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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