Missionary Training Institute - Missionarian Yearbook (Nyack, NY)

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How shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? ROM. 10:15 INDO-Cl-IINA AS DARKNESS sinks over a bleak Indo-China sky, a group of natives- men, women, and children-lie exhausted on an open field. Their gaunt faces, ragged clothes, and bodies bony from hunger, reveal untold suffering. Revolution is raging between the Viet-Namese and French, yet a far darker aspect is depicted. Laos has vast sections where white faces have never been seen. East Siam is a country of moral depravity, Wherever the gospel has been given, natives have shown unusual interest, but four large provinces remain unoccupied. One hundred tribes have never yet had their language reduced to writing. Jesus commands us to 'Go and teach all nations.' 'How shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard?' We as.Christians are responsible for the physical and spiritual destitution of this land. Indo-China raises bony, empty hands to you for the Bread of Life, the Lord Jesus Christ. What will your answer be? GERTRUDE KUHLMAN Congress of Bands Speaker l39

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Paul Dickinson James Rlccitelli Ruth Riccitelli William Newell Bernard Dunning Warren Jacobs Floyd Meier John Ellison Paul Ellison Joyce Armstrong Colleen Johns Mary Archer Esther Van Hine Mildred Kacmpfer owGe ' eil' . ni a ?te26ZXe3Sx ost vvegtxefixxge we QP writ dexa0llPNxS se 'Y NGEL rel 91 P' ,veaw Nxgil 0 Qvoivkadxst Nvxom uexce 00 ,t oiswef' E 1e1 wma Pvegxclgcjxv-LU HHN! V- egxcgeflrslxxx-g,'l x X1.xCe:XLQ,OO Bad ,,cajj,-wi not ELQP' 'veiiug-Rios H 306 1 Neg BNXPXX Pla E tj?- C N oft PLEDGE Wi Sl 258.00 John Phillkps Eileen Mc ntarfer Jane Combs Betty McEIdowney Elizabeth Hehn Anna Moore Gertrude Kuhlman Raymond Jackson Franklin Irvin Jeanne Jackson Emma Smith John Glos Ethel Karns David Rathjen Minerva Farringer Bob Ambler Lillian Barstow Floyd Gibbs Betty Stebbins Ralph Black VER one-third of the entire responsibility of the Christian and Missionary Alliance is found in the Indo-China and East Siam fields! We are responsible tor twenty-seven millions of people who are divided into tour groups: the Viet Narnese, the Cambodians, the Thai, and the Tribes people. There are three large, distinct language groups as well as eighty-two tribal dialects. Buddhism, Animism and Ancestral worship are the Big Three of religions in Indo-China. The Cambodians and Laotians are ardent Buddhists, the Tribes people, Animists, while the Viet Namese seek religious efficacy in Ancestral worship. The torrid climate, the incessant downpour of the rainy season, the parched dry months, diseases-cham- pioned by Malaria, souls steeped in Paganism-this is the challenge ot Indo-China. l38

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Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for ns? Then said I, Here am I 5 send me. IsA. 6:8 'Today in heathen lands they die, They die in want and dread, For they have been omitted In the breaking of the bread. Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles, the unsearchable riches of Christ. EPB. 3:8 Lord, I would give them the Bread of Life, The living waters too. My heart cries out, Oh, here am I, Ready Thy will to do. 140