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Vol. 24, No. 4, Winter 2004-05 Published quarterly by The Flower Pentecostal Heritage Center 1445 N. Boonville Ave. Springfield, MO 65802-1894 Phone: (417) 862-2781, ext. 4400 FAX: (417) 862-6203 E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.agheritage.org ISSN 0896-4395 Winter 2004-05 Vol. 24, No. 4 PUBLISHED BY THE FLOWER PENTECOSTAL HERITAGE CENTER Wayne Warner THE 1945 RESCUES IN MANILA EDITOR AND DIRECTOR This dramatic rescue of nearly 5,000 civilians, nurses, POWs, and A/G missionaries at Santo Tomas University Joyce Lee and Old Bilbid Prison in Manila still stirs emotions 60 ARCHIVIST years later. By Wayne Warner Glenn Gohr 6 ASSISTANT ARCHIVIST AND COPY EDITOR RETIRED NAVY CHAPLAIN REFLECTS ON MILITARY AND SPIRITUAL BATTLES Brett Pavia The battle of Midway, against overwhelming odds, turned COORDINATOR OF the tide of the Pacific war. Here Chaplain Stanford E. SPECIAL PROJECTS AND Linzey, Jr., reflects on the military and spiritual battles he HERITAGE DESIGNER experienced aboard the USS Yorktown. Sharon Rasnake 16 By Dawn-Marie Wilson ADMINISTRATIVE COORDINATOR THE PENTECOSTAL MISSIONARY UNION: Yearly subscription, $15.00 A BRIEF HISTORY Lifetime subscription, $160 Beginning in 1909, under the leadership of Cecil Polhill, A. A. Boddy, and others, this Pentecostal organization in Heritage is indexed in the ATLA Religion England and Ireland helped to advance world missions. Database, published by the American By John Andrews Theological Library Association, 250 S. Wacker Dr., 16th Flr., Chicago, IL 60606; 18 E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.atla.com BRITISH ASSEMBLIES OF GOD: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE ATLA Religion Database (RDB) is available We’ve all heard of Donald Gee and Smith Wigglesworth. on CD-ROM and US MARC format directly Now a Pentecostal historian looks at these legends and from ATLA, as well as online through five others. Here is a look at the past, present, and future of aggregators: OCLC’s FirstSearch, EBSCO sister organizations in Great Britain and Ireland. Information Services, SilverPlatter, Ovid By William K. Kay Technologies, and Cambridge Scientific 24 Abstracts. Microfilm of Heritage is available from Theological Research PENTECOSTAL ROOTS IN THE EARLY Exchange Network (TREN), P.O. Box CHRISTIAN & MISSIONARY ALLIANCE, PART 2 30183, 5420 N. E. Glisan, Portland, OR Here is a further look at how the early C&MA, with a strong 97294-3183. Heritage on CD is available belief in the supernatural, cooperated with Pentecostals from the Flower Pentecostal Heritage Center. around the globe. By Paul L. King © Copyright 2004 by 32 The General Council Assemblies of God, 1445 N. Boonville Ave., Springfield, MO 2 Heritage Letter 34 Recent Visitors 38 The Lighter Side 65802-1894 39 Photos From Our Past 40 Archives Activities POSTMASTER: Send address change to The Assemblies of God Heritage is a history magazine committed to telling the Heritage, 1445 N. Boonville Ave. unique story of the Assemblies of God and the Pentecostal movement. Each Springfield, MO 65802-1894 issue aims to promote understanding and appreciation with a variety of topics and historic photos, most of which are archived in the Flower Pentecostal Heritage Center. Cover: 1st Cavalry personnel visit with Santo Tomas internees after liberation, February 1945. Courtesy National Archives World War II Heroes of the Faith By Wayne Warner Nobody told missionaries to Asia difficult it was, they probably would Japanese warlords sent huge armies and prior to World War II that serving in have gone anyway, feeling that the call navies into China and other countries. that part of the world would be easy. on their lives was for real and that God The aggressors had little regard for Some left the port with an amazing had His hand on them. the nationals—let alone the foreign commitment, telling loved ones that They knew it would not be easy, civilians working and ministering they would meet them in heaven. but nobody thought answering a there. And they looked to the day Obviously, they were going with the missionary call would get you thrown that the Americans and British would Great Commission as their mission into a makeshift prison camp in the be gone out of that part of the world. and the expectation that they would worst of conditions for three years. Missionaries included. either die on the field or that Christ Nobody said that there were times you A headline in a Japanese paper would return before they had a chance would survive on what you could find in Manila on the first anniversary of for a furlough. And they boarded ships growing in the wild. And nobody said the declaration of war, stated, “Anglo- knowing that Japan and China were anything about being beaten for the Saxon Influences in East Asia Gone engaged in a war, and it didn’t look Kingdom’s sake. Forever.” It was wishful thinking, much like a Sunday school picnic in Those hardships were possibilities, but, unfortunately, it was true for 3 other areas. but nobody wanted to think about long years. To those jammed in prison Even during peace times, taking them. camps and men slogging through the the gospel to another culture in another Missionary Blanche Appleby jungles, it seemed like forever. hemisphere has a different set of lived to tell about that 3-year hardship On the 60th anniversary of challenges than anything in America. in Philippine prison camps, but there the liberation of Luzon, we want to Had these men and women known how were many times she doubted whether remember those dark days and the she would get out alive. Like the day joyful liberation of missionaries and she went out in the Los Banos prison their children—along with thousands camp to pick watercress for a meal. of other civilians and military prisoners. “I was so faint from starvation and For thousands of others, February tropical heat, I felt life ebbing out,” she 1945 would never come. We want to wrote for the Pentecostal Evangel. remember them too. So what if she died of starvation? You’ll read how missionaries were Cruel prison leaders reasoned that it snatched from their places of ministry would be one less mouth to feed. and thrown into makeshift prison camps The real hardships—the word on Luzon in December 1941. You’ll hardship doesn’t really seem strong suffer with them as they tell their enough—in the Orient began when the stories of being cut off from family and friends at home, facing a firing squad, starvation, and indignities—in some Claude White, a medic with the 37th Infantry Division, was one cases beaten for as little as waving at of several Assemblies of God Filipinos along the road. soldiers who were involved in But you’ll also read of that glorious the rescue of the missionaries day when the U.S. Army liberated and other prisoners in Manila. White was also an assistant them. And you’ll read of the day that chaplain and conducted Bible General Douglas MacArthur stepped studies. He is now 80 and is out of a jeep and began shaking hands an ordained minister with the with the liberated civilians and military Southern California District prisoners. of the Assemblies of God. Courtesy of Claude White This column and story are not intended to glorify the killing fields or create new hostilities between nations 2 A/G HERITAGE WINTER 2004-05 that have been friendly for the past 60 years. But this is our history, and it illustrates God’s faithfulness and love during the worst war in history. A war that we hope and pray will never be repeated. In addition, you’ll see features in this issue on Chaplain Stanford Linzey, the English Pentecostals, and the Christian & Missionary Alliance. And you’ll see a new column of humor, which might prompt you to send us a humorous incident you or someone else has experienced. As you read through the rescue stories at Santo Tomas in this issue, and Los Banos in the next issue, you’ll see the names of the missionary families who were trapped for 37 months in some of the worst prisons imaginable. Friends and family in Seattle give Robert and Mildred Tangen a big send off Here is an update on them and for China in January 1940. Courtesy of Kenneth Tangen their families: Blanche Appleby (1887-1968). liberation in Spring 2005 issue). She went to Yale for more language study. She was 58 years old when liberated returned to the Philippines after the But she accepted a position with the from the Los Banos prison, February war; but because of health problems, missions department of Southwestern 23, 1945, and was down to 79 pounds. she retired from missionary service. Assemblies of God College. Elizabeth In light of her suffering, the Division of While in a retirement home, she Galley and veteran missionary A. Foreign Missions (now the Assemblies married a former missionary to North E. Wilson were married and served of God World Missions) decided not India, Alexander Lindsay. She told of together in Africa. Later she returned to return her to the field—although the imprisonment and liberation in her to the SAGC faculty. She extended she wanted to go back. At the age story, “Peace in the Day of Trouble,” her ministry through writing, and I of 80 she was still teaching a class which was published in the Pentecostal enjoyed the privilege of interviewing her on tape in 1981 for the FPHC oral “Nobody thought answering a missionary call history program. would get you thrown into a makeshift Leland (1901-1968) and Helen (1911-2002) Johnson. They pastored, prison camp in the worst of conditions for evangelized, and promoted missions three years.” after returning to the U.S.

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