The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-03

the mission. Sixteen years ago one of our teachers had baptized this mans son, thinking the child was dying. When the father had heard that his son had been bap- tized, he was furious and swore he would never allow the child to be a Christian. Since that time the child was prevented from coming to church or school. And now the old man was dying of starvation as also the other members of the family. Food and medicine was sent. The old man was amazed. An, he exclaimed" the Christians are good, they must be the chil- dren of God. No one but a Chris tian would save his enemy from death" Then he seemed to be suspicious and asked: But what message did the father send; does he want my son?" But he was told that the Father had heard he was dying, so he sent you food and medicine. AS to the boy, if he wants to come to the mission and follow his religion, that is his busi- ness. The old man was astounded and said: "The Father has the religion of God and to think that I have been fighting against the Mission all these years.
 Jealous Convert
 He sent messages of thanks and asked forgiveness for the trouble he had made in years gone by. Then some days later the old man himself hobbled along; he was barely able to walk as he was painfully weak. However, he got another man to help him. He came to thank the Father person. ally for his help. On the way he begged from house to house for a drop of milk and when he was finished he had nearly 8 pint. This he offered to the Father of the Mission as 8 gift. On his way home he told all, that the Chrisr tians had the true religion and that he himself was to become a Christian himself.
 This is just one incident to show how the pagans are affected by the charity of the Christians of America. In their hour of need, help was given to all in want, ir- respective of the faith or creed. When they found the mission helping the pagans and Islams as well as the Christians they were wonderfully impressed.
 Old Pine Hill
 Nearly the whole of his country is similar to the top of Pine Hill as 1t was several years ago. All rock and very little ground for use in planting. If 1t rains too hard, all the ground and crops are washed away, and if there is no rain, they get nothing. And yet this country is much better than the plain below where the hot sun withers everything by day and wild animals roam about killing everything they meet.
 Now our plan at present is to teach the people how to protect their soil against erosion by plant ing trees and laying rocks in dif- ferent places to keep back rush of water when it rains too hard. We are also trying to build schools to help the children with a little education as regards the correct way of farming, but this takes quite bit of money. If any of the readers of the Democrat would like to help in this great work, l wish they would send what they could. hope this letter will satisfy your readers and give them some idea of the work which I am doing out here in the middle of Africa. We are just 4 degrees below the equa- tor and the sun can be very hot here.
 Thanking you in advance and hoping this letter will be of some use to you.
 Sincerely yours,
 Rev. Dennis Morley, C.S.Sp.
 Please give my best regards to the employees of the Democrat office. You know I worked there myself unite A few years ago.