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Digital Commons @ George Fox University Northwest Yearly Meeting of Friends Church Friendly Endeavor (Quakers) 11-1932 Friendly Endeavor, November 1932 George Fox University Archives Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/nwym_endeavor Recommended Citation George Fox University Archives, "Friendly Endeavor, November 1932" (1932). Friendly Endeavor. 112. https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/nwym_endeavor/112 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Northwest Yearly Meeting of Friends Church (Quakers) at Digital Commons @ George Fox University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Friendly Endeavor by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ George Fox University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The Friendly Endeavor Volume 11, Number 11. PORTLAND, OREGON November, 1932. " A R E Y O U T H A N K F U L ? " A THANKSGIVING PRAYER the train, Paul got to twitching in the back of the neck, terrible pains, and he B y L e l a E . J o n e s By Lela E. Jones c o u l d n o t w e t h i s l i p s w i t h h i s t o n g u e , and we had to wet them with a hand Thanksgiving this year may seem to The thanks we give to Thee, 0 Lord, kerchief. We told him to be brave some to he rather a farce. Why should Can never half repay (so he would not go into convulsions) they he thankful? Should one feel The precious promise of Thy Word, and he never uttered a word of com t h a n k f u l f o r a b u s i n e s s w h i c h m e a n s a The blessings of each day. c o n s t a n t l o s s o f m o n e y, f o r h a n k s t h a t plaint but suffered much. They met u s a t t h e s t a t i o n , t o o k h i m t o t h e h o s fail, for unsold crops, for loss of posi That wondrous gift of Thy great love. tion? Surely these do not seem to he The Saviour of mankind. pital, took blood test, pronounced it the things which raise in man's heart Our human gifts so far above. lockjaw, and gave him two injections under ether and cauterized the wound. a f e e l i n g o f g r a t i t u d e t o G o d . Beyond our grasp of mind. I s l e p t a t t h e c h a p e l a n d J u l i a a t t h e Last year when the Thanskgiving Oh, Thou hast given us so much hospital. He suffered all night long, proclamation was issued by President with intermittent twitchings, but never Hoover, there were some who objected, Beyond our pow'r to see! Our human praise can never touch uttered a word of complaint. He did saying that the United States had no Our debt of love to Thee. groan, so we knew he suffered. The reason that year to have a day of next morning he was apparently strong Thanksgiving. But there were many more who replied to this objection But, Lord, the most that we can give, er, but it was: a false strength. His We offer now to Thee— suffering during the night had made that we had much for which to he him pale and wan, but when I went into thankful. And so it is this year. The Our hearts, our lives, our deepest love. Surrendered all to Thee. the room and spoke his name, he looked United States has been blessed, it at me and smiled. I would not take seems, even more than other countries. Our needy have been cared for; there THE LOVED AND LOST AWHILE anything in the world for that smile. has been less unemployment and a In it he showed. his love, his bravery, and was so glad I was near. Pretty higher wage scale here than in other Chiquimula, Guatemala, C. A. soon, he began to breathe with diffi countries; the prices of our products, September 28, 1932. low as they are, are still above those D e a r l o v e d o n e s : culty. I called the nurse, she saw him and sent for the doctor. The nurse of other countries. Yes, even during Our hearts are breaking but I know came back and said, "Don't his mother the past trying year the people of the you ai-e anxious to hear all the details, want to see him?" I started to say United States have had much for which s o I w i l l t r y a n d w r i t e y o u . T h i s i s t h e t o t h a n k G o d . first opportunity I have had to write, no, she had better rest, when i saw a change in him and hurriedly called her. And if the people of our nation as a as we have not been staying on the Just as we got there, we saw him lay whole can thank God for blessings re farm since Paul passed away, but have his little head down to sleep in Jesus. ceived, how much more can we. His been staying at headquarters and the This was seven thirty-five a. m. Sat missionaries have been so kind. children. _ We have had the same mate urday, September 24th, 1932. rial blessings as those who do not know On September 17, an ox-cart entered Him—and we have had so much more. the farm to deliver some packages from We arranged to bring him to Chiqui We may have had trials and disappoint the depot and as it went out, Paul got mula for burial, so we had to have him ments to meet. We may have failed on and rode a ways. As he was jump embalmed, and I wired to Chiquimula in business, or lost the savings of a ing off or on, he caught his foot between for a zinc lined coffin, which is required lifetime when some bank failed. But the wheel and cart and suffered a cut by law. As we had to wait for tliis, above and shining through all this we in his foot just above his Oxford shoe we did not arrive in .Chiquimula until have had the presence of God and the at the heel between the heel and ankle. Monday at two p. m. A great crowd strength and peace which only He can Although somewhat deep, we did not was at the station, probaby over six think it serious, so we doctored it, bound hundred people, and he was carried give. The words of Paul to the Colos- it Tip, and he did not complain much sians, "But my God shall supply all direct to the chapel, about a mile, with your need according to His riches in after the first time it occurred. Each the people following and the mission glory by Christ Jesus," have been more day _we doctored it as best we could aries in two cars. I forgot to say, real to many true Christians during the and it was so much better, he went to Matilda Haworth came to Quirigua to past year than ever before. Many of school on W'ednesday. "Thursday he the hospital the afternoon Paul died God's people have come to know Him did not feel so well, so we decided t • and she was a great comfort. We better, and learned what it is to really keep him at home for the rest of the went to the chapel and filled it to over trust Him. Could there be any greater week. Thursday aftemoon, he read, flowing, and it holds seven or eight blessing than being drawn closer to our lying on his stomach with his chin in hundred people. his hands, as is his usual position when Saviour? Oh, the Christian has so The missionaries planned a beautiful m u c h f o r w h i c h t o t h a n k G o d ! reading. In the middle of the after program, which lasted two hours. They It is good to have a special day set noon, he went down stairs and into the back yard and as he was hopping sang "When He Cometh to Make Up a.side for giving thanks to God. But H i s J e w e l s , " " J e s u s L o v e r o f M y S o u l , " when we as Christian.?, think of all the around, he fell over a piece of timber, but was apparently not hurt much. "No Disappointment in Heaven," and blessings God has given us, we realize two or three more in Spanish, not sung that we cannot begin to praise Him That evening at the supper table, he complained his jaw hurt, but we told in English. "Jewels" was sung by his enough in one day. So to the child of him he held it too much, as we knew companions in Chi'istian Endeavor.