Vernonia eagle., May 11, 1944, Page 3, Image 3

THE OTHER HALF OF THE
said bad words, we fell to wo­
ENVELOPE
men, we stole; but now we know
— By, Erling R. Jacobson, chap­ our mouth belong em God, and
lain, U.S.N.
our bodies they temples of the
Yes, light is a precious gift living God.” Sixteen year old
for a man who has lived in a Raymond who was thinking of
world of darkness and fears, marriage put it this way: “Those
whose rivers are crocodile infest­ who love Jesus don’t pick their
ed, with sharks in his sea, hostile wives the way others do. They
man-eating tribes and evil sp rits ask God to help pick right Mary.”
in his jungles, and an eternity (All women are “Mary” to
of hopelesness before him.
them).
Timon put his hand on the
It is diff cult to single out any
shoulder of the boy standing one experience in my contacts
next to him and answered that with native Christians that has
question: “If it hadn’t been for impressed me most
Timon’s
Christ, I would be fighting him prayer was unforgettable. Two
instead of loving him." Jason had Christian men from
the Base
a good answer too: “Before, we went with me that night. I asked
COLUMBIA COUNTY RANCHERS
are rapidly adding Beef Production
to their other Farming Activities
That much rough land and cut-over areas are Ideally Suited
to Economical Beef Production is being proven dally.
The need for Modem Beef Type Cattle, especially good herd
sires, is being met by owners of Registered Herds within the county.
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Inquire of your County Agent
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COLUMBIA COUNTY LIV ESTOCK ASSOCIATION
Timon, the native evangelist, to
open the meeting with prayer.
“Lord, heavenly Father," he
prayed in his broken Pidgin-Eng-
lish, “bless the three brethern
who are with us this evening.
Though they have different bod­
ies, yet they are our brothers,
for we ell have one blood in
Christ.”
Yes, you were right, Timon.
The bushy hair, the black skin
and the thick lips are accidents
of life. It is the blood that
counts, the blood of Christ that
makes us all one in Him.
f -gnificant too is their love
for the Word of God. It has hap­
pened again and again that na­
tives have come to my tent, sa­
luted smartly and asked, “Me
want em New Testament!” For­
tunately, I had a large supply
with me and I have been able to
meet their needs. They gather
every evening or morning to read
and study the word toge’her
When they come to the meeting
they bring wi.h them their Bi­
ble, a notebcok, a pencil — and
a thirst for the Word.
One of the English officers
stationed at this native labor
camp told me that he had often
found them sitting with the open
Bible before them, lost in con­
templation of the passage they
were reading. They would read
ar.d reread the passage aloud,
laboring over the pronunciation
of the words, desperately striv­
ing to fathom its meaning. Then
they would rise and stand look­
ing off into space, immobile and
transfixed, lost in meditation on
what they had read, utterly ob­
livious of everything save the
burning desire to comprehend
the glorious Truth that was be­
ginning to dawn in their minds.
My first service for the natives
was one of the memorable exper­
iences of my life. Silas, a teacher
and evangelist, an intelligent
benign and soft spoken man of
about thirty five years, came to
my tent and asked me to conduct
a service for his boys that even­
ing. We decided to hold the
meeting in a native building
which had neither furniture nor
floor.
Vernonia Eagle
It had been raining all week,
and the area surrounding the na­
tive hut was a veritable sea of
mud, ankle dep, and the floor of
the hut was only a little less so.
It is difficult to describe what I
thought and felt when I looked
oct across that muddy morass
and saw the natives coming.
They walked in single file. Silas
in the lead with his Bible, song­
book and notebook under his arm
his face wreathed in smiles
Scantily clad, bareheaded and
barefooted, they sloshed along,
indifferent to the mud and rain.
to have the meeting close with
a prayer by one of the natives,
a moving prayer for the chap­
lains, for the success of our arms
and chiefly for the kingdom of
God throughout the world.
Thursday, May 11, 1944
There are episodes of my ex­
periences as a chaplain in the
war zone which I am going to
want to forget. But I shall al­
ways be grateful for the oppor­
tunity I have had—and many
other Americans with me—to ob­
tain first hand information on
the results of foreign mission
work. It is my belief that there
will be many returning Ameri­
can servicemen who because of
their contact with native Christ­
ians will be much more zealous
in their interest in foreign mis­
sions, and who will influence oth­
ers to rediscover the “other half
of the church offering envelope”.
—Submitted by G.F. Brown.
GUARANTEED
Watch Repairing
W. T. JACOBS
941 1st Avenue, Vernonia
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Here was a whole congrega­
tion of natives, only one or two
generations removed from can­
nibalism, coming to hear the
Gospel of which I was priveleged
to be the herald that evening. It
is hard to say whether the re­
sponsibility or the privilege grip­
ped me most. It was a glorious
privilege and a rare experience
to hear them sing their hymns,
beautifully and in harmony; to
bring a message—and they were
such eager listeners—and then
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