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^ A V A ^CHURgfT^ CfÎST MISSION w 'fn JAN 10 1955P .O . BOX 1727Windhoek , SWA

Dear Chriatlan FV le nda ; ' 1s t . January, 1955We wish to thank each one of you for your many prayers for , andyour continued support of the work of the Lord here in Africa duringthis past year. V/e have enjoyed hearing personally from many of youTYour l e t t e r s have always "been a joy to receive since we have so l i t t l e

r e a l con tac t with european f r i ends here ;Severa l parce ls arr ived in time fo r Ghriatmas making i t a joyfuloccasion, especially for the î r l s . They love above a l l else , openine anewly a r rWed pa rc e l . The Christmas program fo r the mission was heldônSunday night immediately after Ghristmai. This happened to be a verystormy evening which made the group somewhat smal le r than we had expected , yet there were over twenty presen t . Brother Qwemesha presented themessage of the evening in Afrikaans for ua and i t was erreatly appreci a t ed by those p re sen t .Brothe r Qwemesha only rece ived h is permi t s to come to SouthWest Afric a v ery short ly before i t was time to depart from Klmberleyfor here, so we did not learn of his arrival unti l the day before he"was he re . He arr ived here very ear ly on the 23rd of December a f te r having spent three days and nights on a very alow t r a i n . His t r a in waswhat la called a "mixed train" here, that is i t bad both freight andDaaaenser ca rs . He began v/ork immediate ly and helped me prepare the*Gospel Lights for the mail most of the day and ^hat evening dis t r ibuted t rac t s to the people as they re turned home from work.Each a f t e rnoon t h i s week we have had c la s se s fo r the ch i l d r e n .These clasaea have been very aim llar to D.Y,b,3 . at home. The f i r s t

period la assembly, during which we sing famil iar choruses and I teacha l e s son us ing the f l anne lboard . Brother Nick in te r iore ts fo r th is le ssen. He then teaches a class in Afrikaans, af te r which we have a handwork class and f inal ly a re-assembly and dismissal .At eight o:clock, or as soon thereafter as possible v the eveninste'/angelistic services comm.ence. The people are usually very slow inarriving so i t la invariably eight thirty or later by the time we actually are able to s ta r t . This does not allow a very long period for themeeting i tself aa brother Qwemesha understanfebly enough, wishes to be"on the location by the time curfew s tar t s . This is nine ojclock. He isusually of necessity, a few minutes l a te . He has been preachins a verygood se lec t ion of aermons at the meetima and they have in f?eneral,been quite ve i l rece ived by those presen t . We have found durinc thef i r s t week however that the attendance, is very unrel iable; One'^nightthere wil l be a very encouraging group, then the next i t la ao low aa

to be very discouraging. Do continue to pray for these people that thevmay be brought to see ^heir very r ea l need of sa lva t ion. Most of themhave been sprinkled as infants and do not aee anymore that they needeven so much aa to attend church, le t alone be Scripfcurally bapt lzedl 'They simply can not seem to grasp that Christ ianity la a way of l i feand not Jus t something you once "join" then fo r s e t . To date even brother Nick has not been able to persuade any adults to attend the services. The majority of those 'attending have been teen-age young people".We personally had found this to be our problem, but had fervently hoped and prayed that he,being of their own race ,and speaking in theirl anguage , could reach them be t t e r .

The Gospel continues to reach out to other par ts of Africathrough the lessons-by-mail . We nov7 have over seven-hundredenrolled in this phase of the work. One interesting fact is that nearlyone hundred-f i f ty of them are from a small I50 mile radius ci rc le insouthe rn Niger ia and Gold Coast 1 The ind ica t ions are t ha t th is shouldbe an ideal place for nevr missionary recrui ts coming to Africa, to planto 50. We know of no one planning to q:o to this area, but do susccest'i t as an area for which Chris t ian brethren should pray.

God bless you a 111Yot^ I^y.s3ionary to Africa",R o b e r t S. Mills


2/19

CHURCH^OF^CHRIST^MISaiON KB 8 1955V/lndhoek, SV7A

Dear Christian Prlends; 1st . February, 1955, I am sure tha t you are a l l in te re s ted in hearin^: of the conclusion of tne recent evanrrelistic meeting. Bro ther Qwemesha, our evanc?-

e l i s t from the Kimberley Preacher Training School, worked very hardtalking with the various people. He distributed many tracts and invitedmany people to come to the s e rv i c e s , bu t few came to hear the exce l l en tae r i e s o f sermons which he preached in Afr ikaans . Those who d id a t t endwere not the youth v^hich had p reviou sly a tt ended wel l , but ra ther a^roup which had shown by the ir a tti tu de many times that they came onlyto be i n t e r t a ined . Those whom we considered to be prospects , deserted usen t i re ly duri r^ the meetincf and are Just now a few of them beffinnincr toreturn. ^ ^ I t has been ve ry d is cour as in f? to see the neople l i t e r a l l y tu rn adeaf ear to the preacning of the gospel of our Lord Jesus Chr is t . I tt ru ly seems tha t Paul*s exhortat ion to Timothy of the things to come, ishere come to pass. (II Tim.othy 3 II Timothy 4:3,4 "?or the time willcome when they wi l l not endure sound doctr ine; out af ter the i r own lustss h a l l they heap unto themselves t eache r s , having I t ch ing ea r s ; and theys ha l l tu rn away t h e i r ea r s from the t r u th , and s ha l l be tu rned unto fables . " Only to fables, wil l they l is ten ' .

The work by ma il c on tin ue s to rece ive many b le s s ings , and to growvery rap id ly . 'A^e now have 770 addresses in a l l . Many of these are doinccthe i r lessons very fa i th fu l ly and fo r ty -s ix have already completed the i rv/ork. The f i r s t of our s tudents des i r i ng to go f a r the r than we can teachthem by pos t , have en ro l l ed th i s term a t the K imberley Preacher TrainingSchool , where they wi l l be cont inuing t he i r s tud ies under the able guidance of brother Stanley and h is teachers . Do pray fo r them. V/e have rece ived many hear t warminsc l e t t e r s in our mai l these pas t few weeks. Iv.'ould l ike to share pa r t s of some of them with you. The f i r s t i s from anIndian young man in Durban. There are many Ind ians In Afr i ca .

"Many thanks for your monthly "G-ospel Liaht" . I t is very in teres t ingto read. The reading of the G-ospel Ligh^" has already helped n-eW-prepare a sermon and preach it."

Martin J o h n - Du r b a n" l had been in darkness, but since I started corresponding with theChurch of Chr is t Mission X found tha t the darkness is fa s t disappearing away." Joseph Moganet s i -Hustenburg"Sir , your papers are vjorthy indeed and you offer them free, whichshows your kindness. I read them with a l l my hear t ."Joseph Mklze - Kimberley"S i r , I have t r i ed very hard to organize the Church of Christ here inBloemfonteln I hope S i r , the Church of Chri s t wi l l r ea l l y beorganized by those who wish to follow His commandments and obey Hisi n s t r u c t i o n s . G-od wi l l b le s s us a l l . " Harry Rampai - BloemfontelnThese are only a few of the f i r s t l e t t e r s of the new yea r , but they areenough to br ing Joy in to our hea r t s and l i g h t i n to an otherwise d i scouraging per iod . They each have received a personal answer. Our f r iend atBloemfon t e ln has been pu t i n t o con t a c t with those near him who w i l l be

ab le to he l p him In h is hope s . We have s e v e r a l s t ud en t s in Bloemfon te lnwho can be direcrfced to the church when the Lord prov ides and d i r e c t s .

'fe received a great help in the mailing of the "aospel Lights"t h i s month, when bro ther Edgar Nichol s, m i ss iona ry to Hawaii , donated usa smal l used address ing machine which he no longer needs . Non-Kuropeannames and addre sse s are f a r from s imp le , e spec i a l l y when done on the typewriter e a c h mon t h !

G-od b l e s s you all. Yours in Ch r i s t ,Your Miss iona ry to Afr i ca

Ro b e r t Mills


3/19

SHURCH ef CHRIST MISSION-I ' .O. BOX 1727V^lndhoek, SWA - rcV . , .0 1 Farch, 1955De a r Christian Frie

I t is our great pleasure to announce to you the arr ival ofa new daughter in our home. She was born early on the morning ofFebruary 24th, and weighed 8 lb . 4 oz. at birth. We have named herDonna May. Both mother and daughter are doing very well and the restof the family are looking forward to their soon returning home fromthe hosp i t a l to be with u s .As you know, for many months we have been experiencing dif-ficultiea with the work locally while that part which is done^bymail has prospered and grown beyond our fondest hopes. This s i tua t ionhas been much on our thoughts and prayers for several months, so weconducted an evangelistic meetincc late last year with a view toreally discovering what hope there is for the loca l phase of the v;_ork.Brother Nick's calling and teaching on the location revealed verythat there is l i t t le hope of reaching: these people now, esp

ecial ly as i t is necessary to have the meeting place off the locationand to use a European evangelist. The people are not enough interestedin the Lord's vrord to make the additional effort needed to walk a fewhundred yards to hear, or even for that matter to attend the otherchurches in their very midet on the location. During and since theunderstand vîthout any doubt our stand and turnedtheir backs on the teachir^ of the Gospel by not attending'. This s ituation has not improved with the passing of time,

a f t e r much p raye r , we have dec ided to ac -S standir^ offer to teach at the Preacher Training School inKimberley for a period, while we investicrate areas which the responseto the correspondence work shows to be vitally interested. Do nrav fovûs while we make these investigations. One area we are especiallyin te re sted in investigating has nearly one-hundred students in an areaniiles radius I I t is also the very hub of the postal^yatem of southern Africa and would give us the very best postal service for the remainder of the students that could possibly be obtained.

re q ue s ts fo r a new church in the area and soê2 students are at work toward that end. Such a move will make i tfor the first time, possible for us to contact personally many of ourstudents by mail, and we are easterly lookincs forward to i t as a creatforward s tep in the Lord's work^ gr ta iTV'p-ini IS teaching at the Preacherraining School V7ith the start of the new term, immediately after:âster and the annual conference of the South African Mission at whichI have been invited to deliver one of the raessasea. To this end, weplan to move temporarily to Kimberley tovârd the end of March.

con t inues to p ro sp er n rre at lv . There are nowfile nearly 850 addresses. Many of the studentsare now sending thenames of their friends who have seen their papers or lessons andâlso^ông these people there are very few New TestamentChriatiana. there are Catholics, nearly all thFde nominat loMfmanynative cults, and simple paccans represented. One recent

letter came f^'om a man representing a^group practicinc: polycramy. Hisgroup was searching for a mission which did not consider the matter ofKia person had of importance and would sponsor them!n S several v/ives was that they could not affordarm labor and thus used their wives to work on the farm. He askedfor the course on Bible Doctrines. It was sent with Dleaaure as wpHquest ions . Such a s i tua t ion is far 'more common than we would like to believe, especially in the more remote parts

God bless you a l l .Your's in the Master's Service,Yoi^ Missiojnary to Africa,


4/19

/\PR 8 W55CHURCH OF CHRIST MISSION

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Be a r 0 h :11 i a71' i'3 nd^i,We have "buoi'i exc;cpi"iioi;:3'!.lv' buGy "ohlo f:]ov\i}h in making a l lthe f ina l prepare Gions and 1'-. :uOviri


5/19

CHURCH OF CHRIST MISSION ,fa 3 Lake Road

Eimber l ey , S . Afr ica

2nd , May, 1955Dea r Christian Friende:

This has been a month of adjuat ing to new work in addi t ionto cont inuing the o ld . I am novj commencins the four th week ofteaching in "the Kimberley preacher training school for native mini s t e r s . I t each tv7o sub j e c t s , Homile t ics and The G-ospel accordingto John, These are the f i r s t tv/o c lasses of the day and coinmence"a t 7j20 in the morninc , Follbvj inj these tvro c l a s se s , I re tu rn tomy s tudy and t r y to catch up with the inf low of l e ssons and new-.-rg~quests_-f-Qr-..lesgo.ns . ..One recent po s t a l de l i ve ry brought 30 newrequests I i have never been completely caught up since our move toKimberley, par t ly due to conference, and par t ly because my dupl ica tor V7as severa l weeks in arr iv ing f rom Windhoek. We now have1085 enrolled, and the enrollments are s t i l l coming in every post .We do rejoice for them, but we often v;onder just how we are TOingto be able to adequately care for them.

Many of the newer enrol lments are coming from the r>old.Coas t and Niger i a . We r e j o i ce fo r th i s in t ha t v/e are anx ious lvlooking forward to the tune when v.'e sha l l be able to supply theirnames and addresses to Brother G-oldsberry and h is .^ood wife , whohave answered our plea for vrorkmen for tha t a rea . Do keeo them inyour praye rs t ha t t h e i r r ecen t app l i c a t i on fo r v i s ae s w i l l bepromptly approved. They are badly needed. The number o f co ntac tswhich we have in those two countr ies has in cre ase d so rapidly thepas t few weeks t ha t we have l o s t a l l count , but it now numbers inthe hundreds . . _ _

We have a t t ended and t aken par t in the vrorship a t s eve r a ld i f f e r en t churches th i s month, among them being the church in theKimberley loca t ion, the church at Greenpoint . the Chinese church,European se rv ic e s in the Stan leys home, se rv i ces on one of thef a rms , and s e rv i c e s a t the con fe rence .F r s M ill s a t t e nd s women ' smeetings vjith Mrs Stanley at G-reenpoint. One of the highlights ofthe month v/as the openino: of the new chu rc h buil di nc f a t Hopetcivnjus t before the conference began a t Douglas.At the time being, we are still l iv ing in the home- of the

Stanley ' s , but vre are certainly hopeful that before our next le tter, we s h a l l be in our ovm home We have found, a sma l l two bedroomhouse at 13 Lake Road which vje hope to be able to occupy in abouttv7o weeks or l e s s . I t i s not so co nv en ie nt an house as the one herebut we she l l be happy to be se t t l ed in our home accain. There areseveral good things in i t s favor among v/hich is a'nice variety ofthriving young f ru i t t rees , and an excellent lawn and ^^arden. Theseare the th ings which we most missed in V^"indhoek.The chil dr en , e sp ecia lly Kathy and Ruth Kllen, are t h r i lled with Kimberley'. Here for the f i r s t time, they have playmates.Larry Stanley is about their age and they have a great time to-::-ether even though they do often end up in violent disa^treement,especia l ly over h is toys . Our immediate neithbors in our new homewill be basically Afrikaans speaking , but there are several En^-'llsh speaking fdmilies in the same block including the Stanley's.Do continue to pray for us, and especial ly for our studentsover Africa, ''.'"e need your prayers always.

Yours in C h r is t ,Your Miss iona ry to Afr ica

R o b e r t S. Mills

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6/19

0-iUHGH OF CT-IHIST FISSION1 3 Lake R o a dKimberley,C .P^jS , A f r i c a

Dear C h r i s t i a n Friends;1 s t . J u n e , 1955

//e are happy to be able to say that we are once a^raini n our own home. I t was only about the middle of the montB thatwe were able to complete the transactions and to take posesslonof the house at 13 Lake Road here in Kimberley. It has beendecided that we shal l remain permanently here at Kimberley andconduct the correspondence lessons from here. Our home is onlyfive doors down the street from the Stanley's and is on the nextblock over from the Killiam Rees ^ so we are looking forvjard toChristian fellowship which we have loncs not been able to enjov.Forthe f i r s t time since we l e f t v;^indhoek, I able to unoack '\riy supplies and do the lessons with some degree of convenience.The house has a dining? room which we have chosen to use as ano f f i c e a t l e a s t f o r the time beinjz. ' c

T h e convenience of an office in the house is especiallyappreointed in vievj of the fact that I am teochinnr every v/eekday in the preacher t raining school, serving as the "to-between"between the ministers and the railways for cheaper travel rates,f'^ct t h a t we have nearly 1200people to keep track of in regards to the lessons-by-post, rcnymore of these students are nov; askinor ouestions when thev writeme p e r s o n a l l y and t h i s r e q u i r e s considerable research i n a d d i t -ion^to extra letter writing. These days I seen to be getting far

behind on this part of the work. The day ig just too shortdeveloped a regular schedule i n our work thesedays. On Sunday, we regularly attend the Chinese services. Vie..

:y:.ia'Z-poi-nt -e-nooursgeme n t , "eve n thoughd^uDk Us To teach one of the c l a s s e s , \ie are looking forward to trying to revive the work at the township of Floors herein Kimberley for the Coloureds as soon as brother Rees is ableto return to Africa# The Chinese Christians are eaccerly lookingforv/ard to his soon return. !Ixcept v;h n brother Stanley and I "n e a r - b y , we a t t e n d the c h u r c h s e rvices in the !,imberley location in the afternoon and then the

European services in the Stanleyhome in the evening'.Last Sunday, we attended church at one of the near-bvchurches, i t is one of the older churches ')f the Church of Christ

con'xre'?ation is certainlv in o-p nbuilding. Their church house is built of sun-baked mud bricksplastered over with e nixture of mud and manure.. i? Poved v.'ith this mijrture ^^hich na 'e a ^Gnc,'^n-able susstitute for cement. The difficulty is that thl walls"^hAyebegun to pull apart so that two of them lean sharply outward. r:ndtnere are wide cracks i n some of the nofnpr


7/19

TH^ CHURCH OF CHRIST MISSION13 Lake Roaa AUG 10 t955Kimberley, S . Africa3 t 1955

Dear Ch r is ti an ? r i en d a ;The new t e rm o f t h e P r e a c h e r Tra i n i n a - S ch o o l h a scommenced and i s now wel l in to progress . There ere f ive enrol led

in the day c l a s se s as f u l l t ime s t uden t s , bu t the c l a s s e s whichI am t eaching are in the evening th i s term and we have seve ra ll o c a l people en ro l l ed . Thi r t een s t a r t ed the teriHj Inc lud ing thei n t e r p r e t e r , but of the t h i r t e e n , two have not at tended wel l , soi t appears tha t only ten or twelve wi l l complete the t e rm. 1 amteaching "The Life of Christ according to Mark", and "SermonBulldins" this term as well as a short class in "How to Study. ' '

The Kimberley Hunlcipallty did not approve the f i r s t planspresented fo r the addi t ions to the school bu i l d ing , so these havebeen re-draif/n for presen ta t ion l a t e r . I do not bel ieve tha t theMission wi l l plan to build on the school novi, a t leas t for thetime being, '"fe are being much more urgently pressed in the matterof building church buildings and these sha l l have to come f i r s t .They simply can not be de layed .

'.fe now have more than 1450 people who have en ro lled inthe l essona-by-mai l. Natura lly among these are included about ahundred who have completed a l l the i r th i r ty lessons and now onlyReceive our oaper, "The (Jospel Light." There are on the otherhand s eve r a l v^ho have not con t inued to comple te t h e i r l e s s ons .They also will receive the paper unt i l they move and we- lose theiraddress un-avoidably. Ey far the greater number are fa i thfu l students who continue to complete the i r lessons. There are severa lhundreds of these and they keep us very busy grading thei r papersand trying to find the time to answer their personal questionsand l e t t e r s . The questions are the one thing which real ly takestime to do. They often must be delayed, for weeks at a t ime. Doriiewill ask as nany as twenty questions in one let ter I

Our health has Improved somevfhat this past month at lese t .Only Mrs Mills is s t i l l attending the Doctor. The rest of us area b o u t ou r wo r k a s usual. - - - - --

We rejoice with the church in the '^reenpoint locaticohere in I^imberley. They had formerly been meeting in the tinyhoiie of the elderly retired minister of that church. Hl l iv\n"room could not measure more than ten fee t by tv.'elve f e e t , yetthe entire ^roup of oerhops some tv^enty-five or more people metthere for Bible School (two c lasses) , Church Serv ices , and inthe middle of the week fo r Women's Meeting. This week they wi l lmeet for the f i r s t time in a regular church building. They haverented the old church hal l belonging to one of the other churchTroups in that location, and will from nov: on be able to have ^^hei r meetin'cs t he r e . I t is a "xreat forv.'ard s tep fo r them end iscertain to have a great Influence on the growth of the church.

Do keep our '^lood Christ ian people here ever in your prciyersPray too for those wfio have not yet seen the light of the 3ospel,but shall be brought to the Lord Jesus through His precious ;^,-^rd.Their temptat ions and the i r t r i a l s are many. They need our pruy^rs .Your s i n H is Se rv i ce

R obe r t


8/19

South West AfricanM. e s s e n g e rVOLUME 11 AUGUST 1955 NUMBER 4

THE PREACHER TRAINING SCHOOLThis was the first class which I had the opportunity of helping to teach

in the preacher training school at Kimberley. Pictured above are the ninestudents and two teachers who began the term. Brother Qwemesha, immediately to the right of Brother Stanley, as well as being a student, alsotaught a class in Personal Evangelism. I taught two classes, Homiletics,and The Life of Christ from John. Two of our students did not get to finishthe term, they both dropped out for personal reasons early in the term andthe remaining seven all completed the work.

My classes were the first two in the morning. They started at 7:20 andclosed at 9:00. My purpose in taking the first two classes was to leavethe remainder of the day free for doing my correspondence in connectionwith the students by mail. This phase of the work is ever-growing and requires much time. During this coming term, I shall take the evening classeswhich meet from 6:00 to nearly 8:00. This term I am planning to teachHomiletics again and also the Book of Mark. We are looking forward togood term in the classroom for the Lord.


9/19

The New Mission HomeLAST ISSUE

Owing to the fact that we have moved fromSouth West Africa, this will be the last issue ofthe South V/est African. If you are now on ourmailing list, you will continue to receive the newsof our work in another news bulletin.

S o u t h W e s t A f r i c a nMESSENGERIF you would like to

receive the news o fthe work ofthe Mills' ,write to their forwarding agent.MISSIONARIES

ROBERT S , MILLSP HY LL IS M IL LS

13 Lake RoadKimberley, C. P.Sou th A fric a

Forwarding AgentandFinancial Secretary

M r s . M a b e l M i l l s3 0 9 E . D a n i e l S t .Champaign, Il l inoisjuy E. Daniel St. THE WORK GROWSC h a m p a i g n , I l l i n o i s We felt that the only way to show the growthproduced at and expansion of the correspondence work to vou

Mission Services i_ . .Joliet. Illinois opposite page is a mapshowing the many countries (14) which are beingtouched by this work. For each country, we have listed the number of students and people reading the GOSPEL LIGHT that we have there. Thisfigure was as of the first.of July and of course will not be accurate by thetime that this issue of the South VJest African Messenger can go to press,but it will give you a good idea of the field being served. Only a fractionof these areas are now being preached the New Testament Gospel by anyother means than through this work. They must be reached! It was withgreat joy that we received the letter from the Goldsberrys of their hopesto enter into Nigeria. We have given them references from among our students, and one of them recently wrote me of his eagerness for the arrivalof the missionaries. As you can see, Nigeria is only second to SouthAfricain interest in the Gospel. The Gold Coast is only a short distance behind.It too should not be neglected. Many of these people are eager to learn,

but have no one to teach them.Only a casual glance at the figures on the opposite page will revealthe reason we have moved to Kimberley. South West Africa ranks last in

interest save for one request from French speaking Ivory Coast. Of thefive students from South West Africa, none are in the least promising. Itwas with much sorrow and regret that we came to the obvious conclusionthat there was little we could do in Windhoek, but the Lord has shown thewisdom of our move in His great blessings since. In Kimberley, we canhelp with the Preacher Training School as well as do the work by mail.For the work by mail, we have a much better postal service, and we aremuch more centrally located in respect to the people we serve.


10/19

NUMBER OF STUDENTS(July 1, 1955)1 South Africa - 5372 Nigeria - 2753 Gold Coast - 2124 S. Rhodesia - 1315 N. Rhodesia - 556 Nyasaiand - 547 Basutoland - 208 Kenya - 189 Swaziland - 1910 Uganda - 1511 Tanganyika - 912 Bechuanaland - 613 S. W. Africa - 514 Ivory Coast 11357'


11/19

GLEANINGS FROM THE MAIL BAGWe rejoice for the many letters which continue to come to us as a result of the correspondence courses and the Gospel Light. Here are a few

of the more recent ones .Youwill be pleased to know that this Lord's day afternoon, I baptizedL. N. who has done your Bible study courses.

F. M.N. Rhodes i a

Brother Stanley introduced me to Brother M. of Lamontville near Durban sohe baptized me on the 6th of February. I hope you shall tell BrotherStanley about the news. I beg to remain yours faithfully.A. R. R.Umkoomas, S. A.

Many thanks for your monthly Gospel Light. It is very interesting toread. The reading of the Gospel Light has already helped me to preparea sermon and preach it.

M. J.Durban, S. A.I had been in darkness, but since I started corresponding with theChurch ofChristMissionlfound that the darkness is fast disappearing away.

J. M.Rustenburg, S. A.Sir, I have tried very hard to organize the Church of Christ here inBloemfontein... .1 hope sir, the Church ofChrist will really be organizedby those who wish to follow His commandments and obey His instructions.

God will bless us all .H. R.Bloemfontein, S. A.

These are but a few of the letters we receive, but they do serve toshow that theGospel is reaching out and the Light isgoing into the heartsof people where there had before been only darkness. The mails are trulycarrying light into the dark hearts of many African men and women.S. W. Africa Church of Christ Mission Sec. 34.65(e) P. L. & R.Mrs. Mabel Mills, Forwarding Agent U. S. POSTAGE309 E. Daniel St., Champaign, Illinois PAID

Champaign, Ill inoisPermi t Number 80

POSTMASTER: If undeliverable for any reason, notify tenderstating reason on form 3547, posuge for which is guaranteed


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SPP Q ,CHURCH OF CHRIST MISSION ^ i96S13 Lake RoadKiraber ley , 3 . Afr i ca

2nd . Sep t . 1955

De a r Christian Frienda:

We do re jo ice in th i s month's very ôod newa tha tb ro the r and a i a t e r G-oldaberry have been ab le to en te r Niger iaae mlBs iona r l ea . Some months ao , when it first became appa ren tthat Nigeriawas responaing well to the correspondence lessons,we p r e s e n t e d th e need f o r mi s s i o n a r i e s t o cro t h e r e t o wo r k . The j -o ldsbe r r i ea answered t h i s p l e a and aiade immediate app l i c a t i o nfor visaes, SoiTie o f ou r students acted a a references for t h e s eapp l i c a t i o n s and l a t e r one of them met them a t th e a i r po r t v;hcnthey ac tua l ly a r r i ved on the f i e l d . I have only very r e cen t lyair-mailed them all th e names and a d d r e s s e s o f o u r contactsthe re so they can use them in t h e i r work . v;g r e jo i c e t h a t Iwas able to supply around th t'^ e hundred addresses in Niger iaalone. Oo nray with us for them as they enter into the Lord'sl a bo r in Nige r i a .

't'e ask your orayers a l so fo r the people of the count ryof ôld Coast t ha t they too may soon have t h e i r own miss ionary ,fve have near ly as many con tac t s in the t iny count ry of thej-old Coast as there are in Niger ia and th e i r in te re st i s j u s tas Tre a t . A : i l sBionary could do much fo r them.

This Lord's Day wi l l be the f i r s t week that we sha l lhave tlie iWopeW"V?orsVrrtr"9-cTYl"ces--hirre in our home. The S t a n - - -l e y s , in whose home they hove been held in the pa s t , have jus tmoved t o a l e s s f av orab le a re a so we s h a l l meet h e r e , a t l e a s tf o r a v 'h i lG . I have i n s e r t e d th e u s u a l no t i c e i n th e Chu r chServ icea colum of the pa ro r to announcu the s e r v i c e s , and t h i sa f t - : r n o on am -o lann ina : to distribute a nnoun c emen t s and .tractsin our immediate neighborhood. Unfortunate ly the European people have been i n d i f f e r e n t to our se rv i ce s and I am hoping to beab le to a t t r a c t some o f them. This fa r those a t t end ing hsve beenchie f ly of the missionary fami l i e s , and soiie of the ch i ld ren .

Classes a t schoo l are ' progress ing v;el l t h i s t e rm, I amlookincf fo rward to hav ing abou t t e n oeople com olete the termin theêvening c lasses . The in terpreter is also doing a l l thevjork that the 's tudents are doing but as he has had the coursesbe fo re , he chose not to en ro ll th is term as an o f f i c i a l s tuden t .

Cn th e l a t e s t coun t , the number of con tac t s riade by thelessons-by-mai l and Gospel Light paper has reached about 1550Do pray for these people and for us that we might do the Lord'swork in a way p lea s ing to Him.

Your Miss ionary to Afr ica

Ro b e r t o Mills


13/19

!~ JGHUHCH OJ CKRI3T MISSION

D e a r Christian F r i e n d s

uf in iG i . 4ACV!13 Lake iôad qQT 31 ÎCimberley, 3 . Africa5 0 t h , Sep t . , 1955

Our school term came to a close t h i s month w ith ten ofthe *evening class complet in j the i r work. Four of them, i nc ludi nc r th etwo bes t s t uden t s , were v.'omen. These two are both much be t t e r educa ted than .Bost of the o the r s , so do have a (?reat advantage in t h i sp r e v i o u s e d u c a t i o n .

I t appears now t ha t "we are ôinft to have very proii lsin^term this coming class , though one can never be cer ta in how .lanywil l really attend unt i l they have been in cla sses for about a \\esk. ,Sone wil l cone la te , while others v;il l decide after they have '*s t a r t ed t h a t they d id not wish to come to s choo l a f t e r all.ve rade two t r ip s out of Kimberley th is pc&t month. ?h

firet waa to conduc t wor sh i p s e r v i c e s on one o f th e f a rms . Theses e r v i c ' s s were h e l d i n th e home o f one o f th e f a r a i laborers. To 'la ' icroom fo r the people to have a place to s i t In h is tiny hut , heplaced the bed outside and must have moved a se t t ing hen from hernes t as wel l , fo r she refused to recognize t ha t her nes t was aolonger in the co rne r of the house ôd made r ep ea te d a tte m pts toô back where it had been , i a ch time she came in dur ing the s e r v i c e s ,she was chases back ou t , once to the accompanyment of a grea tf lapp ing of wings . After church v/as dismissed , v.'e were grac iouc lyserved with a de l i c i ou s meal f ea tu r i ng f r i e d ch i cken . It was enoughto ns?ê one wonder, but no, she was still try ing to f ind her nes t i

The second t r i p we n-nde i n my c a r . This t r i p vjas fo r the-purpose of v i s i t i n g the churchea a t Camel , G-riquatown 2nd unknownto us when we l e f t , Smidsdr i f t. I t meant dr iv ing r.bout tv;o hundredand s ix ty miles over very dusty and v/ashboarded r oads , and in :grea t hur ry to âke the nex t place in t ime fo r church ,At the : : i ro ttv o p l ace s we were met bi?* a f u l l house . The people a t G- r iqua t cnwere e-ôecially heartwarming. After these t^-'o places, i t was ad iaaopo in t . nen t to a r r i ve a t S m i d s d r i f t on the nsîvG r e s e r v e , tof ind t ha t the peo'^le had been wai t ing a l l day and had re turned ho'';e .They had been to ld we would be t he re a t the v:rong t ime , ^:hen inr e a l i t y we had never planned to go t h e r e . Because the .leDpl^; onthe reserve do -appreciate our coming eo much, we promised thiu thatwe would come a-tain when th jy could arrange for our coming ^' i th uc .

This coming week S ro th er S ta nle y âd I , along with severa lAfr ican bre th r en from Kimber ley , w i l l go to ^ a s t London on thecoas t to a t t end the C on ference planning committee i ieet ing nnd to v '.e l ta number of the churches dov.'n tha t way. Immediate ly on our r e t u rn ,we s h a l l start th : nex t s ch o o l term fo r the p r e a che r s and C hr i s t i a nw o r k e r s * No d o u b t some o f th e "iien will come b a c k f r om t h e n e e t i n ^w i t h us to attend school.

'e were hapoy to receive a l e t t e r from Brother Gôldsberryt h a t they have been able to r en t a home in Yaba, IÛgeria and a l sonow h-7ve a permanent pos t a l add re s s . They h:ive rece ived the addresses v.'hich we ported then and f ind tha t there are about 68 of our_contactG near enough to the:.! to a ttend services with th5m i f th^y"nre i n t e r e s t ed . This should he lp xTnmenaely in th^ - s ta r ti-nft-of t hear "ork there, I a.ij devoting this issue of the "gospel Li^ht"^ toNiger ia to help them in ge t t ing es tab l i shed rod to announce t h^ i ra r r i v a l in t h a t coun t ry . You w i l l fin-^Q sample of t h i s i ssue enc losed with t h i s l e t t e - r , "ve hope you s h a l l enjoy re: jd lng it. 3o-i:day we hope to be ab l : to have it pr in ted proper ly but th i s --ouldadd coneiderable to th : cos t of sending it and we .iiake no chargefo r it to the Afr i cans r e ce i v i ng it.

Youra in th e : ^ a s t e r ' s3e rvioe


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f i 3 r:i:...1 *

O c t o b e r - N o v e m b e r

WHAT 13 WRON:? V.'ITK THS AFRICAN CH3;iSTlAH?3y - Roy G. Goldaberry

Yaba , Niger iaC-ALATIAN3 6 :8

"3e no t de c e i e v e d : G-od i s no tthat ' s ha l l he a lso reap . "

mocked: fo r whatsoever a man sowe th ,

In the above text the Holy Spiri t ia te l l inc ua a principle whichea'Ch of us has known for a lonj tifiie, /'e are a l l avjare that what seedwe put into the ?rround' de te rmine s the crop v;e wi l l reap. This principle can be applied to jus t about everything in l i f e . As we bej in_o-ur^ n.ev7 work in Nijreria, we v,'onder what the resul ts wi l l be. BeforepurchasiiTT a farnij i t is wise to look i t over teat the so i linvest igate the history of paat crops. One should also look into theplanting'and harvesting proceedures "of the present tenant . Thic- isV7hat v/e have been doin-^ in-Laccos whi le we look fo r a meet ing p l a ce .

there are many missions in the Lagos area . V;e havehem and have observed t h e i r p l an t i ng and ha rve s t i n shave made one s e r ious compla in t to us about the Afr icantell us t ha t the Afr ican "Chr i s t i an" s t ea l s as a:uch ast ian . They cannot understand why he s t i l l l ives a l i fe

h iB"conve r s i on " . '.^ve have seen -Jiuch ev idence o f t h i s ,c o n d e m n t h ep rob l em . Vv'e

We find thattalked with tTiefhods. Somec o n v e r t . Theyt h e non-Chriso f sin afterbut before vjga n s w e r to the

Afr ican , v.^e have also been looking for thehave come to these fo l lov/ ing conc lu s i on s .First, t h i sn o t produce(I Pe te r 1:23) .

c a n n o t be th e fault o f th es inne r s . I t i s G-od's powerV7e m u s t l o o k . e l s e w h e r e

Secondly, the fau l t cannot en t i r e ly bebas ica l ly s ince re and wi l l i ng to learno lace for t h e answer.

G-ospel, For the G-ospel does(Homans 1:16) . I t i s - faul t lessfor the answer.

the Afr ican ' s , fo r he is, VJe mus t l o ok sorrje o t h e r

Third-ly, This only leaves us one other place to lay the blame. Thefau l t , then must be v.'ith the missionary^ And one does not have tol isten long to find out where the missionary makes h is mistake, ".''eare convinced that he i s sow^in,^ a pa r t i a l G-ospel . Because he preaches only a half-^^^P^^s reaping a halfChrist ian.'A'hy is i t a half-gospel ? I t is a half-gospel because almost- a l lthe miss iona r i e s v;e have heard preach say t h a t ALL t ha t i s necessa ryfo r s a l va t i on i s to be l ieve on the Lord Je sus C h r i s t . This i s nott rue , for the Bible cer ta inly does not say so . oreover the Biblec o n d e m n s such teaching.


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yov*/;J3 ro3(3_in t'oa Bibls tb-st b'^lievin^ 0Tr-i:tic_Lq)^3-J^-&us Qhrlot -noC'^s31"y for 3Dlvs:tloo, J'o Hobrcv's l i : 6 v;': r'3acl ".But \':.ltboutâlth i t Is"t^"pos3ibl

v;hat doss tha Bibla say about "faith only" ? L:-t us read -fror.: Ja-::cE2:14-24. "fJbat ootft i t o r o f i t , brethren, though a "iian say h3. bathfai th, and hav3 not vrorka? Can faith sav^.hiffl? I f a brothc^r or s i e -t^:;r b:: nakad, end dest i tute of daily food, .uoo one of you say unto ...thoni, Depart in ocacc, ha yc yaraGd and f i l l e d ; not vjithetsndinrK^v-: thaî not those thln-^ v.'hich a r : n-icdful to the body; v:h;t dothi t profit'?' iVi'F 5C TAITH^ X? IT HATH I-TCT ."Oi^KS , Tj jDSAO, ALCITi .Yon, a -a-.n 'iiay say, Tbou hast f:-ith, :n6 I have vjcVks: 3h-v; do tbyfaith v'ithout tby vory.g, i - h i . ehov; theo .ny faith by my ^.-rrcy.s.Thou b:;li.:votbs th:.t thjrc is on^: 3-od; thou doest v'cll: TH"! DIv:rL5ALSO SILIoVi A7T) . But thou knov, C vain ^nan that TAITK ' '-IxH-CUT .'Oar:3 i s DÂD? Xae not AbrahGui our P^-^thaf j u s t i f i e d by \ôv\r.,v'b:n hi bad offorod 1'ec.oi^ h:.^ .ôn upon tbo : l t a r ? Sc-cet thou bo^-f : i t h '- 'rou-ht ^.'itb b.l^ v:or' is> v-no by v:as fa-;lth lad.s- perfJct?And t b j soirioturo .;aG f u l f i l l e d ':hicb : a i t h , Abraham bcl ievio !?od,r.no i t v:a i ioutcd unto him for rl^'htc ouencos: and he was cal led thefriend of :jod". Ye see then ho>- that by v:or>s a .aan ie J u e t i f i J d ,Al^D NOT SY owlx."Tbie scripture t i l l e uc tbat a ^'an c::n beli;ve a ;i:hln;v vith al^^hicberirt, but unl'is,:- b: :.cts uoon that fai th, be i : loot A test offci thy than ob^dleaca t Tr, .ailÔQ . Abfahom-^could^havbel ieved that jod roulo ra ice uo Icaac from the .dead , but ".t v:aconly 'vben Abraham obeyed 3-od aoj be^'an to Gacfifioe I.iaac tbat :oda oarad .him a no honoured Abraham'^ f r i t h . Alro , v:e rea.d i n the oji-kof ixoduG, cb30t::r 14, of the deliver :ace G-od javj to the chiU'r 'n- f IcrcGl a t the Had 3-v., l e r a e l could have bel ieved v?itb a l l t b - i rbearto tbat C>od ".'as ?'oin3 to Gave then, but uulesr. tbey had jicr^hed^throutb the sea on dry land, tb-"y eioc-t certainly *'ould h~ve oeri.tneda t the hand of the i jr yp ti an a rmies . In lllte rianner, a porr.'r'n c^.nbelieve in.Chri"t as Saviour, and be lor:t until be obeys tb: c^-mir.'ndcof Ohri i r t . Ac i n tbe case Abraham and the' case of . the chi ldren ofI s r a e l , faith can only be honoured by Chri ' t 'hen i t la ?.ct:d.uponby obeying tbe /ford of " rd . ?or Gxaaiple: A per^;on mu:t not only bel ieve, but b: rfluiit aleo r joentof hi;: e i n t , Jeau^- comjiiands tbic- i n Luto 1 3 J 3 - Borrn-: not^ntance. -To repjnt meanD to cbanê your l i f e , , t': ' t o p tinnin": -.ad toztart l iving a pure and holy l i f e . Yet to believe and* t : repent - f-inc alone v ' i l l not save, f-'c Jecua corm.-.ndc aiore.^JecuC" cOni'iia ndt" o s ' t o conf: s c Hie- na-jre bvf or-o^ê-n-C'.^t-aat tb-y v.'illItn-:v:.tbat r e are cororiiittim: our l i f e t o Hie c e r v i c e . .-vcad'Mattb :w10:32 :.nd 33, and HoaianE 10:S :,nd 10. Yet, tbeu^h v:e b:l i . ive, r-io-ât-co Gonfeô Kie naiio , He s t i l l cannot e-:ve urj u n t i l v:e coaialite "uro b : .d l ;j n e e .

coTfloiandc u: t o be iâvnerLed i n .t-.'c tbe --L-îvenJ*".i ' ourrino an-'^ t - receive-tbe ^.ift : f .tbe Kcly gt)ir i t .'R^:.d M:..ri?: 1-5:15{Ac.tc 2:36;.I Peter 3:21; 'John 3:5'; O-alatians 3:2?; Hebrers _^10:22;Actc- 22:15; c-nd .ômraae, Srl-T i'bls ie tbe .irin-:! act :f '-.bedi-iacer b i c b -nables Cbric-t t.o save us f r o a r our: p a c t e'in:-. Cae i c notObrlctl .n u n t i l be completes a l l tbe-ô co;3-T!and:n nts ' f our L^-rd.Y:t , ve can be r.-^.ved fr-ATi "ur o-,:t c 'n" tbi'-u-^b ^beyin^ tbeê caaad'-aeatr: -f Obriat and c t i l l lose our "oul i f v:e dc not liv:: a.: I-ie


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v:oulcl us l i v o . Xhu who l e TgEtn-ma-nf iNac \\'rittcn to t^llCbric- t icne bov; to l i y c . If. one d'occ- not l lvo -o purG .":ncl holy U faoftJC hie- copv : r s l on , be l o s t . Rg-,{j I I ? J t : r 2 :20 -22 .A-hs'lf-30GpG 1 can "only pfo6ucc a hGlf-cbri : ; t ic ,n. I knov: that v;hjnthJ people of Laj.^c hGar the S-o^p:! in I tc ful lnOGc, -th^y v.'lllbccîno cic .^tood Chri^tisn^:; gg con tQ fouod onyplacc In ' t hc Kcrld. ,If the "fnith-only""ni'icnioncirAcE comploin about their ' 'converto",perhapG they ahouid beg in p reochin3 the v.-h^le t ru th ond not Juct r.oGr t -"-f it ' .

c^ôOQo o="r-r-

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rI t .i s ^'.ith ccreot joy that v;e^\'elco'T.e brother -^nd eiotor 3-'*ldcb:rryto A frica . I a sure th^ t our many rcr.dero oIgo c-hare in th i s our'creetint.

The Ooldcberry 'e"Church;-^f ChriG^t^h:e'y r i -I l be pieond .v.'ill be* onlydiid que-GtirnG, Aof you concernedin that ' ? r e o /ve. the . l r v:erk ._Theyc lo ece e v ?lii bei n nttendin^.

l ive in Yc.ba , Ni t e r i o . Their TDo::tcl addreoc i:.t MisGion, Box 252, Yaba, Nigeria." I am c-ure thatseed to heor from thoee of you l iv ing in vVeet Afr icato hoppy to help you v:ith your persôncil l e t t e r rc- 5eon DE ic' pocîble they vrill onncunce t/" thoee'"the place v.'here 'the Church ^f Chrict' vril l be iseetinshope ^Tirny - f y '-u v:ill orcy f - r them and attend_P_lan__to open_ chort ly a Bible Collejre , the r i r c tni'Tht c iaceeo . Write them i f y:û vrould. be in te res ted

'^'ÔOooWe re'frre't that recently ve have been forc:d to cead the "G-o.:p:ILijht" only :very t^'-o monthc. Thia ie b:cauee of the -^reat increase'~'f etude.nte takinT the lecc-onG-bypoet |. and becûe-e "f the addit ionaltae.k of teaGhin3 in the Bible College/here in Kimbarley. The taekia Treat) but the tiaie ic ,0h eo ch"'rtl

__oo00oo. "the l i f e of GHiÎST IN SHOHT DAILY RADIN36"

OCTOBiH1 . Luke 1 :1 -4 , John 1 : 1 - 32 . Luke 1 :5 - 253 . Luke 1:26-384 . Luke 1 :39 -565 i-'Ia 11 hei': 1 : l3-266 . Luke 1 :57 -807 . Luke 2 : 1 - 206 . Luke 2 :21 -389 . Matthe'.-j 2 : 1 - 1210 . Matthev: 2 :13 -18 , Matthew 2:111 . Luke 2:40, Luke 2:41-52

1 2 . Luke 3 : 1 - 2013 . Luke 3:21-22 , Luke 4:1-1314 . John 1 : 4 - 1315 . Jo hn 1:19 -3 -^

1 6 . J o h n 1 :35 -51 -^1 7 . J o hn 2:1-111 8 , J o h D 2 : 1 2 - 2 51 9 . J o h n 3 : 1 - 2 120. John 3 :22 -3621. John 4 : 1 - 2 622. John 4 :27 -4223 - L u k e 4 :14 -15 , Jo^2 4 . Luke 4 :16 -30

23 :25 . M:Tt thew 4 : 14 - '2 6 . Luke . 4:38-44 '2 7 . Luk e Luke 5 : 1 - 1 12 8 . Luk e 5 :12-262 9 . Lu? ie 5 : 27 - 393 0 . J o h n 5 :1 -473 1 . L u k e 6 : 1 - 1 1


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1. Lufe; 6:12-19 1.6, iM^thcvr 15:21-392 . Lu'-i 6:20-49 17 . Matthew 15 :1 -12 .3 . LukJ 7:1-10 18. th rk 8)22-26, Lw!jc '^ l-214 . Lufc 7:11-35 19 . Luks 9:22-365 . Lute 7:36-50 20. Luk5 9:37-45, Motthcv; 17!242T6 . Lidki 8 :1 -18 21 . Lulw 9 :46 -627 . M.~tth:v.'. 12:22.-45 22 . John 7:1-53S. Lui 8:19-39 ' 23 . John &:1-119 . Lu'i: 8:40-56 24 . John 8:13-30 . ,10. 'fetthow 9 :27-34,Mr t t .13:54-58 25. John 8:31-5911: Lui 9:1-9 ' 26. LuIm 10:1-24

1 2 . LuVfi 9 :10 -17 27 . Luta 10 :25 -3713. M.7tth-^v; 14:24-36 28. Luke 10:38-42, John 9:1-4114 . John 6:22-71 29 . ' John 10 : l -3915 . Mj.tth;w 15:1-20 30 . John 10;40 -42_ , Lulc; 11:1-15

the : b i b l e Q,IH3TI0K BOXQ - 6X6 Pau l n^-an in Romanc 6 :4 V'hcn-hc -caid wc arc bur iedv;lth Chrict in Baptism?" , 3 .A..3 .

Br?>cn H i l l , N. Bh?d .A - (Rrraanc 6:4) The baptlom t?:u:rh-t In thJ T-^ctamcnt Ic ocmpl^toimm^r-i'-'n i nwa t^ r , thus i t cymb^lizi:c a bur ia l , (A^tD 8:36'-395Mar??: 1:5; J-^bn 3:23, ^to , ) I t ic cymbolic the dc;3th, bur ic l

sbd resurrect ion our Lord j:gu::- Cbriot . Vfc . - r j 'actuai ly-bu r l e d i n v rs t j r cv : n ac Cb r i c t ^vno b u r ie d in th e t'r^mb*

Q.- "Are wc c:ll':v::d to oat Lcrd Supper :vJry ;.*e':'v 'n Surâay? H'^vrWGc ûr church beûn, thic' Church -f Cbrict? "J.H.&".llc .bury, 3 , -Th'^Q .

A. AEc^rcJin^ to Actc 20i7 the D iuciplcG 'Tothjrcd on the f i r c t doy-"f th e wa:-^'c t c brca!^; b r e a d . Thic >.'ac to remciuiber th e Lord ' r .Suppe r , and it wan done every f i r c t day -rf the week , or ev^ rySunday . "Wo :-h':uld do thiG a l s o .The Church bej^n on the f i r a t day - f Pen t i coe t a f t e r the d"otbof Chris t . (Acta 2:38) The t r ac t , "The Church in The Bible"'.'ill he lp v:i th t h i e and -"ther ouch qu e : t i o n c , rrite f^ r a copyif yu hav^ not read it.

.'-^/-^0O,o'>"N0 Oj). knows "the DFPTHjO?"-^-^JXJV^_LIiL^ I "

THE CHURCK C? CHRIST MISSIONH - b e r t S . M i l lc .13 Luke Road , -Kimberley CopeS " u t h A f r i c a


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CHURCH 0? CHrtI5T MISSION13 Lake RoadKimberley, 3 . Africa

WOV 8 ISS5

lat. November ,1955Dear Ch r i s t i a n F r i e n d s ;

'.'e were disappointed in the number of students who enrolled for the new school term which began this past month. There arefive enrolled for the evnin classes, including two of the ladies.I an teaching "Church History" and "Bible Introduction since tnreeo"^ têse five have attended stij' classes before and the sa.fle lessonsv/ouia have been repetition for them. They a ll speak Snclish exceptone who speaks only Xosa, pronounced "Kosa . (The X is rea.-ly aclick, but a "K" is close enough to be understood.)isrly this month, .Brother Stanley and I , slon? with aeveralof the African Bretharn , went to the conference committee .iie^tinât Zast London, a few hund.red miles south of us on th-^ cos3-this trip, we also visited several churches which needed help withoi'oblems, end v?e eosnt many vjeary hours listening co their troublesand trying to help'them, vve lorayerfuliy hope that their differoncesare now healed and that they will once again work tojretner i or theLord. The '.laectincr in East London was i t sel f a ftreat pleasure, Tncpeople o:? the church there were very onthuaiastic In their receptionof the miseiDnsiies and committee members. ;c shall long remeîibcr^^their fr-ev:ell to-us as we started the long drive homeward aiter cne

.ucc t i n< r s This rjast Lord *3 Day I took some of the .rien out to one o:?^thGnear by farms for church services and a wedding.It developed to^beâfu^l "ôrninT. The weddint v.'aa f i rs t on the schedule. Both the brioeand prroom were dressed for the occasion. The bride wore a white ^satin and lon?c veil, and she hsd a small îrl to carry h'^r tLSinT' -: other iiembers of the party were dressed in their usual rathershabby Sunday dress.All pro3rcssed quite well considering the 'V;?-.iyle-ral forms end documents required by the government and thc^lon^ceremony used by the marriage officer for the occasion. Tcrather atortlin^ thino: occufed at the end of toe ceremony whil- th-officer was fillin-c in the last of the forms. An old hen wano.eredinto the room and stopped in front of the Troom.Î^sow ner eyein-:^^him 5 then suddenly she hopped.up onto his lap and from^th-r^ toehoulder. A .noment later with 0 jreat fluttering of winjs, sai ilev:t^ the lap one of the quests in the rear of tne room. ThxG^û-Gcimmediately csu^'ht her and tossed her out the door, oucn a tnin^^Tc-not uncommon on'the farms, but I could not he^lp trying to piCLur-^what v.-'ûld happen i f a similar thin^ happened at hoau W'ith the wedding completed, we proceeded directly to^ta-church services. Brother Sibenya preached aft-'r which h- /:avw .^ninvitati'^n and five yrunn: -otoiDle oame forward asking to be baptizâ.Immediately aftu- the eefvic:3, they vere baptize-d in the_ river a :ewynrds away and a river-3ide service was also held there, ve , theTuests, and the brida l par ty, were then served lunch and we wereready to depar t a.îain.Our postal teaching continues to prosper and to reach outfar into Africa. These days my desk is nev:r cleared of lessons, andcertainly it is never cleared of letters to be answered . wUn oh^last reTiatration card typed yesterday, we now have nad 167^ enrol

lments.

Do continue to pray for us in this '^reat vôrkiYour Missionary to Africa^ôbert S . M i l ls


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DECCHU-^CH C? 0HaX3T KISSICIJ

13 La^:ce iôadTTiniberley, Cape, S Africa

Dear Chr i s t i a n Fr i e nd s ;1 s t . December ,155 ;

Vith the coming of Dec^.Tiber, our hearts and minds always"ve^ln to t h i nk bec'-i o f loved ones and f r i ends ' a t home and we comeas -ear as we ever 'have to being "hooie sick" I suppose. ;;e misssnow, and the Christmas spir i t , but above a l l we miss seeing youa l l and Tather in^ together with you to worship our 3od a t Chr i s t -T?8S tinre and s ink ing the beau t i f u l Christ ' i ias Carols which we seldomhear enough here . We wish you to know that our thoughts and prayerswil l be with you a l l this Christmas season espec ia l ly .

I t i s w ith ea gern ess and also with a cer ta in b i t of re-^rGtthat we look forward to the return of the Rees family this Ohrr'st-b e c a u s e we k n o wthem here' and that the Chinese people do need

^ n t i o n th e f?ct that we d o need their a t t e n d a n c e-nas t iuie, 7/e look forward ea-csrley to the i r re turnthat th e L o rd n e ed sthe 3-ospe l i no t to3t thewith a

i j ropean s e r v i c e s v;hich wec:Ert3in b i t of r eg r e t , forChinese Bible ochoo l and t eachingin^ there each Sunday fo r seve ra lforward, the Lord, wil l incr , to s ta

conduct in our hone weekly . It i swe s h a l l miss a t t end ing thet h e claee v rh i ch we h ad teen te^ch-months . '.e are however look ing

r t i n s? B i b l e C l a s s e s amon^r t he 'Coloured people in the place of ôin;? to the Chinese Bible School .lach Lord's Day evening we are still conducting' services.;or the Europeans , however t rue to t h e i r nature he r e , few a t t e n d .There are always our family , the Stanley family , and the threeChinese Chrli?tlans, vrlth some of the neighborhood chi ld ren comingon occas ions . Nothing seems to br ing the other "Europeans, so >:e s he l lnaturcilly be happy fu r the re turn of the Hees* to swel l our attendance

?e"_'haps a l a rge r group w i l l he lp to a t t r a c t more . To make room in oursmal l livinci; room fo r the ^roup now v/orshiping here , we alvrays moveth e sma l l e r f u rn i t u r e f rom th e room in orde r to have room to s e t upf o l d i n f f chairs.

A'e have ;)ust f in i shed prepar ing and sending out the Chriut.iiasssue of the "^lospel Light" . There are a few of tbem l e f t -to I e'en' again enclosing; one in each l e t t e r , are very oroud of the ne^heading of the f i r s t s t e n c i l , but I f the mailin.T list i smuch more growth , we s h a l l soon have to have it p r i n t e d ,now 1700 on the mai l ing list, which means t ha t there areto mimeograph, p lus pu t t i ng the pa-êr tog ' i the r , f o l d i ng ,address ing and s tamping. I t took near ly a week th ie timemyself snd Phy l l i s v.orking v;h:;n zhe could. , >;e reguc.rd t h i s as tneequivalent of handing out~1700 t racts and normally as many oeoolereached with a Gospel se rmon, fo r each is; .ue normally conta ins fc:

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It may i n t e r e s t you to know t h a t 127 d i f f e r e n t people havenow completed t h e i r work in the correspondence l e s ions , and t ha t manymore are now approach ing the end of t h e i r s t u d i e s . Zach grad ing br ingif i v e o r six more t o th e en d o f their s tudies, Several h a v e b e e nbap t i z ed because o f the-'-r l e s s on s , fo r the min i s t e r s to v?hom I haver e f e r r ed them have wr i t t e n to .loe . '(iany o the rs have been i n s t r u c t e din t h e m a t t e r an d have b e e n referred t o th e nearest minister o f th eNew Te . r t amen t p a t t 'b a p t i z e d or n o t .

r n . I can only guess as to. whether they :ve i- ; e n

Do con t inue to nray wi th us in t h i s ^ rea t work . It i s t r u l ybecoming too lar-ê fo r us a lone , but it i s only s t a r t i ng to reachthe p o te n ti a l f ie ld it could re::ch* V/e must con t inue to expand thepaper aod we must cont inue to send the l e s sons to as many as w i l ls ince r e ly s tudy them. They want to read and s t udy , we know t h a t G-odi l l o r o v i d e th e workmen t o d o H is T r e a t w o r k .

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