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NEWS OF RALPH "BUD" HARTER

BOX 3, P.O.

Nawabganj
Kanpur, U.P. 208002
FEBRUARY 1980
A NEW DECADE AND A NEW

Whether it was

Russia's policy towards

India

ERA

Afghanistan or the

ward Mrs. Gandhi or the dissatisfaction of the Vishnupuri

the events of 1979 convinced many that January I98O was
whether for better or for worse.

Indian voter's attitude to-

Church
towards the status quo,
the
time
to
begin a new era

The events in Afghanistan seem to be the beginning of a new design In world affairs
where vacuums formed in smaller nations will be filled by the larger nations, My impression is that vacuums also exist in Pakistan and Iran and that

the United States

be able to_do much about it.

will

not

India had vacuumized a bit during 1979 but that vacuum has now been filled by the re
turn to

power of

the

original Iron Lady, Mrs. Indira Gandhi.

Her party also controls

two-thirds of the seats in Parliament which will enable her to do just about anything she
wants. The minorities (including Christians) were mostly in her favor and gave her the
extra boost she needed to put her over the top.
Which brings us to the Vishnupuri Church. This project was not succeeding, attendance
steadily decreased, and it was also sapping strength from the Swarupnagar Church. It
took us several years to make this difficult decision but eventually we had to conclude
that it was the Lord's will that we needed to do more to strengthen the Swarupnagar
Church, now 27 years old.

The old year ended happily enough as though it wanted to leave a good impression at its
last. Business In the bookstore was better than ever before. Our three-wheeled 1.75
horsepower "Bible Chariot" carried two of us on an almost completely trouble-free 1000

mile bookselling and preaching tour. Only on the 2Ath and 25th of'Decembefdidthe:Spark
plug trouble us.

While crossing one toil bridge the toll collector tried to collect more

than double the charge from us but when we complained to the police we were allowed to
cross free. On the return trip we had no more trouble but the toll collector complained
that he could not earn any profit by just charging the rates set b" the government. That
is his problem which he will have to work out with the government.

Towards the end of the year we had some rain which broke the drought which had plagued

India following the failure of the rainy season last year.

The last week of 1979 found me enjoying the usual generous hospitality of the mission
aries at Kulpahar: the Misses Moshier, Stanton and Burget, and Dr. and Mrs. Plettner.

But when the old year finally died I was home in bed in Kanpur.

The motley crew at our house is just about the same.

in our last newsletter, has gone back to

Ranjit, whom we introduced to you

living with his

parents.

One of our committee

members, Sani ManglI, is staying with us for a couple of months during which time we hope
that some of his problems can be worked out. For a short time we have also given shelter
In our Inn to a young preacher, his wife

and

month

old son.

1 can't remember when we

ever had a baby in this house.

During the first of January, I was finally able to give my manuscript,

Nicodemus," to the printer. For various reasons it had been sitting
about six months; but when I re-read it, it needed no changes.
The manuscript for the

September HARTER THROBS was lost

in the mail,

"The Truth About

on the shelf for
It

is the usual

procedure to take such letters to the post office and have the stamps cancelled in your
presence. That time however I was in a hurry and dropped it in a mailbox, and it must
have proven too big a temptation for some postal employee.
No one seemed to miss that
, -,

newsletter-not even Miss Douglas at Joplin Or Mabel Jeffries at Clinton who sends them
out. There were however more than the usual number of comments about the November issue.
Now it has been three months since the November Letter. Most of what we wrote In the

September newsletter could be surmised from the

November letter except the news of the

death of our friend and brother Walter Handwork of Orrville, Ohio.

Nowadays I am devoting some time to the editing and publishing of a book commemorating

the Golden Anniversary of the Sat Tal Ashram.

Harinam, in his new role as a young

but I am sorry to say that

industrialist, is showing some material progress

I see no spiritual

improvement although

he attends church

regularly. On January 29th I was his "Chief Guest" as he inaugurated his new soap factory.

I am happy to report that his detergent is no longer named Ralph Detergent. His new
factory is located in an area prone to floods so if you ever hear that towns east of Kan
pur have been cleaned out, you will know the reason why.

As is usual in the city of Kanpur, most of

be occupied with preaching all over the city.

in the city of Allahabad.

I am

the evenings during the month of March will

During Easter week I am planning to preach

sending my assistant

ference in the southern city of Hyderabad in February.

Victor Walter to a literature con

If circumstances are convenient,

I will probably spend most of May and June at the Sat Tal Ashran.

CONTRIBUTIONS

Other Eastern States:

October,November and December.1979

Flora Christian Church, 111.

Mrs. Robert Walker
Capital City Church,N.Car.
Embreeville Church,Tenn.

Home Church and Area:

C11nton, Church
C1Inton Jr.

$450 .00

11 Class

20 .00

Perry Christ'ian Church

Mrs.Walter Handv;erk
Mrs. Robert Meade

154 .00

Mrs. Magdalene Bowen

Mr. S Mrs. P.M. Hawkins
Sabring Church of Christ
Mrs. Lewis H. Smith
Other Oh io Donors:
Mr. S Mrs. Lewis Holdren
Mrs. Nathan Black
Mr. & Mrs. Bob Mack
Miss Ethel M, Uhrich

Branch Hill Church

Linden Church

Old Stone Missionary

Verna G.Bergenholtz,Oreg.

25.00

20 .00

Dr. Donald F.Peel,Texas

20.00

5 .00
25 .00

Miss Nellie Cop]ey,Wash.

Wapato Christian Church

20.00
50.00

75 .00
15 .00

Neeper Church,!^.
99.10
Liberty Church^unday School
53.25
TOTAL CONTRIBUTED:
$^501.74

120 .00

45 .00
50,.00
80,.00
50..00

Bladensburg Loyal Daughters

Cous i ns

EXPENDITURES

FROM Oct.18,1979 to Jan.14.1980

Salary, three months
WO.00

Budgeted fi Audited expenses

of the Kanpur Mission
36OO.OO
Standard Publishing
37-02
Kirkbride Bible Co.
162.70
National Missionary Convention 25.00

75.,00
50,.00
60.,00
300.,00
40.,00

Bordering States:

Burlington Miss. Society,Ind.220

Mr.
Mr.
New
Mr.

Stanley Vincent
& Mrs. Glen Morrical
Ross Christian Church
& Mrs. Frank Reas

Mr. & Mrs. Kellie Story,

International Christian Institute

00

12.00

30. 00
50. 00
320. 00
50. 00

Dr. & Mrs. Thomas Omer

Bedford Acres Christian Church

Wedding help to Rajendra Paul

12.65

Educational helt to Edith Das

13.90

General Medical help

40. 00
25. 00

Gospel Literature Service

Gene S. Ronda

1 .20

TOTAL EXPENDED

$'(736.52
SUMMARY

Balance on Oct.17,1979

$ 224.83
4501.74

Total Contributed
TOTAL RECEIPTS

500. 00

4726^5J_

Less Expended

/jO. 00

4736.52

Deficit on Jan.14,1980

75. 00

Mr, & Mrs. Lewis Nicholson

20. 00
Dr. Victor and Mrs.Louise Rambo

Mrs. Sylvia Rosser, W.Va.

15.20
309.25

Bank Charge

300. 00

Oak Grove Church, P^.

7.60

Christmas Celebration at Ragau I

Mt. Zion Christian Church

25. 00
East Union Bible School
93. 21
Mr. S Mrs. Lewis Domke,Mich. 175. 00

HaroTd and Joyce Domke

50.00
20.00
100.00
20.00

Lord's Treasury, Neb.

Wymore Loyal Women

5 .00

Mr. S Mrs.Walter Swlgart

Linden Women's Guild

Linden Homebuilders

V/est of the Mississippi:

Mrs. Loretta Huntington
Lois B. Stiles, Cali f.

23 .00
55 .00
50 .00

Orrvtlle Loyal Bereans

$40.00
50.00
89.18
90.00

9.95

Please send all contibutions through

Miss Florence

25. 00

Douglas

1 n 1 N. Ma i n St.

20. 00

Joplin, Mo. 64801

Thank you very much for these winter-time contributions which enable us to begin

every year free of debt and with enough balance to give us a healthy start In the new
year. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Reas have left the farm for Kokomo due to Frank's health. Mrs

Lewis Domke is_a cousin on my mother's side. Since Lewis's retirement they are giving

rrore and more time to the missionary work of Alcoholics Anonymous.Their son Harold and
his Wife have proven to be a very generous pair during the past several years.-Several

very generous Christmas and birthday gifts have also been received which are not listed

in the financial

report.Miss Ethel Uhrich is a classmate from the class of'46.

The

Bedford Acres Christian Church is a new contributor and I am always happily surprised
to see a new contributor.

If you are acquainted with the Neeper Church you will

that that is an unexpectedly large offering which they have sent.

know

I am not planning to

come to the U.S. until the Fall or Winter of I98I.

FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST

2545 West Comet Rd.
C1inton, Ohio 44216
"HARTER THROBS"

NON-PROFIT ORG
U.S.POSTAGE
PAID

CLINTON,

RiCII/sHD BOUH-IS

OHIO

Permit 7

BOX :.?x

KSMF^N^ IMC,.

1980

NEWS OF RALPH HARTER

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AND COMING IMS

It has been very nice during recent months :o be inv'ted to preach and teach at dif
ferent places but it has been unpleasant to find so much wc rk waiting for me when I
get home. Otherwise I have been happy to find that during my absences the work in
Kanpur continues in decency and in order. Even the smaller boys have learned to be
have when I am away, so it is said. They do not always behave when I am here.
My next big trip will be to the Madras area during the last half of March. My sis
ter and Mrs. Eraser who were to have visited here in February are now p^Lann'nQ tP conie

(with others?) during the first half of April.

Easter is reserved for Kulpahar.

Af

ter that there will be two hectic weeks at home in Kanpur and then it will be time to
leave for my summer's work at the Sat Tal Ashram in the hills.
In January, I spent five days and preached seven sermons in the steel town of
Tatanager, also known as Jamshedpur.
In February, I spent two weeks at Kulpahar ex
pounding the last sixteen chapters of the books of Acts. The trip to Tatanager had
its exciting moments. One noon while going to an old friend's house for lunch, we
found ourselves in the middle of a mob thit v/as burning railways buildings and tearing
up tracks. Also I almost got trampled while getting on a train and temporarily lost

my famous ("Elijah's") shavjl.

When

1 got

it

back, a Sikh

gentlemen

remarked, the

property of the righteous always returns to them." Certain bus drivers on the road be
tween Kanpur and Kulpahar like to thrill the passengers with last minute zigs. No

doubt they are very expert but not all survive long.
One of my "old boys", Harinam Singh has been showing more filial affection during
the past month after three years of hostility. Perhaps his marriage last December has
something to do with it. His soap business is doing well as long as he works hard at
it. I am told though, by usually reliable sources, that I still have an enemy or two
around.

Controversy still surrounds one of my wards,

very good boy but the weight of evidence is
his training in July. There is no controversy
will al so ,soon be-tinishing his training. The

Sunil Desilva. He insists that he is a

going against him. He is due to finish
about another ward, Arvind Solomon, who
latter has not been much-expence to-us-

either.

My "this year's manuscript" went through many transformations before I finally

sent it to an American publisher whom I wi11 not name until
I learn that he has ac
cepted it. The title that I finally settled on was "0 Happy Way," ending with a
chapter named "The Last Laugh."

One of the big projects every January is to. get the account boOks audited by a
Chartered Accountant as per the laws of India. This year they were so thorough that
they checked the addition on each cash memo of each sale

made in the Bible Book Store

during the year. Let me give you an idea of the monthly averages of the "Audited" and
"Unaudited"expenses of the Kanpur Mission during the last lear, 1980.
Audited

Salary (from 1st April)

Book Store & Library
Hostel, Education Training
Medical,amputees,funerals,
widows and churches

Housing and Electricity

Transportation

Postage Stationery
Salaries of workers

Unaudi ted

$200.00

$221.22
23^.52

60.67
155.89
60.78
31.62
25^.814

Audi tor

9.60
23.02

25.58

2.86

10.91

Committee expenses

16.77

Sat Tal
Totals

20.66

Ashram

$1030.45
$2^8.49
$1328.9^

During 1980, Contributions averaged 1330.50 per month while

Expenses averaged $1328.9^
Book Store sales averaged
$ 289.50 per month
$ 162.35 from Jan. through June and
$ A16.65 from July through Dec.

Two of our five employees, Lawrence Lazarus and E.S. Reuben, were retired from 31st
of December and we are in the midst of paying all their dues. The house owner Is also
requesting at least $310 help in paying his taxes in addition to the rent. (Not $310
per month but a total of $310 for two years or about $13 per month). This Is just for
your information. In all 1ikl i hood these obi i gat ions wi 11 be settled within a month.

We are thankful to you and to God for the

loving contributions sent to us during Nov

WEST OF THE MISSISSIPPI

ember and December,1980 and January I98I.

Mason City First Church Mission $ 15.00

Mrs.Loretta Huntington,Iowa
50.00

HOME CHURCH AND AREA

Lord's Treasury, Neb.

Liberty Sunday School, Mo.

Clinton First Church

Mrs. Robert Meade
Orrvi He Loyal Bereans

$775.00
15.00
55.00

Mrs.Walter Handwerk
Mr. 6 Mrs. P.M. Hawkins

140.00
20.00

Mrs. Madgaline Bowen

Mr. & Mrs.Walter Swigart
Rittman Missionarv Guild

90.00
71.00
15.00

OTHER OHIO DONORS

Bladensburg Loyal Daughters

Paul and Eileen Porterfield
Linden Church of Christ
Linden Women's Guild
Mrs. Doris Black
Old Stone Missionary
Sebring Church
Mr. & Mrs. Eugene Close

8O.OO
15.00
330.00
50.00
15.00
40.00
15.00
50.00

East Sparta Christian Church

200.00

Mr. & Mrs. Chadanand Stephens

10.00

Mrs. Dorotha N. Holdren

Branch Hill Church of Christ
Miss Dorothy Schmale

100.00
6O.OO
20.00

NEIGHBORING STATES

Mr. 6 Mrs. Frank Reas, Indiana

Mr. Stanley Vincent

20.00

200.00

The Cleo Blakes

100.00

Bright Christian Church

Portland Singles 6 Doubles
The Kenneth Eades

East Union Bible School, J^.

(These loved-ones are rebuilding
after losing their historic old
buiIding in a ffre.)
Mr. 6 Mrs. Thomas Omer
Mr. & Mrs. H.L. McKinney
Mt. Zion Christian Church
Mr. 6 Mrs. Lewis Domke, Mich.
Harold F. Domke & family
Oak Grove Church, Pa.

Neeper Church
Verma Bergenhol tz^, Oregon
Wapato Christian Church,Wash.
Mrs.WiIbur Mel 1 is

(We are sorry to hear of the

passing of our Brother Wilbur)
Miss Nellie Copley
20.00
Dr. Donald F. Peel,Texas
40.00
TOTAL CONTRIBUTED
$5196.75
We seek the Lord's guidance.in the use of

these funds which

have been

50.00
84.00
110.00

71.96

25.00
100.00
50.00
200.00
400.00
75.00

expended

Salary, three months

$600.00
Budgeted & audited expenses $4358.00
of the Kanpur Mission
Standard Publishing
99.06
Extra for Education & Training 127.17
Other Benevolence
33.50
Two men to convention
15.46
Annual gratuity to V.Walter
165.00

(Treasurer & Ass't. Manager)

$5398.19

Now put everything together:

Balance on Nov. 4,1980
Total contributed
Total receipts
Total expended
Deficit on Feb.22,1981

$ 300.68
$5196.75
$5397.43
$5398.19
$
.76

The Lord has been very good to us. He

has also given us a very good forward
ing agent, now begmrTing her
eithth year:
Miss Florence Douglas

1111 N. Main St., Joplin, Mo. 6480l'

Carnegie First Christian

Mrs. Lucretia Nicholson

44.00
20.00

Hooverson Heights Church.W.Va.

39.66

And in the Clinton Church, Mabel

Jeffries works hard at producing and
mailing out this news letter,postage
for which is paid by the church. All
of us would appreciate if you would

Capital City Church, N.C.

Embreeville Church, Term.
Mr. & Mrs. Robert Wa1ker,111.
Leroy 3rd Graders

460.93
90.00
50.00(
50.00

send your change of address to First

Church of Christ, Clinton, Ohio, 44216.
That will save some unnecessary ex
pense of the Lord's money and also
save Mabel from unnecessary grief.

Flora First Christian Church

40.00

OTHER EASTERN STATES

as

follows from 5th November to 22nd February.

150.00

Burlington Missionary Society

100.00
64.00
106.20
25.00
80.00
100.00

My special thanks also to those rel

atives and friends who sent me per

sonal gifts for Christmas and my 56th
bi rthday.

FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST

2545 West Comet Rd.

CLINTON, OHIO
"Harter Throbs"

(March)

44216

N0N=PR0F1T ORG,

U.S. Postage
PAID

CLINTON, OHIO
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T41R0Bi
NEWS OF RALPH HARTER '

BOX 3, P.O. NAWABGANJ, KANPUR 208002 INDIA

APRIL 1980
TOWARDS SPIRITUAL ENRICHMENT

Kanpur Is always full of "lenten meetings" during the six weeks before Easter.

We of the

Church of Christ do not plan any meetings ourselves but our sermons are much in demand almost
every night during this period. The Lord helping, we usually succeed in feeding our 1isteners
with the food that Is needful for them.

The Swarupnagar Church of Christ was able to have a weekend convention recently during the
of B.L. Turner of Seattle and Prof. Harvey Beard of Fullerton. Lee Turner's knowledge
of Urdu is very much appreciated by the Christians of Kanpur and we are looking forward to a
longer visit from him next year.

The Swarupnagar Church is doing much better now following the removal of the competition
from Vishnupuri, and it has not harmed Vishnupurl ^either. One happy~"by-p"roduct fbr'rrTe TT^that
I have been able to arrange my office better now that I do not have to empty my front room
every Sunday morning.

During the Easter weekend, I will be preaching six sermons at two different churches in the
city of Allahabad, and 1 will also be selling books.

There is a brother in Lucknow who has been very successful in bringing his friends and rel
atives to the Lord and we have had the privilege of baptizing many of them here at Bible Bhavan.
Six more were baptized on Saturday, March 8th.

The printing of "The Truth About Nicodemus" is almost finished although it may still be an
other month before the book is bound and ready for sale.

The second Hindi edition of D.R.

Dungan's classic '|0n the^Rock"^has been sent to the press. The second Hindi editions of C.J.
A "Bible for Youth" and Lee Carter Maynard's "Helping Hand' will soon be ready for sale.
Now we are wanting to reprint "The ABCs of the Christian Faith" and "The Anatomy and Diseases

of the Spiritual Eye,"both of which are presently out-of-print.

Copies are still available

of my spiritual autobiography, "Lessons from the School of Faith." I _am happy to send any num
ber of the English books free of any charge to my friends in the U.S. The value of the books
is about three for $1 which includes postage by sea. Airmail just about doubles the cost of

the books. It is best to request these books by ordering them directly from Kanpur. You may
also send your request through Miss Douglas but that route necessarily takes longer. All funds

(including payments for books) should be sent to Miss Douglas, 1111 N. Main St.,Joplin,Mo.6A801

Shortly after employing ypung Joel In the bookstore, we asked him what.improvements should be
made in that department. -One thing he said wa-s-that we-needed a rug fo cover"up The terrible
looking floor. It seems that we moved into this house before the owner could get the floors

finished and he never cared to do it later. We decided against a rug but we did go ahead and

spend $J00 In finishing up the floors. The house owner got into the act and had the walls
painted, so things are looking good right now. We might even follow Lee Turner's advice and
get some screens for the place. The mosquitoes this year have been multitudinous If not par
ticularly feroc i ous.

'-^On Sunday,Marciu9th when I was returning home from church, I happened to turn down a street

^^where the last day of the Hindu festival called Holi was being celebrated with great fervor.
Despite my protestations, someone threw a bucket.of red dye over me, ruining everything I was
wearing Including my underwear. 1 got some revenge by upturning a drum of their dye into the
gutter.

Since then I have avoided that street.

We have been having

'^Y^gett Ing fuel >1 th
food. It has been a long
time since we were able To'^geta'ny"" cooking gas. We are supposed to get a cylinder In our turn
but the delivery boy gives it to someone else at a higher price and then says that no one was
home at our house.

However someone is always at home at this house.

Kerosene has also been

difficult to get and our electricity is shut off In the mornings. For a while we ate one meal
a day at the restaurant but the boys were too extravagant with that privilege. Now we are cook
ing with.coal which is blackening up the newly painted v/alls. It is hoped that conditions will
soon improve.

During the winter I carried the extra burden of editing and publishing the Golden Anniversary
brochure of the Sat Tal Ashram. The hardest part of the v;ork is now finished although I will
still be maing weekly trips to Lucknow (50 miles) to do the proofreading and to otherwise keep
the printers working on it.

The book itself is financed through advertisements, sales and the

Sat Tal Ashram Society.

One new boy, Ram Sharan, has joined our hostel. Ram Is a college student and a convert to
Christ from an underprivileged segment of Hindu society. He wants to become a doctor but he
may have to settle for something less.

YiP-tor Walter came back from the literature conference In Hyderabad with new insight into
,the evangel ist ic opportunities confronting bookstores. Now I am going to se'nd"*two^"men to a
Christian leadership conference near Delhi and I pray they may also return with some new in
sights for their ministries.

CONTRIBUTIONS

EXPENDITURES

January and February, I98O

Jan. 15, 1980 to March 24, I98O

Salary, two months
$300.00
Budgeted and audited expenses

Home Church and Area:

Clinton Church

$610.00

Clinton Steadfast Class

60.00

Mrs. Madgalene Bowen

Orrville Loyal Bereans
Mrs. Robert Meade

,90.00
20.00
15.00

Mrs. Walter Handwerk

200.00

Walter Swigart

of the Kanpur mission

Annual gratuity to assistant
Mr. Victor Walter
Other committee expenses
Extra benevolence
Photographs sent to donors
TOTAL EXPENDED

50.00

Other Ohio Donors:

2100.00
165.00
12.1k
17.12
7.kk
$2601.70

IN MEMORY OF DON E. NICKERSON

by one of his daughters

Miss Dorothy Schmale
Mrs. Nathan Black
Pat Mack

Bladensburg Loyal Daughters

Old Stone Missionary
Linden Church
Linden Homebuilders
Mrs. Leona B. Blythe
Branch Hill

Church

Sebring Church
Nei ghbori ng States:
Mr. Stanley Vincent,Indiana
Portland Singles & Doubles

100.00
6O.OO

Deficit on Jan. Ik, I98O

Total Expended
Total Debits
Less Receipts
Balance on March 2k, I98O

10.00
k^.OO

AO.OO
kO.OO
330.00
75-00
25.00

'Mrs. Leland Rayner of California, from

whom we hear annually around Christmas
time, is the mother of Leah Moshier
Kulpahar.

6O.OO

15.00

Kenneth Eade

IkO.OO

50.00
50.00
100.00

months ago.
It is not plain which of Don Nickerson's

two daughters gave the memorial gift but

both are very wonderful "girls". Thous

Other Eastern States:

Flora Church, 111.

Leroy Hearthtenders

Capital City Church, N.C.

Mrs. John Garrett (for books)
Embreeville Church, Term.
West of the Mississippi:

Nellie Copley, Wash.

Mapat-o hurch

. .

Mrs. Leland E.Rayner,Calif.

Neeper Church,
Liberty S.S.Classes
Mrs. Loretta Huntington, Iowa
Mr. Donald Peel, Texas

TOTAL CONTRIBUTED

of

We also hear annually from our old (and

"long time no see") friend Kenneth Eade
of English, Indiana. From the Christian
Standard, I have heard that English was
the scene of a devastating flood some

20.00
50.00

Mr. & Mrs. Frank Reas

Oak Grove Church,
Mt, Carmel Church, Ky.

9.95
2601.70
2611.65
3110.32
k98.68

AO.OO
25.00

ands of us are stirred in our hearts when

we hear the name of Don,NIckerspn and re

member the dynamic sermons he preached and

282.08
10.00

the dynamic songs which he sang.

90.00

The bill has just come from the Indian

Income Tax people charging our committee
$320 in income taxes. Ouch!
It hurts.

kO.OO
.k0._00

Please continue to send__a_l 1 of your con-_

tributions through our ever sacrificing

25-00
28.25
56.00
100.00
120.00

forwarding agent:
Miss Florence Douglas
1111

N.

Main St.

Joplin, Mo. 6k801

$Trfo733

Among the best loved words of the Bible are these four, or eight,"The Lord is my shepherd,
I shall not want." We love them but do we believe them" Or, contrary to the explicit teach
ings of our Lord Jesus Christ, do we continue to worry about the necessities of life? We
have recently been warned by a city employee that our house owner has not paid the water tax
on this house and that our water supply may soon be cut off and the house auctioned.

Should

we let it worry us or should we rest content that the Lord will always take care of our hous
ing problems? Just now a boy came saying that a Methodist seminary application asks who is
going to be responsible for his expenses while he is In Bible College. I declined the honor

of having my name fill the space but I advised him to v/rite in the words, "The Lord is my
shepherd, 1 shall not want," and then v/alt and see v/hat the seminary people say. He gave me
the impression that he was not going to follow my advice. Would you? Well, v/ould you?

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AUGUST,
COURSE OF INDIAN HISTORY CHANGED

The course of Indian history was changed on May 23rd when Mrs.Gandhi's younger son Sanjai
plunged to earth while trying some aerial acrobatics over his house in New Delhi. For the past
several years he had been his mother's chief advisor and was expected to succeed her as Prime

Minister. Although he was the target of many vile attacks, he neverthless possessed many fine
characteristics.

He did what he could for the betterment of India and he was successful

to

some extent. Only 33 years old when he died, he was not without fault.

Is it possible that my last newsletter was way back In AprilTWow!

I did write lots of let

ters. When I come to the U.S.A. a year from now, I will try to improve things by investing in
a good non-electric portable typewriter. By now people must be fed up with my handwriting.
My summer sojourns in the hills are getting longer and longer and the opportunities get bet
ter and better. It is a superb opportunity to reach pastors and ministerial students from all
parts of India and from all of the denominations.This year the attendance totalled 200 and I

had eight opportunities to preach.After the crowd left, I settled down to write a commentary
on the Beautitudes which I hope to publish during the next year under the title,"Eight Fatal
Steps To Happiness."By the time I wrote some letters and spent several days on accounts, it
was time to get back to Kanpur for the July opening of schools.

The folk who remained here in Kanpur kept wel1 and worked well.One of the boys, Ram Sharan,
wrecked a bicycle In a collision with a car but the Lord saved him from any serious injury.
Despite Mr. Reuben's best efforts at keeping accounts, it still took me a week to unravel the
tangel that had snarled up during my absence.

I was also away from Kanpur during much of April.During the first week of April,I was in
Allahabad where I preached five times during the long Easter, weekend.At the end of April,I
preached four times in the big convention held annually by the church In Mawlai, Shillong,
where Philip and Margaret Ho were my hosts. Somewhere in between the two, I preached at Kulpahar and helped with the inauguration of their new hospital. I left for the Sat Tal Ashran

on May lAth but on the way I made a sldetrip to Dehra Dun to see a former employee,Mr.G.S.
Negi who is seriously ill in the hospital with tuberculosis.

_ Thf-tX'-P to Allahabad was made in the three wheeled "Bible Chariot," and it went well enough
despite the heat,The boy who went with me proved to be an expert driver and I especially
appreciated his night driving. He was also a good bookseller.

The other journeys by train and bus were mostly miserable due to overcrowding and delays.On
the way back from Shillong, I got caught in a cyclone that soaked and chilled me through and
through and reduced me to an expectation of my immediate demise. My baggage was still leaking
when I reached Kanpur 36 hours later.My fervent prayers preserved me from anything more ser
ious. It is also getting more and more difficult to get anything substantial to eat while

travelling. On the way back to Kanpur from Sat Tal, I tried something new by making the trip
by bus but that was no "picnic" either. Although it was only 250 miles, it was the longest bus
ri e

had ever attempted in India. The train I would have taken had been discontinued due to

a shortage of coal, so they said.

Half-way to Kanpur, I stopped overnight at the technical institute in Shahjahanpur where we

have a boy, Sunil Desilva, in training.Suni1 has badly disappointed us with his behavior but
we are neverthless going to allow him to finish his training. He has shown some improvement in

the past three months.Another boy we help, Arvind Solomon, has done very well and has been

given a scholarship which is saving us a lot of money.

Last year we had to start out 12 year old Usevius in the Second Grade but now he has pro
gressed to the Fifth Grade. During the past two months we have also given refuge to 10 year
old Sanjai Sani whose mother has left town.Our blind boy Deenanath is waiting to hear whether
or not he has passed the 12th grade.If his grades are good enough, and they should be,we are
willing to help him study further.David Morar has brought some fame to our house because he

is such a popular Gospel musIcian.This year he,wants to take teacher's training. Ram Sharan,
the one who wrecked the bicycle,is trying to get himself admitted to some medical college.

When I sent out the last newsletter, I had just received a notice that our local committee
was owing $320 in income tax. It was not only a surprise to us but also to the chartered

accountant who audits our accounts. I turned it over to him and I have not heard any more from
the tax officials.} hope that I don't hear anything more from them either,
Mr. Lewis,a retired railway employee, was baptized by Pastor Victor Das at our house on

Friday afternoon,Apri1 18th.On the same day someone stole a bicycle from our driveway.

Once again I will be preaching every Sunday afternoon to the girls of the Union Mission

School which this year is celebrating its centennary.I think though that my Wednesday evening
Bible classes at the Methodist High School have become defunct.Otherwise I continue to preach
at four different churches on three different Sundays.(Figure that one out).On July 27th, I
am planning to preach at Kulpahar, and during the middle of September I will preach in Bombay
for the first time.lt will be my first visit to Bombay in 21 years.
The rainy season has started and for the time being there is no shortage of water,electric

ity, cooking gas or motor fuels. Th^gs seem to go better with Indira Gandhi.

CONTRIBUTIONS

EXPENDITURES

MarchApri] & May,1980

HOME CHURCH AND AREA:
CI inton Church

from March 25th to July 4th, 1980

Salary, three months
$670.00

Budgeted and audited expenses of

Clinton Senior HI Youth

25.00

Mr. & Mrs. P.M. Hawkins

20.00

Magazine subscription

98.00

Sat Tal Ashram

30.00

Unbudgeted extra expenses:

Mr, & Mrs. Walter Swigart

Orrville Loyal Bereans
Mrs. Walter Handwerk
Mrs.Robert Meade

Mrs. Madgalene Bowen

Mr. & Mrs. Harold Drolllnger

105.00
10.00
30.00
200.00

OTHER OHIO DONORS:

Miss Dorothy Schmale

Branch Hi 11 Church

80.00
70.00
15.00
330.00
75.00
15.00
^0.00
40.00
60.00

Mrs. Dorothy Hondren

100.00

Mr. e Mrs. R. D. Mack

Mr. Mrs. L.Nathan Black
Linden Church

Linden Homebuilders

Sebring Church

Bladensburg Loyal Daughters

Old Stone Missionary

the Kanpur Mission

Osgood Circle
Bright Church
Portland Church

Pate Missionary Fund

Ralph B. Clary,Kentucky
Mr. Mrs. Kelly Store
Oak Grove Church, Pennyslvania
Mrs. Lucretia Nicholson
OTHER EASTERN STATES:

Flora Church, 111inois

Capitol City Church, N.Car.
Embreeville Church, Tenn.

4.50
225.26
26.62

6.49

Two elders to convention

31.17
105.84

Help to young people

Committee expenses

18.18
5.19

Book Store
TOTAL SPENT

$3623.25

SUMMARY

Balance on March 24,1980

$ '(98.68
3763.95
<(262.63
3623.25
$ 639.38

Contri butions

Total receipts
Less Expenditures

Balance on July 4,1980

BIBLICAL DISCOURAGEMENT

30.00
100.00

During

75.00
30.00
600.00
50.00
40.00
75.00

he thought it was a very discouraging thing

20.00

the

summer a doctor said to me that

to say, as the Apostle Paul did, that "if

anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ,

he does not belong to Christ,"Rom.8:9.
I think there is another verse which Is

even more "discouraging." Luke quotes Jesus

as saying, " Any of you who does not give up

everything he has cannot be my disciple,"

85.00
213.00
90.00

WEST OF THE MISSISSIPPI:

Mr. Mrs. Harry Evans,Oregon

Miss Nellie Copley, Washington

2600.00

Educational
Medical

NEIGHBORING STATES:

Stanley Vincent,Indiana

$600.00

20.00

Luke 14:33.
No doubt we would like to water this verse

down to say something like,"Any of you who

is not willing to give up everything he has
will find it difficult to be my disciple,"

75.00
40.00

but that is not what Christ said.

Jesus demands that if we are to follow Him
at all, and if we are to dare to call our

Grace E. Hardee, Colorado

10.00
25.00

over to Him "whole kit and caboodle."

Mason City Church Mission,Iowa

Mrs. Loretta Huntington

20.00

Wapato Church

Mr. Donald F. Peel,Texas

Mr.

Mrs.

Aden McTeer

Neeper Church, Missouri

Liberty Church Sunday School

TOTAL CONTRIBUTED

20.00

50.00
25.95
57.00

selves Christians, we must deliver ourselves

We

will give Him everything we possess: each

and every member of our physical bodies,our
cash,bank accounts and investments, our

homes and automobiles and all they contain,

arrival in India on August 3,1947, and to

our forwarding agent of 26 years. Miss
Florence Douglas, 1111 N.Main St.,

our businesses and employments,every minute

of our time both present and future, our
hopes and prospects, our politics, hobbies
and recreational pursuits, our entertain
ments and conversations, our wives,chiIdren,
parents and friends.Hard words indeed; but
then everything we turn over to Jesus,He

Joplin. Mo.

blesses!

$3763-95

THANK YOU ALL for the love you have so

faithfully shown before and following my

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OCTOBER, I'W
A REFUGE

The sweet word Refuge very well sums up what our establishment, now called Bible Bhavan,
has been during the past more than twenty-five years. We gave a different name to each of

the places where we have lived during those years but the atmosphere has always been the
same. The first house was named Gai-bu (Cow Smell) Hotel, the second was "Garden of Eden,"
and the third was "Garden

of Gethsemane." Bible Bhavan" has become

most famous of

all.

Twelve year old Usevius and ten year old Sanjai have been joined by a third youngster,

A Nepali boy, Suleman, aged ten.Being boys that are boys they sometimes tax my ingenuity
and they sometimes seem ready to kill each other but no one has been badly injured so far.
As his name and age would suggest,Usevius tends to be the leader In mischief but from his
point of view we are partial to the younger two. So we have to watch out for that also.

Our rainy season last year was one

of the dryest on record but

our rainy season

this

year has set the all-time record for amount of rainfall. The number who died will never be

known. Uncountable houses collapsed, whole villages disappeared overnight, and the streets

and roads of the state are in shambles. Crossing the city of Kanpur is like crossing the
face of the moon. It remains to be seen what effect this is going to have on our annual
winter tour of bookselling with the "Bible Chariot."

We had some "terrible" Sundays during the rainy

church building could not be approached because of

held in

a nearby house. On August 10th

season. On two Sundays our

Swarupnagar

a flooded street but the services were

the rain was

discouraging me

from going

across

town to preach at Juhi but the Lord spoke to my heart, "Why did I give you a vehicle?"

So

I went, got stuck in the mud twice but I was glad that I had gone even though the congre
gation was small. On August 2^th, at another place,the host pastor didn't swim It and the
service would have been cancelled if I hadn't reached there.Eventually they got a
good
number of people together and they later told their pastor that It was the best service
they had had In a long time. On September 5th (Friday) four of us made a most hazardous

trip to another part of town on roads which are no longer there and we found a very

recep

tive group gathered. The Lord says "Go,go,go."

Besides the condition of the roads, an increase in traffic has made

very difficult for me. I have therefore

driving at night
decided to cut down on committee meetings. The

younger generation is quite capable of carrying on committee business.

Hundreds in our state have been killed

in clashes which have

been

mostly between the

Muslims and the police. It is said to have started when a pig wandered(or was driven) into
a holy place where Muslims were praying.Violence spread to other cities and almost erupted
in Kanpur on August 15th but somehow calmer minds prevailed.A higher percentage of Muslims
in the police force would help to handle the problem.
One boy who was staying here, Ram Sharan, has finished his latest college examinations
and left. Two other boys who had come Just for the purpose of examinations have also left

following the completion of their work. Regretfully, I am having to retire Mr. E.S.
Reuben, now in his mid-seventies, who has been a most faithful, honest and hard-working
employee In the Book Store for the past ten years.I am also closing down the department
which was called "Bible Bhavan Publications," because of Its inefficient workings. That
does not mean that I will stop writing books but it does mean that Lawrence Lazarus, an
employee of eighteen years, will be looking for a new Job. We are making generous sever
ance arrangements with both parties conditional on their leaving peacefully. I am hoping
to be able to abstain from any new obligations until after I return from my next furlough

which is due to begin in the

Fall, 1981, None of the above is necessitated by a lack of

funds.

My friend Brother Ellas of Lucknow

17th. The people he brings are very
In my April newsletter I mentioned
that our mission committee was owing

brought us two more people to be baptized on August

sincere and well taught.
receiving an assessment from the Income Tax Office
$320 In taxes.Our chartered Accountant said that It

was a mistake, ("Someone added a zero someplace.") and when I wrote the August newsletter
1 was trying to forget it. Shortly afterward, I got a second notice from the Revenue
officials wondering why I had not paid the tax. The Chartered Accountant now assures me
that he has gotten the zero erased although the erasing cost us $15. Indications are that
it was our Chartered Accountant who made the mistake.

My dear old

friend

and ardent

supporter Mrs. Newel 1 Rlchey

of Osgood, Indiana, has

left for her heavenly abode. Full of years, she was a very lovng soul who helped
people. Her memory will be cherished by many friends for many years to come.

many

For the second year, I am serving as unofficial chaplain at the Mary A. Merriman Girls
School in Kanpur. The school is this year
celebrating Its centennary and it has
fallen my lot to write up the history and publish a small brochure.
During September, I preached for the first time in the State of Maharastra (Bombay),
and in January, I am invited to make my first preaching visit to the state of Bihar. If
the Lord tarries, I may eventually get around.

CONTRIBUTIONS

EXeENDITURES

JuheiJliiy August, 1980

HOME CHURCH AND AREA:
Clinton Church

from July 4th to September I8th, I98O

$685.00

Dally Vacation Bible School

Orrvllle Loyal Bereans
Mrs. Walter Handwerk

Mrs. Madgalene Bowen

Mrs. Robert Meade

188.06
30.00
MiO.OO
90.00
10.00

Mr. Mrs.Walter Swigart

101.00

Mr. Mrs. P.M. Hawkins

OTHER OHIO DONORS:
Mrs. Nathan Black

25.00

Bladensburg Loyal Daughters

10.00
50.00
80.00
80.00

Sebring Church of Christ

10.00

Linden Homebullders
Linden Church of Christ
Linden Homebullders

50.00
330.00
75.00
35.00
60.00

Frances NIckerson

Branch Hill Church of Christ

Miss Jean E. Deem

2.00

Miss Dorothy Schmale

60.00

NEIGHBORING STATES

Frank Reas, Indiana

Stanley Vincent
Portland Singles Doubles
Refund from KIrkbrlde Bible Co.
Mrs.

Lucretia Nicholson

W.M.S.G.,Follansbee, W.Va.
East Union, Ky.

Pa.

50.00
30.00
115.00
51.52
50.00
20.00

37.^5
53.33

OTHER EASTERN STATES

Flora First Christian, ill.

Capital City Church, N.C.

50.00
350.75

-W&ST-OF THE M SSI SS I PP h

Neeper Church, Mo.

Liberty S.C. Classes
Wapato Church, Wash.

82.90

Ml SS Nel1i e Copley
Mrs. Loretta Huntlngton,Iowa

40.00
50.00

TOTAL CONTRIBUTED

60.00

85.00

$3252.01

We do so very much appreciate each and

every gift both large and small and also
the gift of time and postage contributed

by our forwarding agent of twenty-six yrs.

Miss Florence Douglas
1111 M. Main St.

Joplin, Mo. 64801, U.S.A.

2910.00

26.32

Edith Das (student)

9.21

Extra for medical

8.03

Books for ministerial student

12.11

Committee expenses (secretary)

5.92

Sat Tal Ashram

18.32

Miscellaneous benevolence

Mr. Mrs. F.E.Dusenberry

Oak Grove Church of Christ,

the Kanpur Mission

Funeral of cook's mother

15.00

Mr. Mrs. Eugene Close

Old Stone Missionary

Mrs.

Salary, three months

$(S00.00
Budgeted and audited expenses of

12.76

TOTAL EXPENDED

$3602.67

SUMMARY

Balance on July 4, I98O

$639.38

Contributions

3252.01

Total Receipts
Less Expenditures
Balance on September 18, I98O

3891.39
3602.67
288.72

PERFECTION

Does anyone here believe in perfection?

All of us are usually striving for per
fection in something or other. Athletes
strive for perfection in sports,musicians
in the playing of their instruments, sec
retaries in their typing and shorthand,In
vestors In playing the stock market,nurses
in their nursing, teachers in their teach-,
ing and preachers in their preaching, and
ladies in their housekeeping. You name It,
the striving for perfection Is there.
Others become perfect In evil; perfect
liars, perfect thieves, perfect brutes,
perfect addicts and perfect in seduction.
V/hy then should we think that perfection
-+nholTnessTShnpos^ible? Or whyshould-Wfr
get discouraged and "give" up when we are
slow to measure up to Christ?
In

all other things

we know that

road to perfection Is a long and hard

the

one,

and we know that perfectionists make mis

takes. Champions do not always win and vir
tuosos in becoming exact lose their feelr
ing. Even in the perfect house a little

dust may sometimes be observed, or maybe a

chair out of place. With our striving for
perfection let us mix a little patience.
Believe it or not, the striving for jjerfection in spiritual
things is
really,
easier than in physical things because In
the spiritual things God lives in us to
help us.

Please don't hand

me

that

old

excuse, "It can't be done."

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DECEMBER. I98O

1'

WHAT A YEAR

THIS WAS!

As 1980 draws very quickly to a close, I would say that it has been a very good year for
us here in the Lord's work in India. It has been an exciting year filled with many new
and interesting experiences and a little danger too. My path led through the riot-torn
areas of Assam and Moradabad. I vjas thoroughly drenched in a hurricane and Kanpur suf
fered from a very devastating rainy season. On the other side of the coin, I was much re
freshed by the peacefulness of the mountains and the luxuries of Bombay.
The tragic death of Sanjai Gandhi brought a fundamental change in Indian politics but I
would not know whether for better or for worse. There have been some improvements since
Mrs. Gandhi's return to office but some other things are not going so well. She no doubt
misses Sanjai very much because he was her principal advisor.
A twin-trip I took in October also brought some new experiences.

Station I thought the coolie had put my

while he must have thought that

At the Haldwani Bus

bedding on the luggage carrier on top of the bus

I had taken

it inside

the bus.

One hundred miles later

when I reached my destination, I found that my bedding was gone.

Everyone thought that it

was gone forever but it was only necessary for me to return to Haldwani

and prove that it

was mine.

In the meantime I had to rent some bedding For one night.

thy that even I

up in one of my
did not get the
By the second

This turned out to be so fil

had to shudder. I managed to get through the night by wrapping the pillow
shirts and by sleeping with my clothes on. Happily nothing bit me and I
itch. Only the noise of traffic disturbed my sleep.
night I bought a sheet and a shawl an^^hariged" "my TbTlg^
For the first

time in my life I staye.d-m '^a vl.llage inn where (Ijbaid 25c for a room' a^ bed (but no

bedding, and for ^noiher 25i ' ,95>t all

Iwanted toecrr^"^%U'fe-=fehr-e-j-^was'-Tfo elect rici ty in

the room and the sanifatidn Wasrudimentary. Neverthless I was very happy for the exper
ience and the innkeeper was happy to have a Christian among his guests.
The trains were very crowded and tv/ice the only way I could get on a train was to sneak
into a reserved coach even though 1 had no reservation. Hundreds were riding and even
sleeping on the roofs of the trains and there were stories of people falling off and being
killed. At every station there was always a hard struggle between those wanting to get
off the train and those wanting to get on. At Lucknow I got caught in a bad crush when I
wanted to get off the train and my left leg slipped off the

platform and under the train.

My leg escaped with minor scratches but my pant leg was a mess. This trip also featured a
wild bus ride with a reckless driver hurtling down a dark and treacherous road. Several
times I was bounced so high that I thought my back must be broken. If you want thrills,
I know where the action is.

I will now be gone from Kanpur for the

last

half

of

December. For a week I will be morning Bible teacher

is 250 miles to the northeast.
After that I will go
border where I will spend three days at the home of
Bible Bhavan. On the way home I will make my annual
Memorial School near Faizabad.

After

four

days at

November

and

the first half of

at a convention in Gorakhpur which

fifty miles further on to the state
one of the boys who stays here at
winter visit to the James Harvey

home, I will

Kulpahar where I will teach a concentrated course In the Book of

leave for two weeks at

Acts.

I have been invi

ted to spend Christmas at Maudaha-Ragaul as I did last year.

There is nothing new or particularly interesting to report about the boys staying here
at Bible Bhavan. Everyone is busy and behaving well. The three smaller boys are staying
together in the room above the garage and only the Nepali boy is not gaining height. One
Kulpahar boy is

staying here while

taking a secretarial

course.

Hari the cook was sick

for more than a month but the temporary arrangements were very satisfactory.
The children at Raleigh, North Carolina, have given me the price of a portable

type

writer which I will buy when I come to the U.S. in November, 1981.
Our prodigal boy, Sunil DeSilva, studying at the Nave Technical Institute, has shown
remarkable improvement in both deportment and grades. He assures me that he has left
"that woman" forever and that he is dedicated

to the Bible and

to Christ.

This has made

me very happy and made me think that maybe I have done something right for once. I met
much opposition in my decision to keep the boy in school. I also did not consider him
worthy of continued support but I felt we v/ere obligated to complete what we had begun.
It seems to me that during this past year I have felt more than ever the Lord's help,
guidance, Joy, peace and power. Sometimes it has seemed that the Lord was my personal
secretary

as He prepared the path

you, Holy Spi ri t.

before me.

Thank you. Father; thank,you, Jesus; thank

CONTRIBUTIONS

SUMMARY

Balance on September 18, I98O

September and October, I98O

Total Receipts
Less Expenditures

HOME CHURCH AND AREA

C1 inton Church

$A50.00

Orrville Loyal Bereans

10.00

lifO.OO

Mr. Walter Swiqart

56.00

200.68

THE BLACK VEIL

Among his Twice Told Tales (1837), Nath

aniel Hawthorne tells us of a New England
person who from the age of 30 always wore a

OTHER OHIO DONORS

Mrs.Madgalene Bowen

60.00
50.00

Miss Betty Deem

Nathan Black

10.00

Sebring Church
Branch Hill

Balance on November ^,1980

10.GO

Mrs.Robert Meade
Mrs. Walter Handwerk

Mrs.

$288.72
2h3Q.2]
2718.93
2518.25

Contributions

15.00
60.00

Church

Bladensburg Loyal Daughters

20.00

NEIGHBORING STATES

Mr.Stanley Vincent,Indiana

20.00

New Ross Christian Church

3^0.00

Mrs.Louise B.Rambo,Penna.

50.00
75.00
25.00

Oak Grove Church

Katherlne G.Hardin,Kentucky
OTHER EASTERN STATES

black veil

over

his

face.

How horrible!

It reminds me of a difficult Bible pass

age, 11 Corinthians 3'12-l8, in which Paul
teaches us a lesson from the veil of Moses.
Paul said that this same veil
still covers
the hearts of the Israelites,

It was probably inevitable that evern dur

ing the days of the apostles, Christian
believers also began to move behind that
veil. That veil is made of worldllness,
pride, prejudice, traditions, greed
and
over-confidence.
It all leads to our being
unteachable and unreachable.

Capital City Church, N.Car.

266.fiy
9^.09

D.V.B.S.

Embreeville Churcl?, Tenn.

Flora First Christian, 111nois
Mr. S Mrs. John Ogle:;by

180.00
130.00
10.00

WEST OF THE MISSISSIPPI

First Church of Christ Mission

Like the Israelites we have become great

legalists.
Whether it is the American
government or the local church, we like to
make more and more rules; but more and more
all of us, make life impossibly complicated
and run contrary to the grace of God.
This veil is taken away when we repent

Mason City, Iowa

Mrs. Loretta Huntington

100.00

Neeper Church, Missouri

13.25

that

Liberty Church Sunday School

Eleanor Miller, V/ashington
Wapato Church

65.00

The curtain is thus rung up and

begin to enjoy the drama of God.

20.00

100,00

50.00

$2if30.21

TOTAL CONTRIBUTED

EXPpJDITURES
September 18th through November hi h,

and turn to Christ.

That

is when we decide

that we need only one rule in our lives and

rule is to

walk

in the

will

of God.

we

can

As long as we wear ch"e veil

our radiance
vn 11 decrease day by day; but when we turn
to Christ and we begin to look on Him, our
radiance will increase day by day as we be
come

transformed

Into

the

likeness

of

Chri St.

Salary, two months

Budgeted and audited expenses of
the Kanpur Mission
Directory of the Ministry
Col 1ege Press
Sunil DeSilva (student)
Edith Das (student)
Union Mission School Centenary
Sat Tal Ashram
Other Benevolence

$^00.00
900 .00
22

Do you want to be like Hav/thorne's parson

whose veiled face was laid in the grave and
rotted there? Or would you rather have life
freedom and glory? The choice is yours.

II .10

72
9 .21
86 .Sh

MY FORWARDING AGENT

Miss Florence Douglass

1111

$25W .25

TOTAL EXPENDED

No.

Ma i n

St.

Joplin, Mo. 64801

Please notify us if you have a change of

address.

Thanks!

FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST

NON-PROFIT ORG

2545 West Comet Rd.

C1inton, Ohio 44216

U.S. Postage
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CLINTON,
"HARTER THROBS"

OHIO

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