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1975 VfORK PROGRESS28,405 new students enrolled in the Bible lessons,32 ,349 s e t s o f Bib l e le sso ns p os te d,4,497 students completed the i r books and received cert i f icates ,40,500 lessons books were pr in ted ,128,500 Gospel t r ac t s were pr inted,


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Praise God for His hand of bless ing t h i s year and espec ia l ly as we seHis prov i s ion fo r g r e a t e r t h ings to come in the f u t u r e .As the David C. Cook Prayer Calendar said recent ly, "Time moves withspeed of a j e t plane. There are now close to four b i l l ion people in tworld. Thirty years from now the population wil l have doubled again.Litera ture , l i t e ra ry , and communication workers around the globe aregathering the most abundant harves t in Chris t ian his to ry . "Prom one of th i s month's l e t t e r s to us, "God must bless Gospel TractCentre for ever fo r giving us so many knowledge of words of our LordJesus Chris t . I*m a teacher in charge of Bangwe Church youth grouhere and then I*m having more kids , about 500 and 15 teachers , so thea l l of teachers wants to have more knowledge through your Gospel TracC en t r e a s I am n ow . ""With God a l l th ings are pos s ib l e . "

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i, I tpR. 2 ^I quite pnjdyed the i t t le break in routine t^iven by the trip toEast London and from t he re to Kin^ VJillianis Tovm with bro the rK:ernan fo r the T-iinister's Meeting and corrmilttee neetin^;, Most of themissions families v/ere there in the end and vje had a fine fellowship--as well . I s tayed v/ith the Kernans the l a s t evening in order to beable to catch the ear ly plane back to Johnnesburg, Conference plansare well underway and we hope tha t the ba l l i s s ta r ted ro l l ing on somene eded constitutional amendmen t s .

Kuji :While I was at K.W.Town, the !1ocambique\ overniaent closed all itsborders to Rhodesia, v^hich partially culX off the mail from Malav/i.In a sense, this v/as a blessing, as i t hc^ enabled me to catch upon the backlog of lesson requests and to Anisii vjith the books onhand here to be marked and returned. Our maVl i s s t i l l torialawi as usual. It also gave time for nece^^ry priiiting work. Ourmail turnover has not dropped a t a l l as yet.mailed out 3897 packso f l e s sons t h i s pa s t month, v;hich i s up on tiie month be fo re . I amexpecting rerouted mail to h i t me with a "bang" soon. I t v;ill probablycome through Zambia and s eve ra l mai l bags w il l a r r iv e a t one t ime lIn the meantime^ it was our busies t liionth for a long t ime, if notever , on the p rin tin g s id e. We prin ted 153,200 impressions including2^,000 t rac ts . I have the "lion^s share" of 50^10 English bookletsto be assembled and f in ished as ye t , and th i s becomes niy job whenever there i s nothing else rea l ly press ing to be done,

V/ally Parnham has offered his, never used, vacuume backedof f se t pr in t ing camera to us a t h is cos t p r i ce , which i s wel l belov;i t ^ s South Afric a v alu e. VJe are present ly advert is ing our own cameraand s ha l l see if God d i r e c t s a change, S'he V. b ack ed camera v/ouldake half- tones ( pic tu re s) p o ss ib le , use up much le ss f loor space,and be a g r ea t s ave r o f spo ile d f i lms t h a t have to be r e - s h o t . At th eof 9"xl2" f i lms, th is i s a fac to r to consider!

returning from the ninister"3 ."leeting^ I also decided to buya smal l c ov ere d lu gg ag e t r a i l e r and to fit it,- as a permanent disp lay /of our publ icat ions , and Bibles and Hymnbooks, I am hoping to buy a / 'r a i l e r I have been offered. I t measures 4*x6V and has a hinged s t ee lop and l ock . I wi l l pa in t s igns on it and fit the top wi th she lvesfo r book s amp le s . The base wi l l have room fo r s t o ck and still l e averoom to carry camping gear fo r o urse lv es . The miss ion ' s bigi s l a rge enough t ha t there i s ample room a t the back to t ake iti gh t ins ide during conference and I can. lock it up vaien I am not tnert the p re sen t t ime , I have to con ten t myself usua l ly to carry only aand an order form. We hope to use th i s fo r conference v;eek,meet ing , miss ionary fe l lowship week, and any church visilesmay make. In the meant ime, it wi l l be s to rag e fo r the mate r i a l

at home a s well.and I became g ra nd p ar en ts a ga in t h i s month when Becky andhad a little baby daughter . They have named her Susan Joy Cloe temakes us tv/o grand daughters and two grand sons . '^

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Hay, 1976; ., . 'm* W.E. McGilvrey ""Resea r ch Depar tmentM i s s i on Se r v i c e sP .O . Dox 111 .Kempton, Indiana ^6049

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Dear B i l l ,We just received an "Horizons", the first in several raonths, it seeI noticed in i t that you ask information for the new directory toprinted in June. Our forwarding agent has just left for Bible Collenecessitating a new one, and the church has appointed this^_ra_forus and neglected to tell me who or what address, so I have asked MBoyd to have her (I think) write to you and give the address and nOur own address is the same^ GOSPEL TRACT CEWrRE, P.p.^_ Box 5135,Johannesburg, 2000, S. Africa. Our residence is 57 Collet Street,

Alberton, 1450, South Africa.phone 869-3331. Actually, I?Snk phonfnumberl should be included. We find a lot of busxnesspeople, Christians, arrive here and have trouble finding one of thmissionaries. We are not in the Johannesburg directory as we liveoutside the city proper, aria'we are listed under Church of ChristMission, so often we never get found in time. The same is true ofCooks and o f Smaages and Farnhams.

We have been rejoicing in the Lord's wonderful blessing on theBible lessons in Malawi just now. It has been necessary to print10,000 Chewa language books just to keep up with the demand in thepast th ree months.The Kimberley Road church is searching for^^u^^time ministerto relieve us of our obligations there and'^help us cope with our


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new s r u a on enro m en ts u - nr une a onPrlends at MiGsion Services, 3^^ 1975

God that the IBM composer has been returned, v/e hope repaired,bein^ outôf service for two months. I had be?ûn to suspect thathad taken i t apart and could not fêt i t tofôther asain, something"Hunpty Dumpty". Nov/, vie can set to work on Phyllis* book agains v/ell as the second Ndonga book and the text for several languageof the personal-evangelism-aid booklet. There has been so mucstacking up for want of that machine that we shall be reallyfo r a very long t ime on t h a t a lone , - .

letter laps over into early July as the composer just came earlyweek and I wanted to mention that as v/ell as our very rev/arding tro Barberton, I am sure tha t many of you have been concorned about oures some have asked af te r seeing the news medians version of thehappenings here in Johannesburg and a few otner places. In realhe matter has been very localized and even there is far from general.wonderful reception by the Barberton church confi rms that.^Thewas f i l led to capacity to l is ten to my sermon and these finepeople not only insisted on helping with the travel costs, bserved a lovely meal after church and "presented both Phyllis andStanley with lovely hand-woven dish hot pad sets for the diningThese are a special i ty of the Zulu people. We both commented thawe drove^through probably fifty miles of African homeland whereid not sec a^single, white face, there, were only s.miles to be seen.

have now managed to catch up on the typing of the addresses from thelawi^mail, and would probcbly have mailed the lo t , except that I ranf a vital book so have to re-print before we can mail those. This prescold snap has not encouraged" v/ork in our "refrigerated" worksnop.e have been having hard freezes and unusually cold days for some time.owever, I must get at i t tomorrovr, the Lord v/illmg. X also must painthe darkroom and ins ta l l a cei l ing and l ight there before I can use i t .task, now just done, is the installation of the photoflood lighcamera timer switch so that we can resume the use of theimage plate maker. Just a bit of experimentation now to get thee x a c t l y s p o t on .

published th ree books during June. Two of then were new ones. Thisvje hope to be able to do several language ed itio ns of one ofIt^was the lack of the composer that had delayed us there. We alt ra i ler hitch Installed on the car so t]iat wo can take quicki f we see a lockable luggage t rai ler advertised. These are verynew, so I have been reading the second hand columns daily, Ihad one, a r ea l bargain , but it would seem tha t a f r iend asked ft af ter I phoned and she backed out on our being f i rs t in l ine.has been a b it of a problem th i s month. Phyll is and I have bothad a bad cough, but mine cleared up r ight away while hers l ingers ond on and sounds te r r ib le , e spec ia lly in the mornings and evenings.rea l problem has been a very painful lower back, perhaps an infect ior perhaps just a spot of arthri t is . I got i t often, and naturally thet r ip was no help. Travel never does help. We hope to escape thena^sty b it of f lu that is about, the Lord v;il l ing. Our son in law.i s ill in bed with i n fec t ious hepa t i t i s . He vri l l bo t he re a t l e a s to more weeks . He t hough t t h a t he had f lu a t first,


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hea l th aga in it would seem.

Dear Prie^ê a t Mission Services, 5th August, 1976Plans are going forward fo r th e coming rev iva l and DVBS a t KimberleyRoad Church. Some o f ou r workmen or ig ina l ly planned fo r wi l l no t beable to help now, but others wi l l fill in and we look forward to avery blessed week, God wi l l i ng .As I am one to s tep in , I am hopeful of a l i gh t week on the mail t ha tweek, otherwise, I will j u s t se t i t aside to catch up l a te r . The meetinwill h a v e to come first.Since the IBM composer was r e tu rned , it has been ge t t ing a r e a l workou t , Unfor tuna te ly it has s t a r t ed to a c t up a b i t th e l a s t few days ,so we have phoned fo r help again . We hope th a t th is t ime the techn ic ianw i l l be ab l e to make minor a dju stm e nts h ere a t th e house , as we r e a l l yneed it. Phyl l i s has , so f a r , completed typing about a th i rd of herbook, I must still do th e t ex t s fo r th ree smal l bookle t s , and th ehandbi^J,l for the revival services.During Ju ly , in sp i t e o f our problems, I managed to complete the rep rin tin g o f a Venda book and the i l lu s t r a t ions fo r three languageed i t i on s o f ano the r . I have run th e i l l u s t r a t i o n s i n co l o r and w i l lnow ad d t h e text in b l a c k .July was chopped into b i t s , f i r s t by our t r ip to Barberton, followedby a long planned v i s i t from our fr iends Lynn and Lucil le Stanley,They v i s i t e d a few days , then sho r t ly a f t e r they had r e t u rned toUmzumbe, I came down with a bad case of the f lu . I was l i t e ra l ly"flat on my back" in bed for nearly a week, then after I got up s t i l lhad t e r r ib l e headaches, spe l l s of dizz iness , and a bad cough. Thecough and the headaches are s t i l l with me I We a re re lie ved that so fa rPhyllis has not come down with i t , though sev eral o f the children,thei r husbands, and some of our grandchildren have a l l had i t . We havenever jus t known who would be here to be cared for. Lee is s t i l l outof work with his hepa t i t i s , though he i s much bet te r and one can notkeep him i n th e house t h e s e days .I bought the luggage t ra i le r for the printed mate ri al s th is month,and have let tered a sign on the side of i t and have i t ready forânyopportunity to use i t . Conference wil l naturally be the f i r s t maint r ip . For that , we will also add the tent and camping^gear as wellâsthe printed mater ials . I have an order for several things to be printedand brought with us to conference t oo .I have often thought this week how that the Lord so richly supplies forthose things one gives up, i f i t were possible to do so, for Him. Thispast two weeks we have been so r ichly blessed in having a very deare ld erly fr ie nd stay with us of the evenings and nights . Her own daughtewith whom she makes her home, is on holiday in Hong Kong with her husbaso I4rs Haupe (Hope) has been s taying with us of evenings. I t has beenl ike having a visi t from our own , now passed on, mothers. She is reallan Afrikaans lady, but she loves the Lord and has gone nearly everywherwith us and attended every prayer meeting and Sunday evening service.We almost hate to see the Doyles re turn th i s week, as we sha l l miss herr egu l a r v i s i t s so much.

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Praise God, we are absolutely "buried" with^requests for Bible LessonbPray urgently that He wil l provide a ful l time typ is t now.Dear Friends a t Mission Services , 6th September, 1976August has not been an easy month in the Mills household, though^weloved i t for the blessings, and we finished publishing and printing4 bookle ts while two more are urgently needed. (1 0,000 copies!)Unfortunately the mission income was so low in August that i t wasnecessary to dip into emergency funds even to pay essential accountsand salary. We are obliged to curb spending as much.as possible.Through a book keeping error , the month ended with the shock that wehad a no t i ce t ha t our account a t the bank was overdrawn. A pre-da tedcheck was due in days that would need a t leas t $150.The Revival and D.V.B.S. a t Kimberley Road were except ional ly goodfor us al l , even though there were no baptisms resulting immediatelyfrom brother Smaage's excellent sermons or the call ing. On closingnight, our building, seating capacity 60, was absolutely bursting atthe seams with 105 people present . The D.V.B.S. averaged more thanour normal t o t a l church at tendance. We did nearly a l l the carryingand taking home afterwards in our long-suffering l i t t le sedan, spendias much t ime on the road as a t Bible School i t s e l f . As I helped t eachand did a l l the d riv in g, our cor respondence and pr int ing work real lys u f f e r e d neg l e c t .We are terr ibly behind in both areas, and will not be able to do a l lthat much about catching up this month as we shal l be away a week fo rthe annual church conference, the Lord willing. Conference is plannedfor Zululand, providing we receive the necessary permits. For the f i rtime, we had to f i l l in long detailed forms in application for permitand these forms were received very l a te indeed. Actually, I questionthe wisdom of using the large tent and taking a large gathering ofpeople into Zululand jus t now. The township disturbances have nows ta r ted to take on the appearance of t r iba l - fac t ions between the Zuluand the other t r iba l people in the townships. Generally speaking, thehas been little t r oub l e ou t s i de t hose a r e a s .At leas t we have an early s t a r t on our work these days. Lee and Kathyare now dependent on us for t ransport to get her to work and home andto church func t ions . Lee i s still unemployed, though he hopes to beapproved for permanent staff in the temporary work he now has. In themeantime, Kathy is their sole support and her pay as a trainee nurseis only about adequate for food alone, hence they have had to give upthe car and are struggling to pay the lights and rent. I now get up a6:00 a.m. to get her and the children to the Hospital on time, thenreturn for her in the evening. I t does give me more hours to work, buis not helping me physically or helping pay the gasolene bi l l for theextra driving i t enta i l s . I find myself feeling absolutely done-inbefore the evening news broadcast after which I^can go to bed. Howthey will cope the week v/e are away, I have no idea.Webber Street Church of Christ-sponsors Yplirs Chris t ,Mrs Helen Huckel, 505 Fairlawn /Urbana, XL. Forv/arding Agent. /61801 ^ ^ e k V/ftyllis Mills


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go eve-" ' be doing 5000 copies or 90j0Q0 impressiostudy Doui- gpi'iG5^*Ttep.'3 those printed pages "into a boountil i t IV^j^^^^j^jigjlg|(BBBD^mmitted to helping paint the churon l i^Kn^lspriori ty3 are^âbout 3000 books to be finisThis par"ti set-type for on tl^/Composer, about 1500 envelopes tg^^îtofi^y^d prepared for the addresses to be typed, and aonsjk o f c e r t i f i c a t e s t o t y p e and p r e p a r e f o r t h e m a i l . Behind a l^g'f5"e bank account is very lov;, so I will be taking funds for the^rout of the emergency fund very likely. I ordered 100 reams which5 cost more or less $200,

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still obviously need help i n the work. A r e t i r e d couple would be ideo the need if she could type and he did not mind rout ine odds and endsf the m a i l i n g room i n p a r t i c u l a r .raise the Lord, t h e r e i s d e f i n i t e l y a p o s i t i v e s i d e as well . We now ha

s t u d e n t e n r o l l m e n t s . This month we had a s h o r t month as we werefor a vieek a t the African Church Conference. ( I came back vrith anos e a t on t h e committee as D i r e c t o r o f Build ing andEvangelism).27,000 t r a c t s and three books including t h a t f i n a l Xhosa book wto get done i n time fo r Conference a f t e r a l l , I f inished typesetXhosa book which has been s e n t f o r p ro o f r e a d in g now, and i n t hroom, have prepared fi lm negatives for many of our most used t r a c tn order to improved the consis tency o f t h e i r q u a l i t y and appearance. Wover 2500 s e t s o f s tudies and issued 300 c e r t i f i c a t e s fo r good wn our "spare moments" P h y l l i s and I have managed to almost f i n i s h theh o u s e c l e a n i n g i n t h e garden a f t e r months o f n e g l e c t . The grandsore busi ly t r y i n g to undo as much as poss ib le of our good work t h e r e .ur s t u d e n t t y p i s t did not r e t u r n a f t e r h e r school h o l i d a y s . I unders tahe family has problems which make it impossible fo r her to cont inue. OKathy gave b i r t h to her baby daughter (Rhonda Chantel) on theleft f o r C o n f e r e n c e , Both s h e and t h e baby a r e w e l l . Kathy h a s b e e nv/ith typing as she has t ime s ince she and the chi ldren are s tayus u n t i l Lee a r r i v e s , VJe p r a y t h a t he may g e t h i s v i s a s h o r t l y asday he i s delayed seem.s to cost more. The fares have gone up twot imes a l r e a d y i n t h a t s h o r t t ime o f a few weeks.Kimberley Road congregation did not pu rch ase the stands mentioned il e t t e r as they c o s t more than we could r e a l l y a f f o r d . \Je a r e stillfo r a s tand where we can c l e a r the purchase p r i c e before s t a r t i

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u may have heard t h a t t h e Rand was devalued t h i s month. On t h e s u r f a csounds good f o r us as v;e g e t more Rands f o r our d o l l a r s , b u t , a l lhave imm.ediately s h o t up more t h a n t h e d e v a l u a t i o n , plus t h e f a cwe have been b e i n g p ai d i n Rands f o r some long t ime now meaning t hhad a s a l a r y drop o f about 20^ with the d e v a l u a t i o n . We may have t oan ad jus tment t o pay t h e g r o c e r , e s p e c i a l l y with s e v e r a l permanen


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r. .Dear Friends a t Mission Services , ^-

!,. 1 s t October , 1Q7^"PROXt - Would you be interested in underwriting a proxy worker? Itis now possible, in Alberton, to hire s temporary "Kelly Girl" to worka t office work for about ^25 a day. The occasional full day's help ofan expert typ i s t would- be a God sent bless ing j u s t now. The and thtypewriter should be going a l l day long . I f you are interested indesignat ing a s pe cia l o ff er in g , le t Helen know tha t the extr-; $25 i sfo r t ha t purpose and we can phone fo r a "temporary" .Praise the Lord again for His wonderful blessing. A very specia loffer ing th is month has helped us over the temporary embarrasment ofl a s t month 's shor tage , and wi l l eventua l ly be put to good use toimprove on a memorial previously bought in the name of the cont r ibu toOur t r ip to the Afr ican confe rence was great ly en joyed , saving perhapsfo r abou t a hundred mi l e s o f th e wors t dirt roads t h a t we have t r a v e l ein many years. Enquiries , af te r v:e arr ived, directed us back by adifferent route, and i t was lovely. The luggage t r a i le r , loaded withbooks, camping gear, and mission prin t ing , t ra i led l ike a dres.m, excefo r a few spot s vjhere th e pot -holes and corruga t ions were the wors t .Ama.zingly, it did not even l eak dus t , though one of th e re f lec to rs wasshaken r ig h t o f f and v/ i l l have to be rep laced . I t was a c re^ t successa t th e confe rence , viheve we v/heeled it r i g h t in to the back o f the t e nand peoole crowded about so quickly t h a t I could hardly have t ime top rope rly p re pa re it fo r use and turn it over to a young man to care fowhi le I heJ.ped th e t r e a su r e r in h is du t i e s .I am sure t ha t I came away from conference with one new job , as Ivoluntee red to fill th e gap cs.used by th e death o f th e m is sio n'sarchi tec t , and to drav/ up the future church build in g p la ns . I t wssnecessa ry fo r us to depar 'H- 'Sarly on. 'S atu rd ay morn in g, because th ef i l l ing sta t ions here clqe.e.-at .noon on Saturday and we vjould have hadto wait for Monday otherwise, , however, I was cautioned, before I l e f ttha . t t he re vjas e ve ry i nt .e nt io n '. ' to ; n om in a te me as t r e a su r e r in repl^rcement of brother Stanley v/ho -is presen^% on furlough and could not bee l e c t e d f o r that r e a s o n . I have n o t y e t he a r d t h e results o f t h eelections.

V/e a re presen t ly busy pr in t ing and assembl ing those 10,000 l essonbooks v/h ich v /e re fac ing us l a s t month, and a l ready have fou r morebooks out o f p r i n t t h a t wi l l have to be done immedia te ly , though inmuch s ho r t e r r u n s . Seve r a l new p ro j e c t s a re a l s o a t hand .STUDENTS AND WRITERS - We h av e t h e need f o r a. series o f new tractsdea l ing with such pres s ing cur ren t needs as the moral problems o ftobacco , drugs , sexu5l immoral i ty , e t c , to fill a very not icab le gapin our t r a c t list. They should be about 1000 to 1200 words only , l e s sif con ta in ing i l l u s t r a t i on s . Have you a t a l e n t you v/ould l i ke to use?Ju s t a no te abou t ou r pe r son a l s a f e t y , so many have asked . To da t e ,t h e r e has been ab so l u t e l y no need to be conce rned , though t h e r e h^vebeen o c c a s i o n a l d emon s t r a t i o n s i n th e Af r i c a n residential a r e r s andone down town. Occasional ly s tones ha.ve been throvjn a t cs r s , aga in ,no where n e a r where we have been . It i s only th e " l una t i c f r i n c e " whoa re doing t he se th in g s , in s p i t e o f what i.t may look l i ke on Weobserve every p recau t i on , and th e work con t inues to be b l e s s ed .


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have 137,8^10 s tudents e nrolle d in the Bible Correspondence lessonnd we are s t i l l running a few weeks in arrears with the typingiFriends at Mission Services,

2nd November, 1976has jus t finished set t ing the type for her book, "Some of God*sThere wil l be about 200 pages and I have star ted to photographe layout in prepara t ion for the pr in t ing , the Lord willinpc. This wi l lur f i r s t attempt a t a fu l l sized volume, and we hope to have i t readyor Christmas. She will be able to help more with address typing, we hop

t h i s month Kathy goes on n igh t duty a t the hosp i ta l and Phyl l i s wto care fo r her chi ldren of mornings so t ha t she can get some s leeppra i se the Lord t ha t we have a God V/ho hears and answers prayer in suwonderfu l way. Ear l i e r th i s month, we were overwhelmed with th e amountp rin tin g t ha t was a l l labled "urgent" and we prayed t ha t God woulda r ep lacement p re s s t h a t would "ca re fo r th e needs o f th e work fhe remainder o f our pr i n t i ng min is t ry . " We f ee l t h a t He has done j u s t tto us a t th e t ime , th e funds were a l ready on th e way. We adve r t i so s e l l our old machine, which had proved to be inadequate to th e need,nd t h a t very n ext e ve nin g, th e paper ca r r i ed th e adver t i semen t o f a usePe r f e c t o r pre s s a t an unbe l i evab ly low p r i c e . We found t h a t wej u s t afford it, though we were offe red a r a the r low t r ade in o f th

ld press by th e dea l e r . Again we prayed , and as soon as he reached h ishe ca l led back to r a i s e h is t r ad e in by over ha l f aga in . The reaas s imply t h a t it was no t h is brand and he was s e l l i ng it as it was . Weon examinat ion t h a t one s e t o f r o l l e r s was not ope ra t ing , two spr inen t i r e l y miss ing . (Those he gave us . ) A rocke r arm had to be ben t aand a lmost every pressu re adjus tment in th e machine was t e r r i b l yut of adjus tment . These we have made ourselves as we have been l earninghe p r e s s . It now ope ra t e s pe r f e c t l y , arid up to four t imes th e speed o fhe o ld machine, pr i n t i ng both s i des o f . t h e shee t as it goes I I t i s nowto miss a. s ide , a problem which had been t roubl ing us a grea t

I t i s a l so capab le o f a number of .va luab le at tachments inc luding thse o f r o l l paper fo r economy o f opera t ion l a t e r . At the same t ime , vre aup a used Headl iner and te n fonts o f type as prac t i c a l l y a g i f t .the Lord t h a t he cares fo r foo l ish people . E ar l ie r th is month, Ruto was expec t ing th e baby any day, came in to th e d r i ve he re in an a lmos

cond i t i on . The water had been o f f , and she went grocery shoppshe r e t u r n ed , she found t h a t th e house was f loo ded b ec au se someonea f a u c e t t u rned on , I mean r e a l l y f looded t o o . There were i nches o fin th e mas t e r bedroom and every room was aswim. Th i s wi th wa l l to

c a rp e t s as we l l . I comfo r t ed h e r , and ru shed ou t to se e what I cou lo with a shovel and dishpan , e t c . After s lopping about fo r some t ime , It h a t an ex t en s i on cord was l a y i ng in th e w ate r w ith th e power onf u l l 220 vo l t s was p ra ct i c al ly in th e wate r a t my f ee t ! N atu ra l ly , th eain power switch was pul led in a hur ry , and I thanked God fo r His pro tehen I f i n i shed the ca rpe t s were still soggy, bu t a steam ca rpe t c l eane rup the balance t ha t evening and th ings were little th e worse fo r

a few days l a t e r , Ruth and Edwin presented us with a lovelyew granddaughter . Nic i^ole t te and mother and fa the r are f i ne .we thank the Lord tha t the company from which we l ease our typewrit h a t they vranted ou r o ld one , so they brought a brand new one ouf th e box and wi th improvements t h a t th e o ld one d id no t have . No cha rgStteet Church of Christ - sponsors Yp


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almost no trade-in on their old machijrie,bu t th en th e dea l e r r e cons ide r ed ( a f t e r25 bhe Mills had prayed about i t ) and25 increased his offer substamtialily.

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ladjustments. iAfith those problems taken E1 Lpare of, the machine operates perfectly i

Ta t up to four t imes the speed o f thei l r gj 1old machine Because i t accepts several K

attachments, it wil l serve the i r needs ^ , Tfor some t ime, even when the i r print ing

Hn in i s t ry has expanded cons iderably .

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shop. They acqu i red a used head l ine rand te n fo n ts o f t ype "as p r a c t i c a l l y ag i f t , " Robert repor t ed . Also, t h e i r itypewr i te r has been replaced at, no chjargeto them. "Again we thank th e Lprd t h a t

Ithe company from which we le as e, o urItypewriter decided t ha t they wapted oUri

Did one , " Robe r t wro te . "So t h^y b rough ta brand new one out of the box.^ i ' ( I t

Ilas ) improvements t h a t the old one didIlo t have . No charge !"IRober t and Phy l l i s a re proud new

randparen t s . Thei r ch i l d r en Ruth anidEdwin presen ted them with a new grand-iaughter , N ico le tte , in October. All' are

Iio ing f i n e . jContinue to pray for the Mil^s in

t he i r pr in t ing and correspondenpe work,tha t majiy South Africans wi l l bp reachedvhile the doors fo r evangelism are s t j i l l open.

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