VOL. V - NOVEMBER I934 - No. ZI The Netherlands East Indies MGon of The Chrktian and Missionary A!l;ance Address: Lagc~vq81. Makassar. CeIeL. N.E.I. THE PIONEER i :, NOTHING IS TOO HARD FOR JESUS Dr. A. B. Simpson Oft there comes a wondrous message When my hopes are growing dim. I can hear it through the darkness, Like some sweet and far-off hymn. Chorus : Nothing is too hard for Jesus. No man can work like Him : Nothing is too hard for Jesus. No man can work like Him. When my frame is worn with sickness, And with tears my eyelids swim. 1 can hear the promise ringing, Like some sweet and heav'nly hymn. When my way is closed with darkness. And my foes are fierce and grim. Still it sings above the conflict. Like some glad, victorious hymn. When my heart is crushed with anguish, And the waters reach the brim. Faith can hear the mighty chorus. Like some mighty battle-hymn. Let us claim the gracious promise, Let us light the torches dim, Let us join the mighty chorus. Let us swell the glorious hymn. L THE PIONEER EDITORIAL THANKSGIVING NUMBER Every number of The Pioneer ought to be called a Thanks-. giving Number. How much we have for which to be thank- ful ! The special thought in mind in calling this number a Thanksgiving Number, apart from the approaching Thanks-. giving Day, is that since the issue of our last number of The Pioneer. over a thousand more Dyaks have been baptized. As the reports came to us from Borneo. there has gone up from us the song of praise, and we want you to help us swell thr chorus. For the latest letter see page 29. Not only is the Lord working in Borneo, but the stream of salvation in Bali has become a river of salvation, flowing on and on. - a mighty current which no man can stop. True we are not ye1 permitted to baptize those who have believed unto the salvation of their souls, but we fully expect that very soon the prohibition will be withdrawn, and then there are several hundred ready for baptism. 1.n other parts of the field we have not seen converts in such large numbers, but there are signs of a gradual crumbling of the wall of Mohammedanism here in Makassar, and in cther parts of the Celebes, also in Soembawa, in Lombok, and ic Sumatra. Keep on praying for us and especially for our Student-evangelists as they go out at this time for the vacation m.onths. SUNSET The picture on the front page was taken at Benkoelen on the southwestern coast of Sumatra when Mr. Mouw and Mr, ]affray visited that city, over a year ago, in the Name of the Lord. It could be taken for a sunrise picture, which would 3 THE PIONEER perhaps be more suitable. for the Griffins have made a good start in Gospel work in Southern Sumatra. and the morning light is breaking in on the deep darkness of that great neglected field. More light has just come for Sumatra. Mu. and Mrs. Mitchell, new missionaries, with their little son David, have just arrived. They are under the World Wide Gospel Couriers. The Mitchells' few hours visit in Makassar, will never be forgotten by us here. The sweet strains of their music still resound in our ears. A little message from the Mitchells appears on another page. Mr. Tipson was here at the same time. He is the agent of The British and Foreign Bible Society at Singapore. He wrote us from Java as follows,- "That week in Makassar was a tonic to my soul. If I was at all used to be a little help to some, it was nothing to the good that it did me." The Britis!i and Foreign Bible Society is placing three or four new colpor- teurs in this field. in connection with our work. Praise God ! But the photo on the cover is not a sunrise. It is a sunset. It reminds us that "the day is far spent" and that "the night cometh when no man can work." We are privileged to live in the evening hours of this dispensation. We are hastening oil to the darkest hours of the world's history, the day of great Tribulation, of perplexity and distress of nations. The end 01 the age is upon us. We shall soon hear the sound of the Trumpet, and then the flight to the skies, the establishing oc One' Thousand years of peace on earth, and "the NVN Heavens and the New Earth, wherein dwelleth righteous- ness." So the thought of sunset does not depress us. It is btit the harbinger of the age of Eternal Light, when "the Sun of Righteousness shall arise with healing in His wings." NOTHING TOO HARD On the second page is another of the inspirational messages 4 THE PIONEER in song of the Founder of The Christian and Missionarv Alliance. The writer remembers when as a young man, before he came to the mission field, going on the platform of the Gospel Tabernacle in New York, before the meeting com- menced. Dr. Simpson was there. We passed behind him and glanced over his broad shoulders, taking a moment to see what so engrossed his attention. (Not very polite, young man i! We have often been glad that we did it. We saw a list ol words in a bold handwriting, something like this,- Hymn, Him, Dim, Swim, Grim, Brim. Not long afterwards this wonderful poetic message was published. How often it has helped us ! During these years in South China, Indo-China, and the Nezherlands East Indies, when our frame was worn with sickness, and our hopes were growing dim : when our foes were fierce and grim and the waters reached the brim, this wondrous message came, and we have proved again and again that "Nothing is too hard for Jesus, No man can work like Him " Jeremiah said, "Ah Lord God, behold Than hast made the heaven and the earth by Thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for Thee." (Jer. 32.17) And the Lord responded, "Behold I am the Lord, the Gori of ail flesh : is there anything too hard for Me ?" (Jer. 32.27) Let us sing it again.- "Nothing is too hard for Jesus !" DIRECTORY OF ALLIANCE MISSIONARIES OF THE N.E.I. Rev. R. A. and Mrz. Jaffray, Makassar. Celebes Miss M. M. Jaffwy. Makassar, Celebes Rcv. W. M. and Mrs. Post, Makassar. Celebes Miss M. E. Kemp. Makassar. Celebes Miss L. P. Marsh. Makassar, Celebes Rev. J. W. and Mrs. Brill, Ampenan. Lombok Rev. J. A. and Mrs. Mauw. Sinrang, West Borneo. (Via Pontianak) Rev. C. R. Deibler, Malmau, East Borneo. (Via Tarakan) Rev. W. E. Presswood, Mahnau. East Borneo. (Via Tarakan) Rev. H. A. and Mrs. Dixon. Melak. East Borneo, (Vta Samnrinda) (On Furlough - Rev. G. E. and Mrs. Fisk.) 5 THE PIQNEEB A NEW MISSIONA9.Y It is with great pleasure that we welcome to the field Miss Margaret M. Jaffray to join her mother and father in the work here. Miss Jaffray was born in Wuchow. Souh China. She received her early education in Chefoo. North China. She graduated from the Missionary Institute at Nyack last May, and after a fruit ful ministry in Kentucky, has come. to work for the Lord in this great island world, to help speed the Light to those who have never heard the Glad Tidings. MIS. ]affray net her daughter in Hong- kong. and they were welcomed in Makassar by Mr. Jaffra), and us all. on October 13th. ,,All Power is given unto ME." THE PIONEER HIS HEALING W.WD We were led some months ago to start a regular monthly anoin?ing service for the sick in our Makassar Gospel Taber- nade. The results :have 'exceeded OUT ,expectations. Not only have a number ,of Christians come to us for prayer, but not a few b'igoted ,Mohammedans, Makassar people, havc come, and in this way have first heard the ,glad sound 'of ,the Gospei. me crippled, odid man ref,en?ed [to in Enr. Pmt's artiGle(pagv 17) oaune tlo the Eirsit anointimg service. He was driven 60 the do,m of the Vaberniade, and was carrieid bodily hy friends to the altar at the front to he anointed. As he heard his first Gospel message, interpreted through two interpreters fmm Eugikh to Malay, and then from Malay into the Makassar language, he assented aloud continually, sayi,ng, "I believe! I believe!" Now he comes and can walk himself all the way. The Lord Jesus is working a perfect healing in his body and soul, and we believe he will be a testimony for the Gospel of Christ. Another, a rich Makassar-h'orn 'Chinese, has been wonderful'ly healed. He invited us to visit his ehgant home several times^ and to pray for him. He ,boh&y declares, tihat he believe8 in the Lord Jesus Christ as his Saniour. His asthma is gone. He has been mkd'up k.om a bed cdf seriouis sfches, and give6 tihe Lord. all1 ,the &ry 5m h,k wonderf,ul recovery. He nvanrts very soon ta be hapitibud. 'Bow Mt 8cheei-s 08wheauits ti0 know tJhat the Lor,* is wmorrkiLvg wubh ,us"with sign's faUowkg." We have come to feel strongly that we ,need such "signs and w0ndm-s'' in ,the Nenm of the Lord Jesus to attest the Message of the Gospel here in Makassar.