Maplewood Academy - Maple Log Yearbook (Hutchinson, MN)

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.ml N ,' cc .R 1,- HU'rcHsoN1AN X - 1 . 'XP ' N :'f'- .5 I 4 - I V X 4 If Y f K . - FA- x7 - I ' A ,,.,f 4. ...fppW13m.xnx..g..4, ' 1 -. .4 Mikasa ' ,, ,, tribes. Her people later on accepted Christianity, though they did not live up to it as they should. Naomi heard the third angel's message from one of our missionaries in her little village, away up in the inland part of Fiji, and accepted it. She was persecuted by her people, and they told her that she had no right to accept the Seventh-day Adventist faith without consulting them. They were fond of eating pig's flesh, smoking tobacco, and drinking Fijian grogg but Naomi, when she heard the message of salvation, decided that it was not right to use these unclean foods. Her people said that if she did not give up the truth, they would take her before the! government official of the district, and have her put in jail. She said, I am willing to suffer anything for the truth. I will not give up. One morning they took her from her village and started out on the journey to the native magistrate. The road was rough: the sun was hot: Naomi was hungry and thirsty. They took her twenty-five miles and made a charge against her before the magistrate, saying that she was disloyal. She was tried before the court, but they found that she had done nothing that would cause them to put her in prison, and she was discharged. They took her home again the same day, over the same road, no foodg no water to drink. They thrashed her with sticks, hoping to make her submit or give up the truth fthat she loved so well. Scars were left on her body as a result of this treatment. But with a smiling face she said, I will never give up the truth. I would rather die, because it means so much to me, and I am confident when the Lord returns He will take me to be with Him. She continued to be an Adventist for several years, being persecuted by her people week by week. Later on, they found that she would not submit to their ways, and noticing that her consistent life rang true all the time, they ceased to persecute her, and some of her people accepted the message. Naomi now rests in her grave, awaiting the return of the Master. Her last words Were, I have finished the courseg I have run the race: henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness. Many of her people now rejoice in the truth, and feel sorry for the way they persecuted Naomi. It is not my purpose to bring to you the outstanding experiences, but only such as are common to all fields. But we must not fail to mention the medical work, the right arm of this message. Of recent years, our health principles have became very popular in Scandinavia, and the greatest auditoriums of the leading cities of Denmark, Norway and Sweden have been packed to the limit to hear our physicians discuss our health ideas. Dr. Ottosen himself has been knighted by the King of Denmark for his outstanding medical work, and many of the royal family have been guests at Skodsborg. A clinic, eight dispensaries, a doctor, a score of nurses, are located afar out from Jthe shores of Lake Titicaca, and workers are laboring daily and often through the night's darkness to relieve the suffering and pain of an afflicted one. Our work is largely a work of charity. The rich, the poor, the high and the low alike receive attention at the hands of efficient, talented men and women whose only ambition is to tirelessly serve, that life may be sweetened and extended by medical care mingled with love and sympathy. We have been told that it is not the amount of work or the hardship our missionaries must endure that in many cases cause physical breakdown, but fContinued on page ninety-twol 0 fEZfQfZ Z2fI ZIi ,fEZl II1 lLI? 33 O

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. N f .X HUTCHSONIAN - in I x 'K gi' f ' H-, H J -f iiwiim s f if mlm f ... Cfhe Class Gift HE FOUR years spent in school have increased our desire to fill the place the Lord has for us. We have had wonderful opportunities to gain knowledge and experience that will make us better co-laborers with God. It has been our purpose to avail ourselves of these opportunities, so we have willingly entered into the routine and responsibilities of school life. This has required that our minds, to a great degree, be centered upon the immediate tasks from day to day, but through it all we have not lost sight of the conditions and needs of the ripened fields beyond. Returned missionaries have told us of their experiences and by the mission exercises from Sabbath to Sabbath the work has been kept before us. Much has been accomplished throughout the world field. ' However, we have reached a crisis in our world wide mission endeavor. At the Fall Council, in spite of all the efforts made to curtail and transfer funds, they still were compelled to reduce the appropriations to home and foreign fields 6 per cent. 'I'his may seem to some like a small cut. It is not 6 per cent below the urgent request of the fields, but a 6 per cent cut on the amount actually used last year for salaries, furloughs, and other regular operating expenses. Not only are we unable to allow for expansion of the work for 1931, but we are really asking the fields to cut the basic expenditures 6 per cent. The actual cut is far more than 6 per cent, for no appropriations have been made for miuch-needed buildings and other extension enterprises not included in the base, as has nearly always been done. We regret that there should be a shortage of funds at this time but we are thankful that it is not greater during this time of depression, when many other organizations have found it necessary to cease from mission work almost entirely. We rejoice in the way God has led and is still leading us as a people. Let us turn our thoughts for a few moments to the mission fields beyond. There is a great longing in the hearts of thousands of heathen people for the gospel of Christ. In the northern part of Abyssi'nia there are today many who have turned from Islam and who are groping their way from the darkness of superstition to the light of the gospel message. It is not long ago since Sheik Zakarias heard the call of God in a dream, and left the Islamic road to tread the Christian pathway. Without hesitating he obeyed, and although alone with no Christian friends to encourage or help, he began to preach the message of salvation and to herald the soon return of the Saviour. His work was abundantly blessed. After a few years he was laid low with sickness. Realizing that he was about to die, he called his chief men together, telling them that God had given him light, but he likened it to the flickering gleam of yonder star. Some day, he said, the missionary will come to bring you a wonderful message, and that which he will bring will be like the sun shining in its strength. Now that message has come to them. Our missionaries have come in touch with these people and many of them have been baptized, and as they have learned the truth as it is in Jesus, their hearts rejoice and they are looking forward with gladness to the return of the Saviour. An example of faithfulness comes to us in the story of Naomi, an old Fijian woman who was born in the days of cannibalism. She was the daughter of a cannibal, and had witnessed many dreadful scenes in her own village when her friends would be clubbed and taken away to be eaten by enemy 0 32 0

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