The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1953-04-10
REVIVAL SERVICES
AT ROANOKE I'D.
BAPTIST CHURCH
British Missionary, Baptist
Pastor to Conduct Meeting
Beginning April 10

Rev. Robert l. Brown, British
missionary to the Moslems of
North Africa, and Rev. F. A. Cuth-
riel, pastor of Berea Baptist
Church, Elizabeth City, will be
the speakers for the spring revival
services at the Roanoke Island
Baptist Church. According to Rev.
Frank B. Dinwiddie, pastor Of the
local church, the meeting will be-
gin Friday night at 8 o'clock, April
10, and will continue at the same
nour each night through Friday,
April II. There will be special
additional service Sunday morn
ing, April II, at II o'clock, at
winch time Mr.. Brown, who will be
speaking on the two evenings pre-
vious, will bring his last message.
Mr.. Brown will illustrate his
messages with the motion picture
"Counterattack in North Africa"
and with some color slides of North
Africa and its people and customs.
He will also draw upon rich store
of adventure, thrills and hardships
which he has experienced in the
course of his labors, including
threats upon his life by the native
Africans, and the unique saga of
his capture and Imprisonment by
the Germans during World War II.
His experiences in the NaZi con-
centration camps will shortly be
the subject of a book he plans to
publish, and will also prove to be
an outstanding thrill to hear as he
will recount them with his delight
full British humor and accent.
Mr.. Brown graduated from the
All Nations Bible College of Lon
don, after which he went to Tunis
in 1888 for Arabic studies. When
the Germans occupied Tunis in
1912, they arrested him on suspic-
ion of espionage, and removed him
to Italy and later to Germany,
where he escaped from one of the
best-guarded Nazi strongholds, but
was later recaptured. He not only
maintained his Christian faith and
testimony through those trying
years, but showed his mettle by
studying for and CATER his re-
lease) successfully passing the In
ternational Bar Association exam
nation of London University.
After the war he married and
returned to Tunis, where in collab-
Grafton with a converted Moslem,
Khalbous, he produced a transla-
ton of Matthew's Gospel in the
Tunisian colloquial dialect. In 1856
he and Mrs. Brown realized an am
bition of many years--that of re-
occupying Kairouan, the "holy'
city of North Africa, where nc
male missionary had resided since
1888.
Mr.. Brown is currently engaged
in deputation work in the United
States on behalf of the North Afri.
ca Mission. He plans soon to re.
turn to his labors among the Mo,
hammedan peoples of the Darl
Continent.
Mr.. Cuthriel will preach from
Monday night through Friday
night. He will be accompanied by
his wife, who is talented vocalist
and who will assist in the music
Mr.. and Mrs. Cuthriel graduated
from Bob Jones University, Green
vile, S. c., in 1948. He accepted
the call to become pastor of the
Berea Baptist Church, later resign
ing temporarily in order to take
two years of postgraduate worl
at the Southern Baptist Theologi
cal Seminary in Louisville, Ken
lucky. During this period Mrs
Cuthriel attended the Southern
Baptist School of Church Music
and the Woman's Missionary I'm
ion Training School at Louisville
They have been back at the Bere;
church since June of 1852.
The public is cordially invited
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