The Holly chieftain., 1923-12-13
MISSIONARIES AT THE M. Z.
CHURCH

DR.. II, A. Musser, jungle Man"
OF India. and Rev. c. g. Urban of
Africa spoke interestingly at the
Methodist Church last Sunday.
Mr.. Urban, who is brother of
Mrs. Harry O'Kane. spoke Sunday
evening, as did also Mrs. Urban.
They told the romantic and always
interesting story of life in Africa
and work among barbarous
people. Tile work there is indus
trial and educational as well as
spiritual and the effort is to trans
form the life of the young people
In the morning Dr.. Musser spoke
for an hour to full house holding
their eager attention to the end
He has spent ten years in the
juneles of India and has thrill
ing story to tell. He took for his
text Isaiah 35, THE wilderness
(jungle, and the Solitary place
shall be glad for them (the> mis-
sicnaliesl and the desert shall
rejoice and blossom as the rose
etc" In brief he said, THE mis-
sionary always gives Jesus his
right place or he would not have
the devotion to go at all. | have
seen every sentence of lisa. 81 full
filled the eyes of the blind open
ed. aeaf ears unstopped, the lame
made to walk, highway in the
wilderness and the banishment of
sorrow and signing. The Gospel
of Jesus heals the body, trains
the brain, lifts man up socially
and saves the soul The Christian
doctor and the Christian teacher
stands side by side with the Christ
ian minister, especially on the
Mission field
Medical work in India is saving
millions. 10000 pairs of human eyes
were opened by the medical
missionaries in single year. DR.
Canrite in 35 years has treated q
million people on one mission
field and never lost case on the
operating table His hospital serv-
ed for 81 million people. For lack
of funds it was closed for three
wears but the good doctor taught
school to support himself and went
on healing the natives One little
blind boy he healed came later.
leading ten other little blind boys
with him to be healed.
Tens of thousands of villages In
India have never heard OF Jesus
Il went to a village six miles from
a railway-riding in Il OK cart to
Christian village of 300 souls threat
ened by a forest fire" he said 1t
was at this time that DR.. Musser
rescued little wild creature OF
boy who afterwards became the
jungle Song Bird The tongue OF
the dumb was made to sing" There
are 100000 villages in India, many
of whom have never seen Whlte'
face. Many are dead villages en-
tirely wiped ont by cholera due to
single inhahitant drinking filth!
water and spreading the disease
A medical missionary could have
saved the thousands who died.
He told how when boy OF y
his mother who died a year later
saw him in dream grown up
man preaching in the jnngles. AT
his birth she had dedicated him to
the ministry. In conclusion ne
said, God does not need your
monev--but he wants 1t for when
he gets your money he gets your
soul for himself"
These missionaries who visited
Holly Sunday but two Of a great
host who are leading tie hosts of
God on the foreign field. A pro
fessor in the State University OF
Colorado witnessed the earth
quake in japan. While there he
studied Methodist missions
Though not a member of the
church he was so struck with the
good work being done he sent In
5000 with strong testimonial for
the missionaries In Japan" he
said, The missionaries have been
very wise in developing the church
under Japanese auspices, without
offense to the people of Japan,
Not only Methodists, but others,
not even Christians may well lend
their aid to this good work"