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MISSIONARY ADDRESSES PHNOM PENH, 7 J Preoh Bat Norodom: Rev. A Mrs. H. K. Sechrlst, Chairman Rev. A Mrs. M. E. Graven Rev. A Mrs. A. 1. Hammond Rev. A Mrs. A. O. Kov/fes, Chinese Work Miss Lavinia McCart Rev. A Mrs. L. E. Broloy I for Rev. A Mrs. D. R. Furnlst language Mr. A Mrs. M. C Westergren I study KOMPONG CHAM, Mission Evongelique: Rev. A Mrs. D. W. Ell/son KOMPONG THOM. Mission Evongofique: Rev A Mrs. J. E. Doty KRATIE. Mission Evangel >« Rev. A Mrs. C. E. Thompson BATTAMBANG, Mission Evangeliquet Rev. A Mrs. J. P. Ellison KAMPOT, Mission Evongelique: Rev. A Mrs. M. B. Steiner ON FURLOUGH, Rev. A Mrs. F. C. Peterson Rev. A Mrs. H. M. Taylor Rev. A Mrs. B. D. Dunning "Cambodia" is published by the Cambodia Mission of the Christian A Missionary Alliance, for the purpose of soliciting prayer support, and Inspiring Interest In missionary work In Cambodia. Cambodia staff members: Re>. M. B. Steiner. Editor; Mrs. A. I.Hammond;Mrs.C.E.Thompson, Asst. Editors Modern Transportation In Mnong land > THAT YOU MIGHT PRAY 'Brethren, PRAY for us, that the Word of the Lord may have free course ond be glorified, even as It Is with you." 2 Then.3i I THE REST OF THE STORY good story. Please say it once more." So we "said" I had traveled four days to get to the village of il ogaln, line by line. First I spoke in Ihe Cambodian Krong Teh (big woods), driving the truck over language, then a born again Cambodian layman who fantostic roads, and two days by elephant back, and was with me interpreted what I had said into the on foot. I was determined to visit just as many of the Mnong language. When we had finished the second Mnong tribes' villages in Kratie Province os possible. time Ihe chief spoke ogaln and said, "This sounds Just before we arrived at this village a big leopard in our hearts like Ihe very truth!" Then he said, leaped across the path into the "If you will come among us high grass. I quickly grabbed my and teach us, WE WILL BELIEVE! gun and shotit through the head. But if you cannot come among It was a beautiful beast, over six us to teach us, then I must be feet long (to tip of tail) and honest with you. My people know weighing two hundred pounds. only about evil and about devils. We pulled it up on the back of If we believe now and you go the elephant and went on to away, then I will not know how the village. What a shout went lo teoch my people and they will up when the villagers saw that go back to their evil ways, and dead leopard I It had been ter this will be worse than before." rorizing their village for days With a heart as heavy as lead, and had become so bold os to I had to answer this man, "Yes, enter o house in seorch of a you are right." But, oh, that the victim. Lord o' the harvest will thrust That evening nearly the entire us out among these people. village population,dogs and all, There are at least 18,000 of crowded into Ihe chief's long- them and not a single witness house. They presented me with of the saving Gospel among gifts of eggs, rice,and a chicken. them. PRAY that God will send Thin they hod linger;, or stnry- in Ihe fund< to open up this, tellers, chant or recite to enter work. PRAY that God will pro A Young Woman of the mnong Tribe tain me.Usually their recitation is vide someone to replace us about tribal wars or something of that sort, but not here in Kratie, for this station should not be left this time. I sat fascinated as they chanted their an vacant. PRAY, won't you, for these Mnong people cient tribal lore — of the creation of the world and who know part of the story, that God will enable the fall of man — of Ihe flood!I And it was prelty every one of them to hear "the rest of the story." close to the Genesis account I Suddenly the story Ed Thompson broke off, and although I urged them to continue GOD OF CREATION they could not. They ex Unless we can convince plained, "Through the Ihe Cambodians that years much of this story there is a God of creation has been lostor forgotten Who Ts the only One ca and we do not know the pable of telling us about rest of the story." our end, whether it is dust What an opportunity 111 or destiny, we hoven't My hands were trembling gotten to first base.There as I opened the Bible to fore, we were glad that Ihe book of Genesis and Bliss Steiner could be with began to unfold the old, us for eleven days the old story of creation, of early part of December Ihe fall of man, and of to show Ihe two films salvation through the "God of Creation" and blood of Jesus Christ, not A Oroup of Mnong men who Heard the Gospel "Dust or Destiny." the blood of water buffaloes. When I had finished, As nearly as we could estimate, a total of approx nearly a hundred Mnong tribesmen sat silent, staring imately sixteen thousand people saw the pictures in at me in the flickering light of the pitch torch. Then eleven different localities. In Kompong Thorn we the chief spoke, "Oh, we have wondered ever so showed our films in o'ace of American government long what the rest of that story was. It was such a information service films, but there never was better propaganda than that which we were showing. tablespoonful of rice cereal had been downed and In Siemreap the authorities tried to steer us clear off they started barefoot through the mud. This was of conflicting with the paid amusements. We were district conference time and no one was going fo miss advised to show at a Buddhist temple. This was In a being there if he could help it. well populated area, but was not what we had in In Battambang City things were in a likewise happy mind; but then, God may have had something in hustle. The District Pastor was running around town mind. The priests fed us ever so many glasses of on his tired bicycle checking off, one by one, the coconut water both before and after the pictures. many things to be done. At the same time local After our Siemreap experience, we made up our Christians, dressed in all their finery, welcomed the minds to decide what we really wanted before we arrivals with loud, cheery voices, and shrill inquiries. went to Inform the authorities. When all had assembled for the evening service, Contreang and Spean Thnaul are right out in rice over a hundred voices were raised in the joyful hymn country, but there are believers in both places. "Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow." From Contreang has its own chapel. We planned to show then on conference time resounded with happy in one of the believer's fields where nothing was singings, sincere testimonies, and good scriptural planted, but an unbeliever volunteered her field messages, by elders and laymen from various chur which was more spacious and we accepted. The ches throughout the province. Christians were urged projector was set on the back porch of her house. not to neglect the reading of God's Word, the priv We passed by Damdek, a town in which we really ilege of tithing, and the joy of witnessing. Local wanted to show the pictures, because a three-day problems were brought up and discussed, and we festival to raise money for public schools was in were deeply satisfied by the sound Biblical counsel progress. given by the older Christians. We were invited to show at the army barraks here On the final day of conference twenty-two young in town by an army officer we had first contacted people were baptized after having been duly ex in house to house tract distribution, and who has amined by the elders. Later, the evening service was been interested in the Gospel. full to bursting with special songs and testimonies. On our way to Tang Krassang, a man waved us A young rice farmer spoke stirringly of the need for down and said; "Could you possibly have room to every Christian to do his part in witnessing, giving, take us too? My family was hurrying home so as not and praying, in order that the Lord's work might to miss the pictures you are showing this evening, advance in this province. and the truck we were riding broke down." After The next day the villagers picked up their ward, that night, a soldier asked, "Could you possibly little bundles and started for home. As they went take me to Kompong Thorn? I am a soldier that has out the gote many called back over their shoulders, to get back to duty, but I did so want to see these "It was good for us to have been here. We're pictures." On the way home he said, "I have heard coming back next year for sure — with others, too." you preach on the street corner in town, and I am Let us PRAY for these men, women, and children, convinced about several of the things you preached, as they go back to their own villages and tell of and have done a lot of thinking about the matter." God's great salvation.