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S;,camps,"groups."*pastors'Vineyard GleaningsIndependent Missionary OrganizationsChina Inland MissionThe work of the China Inland Mission is somewhatfamiliar to our readers and as you know it was begun byHudson Taylor who went out independent of any board,just trusting the Lord and praying for such funds and reenforcementsas he felt were immediately needed. Thismission worked in China until the closing of that field,though perhaps there are still some workers left there. Itbecame the largest mission of all China and since thattime has transferred its work to other continents. It ismentioned here as an example of various organizationswhich are workingat the present time and carried on inmuch the same way. We will mention a few of them fortheir letters come to our desk on an average I would sayof about once a week, perhaps not so often as it seems.The Pocket Testament League, IncorporatedThe home address of this organization is New YorkCity. I take from their methods that they consider that theEvangelization of the world consists in gathering out theelect and that when this reaches a definite number, thenthe Lord will come back. However, perhaps I am assumingthis because this is the theory of the Christian and Missionary Alliance. What this organization is doing is to collectmoney, put it into New Testaments and distribute themby the thousands, if not to say millions, over the widestpossible territory. This looks very superficial comparedwith the mission that sits down in one place and organizesschools and continues in evangelistic work through thedecades. But we have the promise: "My word shall notreturn unto me void, it shall accomplish that whereuntoI sent it." Just now I have before me an account of theirMau Mau Campaign and the letter starts off, "In Januarywe launched what promises to be the greatest scripturedistribution and massive evangelistic campaign of our historythe African campaign. We have done an extensivesurvey to determine the areas of greatest need and opportunity and tentative plans of operation had been mappedout, when the cryingneed in Kenya altered them. Soonafter we arrived in Africa we began to receive urgent appeals for help in Kenya, scene of the Mau Mau uprising. Aveteran missionary stressed the urgency of the situationthere and asked PTL to move in at once."We were immediately faced with the tremendous challenge of 70,000 Mau Mau detainees living behind barbedwire fences in 30 detentionetc. The middle spreadpage shows a photograph of Evangelists preaching to 7000detainees at McKinnon Road Camp.Thrilling Results"Although government regulations did not permit usto obtain signatures from the detainees hundreds of themindicated by upraised hands that they had accepted JesusChrist as their Saviour.ruined many of the new crops. It is estimated that up to20,000 persons are in danger of actual starvation, and twicethat number are suffering from diseases of malnutrition.The ,U.Jamaica, and other nearby countries are supplying aid, but many of the stricken people are in remotemountain areas, and are too weak tp come down to thetowns for help.September 7, 1955World Vision, Inc.The headquarters of this organization is in Portland,Oregon. The field that they are working at the present timeis in Asia, and their particular project about which theyare writing is four conferences they are holding inIndo China, Formosa, Korea, and the Philippines. Theseconferences cover a period of seven weeks and the leadersare a team traveling from one to the next. "Last year wehad 2212 pastors attend in Korea. This year we expect manymore. Over 400 pastors are coming from Formosa and inwar-torn Vietnam, 167 leaders are assembling from jungles,camps and cities of Indo China. Already 200 pastors haverequested to come from the Philippines. A team of fourmen, Drs. Edman Halverson, Carl Well, Cook, and Smith,together with the prominent local pastors, minister totheThe letter is signed by Bob Pierce. There arevarious retreats being held in order to put new enthusiasminto evangelists from these various communities.American Soul ClinicThe headquarters of this organization is Los Angeles.The notice of localities in which they are working is likea roll-call of the United Nations. Not only does it take inthose nations which we call backward nations, Japan,Mexico etc., but includes Great Britain, Ireland and America, the deep South and the Jews. The Founder-Director ofSoul Clinic International is Fred Jordan. Their literaturesays that they have put into action showers of scriptureupon the three million people attending the conference ofRio de Janeiro, Brazil, and are working throughout SouthAmerica in teams.The Far East Broadcasting Company, Inc.Their headquarters is Whitaker, Calif. However theheadquarters of the broadcasting is in Manila. From thatpoint they broadcast to Japan, the Philippines, Malaya,Formosa, etc. Surely the word of God is not bound. Thisorganization started on a shoe string and soon they weregetting their transmitters on credit, and stepping out onfaith, and on the faith of their contributors are extendingtheir influence far and wide, using many languages.(Continued on page 149)THE COVENANTER WITNESSIssued each Wednesday by the Publication Board of theREFORMED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHOF NORTH AMERICAat 129 West 6th Street, Newton, Kansas orthrough its editorial office at 1209 Boswell Avenue, Topeka. 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