The Baptist Herald A l) ENOMINATIONAL PAPER VOICING TH E INTERESTS OF THE Gli.RMAN BAPTIST 'YOUNG PEOPLE' S AND SUNDAY SCHOOL WORKERS' UNION

Volume Eleven CLEVELAND, 0 ., NOVEMBER 15, 1933 Number Twenty-two

A Thanksgiving Prayer 0 God, we humbly pray To thee this glad Thanksgiving Day, The time that has been set apart To speak from overflowing heart

Of thy great love.

We thank thee for thy watchful care O'er u s, thy children, everywhere: For health, for food, a nd needs supplied-All has been give n, naught denied

From thy great store.

Nor would we scorn our grief and pain, For as the sunshine follows rain, So joy with sorrow ever goes, And e ven the most lovely rose

Must have its thorn.

Keep us from sin: we w ould not have Sin k ept from u s, though we are weak, But ask thee for the stren gth to rise Above, to where a nobler prize

Is ours to win.

Help us, that when at last we know Our work is finished here below We then may go prepared to be Forever in eternity

With thee. Amen.

C. A. Lufborrow in "Classmate."

2 THI~ BA P'J'I:-:T H e:HALD

What's Happening Mr. Louis B. Berndt, a graduate of

this vear's class of the German Depa1·t-m:mt. of our seminary in Rochester, has become the new pastor of our church at. Sheboygan, Wis., succeeding the Rev. Wm. Schweitzer.

Rev. Albert Knopf, pastor of the F irst Church of Dickinson County, Elm:i, Kans., has resigned to take effect with the end of the year . Bro. Knopf has no other .church in view at presen t and awaits the leading of the Lord.

Rev. J ohn Koschel, formerly pastor at New L eipzig , N. Dak., is now the pastor of the church at Mcintosh, S. Dak. H e began his new charge t he first of Octo-ber. He reports a revival at the Annen-tal station of his church with over thirty conversions.

Dr. F . W. Simoleit, Missionary Direc-tor of our Cameroon Missionary Society from Neu-Ruppin, Germany, will speak at a Missionary Mass Meeting at t he First Church, Chica.go, Pa ulina and Su-perior Sts., on Sunday, November 19, at 3 P. M. All a.re inviter!.

"Baptist Herald" Posters with explan-atory letter have been mailed to all b:icsters on the list of the bu3iness m an-age1-, Mr. H. P. Donner. If any have no'.:. received them or if there are changes s ince last £a ll in the name of the b:iost~ r, please notify Rev. A. P. Mihm, B:ix li, Forest Park, Ill., and copies will be for-warded at once.

Rev. David Zimmerman, who has been pastor of the First Baptist Chur.ch of Arnprior, Ontario, Canada , for the pa; t three and a half y ears, presented his r es-ignation to the church on Sunday, Oct. 22. Bro. Zimmerman has accepted the call of the Union Baptis t Church of Ar-nold, Pa. He and Mrs. Zimmerman plan to begin work in their new fi eld of ac-t ivity about November 15.

Miss Alethea Kose, missionary worker and director of religious education at the Bethel Church, Detroit, Mich ., has received a furlough for a ye,ar and is using t his period to pursue fur.th\•r studies at the Univer sity of Chicago, looking forward to a Master's degree in Religious Education. Miss Kose is do-miciled at the Women's Baptist Mission-a r y Training School on Vernon Av

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enough but not in this matter .. "C~ntinue ste~dfastly in prayer, watching therem with thanksgiv-ing." "In nothing be anxious; but in ~v.erything by praver and supplication with thanksgivmg let your req~ests be made known unto God."

" Giving thanks always for all things," says Paul (Eph . 5:20). "Always." We set ap.art one day of the year for thanksgiving. It was intended to be the symbol of all-the-year-round thanksgiv~ng: Too often it is only a holiday. The note of praise is lost in many instances. Paul says "for all t hings." H ow-ever humble it be, loving thankfulness sweetens the table. However contrary to your expectations t he gift may be, off er thanks unto God, and however familiar it may be. Bread and· butter, birds and flowers, light and air, are life's essentials. The sim-plest details of life are most worthy of our thanks.

Parting Company With J esus PAUL WENGEL

T HERE is a striking passage of New Testament scripture in John 6 :66: "From that time many of his disciples went back and walked no more with him." Many who read these words will say: "Oh, if I had only been ther e, I would not have been among those who turned back. If J esus were only our preacher today there would be no backsliding Christians in our church. The preachers today are to blame for the m ult itudes who t urn aside from the way of life and from the church. If_Jesus were onlv here neither they nor we would thmk of turn-ing. aside." . . "

There is a homely old saymg that adv1Ses Peo-ple wh o live in glass houses not to throw stones." Of course we feel we would never forsake the Christ or his cause when his demands are not too exacting and when we are in an atmosphere of life in which we are insulated against sever e tests of our Chris-t ian profession. The atmosphere of church worship and the fellowship of saints, who are often more saintly in church on Sunday, than in the place of business on Monday, may be cond ucive to outbursts of emotion and sentimentality .

However, all t hese environmental fixings for the exercise of worship are missing in t he office, shop . store and often in the home.

It Is Quite Another Thing to be a loyal disciple when all people around us seem to be governed by business principles many of which have their roots in paganism. It is quite another thing, when the universal Brotherhood of man and the Golden Rule seem to be unknown doc-trines in the factory, to maintain your faith in Christ. It is quite another thing to remain sweet in the home when the most exasperating things occur , es-pecially when you are already worn out and tired. Then we remember some of the words of J esus, and we cannot help but say with t he disciples of old: "This is a hard saying, who can hear it?" And again many of his modern "disciples turn back, and walk no more with him."

In fact, it is not the hardest part of the Christian

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discipleship, to obey the call and begin to fo llow the Master of Men. It is, when he demands to be-come the Bread of Life, the very existence of t he disciples, that they begin to t urn back. Jesus can-not submit to be coexistent with other detracting interests of life. He must be first a ll.

The Christian Life Is Not Easy It is, after all , one of the great illusions perpe-

trated upon unsuspecting individuals, when the Christian life is made to appear so simple and easy. The beginning can be that-but its continuance to the Crown of Life is anything but simple and easy· The great Apostle Paul often illustrates it with a hard battle to be fou ght or a hard r ace t o be ru n. Many of the cr owd that fo llowed J e3 us at fit-st ha

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Vacation Bible School, Beatrice, Nebr. Rev. ]. H . Pankratz and his three l:elpers are on the extreme right.

Briefs from Beatrice, Ne b .

The third successful Vacation Bible School was heir! at the Wes t Side Bap-tist Church, the early part of the sum-mer , under t he ver y efficient Jeader::h:p of our pastor, Rev. J. H. Pankrat z.

About 40 pupils we re enrolled and the average attendance was very good. Rev. Mr. P a nkra tz taught the Inter mediate group, Miss Ruth Black t he Junior!', Mrs. L. W. Jon es the Beginne rs a nd P rima ries with Miss Esther Stucrnw r as pia nist. Many scripture p assages and :-;ongs were memor ized and a t the close of four weeks of instruction a fine pro-gram was rendered by the pup ils.

E nclosed you wi ll find a snap.shot of the group, and a lso one of our Sun-

Cleveland Y . P. and S. S. W. Union

~'he Cleveland Y. P. & S. S. Work·! r;; ' Union opened the year with a m.eet ing SeptA:mber 28, 1933, at Erin Avenu:i church.

The meeting was opened with Mr. A Grossman, Choir Director of t he Eri~ Ave. Ohurch, leading the singing. ~h. F. G. Gro•:: read the 91st Psalm, and Mrs. H P Donne1·, )lanager of our Puh-hl"1tinn Ho11:-.t'. h•c\ 111 prayer

The Octt t of the Akron Singers Club wc1·e our guests for the evening. They brought us a very fine program of mu ·ic which was enjoyed by all. A hearty v~t~ of thanks was g iven them for t heir ve i·

• g-oorl ent -1 tainment. Y

Mr. E. A. Hasse, pre~id ent of the Y. P. & S. S. Work~rs' Union made a announcement concerning the 'Nove.mbe~· a~d Pehruary meetings to come. The PlO.grai;i of the Thanksgiving tmetin ~ which is to be held in the Wh"t A ~. Ch h . I e ve. urc , 11< to be a pantomim:!. Th . F 1 r ua ry meetinr:- w ill be held at N etf el-ham church a nd will be a pat.· t? ing-

O u o 1c one ur sp2ake r for the evening was R ' V.

Wm. L. Schoeffel, pastor of the Wh~t · Ave. Baptist Chu1ch. His text 1

1 e J ·12 "I · · was ~am · · s it nothing to you h · pass by?" And t he t heme . ' "o ye that on Fire." · The Wor ld

. Mr. Schoeffel spoke fit·st of the t . . in the world Bolsh . . uimoil N . . ev.sm tn R . • at1onal ism in China 1 R . uss1a. India ! Europe prepa r~d f evolution in 0 . or war ! Oi . wn count ry in an unu3ua1 de r . n (economica l, moral, spiritual) T~e ess1on men of the world, modern sci. . g reat phi losophers are baffled. . ent1st.., and

The only hope for the . . Christ. That is the ch~~lld is J esus young people today W h enge to the world needs-a S · · e a ve Wha t t he

. 1 a v1or, wonderful . c p es of wor ld brotherhood I prm-the Golden Rule. "Is "t ti ! ove, and 0 • 1 no 11ng•to yo ., r are you w1lling to s t d u and to announce to th an up for Christ or J ei;us, "who taketh e world t he name the wol'!d ' ? away t he ~in of

We who are in t he fi h a Leader wh h g t know we have

o as never be The Maste1· is dep 1· en conquered. c enn ng upon t .any on t he cause for whi us o

ltfe, and Lo rlo that t her ch he gave h is enl istment of the Ch ri ~ .. must be a i:e-a nd to his church s ians to Ch1·1st

Will we say " I1er me- use n'e"? . Th e am I, Lord, send

' · e world · we have t he program 0 ls on ? l'e anrl w~ have the church. w1f1 ~lvat1on anct ":1l\. we e ntt>r our rank~ e Pass by Ul' C lm~t nnt\ \I\ hl~ ('\nwch~l\d bl' lo~' l\l 111

M. lluy, c-s. '11'('.

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Sunda y Schoo l C onvention in W h ite Butte, S. Dak.

The 12th Western SundaY School Cu 11-1·ent ion of t he Dakota s and ·Montana wi1~ a real succ:e,5. It was on Oct. 17-18, wh• n it had its scs!'ion aL Whi te But t ?, S. Oak. God gan! us 1·ery fa vorable weath=r a nd thf'refor

On T ues l a ~· < n :ning- the s l'r vict• wus 01wned b~r Rev. F. Trautner, pastor of the church, with ~omc g-ood s ing ng. T h:· Sunda y school children rendered some r:oocl numb. r.< in song-. The ~rown-ups and the choir as well as the la,l i ~s choru!' of t he church also excelled along these lines, Rei·. 0. Loh~e of i\IcLaugnl in, S. Dak., brought the messai:re of the eve-ning on ·• fo'or such is th :! Kingdom of God." T he11 Ruv. Hunte1-, pastor of the Lemmon, S. Dalrium for the evening ser vice, and Mr. Norman Boehm presided a s chairman. Mr . J. Ciassen led us in a new type of song service. This consisted in the sing-ing of our old German chorals, which had been transla ted by Rev. Paul Wen-gel. Mrs. Elsie Knack favored us wi th a voca l solo. T he big treat of the eve-ning was when Rev. Otto E . Krueg~ r of Pittsburgh, Pa., spoke to us on "What Shall I Do Wit h 1\Iy Life?" We feel sure that what we heard will not be so eas ily forgotten. We sincerely appr

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KEZIAH COFFIN JOSEPH C. LINCOLN

(Copyright by D. Appleton and Company)

(Continuation)

Chapter XIX

In which a r ecepti on is called off Far out on the Pacific coast there are

two small islands, perhaps a hundred miles distant from one another . The first of these is uninhabited. On the other is a little colony of E nglish-speaking peo-ple, half-breed descendants of native women and the surviver s of a crew from a British vessel cast away t here in the latter part of the eighteent h century.

On t he first of these islands, the smaller one, the "Sea Mist" had been wrecked. Ddven out of her course by a typhoon, she staggered through day after day and night after night of ter-rific wind and stor m until, at last, there was promise of fair weather . Captain Nat, nearly worn out from anxiety, care, and the loss of sleep, had gone to his statercom and the firs t mate was in charge. I t was three o'clock, the wind still blowing and the da rkness pitchy, when t he forward lookout shrieked a warning, " Breakers under the lee !" Al-most t he next instant the ship was on a coral r eef, f ull of water, a nd the seas breaking over her from stem to s tern.

Morning came and showed a little patch of land, with palm trees and trop-ical vegetation waving in the gusts and green in t he sunshine. Captain Nat or-dered t he boats to be lowered. Much as he hated t he t hought, he saw the "Sea Mis t " had ma

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were busy. T rumet had a new hero now. On Wednesday the Boston papers printed exerpt.s from Captain Hammond's s tory. and these pre limina ry accounts ar oused the admirat ion of every citizen. It was p ro-posed to give him a reception. E lkanah was the moving spiri t in the prepara-tions. Cap tain Nat, so they lea rned by telegraphing, would arrive on the noon t rain Thursda v. His was not t o be a prosaic progr~ss by stage a ll the wa y from Sandwich. A special carriage, drawn by t he Daniels span and escor ted by other vehicles, was to meet the coach at Bayp ort and bring him to Tru:net in tr iumpha nt process ion. All t his was to be a surpr ise, of course. Wedne~day after noon the Da niels fo l-

lowing was cheered by the t idings that Grace Van Horne had left t he beach an1l was at her old home, t he H ammond tavern. A nd Mrs. Poundberry r epor ted her busy as a bee "get tin' things ready." This was encouraging a nd indica ted t hat the minist er had been t hrown over, as he dese rved to be, and t hat Nat would fin d his fiunccc wait ing a nd ready to fulfill her contract. " Reg'lar whirlig ig, tha t g irl,' sniffed Didama Rogers. " If she can 't have on e ma n she'll t ake the next, and t hen swit ch back soon·s the winJ changes. H owever , most likely she never was engaged to Mr. Ellery, an yho'' " Ila's been out of his head a nd might ha ve ~aid some fool t hings that let D r. Par-ker and the rest b'lieve he was in Ion with her . As for• p ickin' of him up and tot in ' him back to the shanty that night , that wa'n 't not hin' but common human-ity. She couldn't let him die in the mir!-rlle of t he light house lane, could she?"

'rhursda y was a perfect day, a nd t he reception commi ttee was on hand and waiting in front of the B ayport po-;t office. The special carr iage, the spnn brushed a nd cun ierl un til their coats g listened in t he sunshine, was drawn up beside t he platfor m. The horses had lit t le flags fastened to their br idles, and t here were ot her a nd larger flags on each side of the cl a sh'board. Captai 'l Daniels, imposing in hi s Sunday raiment, high-col l~ued coat , s tock, silk hat a nd golcl headed cane, sa t stiffly er ect o~ the !'eat in the rear. The other carnages wer e along~i de, among them Captain Zebedee Mayo's a ncient chaise, t he white horse sound asleep b et ween t he shafts. Captain Zeb had not been invited to j oin the escor t, but h ad joined it wit hout a n invi tation.

" I guess likely I'd better be on band," the capta in confided to Dr. P arker . " May-be I can stop Elkana h from talk:i n' t oo much about-well, about what we don't want him to talk a bcut, and besides, I 'm just as a nxious to g ive Nat a welcome home as t he next feller . He's a brick and wo·re all proud of him. By mighty ! I'd like to have seen th at er.aft he built out of cocoanuts a nd churches.-I would so."

Kyan Pepper wa~ t her e a lso, not y1>t fu lly recovered from t he surpr ise which Lavinia's g racious permission had g iven him. Abisha i had been leaning discon-:;olately ovr his front gate ear ly t hiit

morning when Noah Ellis, the light-keeper , jogged down the lane.

" 'l\Iornin', 'Bish," hailed Noah, pull-ing up his horse. ''What's the matter ? You look bluer'n a spi led mack'rel. What·s t he l'OW? Brea kfast disagree with you?"

"Naw," replied Kyan shortly. " Where you bound. all i·igged up in your shore duds ? ..

" Bound to Ba yport, to see Nat Ha m-mond land," was the cheerful answer. ·•r ai n't had a day off I don't know when a nd I thought I 'd take one. Be gr ea t

a p 11 Hammond? Dear ! dear !" He win ked at Simmons, who wa ntl! rl

lo la u"h b 1· ,. " • ut c td not dare. " Come ! come !" sa id Cart a in E lkana h ·

Where is he? W I . . . Cap 'n H ani-lllond ?" . 1e1e s

"W " h

el l, now, 111 te ll ye . r don't knO' w er e he · " '

" JS. ..You don't'? Isn 't he wit h you ?"

th No, .he a in't . And he didn ' t come (lll 0 d tr ain, n11the r. H e wus on it. Th~

coin uctor t old me he sec h im and :;e a ong · fu r with h im between s tations a s as Cohasset Narrows But after that he ncve1· se h'd · 1• Qh . th t' - L e nor ha ir of 11111. ,,

a s so! Her e's the ma il b ag, E zr y.

t. Captain Eknana h looked at the rec~P-10 11 com . d t 111 111. H nn ttec an d it looke a le ere Was t . I t setbaC

for all a mos d tsconso a . e fter a k

. t he plans. The committee , ~ ~ c 111g "' • estt0ll· • wen t . •uOl'e, a nd f r ui tless qu

C into executive session .

aptain Zab stepped beside the stage an,?SPut one -foot on t he wheel.

ay T had " h h ' . d "is thfl t all ' , e w 1spere , ?" "You know? Wh er e did he go to· tor

Can't t ell you .cap'n The conudUCr. says he see him' afor e . t hey got to vo-

( Con t in uc heeded. Well-I-I, almost he wished that they had come for r easons other than remembering him on his birthday. B1Jt enough, h e must r ise to the occasion--a nd he did !

After shor t ta lks of a pprecia t ion from the cha irman of the Board of Deacons, tho Sunday £Choo! superintendent, the B. Y. P . U. Director , a r epr esentati ve of t he W omen's Missionary Union, and t he sponsor of the Wor ld Wide Guild. pastor Stoed was presented with a de-licious cake in the name of the Women's Missionary U nion. Then came a Deacon wit h a lar ge bouquet of lovely flowus in his arms and a n en velope in his ha nd. These t wo were presented in t he name of the church. The la tter was found to

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A Song of Thanks For eyes to see t his a utumn world,

And lips to sing its beauty; For feet to take the happy trail

Of winter's waiting duty;

For light of home and love of friends And wholesome joy of Jiving;

For grace to know my good estate, Thanksgiving !

- Youth's Companion.

The Missionary Conference at Rochester

Prof. A. A. Schade

Rocheste1· is a sort of a Mecca to whicll the saints and sages of many lands make their pilgrimagas. Here we are privi leg-ed to listen to the educators, scientists, missionaries and" evangelists who have the ear of t he world. On October 7-9 we were honored and privileged by a visit 0f the missionary conference team which , 30 in numerical str ength, is invading some 29 cities from Nebraska to the eastern seaboard. On this team are out-standing miss ionaries, mission secretar-ies, and native Christian leaders from foreign lands. The purpose of the con-ferences is to call upon the s leeping Christians to awaken, rub the sand out of t heir eyes and see what is happening to the cherished foreign missionary en-terprise of the last 125 years, which is t he outsanding achievement of Chris tian-ity since t he Reformation. S:nce many of t he r eaders of " The Baptist Herald" do not live in t hese centers and therefore cannot hear these speakers. and since they have meant so much to the Christ ian folk of Rochester . it set i~ f~re1gn land~ that it will not only sur-~1ve,. but thrive even if Westers support 1s w1thdr.awn. '.!'he non-Christian lands are. prov_ided 'With Christian leadership which will . carry on. But unless the mcvem~n.t 1s supp.orted, ~he wise guid-ance which Amencan nussionaries a lend in the development of the missi: ~ ary institu tions which have been bu~t up by sacrificia l service, and which a

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rend"Bring the native population an ine:~ t imable service will have to be cl d. Th t · h ose · d

e r~~lmbp danf~ '!1arch of Cliris t·s King-om w1 e e m1tely impeded. All over

the country there are Christians h say "Th t t w o . : a mus not be." These miss-ionary conferences will help thous d who are halting between two opinioi::nt~ come to ~ new, wholehearted dedication t~ ~he asf·s 1g1n1men~ of Christ to "Make dis-c1p es o a nat ·ons," not lettinl? u · our effo1ts till He comes. P 111

The Outstanding Apostle of Chris tianity

on the team was Dr. E Stanley J t h th . f · . . ones e. au o1 o so many nuss1onary hoc~ wh1~h belong to a. class of their own, T he Ch1·is t of the Indian R oad, The Christ of t he. Round T able, Christ and Hwman Suf-fer mu, etc. He proved to be an au'horit not only on the status of m· . Y b d b . 1ss1ons a roa . ut m equal measure a d' t· . f iagno-s ic1an o the religious and the , ..

health of Christians at home Ho .ogical d · IS ad-sresdses atft the large mass meetings on u.n a y a ernoon and Monday ni ht . spite of t he admission charge dreg ' 111

d th t th . • w such crow s a .e auditoriums of the Cen t~al P resbytenan Church and th B -tist Temple, seating around tw e th ap-sand, could not r~ceive all Ao

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d tab! f · nc his roun e con er ence lasting tw h on Monday morning for ministe° ours theo~ogical students ovei·taxed th~s and mod1ous quarteTs which had b corn-ed. In these four h h een select.-

ours e presented the most profound interpretat · Christian gospel to a lost '~~~ldof our challenged us to a devotion to th· · and which sent every one on his 18 cause ing the stimulation of new !if w~y· f f>

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Life's Orchestra ELEANOR A. HOFFMAN

Life is like a n orchestra, With instruments so fine.

Each one has a p:ace to fill In God's program, divine.

\Ve must all play together, T::> mak~ the song worth while,

We must keep our instruments in tun~· With a bright and cheery smile.

No matter what our color be, No matter what our i·ace.

If we'd all play happily, This world would be a better place.

50th Church Anniver::ary Plum Creek, S. Oak., Church On Wednesday, Oct. 4, Lhe Plum Creek

l:laptist Church celebrated the 50th An-niver sary of its beginning. The church edifice was beautifully deco1·ated with flowers and a large anniversary sign. The weathc,r was very nice, making it possible for many friends and former members to attend.

Rev. E . Broeckel of Tyndall preached the opening sermon, followed by a short historv of the church by the local pas-tor , Rev. E. Gutsche. The church was founded on O.ct. 13, 1883, with a total of 88 members.

Short talks were g iven by six charter mem bers who wer e able to be present. Most of Lhe others have bei:n called Lo carry on in the church above.

The afternoon meeting was conclucled with the g :ving of reminiscences and con-grat ulations by visitors and former mem-b2rs. Supper was ser ved at 5 o'clock.

By means of a loud speaker it was possible for t hose in the basement and for t hose outside Lo hear the program in the evening. Rev. A. S tflter of Del-mont, S. Dale, led a song service. We had t he pleasw·e to have Rev. Buen-ning, a former pastor, in our midst. The speakers for the evening were : Rev. Buenning, now in Corona, S. Dak., and Rev. J. F. Olthoff of Madison, S. Dak.

We were also favored by special sing-ing, consisting of duet s and a number of ~ongs by the ladies quartet.

May the Lord continue to be with us in th2 fut ure and may we be urged eVl'l' forward to ~erve him until t he end!

Y. P. S. SECRETARY.

Set Apart for Sacred Service The Reverend John Broeder

Another recent g raduate from our School of Prophets has been called by one of our churches to assume t he position of undershepherd and ll!adcr. Up in the great Province of Alberta, some half-way betwe2n Calgary and Edmonton, lies the li ttle town of Trochu. Many of the wheat farmers of that section speak th,• Geiman tongue and are of Baptist per-~uasion. There you will find a vigorous l'hurch with its quota of mission station .~ i>triving to make Chr ist known as th~ Savior. For a number of years Rev. E.

P. Wahl led t his church in n most suc-cessful manner, but , you know how it goes- folks in P ortland heard about him and enticed him to pack up his goods and return to his native good old U. S. A.

But this congregation, even though :iuffering from the depression like all other churches, decided it could not af-ford to handicap its spiritual life by get-ting along without a minister, and so it proceeded to cast about for a minister to take up the work. Somehow ·thev learned of our Brother J ohn Broedz1:, who orig inally hails from North Dakota, but who has spent seven years in faith-ful study in Rochester, and who gained t he es teem of all who know him by his fa ithful personality and by his diligen t scholar~hip. They called him, and he gladly accepted.

Now it is not so simple a matter for an American to cross the international boundry line and t ake up a position in the land of our Northern neighbor. Canada also ha s more workers than jobs, and she feels that her first duty is to · word her own citizens. But she was ~enerous enough to make an exception m the case of a Christian minister who ~as b2en ordained to the lask of preach-mg the gospel. Under these conditions it was preferred to have the ordination service held in Rochester.

The Monroe County Baptist Associa-tion has a Council for the examination a~d. ordination of candidates for the ministry. Brother Broeder appeared be-fore this Council on T uesday, October 17, .an~ told them how he came to be a Cl~r~st1an, why he entered the Christian mm1stry, and what message he has for the world. The Council was g rat ified liy ~he st.ateme.nt, unanimously decided to set him a side for t he Gospel Ministr " ~md. advised the Church to hold a sei~-1~e m public recognition of this ordina -~1on. That is the way Dr. A. H. Strong 1? days gone. by t.rained the local Bap-tists, and the11· children choose to abide by the ways of their fathers. More com.monly t~e Council mer ely votes to advise t he Church to 01·dai n.

This recognition service was held on Wednesday evening in the Andrew S Church, P 1;?f. L. Kaiser preachings th~ sermon on A Dynamic Ministry., b _ -on 2 ~or. 2. He stressed the n~ed ~;-~ dyndam1c, .consecrate! d personality, and of a ynam1.c gospe message. Prof A Bretschne1der welcomed the b . th ·. · t h f II h. ro er 111to e e om; ip of the minist d minded h im of the high ho · ry an l'l!-

f h h nors and al ·o ~ th.e eapvy responsibilit ies wl;ich wou~d

e is. rof. F. w c M dressed the broth · · p eyer .the n acl-

er on a u! s imm tal words spoken on the shi or R h P, en r oute to

ome, w en he consoled his fell -~engeri; t hat th ow pas--" h e angel of the Lord s~~o~seb;e hil~1a~~1~v~;~hhe s~r~es," hacl phrase in Germa . "D e ~ig t . The d . h . n is cs ich bin and

em ic d1ene." From this th k . r~ssor evolved a degree of Be Deen hp~o,may not b f · ·• w 1c 1

h . h e o scholastic origin but w ic may mean . fi 'tel ' b 1 Ill n1 Y more He e ongs to Christ and serves Chr' t.

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Bro. Broeder left t he nexL morn ing for his field of se1·vice. l\Iay he who "walk~ among the candlesticks, and carries the seven stars in his i;ght hand," bless this newly form ed pastoral r elationship!

~RTHUR A. SCHADE.

Ordination of John P . Kuehl a t Boston, Mass.

( A belated report, furnished at the reques t of t he Editor)

Pursuant to a call issued by the First German Baptist Church of Boston, Mass., a Chur.ch Council met on June 30 a t 2.30 P. M., for the purpose of considering the advisability of setting apart Brother John P. Kuehl to the gospel ministry.

A roll call showed that there wer e 30 delegates present from 13 churches of the Boston West Bapt ist Association (English) as well as a r epresentative from the German Baptist Church of New Haven, Conn.

Brother Kuehl was then asked to give a statement of his Christian experience. I [e responded with a well prepared state-ment relating to his dedication to Chris t after striking experiences of divine Grace. H e likewise r esponded wit h a well prepared statement of hi s call to the ministr y and of his views on Chr is-tian doctrines. The Council was well pleased with his statements and vot'!d unanimously to r ecommend to the church t hat it proceed with the ordination.

The ordination service was conducted on Friday evening, June 30, in the F irst German Baptis t Church in which Bro. Kuehl has served as student-pastor for the pas t yea r and a half. Upon the rP-quest of the candidate Rev. David G. Ride1· of the F irst Baptist Chu rch vf Laconia. N. I-1., preached t he ordination ~ermon. Rev. V. Broderick of the First Baptist Church offered the ordination Prayer. Rev. W. H. Marsell of t he Cen-tre St. Baptis t Church gave the .charge lo the minis ter and the church. A w el-come into the denomination was given by Rev. Edward B. Dolan of the Massa-l'husett s Baptist State Convention. Bene-diction was offered by Rev. John P. Kuehl.

The service was further enriched by selections from the choir and a cello solo by Mt'. Ka rl Zeise, accompanied at the organ by Mrs. Freel. Schlicht ing, both m~mbers of the local church.

Rev. Kuehl has accepted t he call of the church to continue to serve them ns their pastor.

May the Lord bless his ministry abund-antly ! FRED. SCHLICHTING.

• • • "Talk about poverty; if you want to

s,ee r eal pover ty, you ought to tr~vel t nrough some of the mountain sections in the South!"

'·Terrible conditions, eh?" " Why, some of those mountaineers live

in shacks so dilapidated that every time it rains t hey have to go out and s it in the sedan.'"

November 15, 1983

Afro-English PAUL GEBAUER

·•Excuse my idiot. l\Iy idiot and your idiot no be de same," said E timbe Ngale, the new catechist of L~komba Church, t o the small congregat ion of West-Coast-Africans at the close of his first sermon and sat dow11. What 'I. pow-owerfu l end ing of an otherwise :>;:iod speech. Ngale, having only s lightly tasted of t he whi le man's world-language tried to show himself wort hy of his new ·lunge by employing a word which he -nay have heard only once : idiom, and just s lipt a bit putting his wisdom to work. Anti like him slip so many of our Africans, youth especially, when ex-pressing themse·ves in a tongue more than foreign to them. They do in t he run· of the years-true to t heir lingu-is tic gifts-master English in theory, but practically it remains for ma ny noth-ing more a foreign vehicle, all too stran;?e in construction and t rend of t hought . For your benefit we collected at random some of the Afro-English products on our way through government and mission schools of Cameroons Province:

How I Spent My H olyday

"When we got our holiday I went to Tiko to ask for some work. I s:ept there almos t a day and I found that the place was full of hunger. This was the r eason which made me to leave Tiko and to go to Ekona P lantat ion. When I r eached there I slept one day and early in the morning about 4 o'clo.ck we went to t he line. I worked almost two weeks and the ot her week I was sick."

(C. E. Ngula, the '"-riter of this s ick and hungry piEce of literature, is about 15 years of age and came to the mission school about 4 years ago from a tribe in the inte1·ior.)

A Letter to a Manager of a Mission:

"Sir? I have a g reat desire to reproof you per fectly tha t I am very poo1· w;th my wife together. So I write this few note that you may charitly to borrow me the sum of one pound ten shillings. Hop-ing that you will fullfilled my cheerful desire I thanks in anticipation. Yours, etc.' '

(The writer serves a cer tain m1ss1on as a cat echist. He r eceived his earliest education in h is nat ive language and in German. In the great rush for Eng:ish education af t er the war he vis ited the fnfant Dept. of a government school for approxi mately 4 years. Il is "cheerful desire" indicates that he has not touched a textbook since. Some infant!)

A fa ma

(To enjoy lhe following report of a teacher in a vernacular school we may say that Afama presents a cul t imported into t he province by clever Calabar tr ad-ers, who exploit the ignorance of their neighbors to the utmost. T he Afnma worship has many secret fo~Jowers, c~uses much unrest and unhappiness, and is to be held responsible for many cases of cl ea th.)

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Foumban Palace

"A[ama.-lt's two young t rees planted in t he middle of a town and round it with a smnll fence. E very ending of the month the people of t hat town should kill a goat and cook food and eat it be-for e their god. And they began to wor-.

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Keziah Coffin (Continued from page 10)

hasset a nd not after. Naturally , we s'pcse he got off there. Pretty good joke on o!d Daniels, I call it. Serve him d ght, figgeri n ' to take a passenger away from me. He! he !"

.. But you do know more, now don' t you? T zll a fe ller- come! I clon 't like J