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soon."years'need,"us"close of the war, is finding it hard to maintain muchof the work already begun.Both at home and abroad there has been a newconcern for evangelism. Most notable have been themass evangelistic services. However, this concern hasnot resulted in any great change in procedure. Thenumber of missionaries sent out for evangelisticwork as compared with those for institutional workhas not changed appreciably.These observations merely point up the complex,changing nature of missions in the world today.Probably the layman cannot hope to become well informed concerning every aspect of the missions picture, but he can better his understanding of such information as may come to his attention. Above all,he can avoid the grievous mistake of assuming thatmissions and missionaries face substantially thesame problems and situations that they faced in thedays of Livingstone and Carey.Ruth Reade Injured. Late word tells that RuthReade met with an accident and was badly hurtthough not seriously injured. On her way to prayermeeting July 27th she was knocked down by a motorcycle and received injuries in leg, nose, and face,which necessitated a three weeks stay in the hospital. On August 16 Mr. Copeland wrote : "Miss Readewas released from the hospital yesterday, and we areglad that she is on the road to recovery. It has takenlonger than we expected it would in the beginning asthe nose was more badly damaged than it appearedat first. It is looking quite normal again. The legwill require a little longer to heal over completely,though she can get around on it now. She expectsto go to Troodos tomorrow. That is three weeks in ahospital bed she wouldn't have spared in a very busysummer, but God has His purposes and gives Hisblessing with all His strange and secret providences.We are grateful to Him that she will be well and normal againRECEPTION FOR Mr. H. H. MEMOURThe following note in a letter from Rev. ClarkCopeland is of immediate importance since it callsfor your prayers on an important matter, so we areby-passing the Missionary Editor Dr. McCarroll,knowing that he will pardon us this time. Editor inChief.Yesterday morning (August 22) the Weirs,John Bilemdjian a student in the Larnaca Academyand member of the Young People's Society ,andI drove down to Limassol to meet Mr. H. H. Memourwho arrived home after threestudy at theEuropean Bible Institute, Paris. There we found hisfather and mother and brother-in-law waiting forhim to come ashore What a happy meeting it wasfor them and for us! Greater pride and joy couldhardly be evidenced by Christian parents as their sonarrived home from a seminary course to take up hiswork in a pastorate, than these Moslem parents hadon their faces and in their conversation. Truly thatis a work of grace in their hearts, and we trust asign of a fuller work to be realized in their conversion. We agreed to gather some friends and go totheir home in the village for a "home-coming" partyin the evening. About seven o'clock that evening 10of us and the family sat down around a table in theyard to a meal. Some of us had taken things along;there was the usual village feast roast lamb andpotatoes, macaroni, chicken, except for the wine.Relatives and friends came in to welcome the homecomerand stayed on the perimeter of things watching the proceedings, much in the manner of the dayof Christ. After the table had been cleared we sat.there in the yard, the minaret of the Mosque not astone's cast away, and sang Psalm 23 & 121 in English and explained the meaning in Greek (betterknown to most of the people of the village thanTurkish). After reading part of Ephesians 2 different ones spoke a few words of welcome home andinto the Lord's work and Memour replied, showinghow it was God's call and the work of His grace thatbrought him back, not his faithfulness to a promise, because there were many attractions to remainin Etorope and England to work. Another Psalm andprayer brought the evening to a close.It was a very happy occasion for all, the parentsand members of his family included. We beg yourprayers that his entrance into the Lord's work willbe the beginning of a new dayof power in the witness for God here.Sincerely yours,ClarkGLEANINGS from page 147World Fellowship of Slavic Evangelical ChristiansThis organization claims to have been evangelizing theSlavs for more than 80 years, but "your stewardship of theeternity."Lord's money is bringing dividends for Your giftsto the World Fellowship have resulted in many Russiansbeing won to Christ and many more being built up in theirmost holy faith. "We are trusting God to supply the greatfinancialso you His steward maywork in suchcountries as "Argentina, Switzerland, Brazil, Finland,Greece, etc. Most of their doctrinal bases are orthodox, theonly one which we might question is "the Personal VisibleReturn of Our Lord" which is rather ambiguous.MISCELLANEOUSNow we have not mentioned such other organizationsas "Youth For Christ," "Child Evangelism," and the variousorganizations like the Giddeons, the Bible Society,etc. Butthese organizations are carrying on and receiving contributions not from any particular denomination, but just frombroadcasting their literature and seem to extend theirwork indefinitely, and certainly this is one of the signs ofthe times.The Student Volunteer Movement of a fewdecades ago had for their motto "the Evangelization ofthe World in This Generation." Many new facilities of communication and the growing list of evangelizing agencieshaving this goal makes it seem as though this would beimmediately possible. I have not said in so many wordsthat all of these organizations are appealing for funds,nor am I urging anyone to contribute to them, yet I cannot forget that Jesus said to the disciples who rebukedthose who were preachinglowed not withChrist "because they have foland His answer was, "He that is notus."against us is for And so we may all pray that everybit of truth shall reach its proper destination in the heartsof the multitudes and remember the admonition of theapostle when he said, "Wherefore, my beloved brethren, beye steadfast, immoveable, always abounding in the work ofthe Lord, inasmuch as ye know that your labor is notin vain in the Lord." 149September 7, 1955