Covenanter Witness Vol. 54 - Rparchives.org

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us."
A Travelog
by Orlena Lynn
Japan address : P.O. Box 822, Kobe, Japan
Dear Friends,
It barely
January 1955
seems possible that it has been one
year since I left Japan and the furlough time is
nearly over. The trip home the long way shortened
the time at home some, but was certainly interesting
and well worth while. When Helen and Anne first
planned to come that way I thought that I could nev
er consider such a trip because I would never be able
to afford it. When I found it to cost no more than
living in Japan the extra 2y> months and then com
ing directly across the Pacific, I was certainly glad
that I had come the Europe way.
Our trip included many stops but only short
stays in each place. In Singapore we found tempera
tures of 80 in January. Monkeys were running wild
on Elephant Island just outside of Bombay. Our legs
verdicts of His contemporaries
friends and enemies
alike :
"I find no fault in this said Pilate.
"Truly this was the Son of God," exclaimed the
centurion at the foot of the cross.
John the Baptist said, "Behold the Lamb of
God."
John on the Isle of Patmos refers to Him as
"Tlie bright and morning
"Never man spake like this said the offi
cers.
"I have sinned in that I have betrayed the inno
cent blood," confessed Judas.
Thomas exclaimed: "My Lord and my God."
The angels in heaven addressed the world : "Un
to you is born, a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord."
And last of all, the Father in heaven said of
Christ : "This is my beloved Son in whom I am well
Think again, then, this morning on Him on
whom the eyes of the world so recently focused.
Think of His purpose in coming. "The Son of man
came not to be ministered unto, but to and
to give his life a ransom for "I am He
said, "that they might have life, and that they might
have it more
And further we read, that
He "hath abolished death, and hath brought life and
gospel."
immortality to light through the
Where do YOU stand this morning before Him
whose birth the world has so recently remembered
Have you made your peace with Him, who, through
the forgiveness of
sin,
will fill your life with "the
peace of God, which passeth all understanding" If
you have not yet committed your life to Christ, listen
this morning to Him as He says : "Come unto me all
ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give
you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me ;
for I am meek and lowly in heart : and ye shall find
rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my
burden is light." And with the words of the writer to
the Hebrews, I close: "See that ye refuse not him
speaketh."
that
January 26, 1955
were a bit stiff after we rode the camels out to see
the Sphinx and pyramids in Egypt. It was only after
I had walked down the street at 2 a.m., alone and
carrying my suitcase, and ended up in a dump of a
place that 1 learned that Port Said is not considered
the safest city in the world. Having learned one
Arabic word in Egypt, and having occasion to use it
just as I arrived at our school in Latakia, the gate
keeper insisted on rattling off a great string of Ara
bic, feeling sure that I must understand every word
of it. The ladies in the Syrian mountain village knew
better, though, and thought I must be -very dumb
because I didn't even know how to speak Arabic.
The stop on the island of Cyprus provided the oppor
tunity of visiting our schools in both Larnaca and
Nicosia.
A third class passage on a small Italian ship on
the Mediterranean can prove most interesting, es
pecially when there are 100 members of an Italian
circus troupe aboard and only two others in third
class can speak English. My friends were waiting for
me in Venice, and from there we went on into Swit
zerland. There we saw the beauty of the snow-cov
ered mountains for which that country is so famous.
I took colored slides as our chair was lifted by cable
up to the top of Mt. Niederhorn. After an enjoy
able visit with Anne Beguin Horton in Paris, Helen's
Swedish background gave us good reason for heading
northward. Swedish missionary friends from Hong
Kong gave us a hearty welcome and made us reluc
tant to leave their country.
London has no end of interesting places to visit.
The changing of the guard was a colorful event.
When the queen mother went from Clarence House
to Buckingham Palace there was a large crowd at
each place, but we alone were standing by Victoria
Monument as she rode by and graciously waved to us.
We also had the privilege of attending the Billy Gra
ham meetings in London. The effect was tremendous
there. Bagpipes sound the best as one stands outside
Edinburgh Castle at night looking over Princes
Street. The 2y2-day visit with Alison and Hugh Blair
in Ballymoney, Ireland, was too short, but delight
ful.
A great part of the time at home has been spent
in traveling about to many of our churches. In fact,
the time in the U.S. includes traveling about 17,000
miles and speaking for 120 meetings. There has been
time with the family and friends, too,
and this we
have enjoyed.
Mother and Dad expect to drive me as far as
Phoenix this month. I am to sail from San Francisco
on February 4th on the "Pacific Bear," and return to
Kobe, Japan. It has been good to be home on this
furlough year and to be with the family once again,
yet I also find myself looking forward to getting back
to the Covenanter Book Room in Kobe. The spiritual
darkness in the land of Japan is great and we have
the responsiblity and privilege of sharing with them
the Good News that "while we were yet sinners
Christ died for We are not ashamed of the Gos
pel for it is "the power of God unto salvation to
everyone that believeth."