances act as if they give up no pleas ure of lastin g valu e thou ght thi s is all t here is to the to become Christians. It costs us Christian life. nothing of real worth t o live Chris ­ tian lives. It was Jesus who uttered the word s quoted from Matt hew 5: 14, 16. We Ind eed we should be the happiest are to live the Christian life to glo­ peop le of al l. Did not Jesus say "I rify God as well as to prepare us for came that you might have the more the life beyond the grave. Again abundant lif e ?" F leeting plea sur es Peter said that Chr ist left us an ex­ are not true happine ss, nor do they ample that we should follow in His bring a happy life. Happiness comes steps . (1 Peter 2 :21). In 1 Timothy from within, entwined wit h un selfi~h­ 4: 12, we find Timothy wa s told by the ne ss and the conscio usness of havmg Apostle Paul to be an examp le, in followed God' s commandment s, cou­ word, in manner of life, in love, in pled with a disposition to help our spirit, in faith and in purity. From fellowmen. Thu s if we keep the com­ these statements it is very evident mandment s of God and liv e su_ch that we who have named the name of live s as to emu late the life of Chns t Chri st are entit led to sa lvation we are of all the most bles sed. only when we have lived such live s, Christianity is not something by such Chr ist -lik e lives, that they will which to measure the conduct of our influence those who are out of Chri st neighbors, not something that makes to become his followers. u !: go about wit h a _long face or sanc ­ How many of u s live such lives timonious look as 1f we were better that we may be distinguished thereby than our fellowman, but i.s rather a as follower s of the lowly Nazaren e? standard by whi ch we m!ly try our Do we not act, do we not conduct our dai ly liv es and toward which _we may business, do we not in fact live like str ive in our effort to glori fy God thos e wit h whom we associate and and prepare for the life beyond. who make no pretense of Christian ­ ity? How many of us profes sed Chr istians in our daily lives as car­ -··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··- penters on some building, as clerks in some department store, a s employers DAVID LIPSCOMB COLLEGE of labor, or as lawy ers or doctors STUDENTS ATTENTION practicing our profes sions wou ld be pointed out amo ng our fellows a s Furni shed upp er two rooms and Christia ns? · lJ nle ss we are living suc h bath for light housekeeping, private daily lives that those with whom we come in contact may know the r eby entra nc e, close to school. For infor­ that we are Christian s, we ar e fa ll­ mation write WORLDVISION. ing short of the command to " let your lights so shine that other s see- -··- ··- ··- ··- •i- ••-11•- ··- ··- ··- ··- ··- ··- WORLD VISION 31 Church Directory

GREENVILLE, S. C. CAllllllUl>GE, MASSACHUSETTS Corner Cobb and Bates Sts. (Meetinp in PhilUps Brooks House) (Near Judson) Bible Study, Z:15; Preaching and Bible Study, 10 A. lll.; Preaching and Communion, 8:00 and 7 :00. Communion, 11 A. 1\1.; Preaching, lVedneflday, Bil,le Study at 7::!0 l'. l\l. 7 :45 P. M.; Prayer Meeting 7 :45 Arthur Graham, l\linistt"r P. M. lV ednesday; Bibl e Study, 7:45 25 Irvine- Terrace, Cambridge-, l\lnss. P. M. Saturday. lV. E. lVnldnun, Mini s ter 105 Cobb St., Juclson. PIIILADELPIIIA, PA. Flft:,-slxth St. ond ll"arrington Ave. Hll,ie School, 9:45; \Vorahi11, 10:45; WASHINGTON, D. C. Yonna:- Peoplt:'s Class. 7 :OO; Preach­ 3460-Hth St ., N. W. at Meridian Pl. ing-, 7 :45: \Vednesdny Pr11yer and Sunday School, 10:00; Preachina-, Bible Stmly . 8:00. Communion, 11:00; Preaching at 8:00 A. Drinkwater, 5113 Brown St. P. M. Thursday, Prayer and Bible Phone Trinity 18-23 Study, 8:00 P. l\l. lingo McCord, 1732 lrvlnK St,., N. lV. Phone Adams 7751-J BRENTWOOD, MARYLAND ,1443 Uollatlay Street Singing, 10:00; Bible Cia,,i;eM, 10:20; IIIINNEAPOLJS, MINN •. ( 'onununion, Pr ..·achin,t, 11:00: \\ 'or­ Church of Christ shl1>, Preuching, 7 :45; Tues. & ThnrN. 1.0.G.T. Hall, 2514 Lincoln St., N: E. Singlno:, Prayer. Uible St111ly, 7 :45. Dible Study, 10 A. Ill. Preaching and Aaron A. Stone, Prencht-r Communion, 11 A. 11(. Phone Greenwood 3053-W lV. Don lloclmday, Evanjfelist. 2750 Taylor St., N. E. Phone GRnnvllle 7519 SARNIA, ONTARIO, CANADA Orang e llnll, Geo. & Christina Sts. SUNBURY, ,PA. Bible Class, 10 A. l\l.; Worship and Fourth and Arch Streets Con1munion, 11 A. ~(.; Bible Study, 9:45; Sermon, 10:30; Preaching, 7 P. l\l . Communion. 11:30; Ev'g Service, 7:30 L. D. La Course, ~li.nister. Lewis F. IIIUls, Minister, 11 Hnas Ave. TRION, GA. CHARLOTTE. NORTH CAROLINA Bible School, IO A. 111.; lVorship. Y.lll.C .A. Building, Second and South 11 A . M., 7 P. )I.; Prayer Meeting. Tryon St . Wednesday, 7 P. l\[. Bihle Stmly, 10:00; lVorship, 11:00; J. F. Fulford, llliniste,-. Tel. 228-l\l E, •ani:-elistic Service, 7 :30 P. M. J. Harrison Daniels, 609 Tre1nont Ave. PENSACOLA, FLA. 12th Ave. Church of Christ DALTON, GA. Bible Study, 9:45 A. M.; lVorshlp, 8 \Vest Gordon 11 A. lll.; Evangelistic Service, Dible Sthdy, 10 A. M.; lVorship, 11 7:30 P . 111.; Prayer Meeting, A . Ill.; Bible Study, 7 :15 P. Ill.; Ill. E1 1ening Service, 7 :4·5 P. 1'1.; Bibl e 7:39 P. Sttuly, 7 :30 P . M. lVedn esday . Chester Honeycut, Minister. Tel. 5237 ,, R. C. lValker , Minist er • Cannon Heights. LONG BEACII, CALIF . Ninth anti Lime JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY Jas. A. Scott, llllnister 880 Bergen Avenue, 2 Blocks from Telephone, 31376 Journal Square Station. · Bible Study, 10:00; Communion and COLUIIIBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA Preaching, 11 :00. Moore an

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Editorial

We are glad to present to our read ­ such a woeful lack of intere st in and ers the above group of contributing support of missionary work but it is editors, eight of whose name s app ear done with the hope that it will arouse for the fir st time in this issue. Broth­ many to doing something when they ers Hell, Ben son, King, and Pittman see how very inadequate our work is have been ser ving for a long time but in this respect. There may be some the other eight listed above are new ­ who imagine that the work is going comers into our family of contribut­ all right without th eir bothering ing editors, We believe it would be about it; that th ere are plenty who impo ssible to find a dozen men more are contributing . Christians who may capable or more intere sted in th e have that attitude should be shocked progress of the church than the se are, by this into activity until there will Brothers Brewer, Pittman, Tr eat be none who is not doing his part and Williams have articles in thi s is­ toward carrying the Gospe l to every sue and the others will contl"ibute to part of the earth. fut ure issues . * * * * * * "Consid er one another to provoke We call especial attention to a study unto love and good works," we read of the support given to mi ss ionarie s in Hebrews 10 :24. It is the purpo se which appears in this issue. It is not of WORLDVISION to stir the conscious- pleasant to publish a report that shows (Cont inu ed. on page 5) EvangelismThrough BY ALONZO WILLIAMS the Individual Tyler, Texas

A great part of the missionary work proclaimed unto them the Christ." done during the New Testament pe­ (Acts 8 :4, 5.) Those early Chris­ riod was accomplished by individuals, tians who had been driven from their 1·ather than by congregations, as such. homes by persecution "went" to The command to preach the gospel to preach and teach of their own accord the whole world was given to indi­ without being sent by any congrega ­ viduals, the eleven apo stle s. Je sus tion. Independent of any congrega­ said, "Go ye therefore, and make dis­ tion, they taught as member s of the ciples of all nations, baptizing them body of Christ. Philip was not sent into the name of the Father and of by, and did not work throu gh, any the Son and of the Holy Spirit: teach­ congregation when he converted the ing them to observe all things what ­ eunuch on the highway. (Act s 8 :26- soever I command you : and lo, I am 40.) Peter was asserting his rights with you always, even unto the end under the Great Commission when he of the world ." (Matt. 28:19, 20.) A went from Joppa to Cresarea where careful study of this language reveals he converted Cornelius and his house­ that, altho ugh addressing the eleven hold. (Act s 10.) Titu s "went forth collectively, Jesu s obligated them in­ unto you of his own accord." (2 Cor. dividually. Each one of the eleven 8 :11.) was individually and independently Every congregation should hav e a commissioned. Not a one of them program of evangelism. The church was excused of his personal responsi ­ at Philippi had "fellowship in furth­ bility should the group, as such, re­ erance of the gospel from the first day fuse or fail to act upon the given or­ until now." (Philip . 1 :5.) The New der s. They were to "go", "make dis­ Testament churche s were primarily ciples", "baptizing th em" and "teach mi ssionary churche s. Churches and them" by individual effort. It wa s individual member s everywhere felt to be a campaign of per sonal evan­ the weight of the Great Commission gelism. They were individually as and preached it s t erm s to every na­ well as collectively bound to that task. tion, and, through it all, there was Jesus intended that personal evan­ never a murmur 01, complaint about geli sm should continue to the end of the financial cost, the necessary self­ time. "Teaching them to observe all denials or the pe rs onal hardships and things what soever I command you" sufferings . shows that Jesus expected each bap­ If you are a lone Christian in your tized di sciple to work individually in community, or if you are a member saving others. Not unmindful of th e of a congregation which is not sup­ church as a body, and the apostle s as porting the gospel outside of its com­ an aggregation scripturally working munity ,..or if for any rea son you are for the promulgation of the gospel, forced to act individually and inde­ emphasi s is herein laid upon the scrip­ pendently, it is your privilege and tural provision whereby each child of

Pre sent condition s in China cannot Our pre sent plans are to r emain in be good. As long as war is being Wichita, with a few short vi sits to waged in any country, conditions are nearby place s, until the la st part of decidedly bad, but not at all without September. We will then start to the remedy. Neither do the y get to the Coast, vi siting friends on the way, point where all hearts are immune to and will sail from Vancouver, B. C., the bett er sentiments and sensibilities. Canada, on Octob er 28 and arrive in Therefore it is not useless to appeal Hong Kong, China, on November 17 to any nation in its crises. Men of or 18. all faith s are propagating their teach­ Until we start for the Coast we ing in China today, and are finding will receive mail at 126 S. Minneapo ­ an open door. There is an open door lis Avenue, Wichita, Kansas. for the gospel when the gospel is pre­ sented to them. Having carefully studied the que~­ Editor ial tion, we are convinced that we shoula (Co ntinu ed from p a g e 3) be in Chin a at the earliest possible ne ss of the church to do its duty in date. The churches of Chri st have no carrying the Gospel into unreached man in China at the present, and the places; to provoke all Christians unto church is too young to be left without this good work . This evangelizing, some kind of oversight. With all of or carrying the Good News, we call us away, it is likely that we will lose missionary work for want of a better much of the ground that has been so word . hardly gained in the past work there . We are not a mi ssionary society, God's work can ill afford a loss that nor agency. We are soliciting no we are entirely ab le to prevent . In­ money for mis sionaries to be sent to deed, some are finding this the most us, but that you become acquainted fruitful period of work they have had with the work of some missionary and in China, and if thi s be true with re­ correspond and send your money di­ gard to an impure form of Christian­ rect to him. As every preacher ha s ity, why should it not be true of the the right - the duty - to preach on the true teaching s of Christ? subject, so the magazine has the right We now lack about $200 having the to promote such work, each issue car ­ needed amount for taking us to China. rying several sermons on mis sionary Re spon se to the call for thi s fund ha s work . been liberal and we are much encour­ A s Titus trave led among the aged with it. Your help in securing churches for the specific purpose of the remainder of the fund will be ap­ rai sing fund s for work that the preciat ed. church has a right to engage in, so Promises for monthly support in has any Christian the right to raise the work after we reach China are fund s similarly . Select a missionary not quite sufficient to en able us to and support him, or help support him. carry on the work that we have A CHURCH WHICH DOES NOT Do So planned. To keep us and five or six Is NOT A LOYAL_ CHURCH! Chine se families busy preaching the gospel it is going to require about $200 monthly. We fee l that this is 1939 WORLD VISION BOUND the lea st amount that will enab le u s VOLUMES to do our best work, and we ar e Two hundred volumes 1939 issues of anxious to make time count all it will WORLDVISION are to be bound. We while we are working. Write me endeavor to give publicity to the chief that you will send some definite mis sion activities supported by the amount each month, and thereby en­ Church of Chri st during the year . able us to go back to our work as ­ The cost of printing, binding and sUTed that the financial part of the postage is about $1.00 per volume. work will be cared for while we Please give us your order. 1938 bound preach the gospel to China. volume is al so availab le. WORLD VISION 5 Report of Missionary BY Activities at Valdosta, A. B. LIPSCOMB Georgia

Following the withdrawal of Am er ­ credit is due Brother W. L. Wilson, a ican missionari es from China on ac­ memb er of th e Nebra ska Avenue con­ count of the exege ncies of cruel war, gregation in Tampa, for the busine ss­ we have been sending monthly con­ lik e way in which he keeps the va­ tributi ons to the support of Brother rious contributors informed of the J. R. Jiminez, mi ssionary at Havana, Havana mission. Every dollar is re­ Cuba. This work is sponsored by the ported and accounted for and the Nebraska Avenue congregation in news reports are stimulating. Tampa, Florida, and is supported Recently the Valdosta church wel­ chiefly by churches in th e South ern comed the Shoemaker s, who are bound states. We highly commend the work for Africa with the Reeses, and also of Broth er Jiminez and rejoice in the Lowell Davi s, who is pledged to re­ progress he has made in a compara­ vive the work in war-torn China. tively short period of time. Monthly Substantial contributions were made repo r t s indicate that evangelistic to both parties. services are being held not only in For the extension of work in South Havana but in populous district s out ­ Georgia and Florida the Valdosta side the city. The Havana congrega­ church is cooperating with the Da sher tion, which meets at 117 Estevez church in conducting tent meetings in Street, has been scripturally organ ­ nearby destitute fields. The extra ized under the leadership of well­ copies of WORLDVISION furnished the qualified elders and deacon s. Much Valdosta church are appre ciat ed.

MISSION W ORK BY MAIL THEN AND NOW There came unto the Lord one day Editors and friend s of WORLD VISION are writing a series of twelve One begging to be fed tracts, each complete in it self but the With only crumb s which chanced to entire serie s will cover the highlights fall of the whole Bible. They are being From those who had the br ead. prepared with the non-church member in mind. And did our Lord send her away We would like to secure t en thou­ With empty, longing hands? sand names, friends of church mem­ Ah , no, he richly satisfied bers, and mail each of them a tract each month for a year. Someone will Her hungry he art 's demands . then be encouraged to get in touch with them personally in an effort to Today are millions peri shing lead them to Chri st . Amidst sad famine 's dearth Please let u s have a list of your While Christ says, "Give ye them to friends, to put on the mailing list . eat," Cost of printing and mailing the To u s, the sa lt of earth. twelve tracts, one a month for a year, will be abo ut 50 cent s for each name . To us, who are to light the world P lease send us at leas t $1.00, which With good news, as he sai d, will pay your subscription to WORLD But, oh, how slow we are to share VISION for a year and the tracts to a friend . Be sure to give us his name With th em the Living Bread. and addres s. -Nellie H. Morehead. 6 WORLD VISION Philippine BY Mission Work H. G. CASSELL

Where there is poor vision multi­ he ha s led ju stice to victory . And on tudes live about us without our ever his nam e will the nationals among seeing them . I have been astonished, whom hP. work s re st their hopes with­ again and again, in th e last eleven out fear of humiliation. years, as I learn how many Ameri­ In our more th an ten years mis sion cans do not know the location of the work among th e Filipino s we have Philippines. When seven to sixteen been touched with pity for them, suf­ million people can live under the fering as th ey do, every kind of dis­ American flag for forty years and the ease and infirmity, because they are number of Americans not know their distracted and dejected like sheep geographical location which we have without a shepherd. Our greatest found to be the rule, surely there is joys have come in sharing their hard­ poor vision. ship s and in communicating to them And it is not at all surprising when of our great er fullne ss . The light in so many do not know where these their eyes, the windows of their souls, people live, that many others should has glowed bright ly more than once , not know much about them and how causing us to forget all our sufferings. they live. We found all kind s of er ­ We have found men with large roneou s idea s about the Filipinos on families to support and educate, go­ a twelve thousand mile trip through ing bare-handed and bare-footed into the States in 1936. One is almost the thorns and briers of the forest s convinced sometimes that these er­ to hew out fields to plant and culti­ roneous idea s must be due, in part, to vate . We have seen them wait pa ­ the fact that so many people' s minds tientl y for the harve sts which were are like mole s burrowing in the earth never enough . We have seen their for grub s. If their vision were not children drop out of school one by one so poor they would have seen God in because there was no means to se­ this part of his field long ago . cure books and pay tuition . Under Then, again, it is easy to perpetu­ similar circumstances we should prob­ ate those ideas by bringing them into ably have whimpered and begg ed and the focus of poor visioned people, in­ cajoled our brethren into support­ stead of focusing their view upon the ing us . more worth-while characteristics of At the end of three and a third cen­ the Filipinos. It is important, in the turies of poor administration in the beginning, to understand that Fili­ Philippines by the Spanish it had be­ pinos are men and women, just the come their fixed cour se to heap blame same as Americans are. The impli­ and censures upon the Filipino s. In cations growing out from this fact th e measure that their own conduct are many. The human heart is sus­ grew less efficient, in that measure ceptible to temptation and sin, with­ they charged the Filipino s with inca­ out any regard to race or color . This pacity, ·indolence, dishonesty, and susceptibility can be intensified or every vice and sinful propensity. Per­ diminished according to circumstances sonalities, like plants, are influenced over long periods of time. by the atmosphere in which they are If the missionary follows closely in compe lled to live. Let that atmos ­ the steps of his Teacher he will pray phere remain 90 percent poi sonous to that a double portion of his spirit the personality, and it is too much to might rest upon himself. He will not expect it to show the same reactions wrangle nor cry out the weaknesses as if it were 90 percent favorab le. and defects of the peop le among whom All of which is but to say that the he seek s to work, nor will hi s voice moral, social and spiritua l atmosphere utter the se things in the broadways. of the Philippine s has been dominant­ A brui sed reed he will not break by ly Roman Catholic through the cen­ loading it down with guilt, nor will turies, and still remain s so. he quench the smouldering wick of It is as impossible for a missionary goodness in a man or woman by blow­ to give himse lf to the work and at ing strongly against their sins, until (Continued on Page I ) WORLD VISION 7 BY Mission Work Among M.KEEBLE (Colored) the Colored People Nash ville, Tennessee

Nearly forty 14,000 copies have been published. years I have been For all of this we thank God. Just preaclmg the Gos­ as soon as Brother Goodpasture be­ pel of Jesus came editor of the Gospel Advocate, Christ. I have in a few months we have a colored gone barefoot, or paper with all colored writers, con­ with shoes in such taining news reports and articles from condition th at all over the brotherhood. p e o p I e would The white churches all over the 1 au gh at my brotherhood are anxious that the col­ naked feet and ored people hear the pure Gospel. my clothes so I am sending this article to the ragged that most men would have WORLDVISION because Brother Moore­ turned back but I meant to preach and head is so greatly interested in mis­ suffer and I had a wife that never sion work among the colored people. comp lained. She wanted me to preach. Everywhere he can speak a word to She was the daughter of that dear old encourage mission work among us he saint S. W. Womack who preached the does. He has proven to be one of my Gospel nearly fifty years . best friends. Let us all live so we Finally Brother A. M. Burton be­ can be worthy of such friendship. came interested in my work and he sent me thousands of miles all over this country to preach to my race. No doubt he could see more in me PHILIPPINE MISSION than I could and from the day that he WORK came to assist me, my work began to create great interest everywhere I ( Continu ed fro1n p age 7) went . Thousands of my race became the same time keep most, or even members of the Church of Christ. some, of the national comforts and During these many years that conveniences which sets his nation Brother Burton fellowshipped me, he apart from the one he has chosen for never once said anything to me about his field of labor, as it is for a person my manner of preaching, or ever told to eat his cake and still have it. If me that I was too hard. He has told one's field be the Philippines, then he me many times that he has never re­ needs to learn how, to the Filipinos gretted a nickle that he gave to help to become like a Filipino in order to me preach to a misled people. win Filipinos; to men under the Law About twenty years ago, Brother as if he were under the Law-al­ N. B. Hardeman called me to Hender­ though himself not-in order to win son, Tennessee, and a large number those who are under the Law; to men were baptized and today the Church of wit hout Law as if he were without Christ is the largest church in Chester Law-although not without God's County and Brother Hardeman from Law-being subject to Christ's law­ that day until now has recommended in order to win those who are with out me to white churches all over this Law. To all men he must become all country. He has been a blessing to me things, in the hope that by all possi­ and he is still endorsing my work and ble means he may save some. It is not I thank God for such friends . everyone who can make these adjust­ Seven or eight years ago Brother ments; only some have received a B. C. Goodpasture decided that a book measure of this grace. He who is able of my sermons would help me in my to do this, let him do it. work and he talked with men like Brother C a 1 h o u 11, Brother Boles, Brother ·Burton and Brother Harde­ "What I spent I had; what I saved man and they all agreed with him and I lost; what I gave I have."-An An­ he soon got the book out and today cient Epitaph. 8 WORLD VISION Some African BY OTTIS A. SCOTT Opportunities Kalomo, Northern Rhodesia, Africa

Since most of Africa is still un­ his heart's desire of spreading the touched by us, we do rejoice that Gospel to those who have no light at pro spects for growth of work in all until he bring s it to them. Very Northern Rhode sia are brightening. few non-Chri stian Europeans care for We should hurry along getting these this work, so missions are asked to points stabilized and then from here carry it forward . A rare opportunity! give heed to urgent call s beyond. Yes, There is much more territory even touching calls, from the Zamb esi Val­ in Northern Rhodesia and we should ley not fa1· from us, and in Barotse ­ augm ent the Southern Rhodesian land which is al so near. Both are work as well, not only native work populous places. but work among the white population The Zambesi is off our plateau and should go forward in the towns there, being so much lower is not very and on throughout the Union. healthful. Our native men who spent We hear of a number, who were a few months down the valley tell us baptized by the Kellum's party who that no one at all is doing any re­ are scattered about wondering where ligious work there. They said that to ca st their lot. All cities like Cape even though the masses were steeped Town, Johanne sburg, Durban, Hula­ in sins and superstition s, yet, many wayo and Salisbury hav e real need of followed them from place to place to able proclaimers of the word as well hear the Gospel story. Their pa­ as parties of stalwart workers to ac­ thetic stories touched our heart s but company and some to remain and nur­ we have never been able since to send ture after the newly planted seeds even these teachers back. take root. Sheph erd s of the native In Barot seland th e king heard from work in Nyassaland are badly needed . some of his subjects that sprinkling There has been some turmoil among was not Bible baptism. He began to Christian s there and it seems that the study about it and mu st have been native brethren, trained by our be­ convinced for he called for some mis­ loved Brother Sherriff, are standing .sion to be established in his territory fast against many odds. which practiced true baptism, because There is no doubt but that we he wanted his people to have it . That Christian s should scatter about with call is still unanswered. our King' s message and be the salt In other publications there will of the earth-yes, the earth remem­ likely be note made of how the native ber, and not just Am erica. Leave chiefs, in Livingstone District, are the salt from seven-eights of your standing defiantly again st the Catho­ food for a few weeks to impress the lic s and waiting for us . This is large­ lesson, then resolve to be "salt of the ly in an educational sense and the earth," with savor. Make it real. government is preparing and offer­ ing to pay much of the educational expense. It want s qualified teachers, who are al so missionaries . How can "The most fatal result from any line we afford to be slow in this oppor­ of action is no r esult . That is what is tune time? We have many stalwal't wrong with the church today. · It Chri stians in many congregations ought to cost more to get into it, to there who could move forward in a sta y in it, and ther e ought to be more very telling way here, once we get the difference between church members few missions we have here going in a and others. ' Ever y member, for ex­ good way again. We might have to ample, should giv e more mone y to the support them for a while but the gov­ church than he give s to all his clubs ernment has given and still plan s to put together. Then men and women give help to certificated European who do the mo st for religion are not teachers . This help would go far to ­ it s advocate s, but its witnesses . Re­ ward full support of self-sacrificing ligion is best expressed in live s."­ workers. In other words teaching D1·. William Lyon P.helps in 20th Cen ­ could be hi s trade whi le he worked to tu ry Christian. WORLD VISION 9 tended in the mornings, but now the An Actively Missionary cold winter nights are here the natives Church do not attend so well . We have good meetings in the village. Brother Peter From an issue of the "Broa dway and I visited over forty families last Bulletin" published week ly by the Saturda y and gave the folk a shaking Broadway Church of Christ, Lubbock, up . So on the Lord's day we had a Texas, where Brother G. C. Brewer splendid gathering. This we have to ministers, we quote the following: do every now and again. I can't do it "Perhaps you do not know what as well now, like I used to do. I'm your money is doing in the name of sixty-four years old and no longer a the Lord. Well, here are some items spring chicken but I guess I have as that we support regularly : much go in me as many thirt y years FOR MISSIONS AND BENEVOLENCE youn ger . (I'm not boasting either.)" Oti s Gatewoo d ______$100.00 p er m onth B r oth er Di as (Mexi ca n) ___ 26.00 p er m onth N egro es (L ub b oc l{)______25.00 p er m onth El P aso (Mex ica n) ______10 .00 p er m onth Jap a n ------15.00 p er m on t h A Searching Question and Th e T ipton Horne______40 .00 p er month Th e B oles Hom e______40.00 p er m onth a Definite Challenge To ta L------$ 255.00 p er month The following a r t i c l e, entitled "Then in addition to this we make "What Sha ll I Answer Her?" was r e­ frequent and sometimes very liberal ceived along with a letter from Mrs. special gifts in response to calls. J. A. Britte ll of Santa Rosa, Cali­ Th en there are the home expenses: fornia. Sister Britten is the mother Preacher, janitor, radio, bulletin, tele­ of Orville Britte ll, the eight een-ye ar­ phone, lights, water, gas, insurance, old youth who went to Africa recently upk eep , etc. Are you doing your as a missionary. Orville's going was part?" reported in the last issue of WORLD Brother Otis Gatewood worked for VISION. In her letter of transmittal something over a year at Las Vegas, Sister Britten says in part: New Mexico, but is now in Salt Lake "Orville likes his work exceedi ngly. City to stay there indefinite ly-until He baptized two more last month. He he establishes a chur ch there. has had attacks of malaria late ly. The Scotts are so good to him. Orville was quite youn g to go but he had From Sister Sheriff planned to go since about ten years The following is quoted from a let ­ old. I had prayed to God since be­ ter from Sister Emma Sherriff, Forest fore he was born to let him go ." Vale Mission, Box 213, Bulawayo, How does that last sentence strike Southern Rhodesia, South Africa: you parents who are afrai d to have "Forty years ago, we had no mis­ your children consider going t o a for­ sionaries belonging to the Church of eign field ? But to her question. Christ in Africa. Now we have fif­ teen families, white mis sionaries, in WHAT SHALL I ANSWER HER? Southern and Northern Rhodesia and Some time ago I studied two hour s others, white, in Nyassaland and some, a day, twice a week for nearl y six native, in Nyassaland who were taught months with a Catho lic and an Advent here by my dear departed hu sband. lady . We had taken up the plan of In fact, you might say all that are salvation, the old and new law, and here in Southern and Northern Rho­ the work and worship of the chur ch. desia were th e out come of his work. I f elt that I had made plain the prin­ I know the work is increasing all over ciples for which the ear ly church Afr ica . Even down south we have stood. I believe the lady that asked natives who are working hard for the me the following questions was just as Master an d one native brother who conscientio us and sincere as I was in was trained by Brother Sherriff has our st udy. After we had finished she been engaged in the Lord 's work over asked me th e following questions: twenty-five years and won thousands "Just wh at wou ld it nrofit me, spir­ of souls for the Lord J esus. I guess itually , to leave th e Advent churc h to you have he ard all this before. I'm work with the Church of Christ as it pleased to tell you our work her e is now exists? I believe that in many doing fair ly well, meetin gs well at- points of practice I would have to 10 WORLD VISION retrograde. As to the 'First Prin­ speaks', and 'We practice pure New ciples' we are agreed, but there is a Testament Christianity.' You con­ vast difference as to our teaching and demn the various preachers for saying practice of 'Christian living.' For that one can be saved without being example, we teach our members to baptized; yet, teach by your actions spend their time and money in mis­ that one can be saved without 'going'. sionary activities to save souls, rather While Christ put the 'going' first: than to spend it for picture shows, 'Go into all the world and preach the skating-rinks, lipstick, paint, etc.; to gospel ... baptizing them .. .' use their cars and gas to carry litera­ "True, the church at Graton during ture to souls who know not Christ, the twenty years that I have known rather than to spend it for joy-rides. of it has maintained a Bible school, In our Bible College at St. Helena, and produced two missionaries-Helen we teach our young people to spend Pearl Scott and Boyd Reese-besides their money to preach 'Christ', rather a number of adult missionaries have than to spend it for class rings, cig­ gone out from there; and Santa Rosa arettes, and at the beauty parlor­ church has produced two missionaries for we believe if when one is tempted -Ruth Gardner and Orville (who to spend their money or time in world­ plans to sail soon)-also two preach­ ly amusement or outward adornment ers, Ralph Wilburn and Sherman he uses it for the spread of the king­ Lanier; besides maintaining a Bible dom, that he will soon become one of school for ten years, and establishing the happiest and most beautiful of a church at Healdsburg, without God's creatures. As a result of this either congregation having a pastor at teaching, not one pupil (not even one any period of these years; yet not of the workmen in the shops) in the withstanding this, I believe from the entire school (above 350) smokes or investigations that I have made that chews, or wears jewelry, and none of the Church of Chri st is spending 98% the girls paint their face or finger­ of its money to hire pastors to preach nails, or patronize the beauty parlor. to its members; salaries ranging from "But I have come into your church $100 to $500, while the very few mis­ and seen, not only your young people, sionaries that it has on the home and but even your preacher in the pulpit foreign fields are living on salaries with a ring on his finger, and your ranging from $10 to $50-and many preacher's wife with rings, and ear­ pay a native preacher out of that bobs, and paint and finger-nail polish, meager salary. and necklace. This convinced me that "Another inconsistency is that you you must teach that such practices are ·wouldn't dare to 'Brother' one who is right (at least you. teach that by your a 'goer' but not a 'baptizer' or even a practice), in face of (I Tim. 2 :9) and 'goer' and a 'baptizer' but who keeps (I Pet . 3:3). a different day, but you will take one "The result of the two kinds of of your members by the hand and teaching is demonstrated in the fact 'Brother' him when perhaps he comes that in the ninety :vears (the time that to church only once or twice a month you say that we have been in exist­ and has never given a cent to 'send' ence) we have about five . hundred the gospel. Do you really think he times as man:v mis sionaries, Bible is one who is more nearly doing the schools, hospitals, and translations of will of our Father, or is it because he the Bible, in the foreign lands, to say is one of your party? I believe you nothing of those in the home-land, a's pe0ple 'tith mint and cummin and the Church of Christ has in nearly two leave undone the weightier matters of thousand years ( the time you say you the law.' I repeat I just can't see have been in existence). Too, the where I will be profited by making members of the Advent church give on the change.'' an average to home and foreign mis­ Brethren, frankly I do not know how sions, $75 yearly, per member; while to answer her question. Do you ? If the average of your giving is less you do I will surely appreciate your than 20 cents per member. What writing me at 3274 Wilson Avenue, could I gain in making the change? Santa Rosa, California. "Then too, I feel that the Church of May God help us all to walk cir­ Christ as it now exists is very incon­ cumspectly as children of Light that sistent (there are excepted members). we may not cause any to stumble, is You say, 'We speak where the Bible my prayer. WORLD VISION 11 Work Among BY JOHN F. WOLFE the Mexicans El Pa so, Tex a s

The first item of intel'est in our back hom e mi ght be stirred with a wol'k for the pa st month · wa s our new realization of duty. Num er ous meeting in which Brother P edro Ri­ privat e conver sations with indi vidual va s did the preachin g . Two were Mexicans revealed th e fact that Mexi ­ baptized and the congregation was co is l'eady to rece ive the gospel. In edified. Brother Riva s went back to the town s without pl'iests th e door is hi s hom e in Tor reo n with a n ew de­ wid e open, an d everywhere the signs termination to preach the gospe l to are abundant that the pe opl e are hi s peop le in Mexico. A plan was ready for a new spiritual movem ent. worked out for openin g a new field We r eturned hom e with a determina­ down th ere, and it is my intention to tion to do every thin g in our power to go to Torreo n in th e nea r futur e and give Mexico the gospel. help get the work sta rted . I found The fina l item of this l'epo l't con ­ Broth er Riva s to be a man of strong sists of a great pi ece of good new s. character, humble and ear nest. Hi s During my absence a check for $300 experience as a teach er and news­ was received from Broth er John paper editor has given him a broad Dreghorn of Vinemont, Ala., for oul' outlook, and it is the earnest hope of buildin g fund. The br ethr en here im­ the brethren here that he will make a medi at ely got busy with the res ult u seful servant of the Lord in hi s own that on next Lord' s Day morning we country . More about thi s in my next will have our fir st serv ice in th e new report . building. Thi s is a victory for which Second , my t rip to Mexico Cit y, we hav e pra yed and labor ed and we which requil'ed two weeks includin g ea rn estly thank God for it . We also the time t aken to go and come. This want to expre ss our deep apprecia­ trip was mad e chiefly to spy out th e tion to all who hav e helped to br ing land and to gain information regard­ about this consummation of our hop es ing conditions under which the ,ros­ and plan s. Let our . battl e cry be pel may be pr eac hed in Mexico. Th e "Onward! " pa r ty included Brother and Sister Horace Teddli e, Siste r Barne s, Ken­ neth Kirb y and myself. We mad e th e YOUR CHRISTMAS GIFT journey by auto, entering Mexic o at La re do and drivin g along the inter ­ WANTED-A thou sand active Chri s- national high way . We found the tian s now readers of vVORLD VISION, hi ghway in exce llent condition and to send th e maga zin e as a Clw istmcis the country bea utiful. Th e mountain s gift to ci fri end who might becom e were especia lly insniring in their more active in mi ss ion wor k by read­ gra ndeur . Mexico City is a great ing the paper. Hundr eds of Chri s­ metr opoli s of upward s of a million t ian s have become st imu lat ed to be­ inhabitant s. It lies on Mexico's hi gh come more active in th e spread of the central plateau with a cool, stimulat­ gospe l by hav ing th eir atte ntion called ing climate. Neve r , so far as is to the wor k of mi ss ionarie s through known, ha s the gospe l in its purity WORLD VISION. been preached in thi s great cit y. " Th e Lord 's comm and ment s ar e not Everywhere are sig ns of a decaying gr ievou s." Sewing gospel seed in vir­ Catholicism - slowlv di sinte grating gin soil give s jo y and nea ce to the church buildin gs and deserted man­ sup porter , th e sower and the one in sion s of wor ship which even vet at­ who se heart the seed is sown if he te st to the mi sguided zea l of their allows it to grow . builders . In a room of the Hot el Ave­ nida our small gl'oup met for worshin APPRECIATED COOPERATION on Lord's Day mornin g and sent up prayer s to God that workers mi ght be "I have been abl e to get you two raised up to carry the me ssage of sal­ sub scr iption s for WORLD VISION from vation to tho se millions who have neighbors who can read Eng lish."­ never heard it , and th at the churche s Emm a Sherriff, South Africa . 12 WORLD VISION Planting and BY Watering CHAS . R. BREWER

Tho se who rec­ state, in Winn Parish. It has a popu­ ognize t h e text lation of about forty-five hundred, alluded to in the approximately half of thi s number heading of t h i s being of the colored race. Two faith­ article will recall ful Christian s were living there, that there is an­ Brother and Sister C. R. Brock, and other part to it­ they were calling us to "come over "God gave the in­ and help" them. The nearest congre­ creas e." That is gation was fifty miles away. Brother the true order and Sister Brock with their two chil ­ of the process; dren drove to Alexandria each Lord's planting, water­ Day to worship. They longed to see ing, and waiting for the harvest. Our the day when there would be a con­ work is to sow and water, the rest we gregation in their own town. The must leave with Goel. Sometimes the David Lip scomb church determined to harve st may be long in coming; some­ help them . times there may be no reaping at all. The condition of the soil is a deter­ THE METHOD mining factor. According to the par­ Two young men of the graduating able, the seed in the rocky places, or class of David Lipscomb College were among the thorns, or by the way side, chosen to go before and prepare for never came to a ripened harve st. But the meeting. They were B'ennie Lee it is imperative that we as Christian s Fudge of Athens, Alabama, and El­ sow the seed. Are we doing our part? bert M. Young of Brush Creek, Ten­ How many congregations are mak ing ne ssee. During the month of June any planned effort to establish the they labored faithfully in Winnfield, cause of our Lord in places where the visiting from house to house and dis­ seed ha s not been planted? Can we tributing literature. More than five claim to be "the church of the living hundred home s were visited, and more God" if we are not functioning as than five thousand tracts and periodi­ "the pillar and stay (margina1 read­ cal s were given away. On the five ing) of the truth"? A group of highways leading into the city they Christians in any loca lity have a col­ placed announcements of the meet­ lective duty to perform, it is their ing, and mor e permanent signs wel­ mission to send the gospel to other coming all to the services of the places where Chri st is not known. A Church of Chri st in Winnfield. A church that is not doing this either tent was placed on a prominent c;:or­ has not been taught, or it is failing to ner in the heart of the town. On the carry out what it know s to be a God­ fir st day of July, Brother Robert G. given work. Nei l and I (accompanied by Brother B. D. Morehead who remained a few A CASE HISTORY days) arrived in Winnfield, and the I give now a brief report of an ef­ meeting began that night. I did the fort made by one congregation to preaching for twenty-six nights. plant the seed of the Kingdom in vir­ Brother Neil led the singing and con­ gin soil, in which effort it was my ducted a clas s for young people . privi lege to J:iave a small part. The Brother F udge taught a children's church meeting at David Lip scomb class each evening. All of us con­ College in Na shville purposed that tinued the work from house to house. with the cooperation of others and B'rother Young continued the meeting the blessing of God, they would try for four nights after the rest of us to establish a new congregation each left. year over a period of years. After I could not prai se these brethren much consideration and prayer the too highly for their earne st, untiring field selected for the effort thi s vear work; Brother Fudge for his zeal and was Winnfield, Loui siana. Winnfield splendid ability as a preacher ani:l is in the north -central part of the teacher; Brother Young for his sin- WORLD VISION 13 cerity and consecration to the Lord. but many other churches and indi­ Brother Neil, with his plea sing per­ viduals contributed to it. Others sonality, his ability to make friends, helped through prayer and encour­ and his power as a song leader, is, I agement. We give thanks to all and think, the finest helper I ever had in to God for every act of cooperation. meeting work. Some may be inclined to think that the outcome was out of proportion THE RESULT with the effort and expense put forth, The result s were not what we had but that would surely be a short­ hoped for, but the work was not by sighted conclu sion. At least four any means in vain. Four were bap­ souls were saved, a church was estab­ tized, three living some distance away lished, th e seed was planted and pro­ placed membership, and one erring vision is made for continued water­ brother was found and restored to the ing. God has given, and will give the fellowship. In all a membership of increase. His word shall not return eleven was left to meet regularly and void. carry on for the Lord. A hall was I pray that God may bless the rented for a meeting place, and David Lip scomb College church in Brother Young is to remain with carrying on such a program, that them for one year, perhaps longer. they may not be "weary in well do­ Arrangements have already been ing". And I hope that other churches made for other meetings to be held. may set themselves some such task. Brother Frank Young is to be there How can we stand before our Master this fall, and Brother Emmett Wain­ in the last day without having at wright in the spring. least tried to gather sheaves for His The cost of the meeting, counting harvest? the support of all workers, the tent, "Sowing the precious seed, doubting song books, and literature, amounted never, to several hundred dollars. The Nash­ Tru sting the Lord for growth and ville congregation sponsored the work, for yield."

whose little body would surely have From China landed in a similar place if I had not Miss Elizabeth C. Bernard, P. 0. saved her preciou s little life. A far Box 1682, Hong Kong, remains at her more terrible thought is of all the post in China. She sends the picture souls that are being carelessly left to on the front cover of two children the scavenger, the devil, to take to she has rescued and is training in the the dump heap, hell, which was pre­ nurture and admonition of the Lord. pared for him and his followers. The From a very interesting letter we awful condition of poverty in which take the following: these people live is an outward sym­ "We live beyond the out skirts of bol of the poverty of soul which is the planned city in what is called a eternal!" village here but it is really only the When here recently Brother Lowell overflow from the crowded city. There Davis told us a similar story of see­ are no street s and the huts just sit at ing a baby's body thrown out be­ any angle. The favorite building ma­ cause its parents did not want it or terial seems to be kerosene tins. Fac­ could not care for it. How China tories, dwellings, pig houses, etc., all needs Chri stianity! jumbled up together. No sanitary arrangements except a scavenger man BROTHER ALVIN HOBBY NEEDS who collects or burns trash dumped in A set of World Books. open spaces. A few weeks ago as I A B'ible Dictionary. was on my way to the chapel where Medium- size Web ster Dictionary. there is an afternoon meeting, I saw Bible Reference Books. a baby's dead body on a trash heap Bible Story Books. waiting to be collected by the scav­ If you have some of the se to donate, enger. It didn't shock me as it would or care to make a cont r ibution that have when I first came but it was just we may buy them, let WORLDVISION about the age of our dear Stella Mei hear from you. 14 WORLD VISION It Might BY J . M. McCALEB Have Been Tokyo, Japan

About fifty year s ago th er e came a their teachers and once t aught by marri ed coupl e from En glan d to J a­ th em th ey find it hard to chang e. pan, Dr . and Mrs. Coleburn . He Anoth er cas e in point . A Finni sh came as a medical miss ionary, but mis sionary and hi s wife came to J a­ has been dead about t wenty-five pan about thi r ty years ago from Fin­ years; mayb e it wa s because he didn't land . They ar e member s of th e Luth­ take hi s own medic ine ; or maybe it eran chu rch. It so chanc ed that a was becau se he did. Th e widow still few weeks ago this Finni sh mis sion­ live s and not only lives but lives in ary met in a Bibl e cla ss I was teach­ Japan. ing in my hom e. At th e close I in­ From the 5th to th e 8th of June, I troduced him and an elder ly lady, al so was in the mountain r esort of Karui­ a widow, and to her astoni shment as zawa and ate at the Fuji ya Hotel. well as his, she had been "baptized" When I got ready to pay my bill I by him about twenty year s ag o. On was going to follow th e custom and the 21st of June I baptized her oldest give th e keeper, also a widow, th e daught er. The following Sunday I usual tea money . "No," she said, "I asked her if she was r eady to be bap­ can't receive any tea mon ey from you. tized the scriptural way, saying there You hav e been sending me th e Michi­ is only one bapti sm. But her heart shi r ube for a long tim e free of charge wa s not yet convinc ed. She wa s pres­ and I acce pt no extra gift from you." ent at the baptism of her daughter "Then I will count it as a yearly sub­ and for the fir st time no doubt saw scription," I said. Again I spent from the 5th to the 10th of July eating at the same hotel. It is st r ictly Japanese, but I like a chan ge of diet now and then. It seems to encourage my appetitt e. During this time Sunday morning came around and the weekly edition of the Japan Time s, an English daily pub­ lished in Japan. The widow, that is, the keeper of the hotel, now about sixty, brought the paper around to where I was eating and showed me a picture, and pointing to an old lady in the midst of a group of little kin ­ dergarten children , said, "That is my "H . Ishiguro •w ho is working an1ong his mother in the faith. She was the o,vn (JCOJ>le, the Japane se, in first to t each me about Christ. He r Lo s Ange les. hotel is known as a Christian hotel and there is no drinking and rowdy­ ism going on. The girls who serve the gue sts are all decent girl s. One the ordinanc e perform ed in the way is her own daughter . She was happy the scriptur es t each. Will she ever to point out the one who first taught come to it? She may, but unfortu­ her about a Saviour . I looked on and nately th ere stands her fal se teacher listened to her story and r ejoiced with in the way. her, but all the time deep down in my These two examples r epresent heart I was thinking what a pity this thou sand s the world over. Th ey are good woman had not been started wher e th ey are becau se they did not right . in the firs t place have a Philip to And the question still burn s within "guide" them. The lesson of it all is: me: Why wa s she not started right? A host of more mi ssionaries for these Becau se ther e wa s no one there to foreign fields, who will teach the give her the right start . People in whole truth concerning th e way of Japan have a great admiration for salvation. WORLD VISION 15 Some Actual Figures

For a long time we hav e wondered give us any sort of a report. It was just what is the finan cial condition of with the sole desire of helping the our missionarie s and th e mi ssionary missionarie s that we wanted the work. The desire to have something church at large to know how meager first-hand and accurate finally took their support is, that we started th e shape in 1938 by our writing every study and .we hope that all mi ssion­ mis sionary of whose work we had any aries will now und erstand our motive. information to a sk him how he was From the papers we learn ed of a faring. We planned to give a resume good many missionary project s such of the work of 1938 in the second is­ as the Sear s and Summit church of sue of WORLDVISION for 1939. But Dalla s keeping Brother Roy Cogdill we overlooked the slownes s of ex­ in the No rthwest for several meet­ changing correspondence with fa r ­ ings; the Columbu s Avenue church of away places and the changing ad­ Waco sending Brother W. D. Bills to dresses of some of the addres sees . We Wyoming; the John son Street church did not have enough information at of Gree nville, Texas, sending Brother hand to make a re por t in the April 1 F . L. Paisley to Montana, and the is sue, nor even for the July 1 issue. North Side church of Fo r t Worth Although it is still somewhat incom­ sending Brother Roy Lanier to Salt plete we are giving you herewith the Lake City. There was a number of result of a study we have made on such splendid projects reported which figures which are now in hand. are not included in th e study for, ob­ A careful search was made through viously, we could not learn of all of every issue of the Firm Foundation, them. In mo st such case s the men the Gospel Ad v ocate, the Chri stian who were preaching in the mission Leader, and the Apo st olic Re view fo r meetings were being supported by the years 1937 and 1938 to find all re­ their regular income from their hom e ports that had been made of mission­ cong re gations. We believe that it is ary work. It is possible that we may part of the regular ongo of the work have overlooked some of them, but of every loyal church to be doing that from tho se paper s and other sources sort of work all along. It might be we secured the names of forty-fou r said that every dollar that every individual s who are doing mis siona ry church spends for preaching is money work either in the United States or spe nt for mi ssionary work. What we foreign countries. We then wrot e a are after, however, is the money that letter to everyone of them a sking that is spent to support men who give he give us a full report of his finances their full time to work away from for the year 1938, showin g the names their home congregations in strictly of the churches and individuals who mi ssionary fields. contributed to his support and th e We secured reports gladly given amounts given . from the following missionaries , to Unfortunately, some of them whom we give our thanks for their seemed to mi sunderst and our purpo se co-operation: for a few answered that they did not care to make public the names of IN AFRICA tho se who had given. We appreciate J . D. Merritt, Mrs . Emma Sherri££, their desire to protect their donors A. B'. Ree se, W. N. Short, Mr s. Myr ­ from possible solicitation of others, tle Rowe, Otti s Scott. but we had distinctly emphasized that we did not mean to publish the nam e IN CHINA of a single contributor. It was nece s­ Mis s Elizabeth C. Bernard, Lowell sary to have the name s so that we B. Davis, Miss Ethel Mattley, Lewis could identify tho se who were giving T. Oldham. (Brothers Davi s and Old­ to more than one missionary. Others ham are now in the United State s seemed not to have kept >t record of but the report covered money sent for their receipts and could give us only their Chinese work or for work in estimate s, while still oth ers did not missionary fields in America.) 16 WORLD VISION IN CUBA of only $1,078.23 for a year's activity. J. R. Jiminez. Out of that total re ported the mi s­ sionaries had to pay for printing their IN JAPAN literature, where they had enough to 0. D. Bixler, Mis s Hettie Lee Ew ­ publish lit era ture, they had to hire ing, J. M. McCaleb. native helper s, they had to build place s of worship, some of them IN KOREA bought stea mship tickets to foreign S. K. Dong, Moonsuck Kang. lands. Not all of it, by any mean s, was kept by the missionaries for sala­ IN THE PHILIPPINES ries, although they should have had 0. T . Rodman, H. G. Cas sell. much more than the total for salaries alone. IN THE UNITED STATES In the list of donors th ere are James E. White, among the In­ shown 341 congregations, 263 indi­ dians; 0 . P. Baird, in Wilmington , vidual contributors and 13 clas ses. North Carolina; J . D. Boyd, in Rus­ More than two-third s as many indi­ ton, Louisiana; J . C. Hunn, in Wa sh­ viduals as congregations are giving in ington and Oregon; E. G. Couch, in thei r own names. What is wrong State College, Penn sylvania; Otis with the congregations where these Gatewood, in New Mexico; Joe Dias, people are members that they are not among the Mexicans in New Mexico; taught to give through the church? Arthur Graham, in Boston; A. W. We know of some instance s where the Hastings, in Jersey City; W. Don church, as a congregation, will not Hockaday, in the Northwe st; P. D. send to mi ssionaries so that the in­ Wilmeth, in New York City. dividual s are forced to give in their Here are twenty-nine mis sionarie s own names if they give anything at out of forty-four and possibly a few all to mi ss ionaries! If one's home more. We believe that no full-time congregation will not send it, what missionary has escaped our attention can the individual do but give in hi s but suppo se we did miss a few and own name and direct to the mi ssi on­ that there are fifty of them in the ary? But if the church will and does field . What an appallingly small give in the name of the church, what number! , Fifty missionaries for five is wrong with its teaching that its hundred thou sand Christians in member s are not willing to give America! One mis sionary for every through that channel? This, too, 50,000 Chri stians! happen s. How much did they receive for Three hundred forty-one congrega­ their work in 1938? $31,268 .63 is re­ tion s out of 6,226 (U. S. Census fig­ ported . Surely that is far more than ure for 1926; there must be many half of what was spent for mis sion­ more now) giving to missionaries! ary work, but to be liberal, let's dou­ Of course, the1·e are many congre­ ble it: $63,000 by half a million Chris­ g/l,tions doing mi ssi onary work which tians; twelve and one -half cents per are not included in this study. That Christian per year! It will be less is, they are preaching the Gospel in than that, for not that much money their own community and in neighbor­ was sent and there are doubtless ing communities. But what else does many more than the 500,000 Chri s­ a congregation have a preacher em­ tians now for that was the 1926 U. S. ployed for? That sort of work is only Cen sus figures. It will be less than what is to be expected of any active, ten cents per capita, if all the figures loyal congregation. They should do were in, we believe . that as a matter of course, then Truly, it is no wild statement that should send something to the support we could evangelize the world if we of a mi ssionary in strictly missionary had as much money for evangelization fields. Nearly 6,000 churches, ac­ as Christians ( ?) spend for gum, cos­ cording to the se figures are not giving metic s, tobacco, soft drinks, pictur e anything toward the support of ca1:­ shows, etc. We are wasting more rying the Gospel beyond thei r own money on our fleshly lu sts than we neighborhood . are spending for mi ssio nary work! Thank God there are some which The situation is really sta rtling. are doing something toward carrying But to the actual figures in hand: the Gospel to every nation. Read for 29 mi ssiona ries receiving an average example the report of the Lubbock, WORLD VISION 17 Texas, church in this issue which on those who call themselves a "pe­ preaches to its own community then culiar people." In just what way are sends the Gospel to at least three we peculiar ·? other nationalities; see what some of Preaching brethren, consider these the congregations in Na sh ville are facts carefully and arouse your people doing, and other such splendid to doing something to help those who churches. There are many others al­ are willing to "Go," as well as to most as well able as Lubbock who are "baptize." Elders, if your preacher conspicuous by their absence in the will not arouse such a consciousness reports of the missionaries. of a world to be saved, why not get Please, notice that our study does one who will? Christians, if you can­ not concern foreign missionary work not persuade the leaders of your con­ only, but we have included a number gregation to have part in this vital of such places right in our own Unit­ work of the church, will you not do ed States. If you do not beli eve in it individually? preaching to the heathen until our Young people, read the calls like own country is converted, why are that one from Africa, in Brother you not having part in spreading the Scott's report in this issue, and deter­ Gospel in our own country? mine that you will prepare yourself Henry Ford did not wait until every to carry the Good News to those who family in America drove a flivver be­ are perishing without it. fore he sold them in every nation on Such is the woefully inadequate the globe! work we are doing as reflected by A newscast the other day reported these reports for the year 1938. 1939 that the Mormon people were evac­ is almost gone now but we can do uating their missionaries from Euro­ better next year. Let's make 1940 a pean nations because of the threat of year that will show much more done war: 600 of them were being called for the Lord's work, for the saving of home. Six hundred missionaries in those in dark places, than any pre­ Europe alone from a people about the vious year has. May the Lord size numerically that we are. Shame strengthen us to that end!

long to learn the language-he didn't THE JONES FAMILY know how long, but it was "too long." When a returned business man said John said there was plenty to do there were many heathen cities where here without anyone getting sea sick the missionary could begin work the going to the heathen. Are you John? day he stepped from the ship, Tom Bill Jones said we are not able to didn't change his mind. help and rode on in his Buick car. Is your name Bill? Martin remarked that he thought some of them were out to see the George indicated that there were world at the expen se of the church. some ·opposed to mission work abroad Somebody said he had heard of them though there was no opposition to big going on freight boat s, of paying their Sunday dinners, rabbit hunting, to­ own expenses to the field, riding third bacco using, expen sive dre ss and cos­ clas s on trains, eating native food be­ metics. cause it was cheaper, though it made Luther Jones wrote the church had them sick, and that one family had decided that all expenses shall be paid been found starving. Still Martin here before anything is sent to th e thought they better stay at home. missionaries, but he didn't say Jesus was eager to get into the whether they considered how the mis­ meeting, but was not invited. How­ sionary could be kept alive on that ever, he left a note in their Book, "Go plan. ye into all the world and preach the Tom spoke up and _said it took so gospel to the whole creation."

18 WORLD VISION I Saw the Torture y of the Penitentes OTIS GATEWOOD Upon coming to New Mexico I was met and admitted. I followed them up informed of the Penitents of northern the mountains through what they New Mexico and little did I realize called the fourteen stations of the that in moving to Las Vegas I would cross. Everyone but me bowed and be in the midst of them. I had heard kissed the images and immediately by many of their weird services and they stationed a young man by me to of how dangerous it was to try to spy watch. They only chanted, read, and upon them. Several of my personal prayed on this journey and then we friends had tried to visit their rites returned to the morado and went in­ only to be warned in solemn words and side for a short service and I was told sometimes with bullets that they were t o leave . not welcome. The morado is their place of wor­ At every Eastertide the Penitentes, ship. It is a low adobe building with a sect of the Catholic Church, enact only one door and a small window in in the hills of New Mexico a primitive it. It has two rooms-one in a primi­ Passion play-a bloody demonstration tive way is arranged similar to a practiced nowhere else in the United Catholic Church except it has no seats, States. The seeds of this order were and the other is the secret chamber brought to New Mexico by the San where are stored the different whips Franciscan friars, the first demonstra­ of torture and the death cart. Outside tion being held in the year 1594. Since and immediately in front of the build­ that date the Mexicans in the moun­ ing there is a large cross standing tainous settlements have held these upright with a life size image of barbarous rites every Good Friday. Christ nailed to it. By the side of the Today it is estimated that there are building there were crosses on the some 35,000 members of Los Her­ ground from ten to twenty feet long, manos Penitents or Los Hermanos De each representing a member of their Luz in Taos, Mora, Rio Arribe, Santa local group. These crosses were to be Fe, and San Miguel counties. borne up calvary-some crosses are I baptized a Mexican who had been even five times the weight of the one '· a Penitente, immediately after coming that bears it. here, and a little later baptized a Mex­ Actual crucifixion by nails is no ican girl whose father and grand­ longer tolerated, except, perhaps, in father were members of this band. remote sections, and has not been They told me much about the Peni­ practiced for some fifty years, but at I' tent .es and we would go out into the the close of the day each Good Friday woods here near Las Vegas each Fri­ one is selected from each cult to be day night during Lent and could hear tied to the cross and left until he is their doleful chant. Their crucifixion unconscious. If he revives when they day was Good Friday so I decided that take him down, he is almost a god I was going to see that ritual if at all among them. They usually select the possible. best one in their group to be crucified We went just west of Mora and saw and each lives in the hope that he will a group on the hills marching. With be chosen. It is a great honor among caution I proceeded to them. A young them to be crucified. Many say that man met me and I asked for admit­ death does not now result from these tance, but was refused and told to services, but I have a good friend who leave. We then went to a group east is a funeral director that states he of Mora. We were warned that they had to help bury two last year that were dangerous and not to bother he knew died as a result of this prac­ them. We then went back to La Cueva tice. Perhaps there were many more where we saw a group about one-half who died that we knew not of. mile from the road, marching. Two The whippers at Easter lay the lash were bearing crosses, and about six heavily upon their backs, and an at­ were stripped to the waist and were tendant uses a flint knife or a piece of beating themselves. I went out to glass to gash great crosses so the their service and to my surprise I was blood may flow freely. These sufferers WORLD VISION 19 climb the mountains in their bare feet here at our back door we have many through thorn and briar and occa­ that are just as bad. These poor peo­ sionally they will throw themselves ple are just as sincere as you or I, into a bed of cacti and wallow. This but many of them cannot even read is done that they might punish the and write. They therefore carry on flesh and put it to death for the sins as best they know in their ignorance. that it has committed. On the trip to H. is a queer thing to me that we as Calvary one of their number is made Christian s are so unconcerned about to pull the death cart. It is a cart their souls. The Catholic Church is with wheels that do not turn, and on training hundreds of native workers to it is a life-sized death angel. go among them and keep them in the Someone asks why this heathenistic faith while the church of the Lord is religion is not stopped. You must re­ not putting forth any effort to train member that this is a land of freedom or support even one to bring them the of worship, and too, many of the bread of life. We have a great heathen officials of the state are members of population in our land that is yet un­ this band for political purposes. The touched by the gospel of the Lord. Catholic Church says they do not sanc­ If you desire more information con­ tion such actions and teach against it, but at the same time they recognize cerning the Penitentes, you may write the Penitentes as part of their order me or order the book, "Brothers of and have made laws governing them. Light," by Alice Carbon Henderson, ·we have heathens in foreign coun­ from the Santa Fe Book Store in tries that need to be converted, but Santa Fe, New Mexico.

OUR EASTERN TRIP ren to pray for her. Those of us who know this Godly woman are Augu st 2nd, Mrs. Morehead and I, grieved to hear of her c,ondition. with our friend, Miss Opha Bixler, of Madis ,on, Tenn., left on a 24 days' * * journey of three thou sand miles. We BROTHER J. M. McCALEB, traveled in ten states in behalf of 68 ZOSHIGAYA, TOKYO, JAPAN mi ssion work. Upon being a sked what he needed Six of the eight churches visited re sponded by requesting the Lipscomb­ during the regular hours of worship Shepperd Commentaries no•w being gave me speaking opportunities. Each printed by the Gospel Ad v ooate. Will time I endeavored to show the breth­ not some friend of Brother McCaleb ren the joy of doing mi ssion work and supply them? the world would be evangelized each generation if God had , Hi s way. * * * During the trip more than two hun­ BROTHER 0. FUJIMORI OF dred names, including about fifty SAWARA, CHIBAKEN, JAPAN names of dentist's and doctor's offices mailing Manifest s in a letter a keen desire were put on Chri stian Leader for the Japanese-Chinese war to cease. list. You probably know that Brother Fuji- More than two hundred non-church . mori has been preaching the gospel in members were put on our monthly Japan more than forty years during tract mailing list, a Home Mission which time he has received most of effort. Five individuals agreed to give his support from Detroit. $10.00 a year each on the support of :j: WORLD VISION. The next trip we * think will be through Georgia, Florida, BROTHER ALVIN HOBBY OF and Alabama in October.~ B. D. MOREHEAD. AF.RICA Reports the return of Sister J. D. Merritt from the hospital and states SISTER H. HIRATSUKA OF JAPAN that she will be about a year becoming Word from her husband states that normal. For the reader s' information she is suffering from cancer of the Sister Merritt underwent an opera~ stomach and asks his American breth- tion for cancer of the breast in May .' 20 WORLD VISION ·······- ·····----· ··"' ·""'·"'.... ,..::-.;;.z:::....:.:.;-

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The main building of Tipton Or­ will donation s from the broth erh ood phans Home, Tipton, Oklahoma, in throughout the nati on have maintained which besides administrative, ho spital, the Home so that today 1,035 chi ldr en and st or age facilities, 250 chi ldren find have passed thr ough it s doors . Living eating, sleeping, living accommoda ­ exa mple s of clean upright yo un g man­ tion s. It ha s been called the lar gest h ood and youn g womanhood of former singl e-un it orphans home in the world. Tipton Orphan s Hom e chi ldre n are al­ Longest established of the Chur ch's ready filling places of responsibi lity in h omes in th e Southwest, and la rgest th e world of men and women. in the nation, Tipton Orphan s H ome A ge nerati on ago th ese sa m'e chi l­ was beg un at Canadian , Texas , in 1921 dr en were being tak en out of sor did and moved to its present quarters at cir cumstan ces into which they h ad Tipton in 1924. Th e 80-acre .tract of been thr own- SO per cent of them rich far ming land on which the plant from sectarian and non-re ligiou s ba ck­ is bui lt was deeded to th e elder ship of gro und s. Of th e childr en who have the Tipton Church of Christ and th eir attained the age of respo nsibilit y in suc cesso r s forever by Brother and Sis­ the Home , 99.8 per cent ha ve become ter Sol Tipton with no other restric ­ memb ers of th e New Te stamen t tions than that it always be u sed as a Church . Tod ay their number incl ud es hom e for destitute children and th at preachers of the gospe l, pr eac hers' it be operated und er th e pure New wives, song direc t ors , active workers Testam ent Church . Since 1925 Brother in local congr eg ation s of the Church R. E . Chitwood, an elder in the Tipton of Christ . Toda y, friends thro ugho ut congregation, and Sister Chit wood these years who hav e given of their have sup ervi sed the work. Th e re ­ ab undance or of th eir want to Tipton mainin g fo ur elders with Brother Orphan s Home, can sh ow the liv es of Chiiwood serve . as a board of tru ste es . these sa lvaged young soul s to th e Vi ith a close persona l intere st exer ­ glory of Him who sa id , "Suffer the cised by th e local congregat ion, free - little one s to come unt o m~... " WORLD VISION 21 A Barrier to BY J. W. TREAT True Christianity Abilene, Texas

A unique characteristic of Chris­ handicapp ed when those who claim to tianity is its saving power (Acts 4:12). be Chri stians fail to make an effort The universality of the Gospel and do­ to pra ctise the Golden Rule. ing good to one's neighbor (the Golden Lack of understanding, as an ex­ Rule, Matt. 7 :12) are distinctive doc­ planation of racial prejudice, is two­ trines of Jesus the Chri st. Je sus also fold. In the first place people fail to taught that a vital principle in religion get acquainted with those of other is the attitude of the Christian. All races because of distance, of language acts of worship or of service are barriers, etc., and consequently, are judged by the Lord on the basis of the unaware of the mutual or common de­ motivation, the attitude, the "heart­ sires, heart-throbs and aches, and push" that leads to those activities. spiritual yearnings that are to be A definite barrier to the fulfillment found in the "neighbor." A second of Jesus' commands to "go into all cause of this un-christian attitude is the world and preach the gospel .. .," lack of knowledge of God's teachings and to "Go, teach all nations ... " is and designs. "God so loved the world the attitude of Christians toward peo­ . . . that whosoever believeth . . ."; ples of other nationalities-the atti­ " ... God is no respecter of persons: tude of racial prejudice. It is common but in every nation he that feareth for each nationality to think itself him, and worketh righteousness, is ac­ superior to others. This principle ap­ cepted with him"; " ... the Gospel ... plies in individuals and in families as the power of God unto salvation to well as in nations. It is also a com~on every one that believeth, to the Jew practice of those of one nationality to first, and also to the Greek." Such exalt themselves by disparaging or teachings as the se, coupled with the under-evaluating those of another desire to do good to others (even to race. This attitude is illustrated in our enemies!) should move Chri stians the reply of a little boy whose father to exert every influence to make effec­ was scolding him for fighting and tive the true spirit of the Christ: the quarreling with a neighboring ne gro ideal of the brotherhood of man. boy: "Oh! I thought I was suppo sed to As a citizen of the United States I fight him!" There are professed believe in the principle s which govern Christians who do not beli eve a negro the nation; I respect the "powers that has a soul, who think that Germans be" to which I am subject; I am are all ~ad (World War influence), and patriotic toward the flag, Old Glory, who thmk that the Mexican is merel v and alway s lift my hat and experience a menace, just waiting for a chan ce a thrill when it pa sses by. However, to sti ck a knife in someone's ba ck! I am a citizen of a far greater nation There are others who say that the y -a universal one-the Kingdom of won't do those of another race any God; its principles have world-wide h~rm as long as the foreigner k eeps application and are of divine origin; his plac e, and it is evident that "his the Banner of Prince Immanuel flies place" is that of a servant, of a social over all nations with equal blessing to outcast, of a nobody. Chri stians with the faithful. "Whosoever will may such an attitude would never be mov ed come!" to make a sacrifice to carry the Gospel "to all nations." Fool s can find faults. Why does this attitude exist? Two The loose character gets into many answers are here suggested: selfish­ tight places . ness, and lack of under standing. It Be friendly and you will find your­ requires a constant struggle to be self in a friendly church. Christ-like and put self into the back­ "Christ is not valued at all unles s he ground and avoid the feeling that the is valued above all." Gospel is for "Me and my wife, my The color that is in your soul give s son, John, and his wife-us four and to the world a corresponding tint. no more." Christianity is severely -Selected. 22 WORLD VISION BY "Eureka" S. P. PITTMAN Nashville, Tenne ssee

To the Greek-speaking man or ing: "Call ye upon Him while He is woman this word Eureka. used fre­ near." It should be as joyful for us quently by us as a motto, is perfectly to seek for God and find Him as for familiar. It is, in reality, a Greek the child to find the Easter egg; and verb of the first pers on, singular num­ it should be more easily and quickly ber, present perfect ten se, and means: done by us . I hav e found. The truth of God, as well as the To find ha s even been regarded as a truth about God, must be sought. The triumph. The thing found may be of law was written plainly upon tables no more value than a four-leaf clover; of st one and upon scrolls, yet its and to keep and to hold, after finding, meaning had to be sought out. In the may be a di sapp ointm ent ; but some­ reconstruction period of Israel's his­ how to look for with anticipation and tory it was Ezra the priest who opened then to find is a joy to old and young. "the book of the law of Moses" and Whether it be a new world or a planet, read "from early morning until mid­ a solution to a problem or a scientific day, in the presence of the men and truth, or whether it be the true and the women, and of those that could living God that is discovered, there und ers tand ." Ezra, who "stood up on comes a thrill to the discoverer at the a pulpit of wood" surrounded by the moment of discovery. Levites, headed by twelve or thirteen Many of the things that each one of outstanding men, who was in po sition us di scover s are really not discoverie s to enlighten the Jews who stood by. at all-we are just re-discovering. These teacher s "caused 'the people to Like the littl e chi ld hunting for Ea ster understand the law." They read "dis­ eggs that hav e been hidden away in tinctly," and "gave the sense, so that tufts of gra ss and shr ubs and tree­ they und erstood th e reading." The stumps, who, having found them marginal reading for "distinctly," is dance s for glee, we are constantly "with an interpret ation." stumbling upon things that have been If God wrote the scrip ture s-and known for ages. These truth s have He did, why are they not so plain as been tucked away waiting for us to find or re-find them. Th e matter of to need no interpreting, no scr utiniz­ discovery should halt us when we are ing? Th e obscurity of the scriptures, inclined to boast of what we have some at least, serves two purposes. found and yet it should encourage us First, it proves to us that they are to keep on searc hing; for th ere is no divine in origin. Man's writings ne ed limit to the number of "Easter eggs" not baffle us as th e scri pture s often that God has hidden in ear th and sky do. In th e second place, were the and sea, and it is the Book of books, script ur es as plain as A B' C's, as is for mankind. someti mes carelessly asse rted of them, God, hims elf, must be found. H e is it would not be necessary to exert not playing hide-and-seek with u s, nor one's power of intellect, one' s reason­ is He trying to dodge us, and yet He in g fac ulty, or one's memory. We wants us to look for Him. He cannot would be deprived of the strength and be far from u s for "in Him we liv e dignity that come from digging into and move and have our being"; yet God's old mine of truth . When Isaiah the apostle who told the Athenians calls to the spiritually hungry and that we are "Hi s offspring" and that thirsty to come "buy and eat," to "buy He "giveth to all life, and breath, and wine and milk without money and all thin.g s," sai d that Provid ence had without price," he did not mean that so arranged that the nations "should it would cost them no effort . His invi­ seek God, if haply th ey might fee l tation did not obviate the necess ity of after Him and find Him." It is a seeking for truth. Je su s did not con­ paradox that God is to be felt after demn the J ews for searc hing the scrip­ and found and yet He is everywhere­ tures, although he did condemn them "is not far from each one of u s." It for concluding that in them (the Old is I saiah who urges men to seek "J e­ Testa ment Scripture s) they had eter­ hovah while He may be found, " add- nal life. Rather, he pronounced a WORLD VISION 23 blessing upon those who hungered and N athar,a el and said: "We have found thirsted after righteousnes s. He urges . . . Jesu s of Nazareth the Son of his disciples to seek in order to find, Joseph." So Andrew, Peter, Philip to ask in order to receive, and to knock and Nathanael could all exclaim , in ord er to be admitted . Eureka! The reward for seeking is finding. Th ese finding s in the introductory The ardent seeker ha s always been period of the ministry of Je sus open able after rational searc h to exclaim, up to u s the program of Christianity. Eureka. The same is true of those There may ari se many perplexing who have delved into the my sterie s of problem s, but the program is a sim­ science. Th e botanist looks and look s ple one, after all. Fir st, find the into the micro scope, and finally says, Christ; then find someone who has not Eureka. The astronomer, after peer­ found him and help that one in dark­ ing untiringl y into hi s telescope, says ne ss to find the Light. This is the at last, Eureka. process of missions. The trouble is in Jesu s was a gift to ear th. God so our selfishness-rather, our self- sati s­ loved the world that He gave him to faction. We find the light and re­ the world. And yet he had to be joice that we are not in darknes s, found by hi s immediate disciple s. In without feeling the obligation to bring the first chapter of John we are in­ others into the light or so take the formed of a "lot " of seeking and find­ light to them that it in darkness. ing. Two of John the Baptist's di s­ We claim in our count ry to have ciples heard their master call Je sus found the Christ lon g ago. Then, so the Lamb of Goel and they sought him long as there are those who have not and found him, found his t emporary found him, should we be content until abiding place . and no doubt their we have helped them to find the searc hin g expedition brought returns Christ, the source of life and light in truth. One of the two inquirer s and remission and salvation? Should remarked to his brother Simon, we the member s of Chri st' s chur ch fold have found the Mes siah . Shortly after their arms and rest in peace so lon g thi s Jesus found Philip and called him as there is one on earth who has not to discipleship . Philip in turn found had an opportunity of saying Eureka?

A group of Japan ese Chri stia ns and children in Lo s Angeles. B1·oth er H. I s.hi­ giwo has dev eloped thi s Japane se church by working among his own people in California. H e .sciys, "Our church is getting along fine with students from George Pepp erdin e College teaching several of our Sundciy School clas ses. 24 WORLD VISION A Wide-awake Program BY PAUL H. McNIEL for Churchesof Christ

Is the Church of Christ on earth their re source s to save themselves and today handicapped becau se it lack s an as many others as possible for eternal efficient centralized board of governors life. There are informed persons who to exercise control on a universal know there is evidence that even large scale? There are many intelligent national bu sine ss organizations are people in and out of the church who finding it more and more profitable to have wondered about this matter. institute as much localized control as E specially are there numerou s people is possible because in this way only outside the Church of Christ today can they capitalize local initiative and who would hold that the church is talent to the fullest extent, and create thus handicapped. They regard the the greatest amount of good-will in plan and system of the original New local public opinion. Testament churche s not as a blueprint Jesus planned and started his for the Church of Chri st in modern church without centralized human twentieth century civilization. They control to give it the fullest oppor­ rea son that no doubt conditions when tunity to develop local initiative and the Lord and the Apostles were estab­ to keep it free of the harmful effects lishing the fir st congregations were of a "home office" hierarchy. Time such that independent congregational and space will not permit to discuss government was best suited to their the tremendous importance of the need s. spiritual control which Christ reserved I wonder why Je sus did not see fit for himself. You may turn to your to require a centralized governing New Testaments and observe many body for his church in its infancy if, pas sages showing that without the as thinking people feel today, the prayerful close contact between the church seems to lack a competent members of the church and the Lord, guiding agency for providing effective thi s very neces sary spiritual guidance leadership, supe1·vision and discipline? will not operate in the lives of men. If there ever would be a time when There are no mysterious, invi sible the church of the living God would agent s which live and move among require such an arrangement, it cer­ men to prod, inspire and motivate tainly could never be no more urgent human beings . than in the beginning. Surely such a Any loyal church member can con­ system could never work better than template the manifold wisdom of God then, when it was so difficult to find in leaving the management of his talent and material which could be church to the local units which make trained quickly for localized control. up the whole. Not one of the least of The Church of Christ in the world the advantages is the need for author­ today is not handicapped for lack of ity to be on hand to visualize and deal such a system of seeming efficiency. quickly with local conditions, issues, We have the best plan today the same problems, needs, etc. The prime prin­ a s the first churches had the be st ciple for the life of any Christian was plan. There is nothing that will choke to be self-discipline and self-willed and limit local initiative like remote motivation rather than these things control from a "home office" far re­ from remote control. We are bene­ moved from the community. Men say fitted the utmost from these virtues that this plan of concentrated power only if they spring from within us or works all right for business concerns from our hearts as a result of the and thus why not for the church? effects of the word of God in our Yes, but we mu st not forget big busi­ hearts, not as a result of the words ness is formed upon human concep­ of a human hierarchy. It was to be tions in a purely capitalistic society the job of the Elders and Deacons, or with no motive other than making those acting properly as such, to meet money. the se requirements in every congrega­ The church was not designed to tion in the supreme task of evangel­ make money. It was to be a collective izing the world (see 1 Pet. 5:1-3 and mass of human beings who would pool 1 Tim. 3 :1, 13). If, then the current WORLD VISION 25 /I system of control in the churches of is the best age to appeal to them Christ is correct and the only plan through the establishment of a free authorized by divine will, what is the and public Bible " school" department matter with us? Why then is our in every congregation? Why not a system of missionary work so inade ­ real promotional program along thi s quately organized and so ineffectively line and push it with plenty of adver­ admini stered? tising. It certainly would be in har­ I suggest therefore, a WIDE­ mony with the plan of the Savior of AW AKE program for churches or the world. Of course it would not do congregations of Chri st would be the to try this idea in small congregation s selection and distribution in all mis­ who lack competent teachers who mu st sion fields of the United State s first, know how to make people like them, and secondly all foreign lands during until such material could be developed the next generation every evangelist through the work of these Pauls I it is possible to find of the Paul type. have been talking about, whose sup­ Just imagine what a few dozen real port would be supplied by the stronger Pauls could do for this country during churche s. the next two decade s. This I think, We might sum the matter up by after much diligent deliberation and saying it is the inspired plan of God study of the original success of the that his church function with and churche s of Christ in the first century through the original New Te stament after Christ appeared on earth, is the blueprint of co-operation and co-ordi­ key to the matter. It would be no nation between every congregation trouble for the capable evangelical ma­ and every individual member no mat­ terial we have now to go about the ter where they may be located, supple­ country according to the Paul pattern mented by efficient and unselfish evan­ and by constantly doing so, and by gelists like the great Paul of the first self-initiated co-ordination and co­ century. It is a case of every member operation such as Paul impelled from joining and pooling their resources those in the field in his day, persuade and money to make thi s possible. This the churches which are already estab­ is God's plan rather than an all­ lished in the nation to support them powerful centralized control through permanently as travelling ambassa­ hierarchy. It is up to the members of dors of Jesus. It would of course be every congregation to make it func­ futile to fail to continue following up tion with full effect. What will you effectively such efforts. do to induce your congregation to live If we had this ideal set-up function­ up to H1P. blueprint? ing as it should we would see the greatest mass saving of lost souls ever witnessed. There would not be HURRY! millions of folks in New England and the middle and great northwest who Sister s-and send for complete in­ never heard of the Church of Christ. formation on clothing, adoption of our The next step would be to put in in ­ missionary children. viting reading rooms for the public in all our congregations and provide Only a dozen on waiting list, who where possible competent instructors some group of busy, intere sted ladies to coach and teach the public about may have for the asking. the Church of Christ by inspiring This is y

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GREENVJLLE , S. C. CAHBRIDGE, llIASSACHUSETTS Corner Cobb 1md Bat es St s. (lleetlnp in Phillip s Brooks HollN) (Near Judson) Bible Study, 2:15; Preachin&' an4 Bible Study , 10 A. M.; Pr eaching and Communion, 3:00 and 7:00 . Communion, 11 A. 1\1.; Preaclting-, Wedneaday, Bible Study at 7:30 P.1\1. 7:46 P. M.; Prayer J.l'If:e tinir 7:46 Arthur Oraliam, l\liniater P. M . \V ednesday; Bibl e St ndy, 7:45 25 Irvin&' Terrace , Cambridge, lllaH, P. 111. Saturday . '1'. E. \Valdrum , Minist er 105 Cobb St., Jucl so n. PHIi.ADELPHIA, PA. Fifty- sixth St. and \Varrinirton Ave. Bible School, 9:45; Worship, 10,,11; WASIDNGTON, D. C. l'oo.nir Peopl~'s CIIIJio, 7 :00; Preach­ :U8.,_I4th St., N. W. at Meridian Pl. ing, 7:45 ; \Vednesday Prayer and Sunday School, 10:00; Preach.in&', Bible Stndy, 8:00. Communion, 11:00; Preachin&' at 8:00 A. Drinkwater , 6113 Brown St. P. M. Thursday, Pray er and Bible Phone Trinity 18 -23 Study, 8 :00 P. 111. HU&'O McCord, 1732 Irving St., N. W, Phone Adamo 7751-J BRENTWOOD, MARYLAND 4'43 Holladay Street Sinirin&', 10:00; Bible Classes, 10:llt; MINNEAPOLIS, J\UNN ·. Communion, Preaching, 11:00; Wor­ Ohurch of Christ ship, Preaching , 7:45; Tues . & Thur•. 1.0.G.T. Hall, 2514 Lincoln St., N. E. Slngln&", Prayer, Bible Study, 7:411. Bible Study, 10 A. 111. Preachln&' and Aaron A . Stone, Preacher Communion, 11 A. M. Phone Greenwood 3053-W W . Don Hockaday, Evangelist . 2760 Taylor St., N. E. Phone GRanvllle 7519 SAUNlA, ONTAIUO, CAN ADA Orai•&' e 1-lnll , Geo. & C'hristina St•. SUNBURY, PA . Bible Ch\.Ss , 10 A. 1\1, ; \\ 'onhlp and Fourth and Arch Streets Com1nunion , 11 A. l\1.; Bible Study, 9:45; Sermon, 10:30; Pr en c'hing , 7 P. 1'1. Communion, 11:30; Ev'&' Service, 7:30 L. D. Lt\. Cours e, 1\lini ste r. Lewis F. lllllls, Minister, 11 Hana Ave. TRION, GA . CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA Bible School, 10 A. 111.; lVorshq,. Y.111.C.A. Bulldin&', Second and Sou.th 11 A . 111., 7 P . 111.; Prayer Meet~. Tryon St. Wednesday, 7 P. M. Bible Study, 10:00; Worship, 11:00; J. F. Fulford, Minister. Tel . 2»8-M Evangelistic Service, 7 :30 P. H. J. Harrison Dani els, 609 Tremont Ave. PENSACOLA, FLA. Uth Ave . Church of Christ DALTON, GA. Bible Study, 9:45 A . 1\1.; \Vorship, 8 \Vest Gordon 11 A . M .; Evang elistic Service, Bible Sth,ly, 10 A. 111.; \Vo rs hip, 11 7 :30 P. M.; Prayer l\leetln&', A. 111.; Bibl e St udy, 7 :15 P. 111.; 7:39 P . M:. E, •ening Serv ice, 7 :45 P . 111. ; Bibl e Chester Hon eyc ut, Mini st er , T el. 5237 Study, 7 :30 P . 111. \V edn es day . R , C. \Valker, Mini ste r Ca mion 1I <;ight8. LONG BEACH, CALIF. Ninth and Lime Jas. A. Scott, Minister JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY 880 Bergen Avenu e, 2 Blocks from •rele1>hone, 31376 Journal Square Station. Bible Study, 10 :00 ; Co mmunion and COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA Pr eac hin&', 11 :00. Moore and Duncan Street. A. W. Hastings, Evan&'elist Bible ClasSt,'8, 10 A . M.; Preachlns, 23 Romaine Av e., Ph. BEr&' en 3-6324-J 11 A. 111. and 7:30 P . M. L. Daniel Harless, Minister WILMINGTON, NORTH CABOLINA T elephone 5287 Churdh of Christ 1013 South Fourth St . MANHATTAN, NEW YORK CITY 0 . P . Baird, lllinlst er, Phone 267%- :11 !39 W. Sixty -Ninth St.-Take I. B. T. Subway to \Vest 72nd Street . PORTLAND, MAINE Bible Study , 10:15; Pr,:aching and 817 Con&'l'eu Street Communion, 11:00 . Worship at 10:30; Bible Study, U:OI. A. K. Gardner , Minister, 9 W. 89th St. W. H. Gailey , !58 Sprln&' Street. Phone: Susquehanna 7-6007 ...... ' - ·----....::,--

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