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THE
CEBU
CHRIST IAN
Pub l i c a t i on
o f
Cebu Chri st ian Mission,
P. O.
Box
41 ,
Cebu City, Philippines
A M ER IC A NS A N D
TH E
HUKS
A
recent article
in
th e
Chicago
Daily
News f rom Mani la r epor te d t he follow
ing:
Americans are No .
1 Targets
of
Philippine Huk
killers.
Communist
H uk ba la ha ps g un
fo r
Yanks , Defense Secret ary Ramon Mag-
saysay
warns,
i n o rd er
to discredit
this
republic
an d it s government
in
Uncle
Sam s
eyes and to
sabotage Phil ippine
ef for t s
to
se cu re a dd it io na l f in an cia l
and arm s aid f rom Wash i ng ton .
It
is a diabolical
game
of
hit-and-
run a t tacks . Magsaysay
charges,
opera
t ed upon o rd er s
f rom ou ts ide
th e coun
try.
Americans killed
by Huk maraud
ers
in recent raids,
he
says, were vi c
tims of
a
deliberate at tempt to lessen
Amer ican fai th in
t hi s r epub li c s
abil
it y
*0
main ta in interna l peace and
to
play it s full
role
in the
Pacific
defense
pattern.
They
hope
tha t
Washington, alarm
ed by this weak ne ss , w ill d im in is h its
handouts
of
money
and weapons to
Mani la , Magsaysay repo rt s.
The political probl ems in th e Philip
pines do
not m ean in any way that
op
portunities
to
p re ac h t he
Gospel
there
ar e at an end. T he re are m an y areas in
which the-Huks-arc
n ot a ct iv el y o pe r
at ing.
E ve n w h er e th e c om m un is ts a re m o st
active,
Filipino
p reache r s a r e
going for
ward w ith
evangelism.
These troubled
t imes
require
m ore than ever before a
vigorous
presentation
of
the p lan
of
s al va ti on i n C h ri st J es us t h a t is th e on
ly hope of
th e
world
and^he
Philip
pines.
Is
th i s
t h e c on v en ie n t season
in
the
Philippines?
Perhaps not,
but if we
wait
for p rop i ti ous occasions to do
the
Lord s work
we
will
never
go to
any
fo reign mission field.
A young woman was recently ap
p ro ac he d by her well-meaning friends
who tried to discourage her f rom going
into
th e possible dangers
foun d on
th e
foreign
mission
field. Y ou
miglit not
come back, th ey w arned. The
Great
Commission says that I
must go,
sh e
replied courageously,
it
doesn t say
anyth ing abou t
coming back.
BERNABE IN D A V A C
Brother
Santiago
Bernabe
in the
great
c ity o f Davao
j.s
doing good work
in
establishing
a
New
Testament
people in
that
are?. Th e city lim its o f
this impor tan t abaca (Mani la hemp)
producing center cover a
larger area
than those of Los Angeles, California.
Brother
Bernabe tells of preaching to
five di ffe rent groups
every first
day
of
th e
week.
Thr ou gh t he wee k
he teach
es sc ho ol
to
support
himself
and his
family.
He is
one o f t ho se converted in
the jail
in Cebu and
t ra ined
in Cebu
B ib le S em in ar y. D av ao i.s th e largest
city o n t he immense and undeveloped
island
of Mindanao,
Wc ar e happy that
someone is bearing a witness f or C l ir is t
in
this
place.
RAY
and
IMOGENE
CARLSON
Miss ion ar ies
R EA DY TO R ETU RN
Ray C ar ls on
T he A m er ic an P re sid en t
l ines
ha v e
informed us tha t t he f re ig ht er faces
now
from San Francisco to
t he Phi li p
pines
is 385.
Each
of
o ur th re e boys
will require a
half-fare
ticket. We
would l ik e to be ab le
to
leave on o r
about
th e
firs t
o f Aug us t. D es ig na te d
gifts
toward
this
t rave l
f un d s ho uld
be
s en t
within th e nex t s ix w ee ks. W o uld
your mission group like to be recog
ni zed a s
among th e thirty sending
50
fo r
passage
of
th e
Carlson
family
that
we
might
beg in the
eleventh
year of
work in
Cebu? Rec ogni ti on
and
reg
ular
reports of this project will be
made
in
t he C h ri st ia n S ta n da rd .
VILLAGRACIA
LETTER
April
1I held a two S un day ev an
gelistic
mee ti ng i n B al amba n a nd
have
found many prospects. I baptized
tw o
and o ne o f th ese
is a c le rk
in
th e m un i
c ip al b ui ld in g a nd anotl ier is a fa i thful
brother living near Brother Bantilis.
Mrs. Pagba
is active
in t he as signmen t
I
have
given her in
th e
jo b of
gathering
the children every
Sunday
afternoon
in
Ab u n o .
I am
closing t he Sem ina ry tiiis
12th
of
April. The Mart ir es
church is pro
gressing bu t we are .still w ork in g fo r
th e
monthly
land rentalespecially
since s ome h av e
failed
in th ei r
respon
sibility in this recently.
We arc going
with
Sister
Pagba and
some of
the
others
to
M edellin and
Daan Bant ay an
nex t Sat urday
an d
se e
thing.s o ve r th er e again . I ll talk
with
Brother
Ibanez
abou t how to secure
that
land
he spoke of tor the church
buildingwill
have
m eetings for two
nights .
Sta tes Address :
P. O. Box 7, Latonia Stat ion
Covington,
Kentucky
On
th e
15th, Ti l
go to Negros to
dedi
cate
the new
Camingdangan church,
and hold meetings for tw o weeks. We
have f ou r
prospects
to be baptized this
week in
Mar t i r e s .
H av e n ot b een able to do much call
ing
recently be cau se o f
th e classes
I
teach
in th e
Seminary from
9:30 - 11:30
A.M. Then I go
home
to
Talisay and
am
back in the city by 1:30 P.M. and
visit a bo ut u nti l 4:00 P.M. Afte r
this
I
have
my
tw o classes in Southwestern
College working
toward
my
A.B.
From
7:00 to 8:00 P.M., I teach
th e
evening
class
in th e
Seminary.
I
have received many inv it at ions and
calls
to
preach, but
I
cannot please
ev
erybody of course. How hard when
you
are no t here
BOYS SUPPORT
The church
at Cherokee,
Iowa and
that
at
Corona. California have each
indicated their purpose or supporting
on e
of our t hr ee boy s t o
th e extent
of a
dollar
a
day. Thank
God
fo r t he f ai th
of
t ho se who hold up our hands
in
this
respect.
Who will do
the same for Teddy
ou r
three yea r
old? We are
praying.
MISSIONS: HOME OR FOREIGN?
I f We
wa i t
un t i l a l l
a t
h om e are
con-
verted, we will never do any
foreign
mission
work .
The New
Tes tamen t
church
sent
i ts b est w ork ers abroad.
Paul
di d
no t stay eith er at Jeru salem
nor
Antioch.
He was ever
anx ious
to
preach C hrist w here H e
had
not
been
named. He was
unwilling
to build on
other men s foundations.
T he p ro blem is not missions: home
OR foreign : but mis sions: home
AND
foreign.
Are we doing as much for
others
as
we are
doing
for ourse lves?
Eve ry chu rc h suppo rt ing a full-time
minister
could
probably
support
an
evangelist abroad if a ll loved an d gave
as they should.
Every
person is
either
a
missionary
or a mission field.
Harry
Schaefer
COMPARISON
We have ten missionar ies in the
Philippine.s
t.o
evangelize eighteen mi l
l io n p eo ple on over
seven
thousand
is
lands .
The Roman Catholic church has
282
Amer ican mis sionar i es a lone in
th e
Islands
after
430
years of papal effort.
Catholic
missionar ies
never
take fu r
loughs,
T H A N K S
We tha nk the
Lord
every day fo r
your
unselfis n
help in making this
min
istry
possible
to
th e
pe op le o f
Cebu.
Please
pray that every p rovi sion wil l
continue to be
made and that
we
might
have
o ur tr av el
fund
bv the first ot
August.
Wo cannot fail th e
Filipinos
and our eight Cebua nn Chu rc he s
in
t he se d ay s when t he y must
build
every
spiritual
an d
moral force po.-sible
to
meet th e days
of
t es ti ng ahead .
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MAHCH MISSION MEETING
*Iiiiogene Carlson*^
Bir thday Gree tings to
Cebu
Chiistian Mission
On March 22nd, Cebu
Christian
Mission
celebrates i ts
thirteenth birthday
As we
glance
backward we must
stop and thank the Heavenly
Faither for
His wonderful loving
care and constant guidance. learned to
rely
on Him as never before for everything
w
had or did, fikjmetimes
w
have been a
bit
discouraged
and
blue, but when w think back
to early 19/1 when there
were no Ch\irches
of
Christ and
reneanber
how lonely we
were
for
the fellowship of Christian brethren and then look at the
field
today and see
the many
churches and hundreds
of
Christiana,
w feel
a s
i f much
has been accomplished
in spite
o f
o u r
human
weaknesses .
There are now 18 Qiurches of Christ
in the
Southern Philipoines and many Philippine
C h r i s t i a n s
How would you
like
to
take
a tr ip
with
me
today
to one
of
the
Provincial
Churches
and meet
some
of
the brethren.
We'l l go
to
Santander, the S outhern most
tip
of
the
Island
of Cebu about eighty miles south of
Cebu
City. Ranember now you are only
ten
degrees
from
the equator so dress accordingly in cool cottons. Before
w
start
out from our house
in
San
Isidro,
w
must
check to be sure everything necessary for the
trip
is here. Drink
ing water, lunch, generator, mikes, speakers, recorders, records,
slides
and machine pic
ture
screen, song books folding cots, mosquito nets, pillows, and sheets. Well, maybe
i f
so many of you
want
to go, we'd better dispense with the cots and
just
go native and
sleep on mats on the
split
bamboo floor. Well here
w
go, The roads
are
awful, You say.
Oh,
these
are good roada. The
bad road don ' t s t a r t fo r
awhile.
Then
we have
bad roads
and
awful roads and then a stretch of good
roads
before the terrible roads begin. That's one
reason for t he p il lows, besides
a t
night of
course
Was
that
a
t ire?
Ch, Well,
we'll
just
have
to
take
i t
off
and
roll
i t
back
to that
last town. Yes
i t s pretty
hot
in
the sun, even at seven in the morning, but
this
is
stfill winter,
friend.
After a vrtiile
i t
will be really hot. Oh,
the
crowd? Of course-
they love
to
stare at Americans, They are really
very
friendly and want
to
be
helpful.
We'll give them some
tracts
and Sunday School papers. See, those big
children
can read
them. They've been to
school.
Well,
here
we
are
back
in the
l i t t l e town.
Now
to find
a service station.- Ch, brod, Hain be ang mangayo sa ligid? Salamat uh . He says the
service station
is
a block over that way. Ch yes
here
i t
is,- Say bred, we want to get
this
t i re fixed What?
He
says
they
only have a
bicycle
pvmp.
I t wil l take
a t
least
an
hour now, maybe two- Well
nothing to
do,
but
wait.
Let 's
go over
to the
beach and res t
under
those
coconut
trees,-
Oh
yes
-
the
crowds again. Well, why
not
have a meeting
here.
Let's sing
sokb
choruses and
hymns.
Then we'll
talk
a
l i t t l e bit
about
the
Church, Yes,
t hey a re really
interested. Too bad
we can't
stop here
a l l
day with
the
equipment and
hold
a
real
meeting. Perhaps
seme
day we
can,-
Well, wonder
i f
the t i r e s
finished
yet?
I^et's go over and see- Cfti not
yet?
Well, they were
tired
and had to rest awhile 1 guess.
can't rush them Well, at last
now
we
can roll i t
back to the car. Well what do you
know? These folks
are holding
a
meeting
here too.
Well,
that
was quickly put on.
Were
on our
way
again. Yes, here
come
and bad roads.
Somebody
i n
bac k b e t t e r
hlld
the records. Watch t h a t
recorder.
See t h a t old Catholic
Church? I t boks centuries old. Probably one of
the
first on the
island.
We'll pass many
of
them
pretty soon,-
Say
who's
hungry,
'i^at
old
woman with th e basket
on
her
head i s
selling babinkas, rice cakes,.,Pretty good aren't they?
I t s
about noon so l e t s
stop
and have
lunch.
This rice i s s t i l l hot.
You know
i f
we
r o l l i t
up
i n
banana
leaves i t
stays hot for ever
so
long,, ,Would anybody l i k e to l i e down fo r a few minutes under those
t rees, we can
cut
same banana leaves and make a bed,,. Well, better s tar t
aga in . We'll
be
passing thru mountains soon
and
drive
along
the coast a t
the
same
time.
The
scenery
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is really
beautirul^
i s n t ita See
those
old towers along
the
c oa st t he re ? Those are
old Spanish
watch
towers. Cebu was ttie first Spanish settlement in the islands. They
had
lots of trouble
from the tribes
in Miit j Uiao
the
Mohammedansfor
a long times
Those
towers
a re probably a t l e a s t four hundred years
old an d
maybe o ld e r. They re s t i l l in
good condition t o o . The
Spaniards
r e a l l y b u i l t good w alls an d
stone
churches. Of course
most
o f i t
was
slave labor. We
ca n
be glad t h a t a l l o f t h a t f i n a l l y
stopped
with the
Spanish-American
war.
We re
been d r i v i n g f o r almost f o u r h o u r s . Now w e l l soon be i n S a n t a n d e r . Th e
f o lk s
will have a lusbh ready for us probably in
th e
store
o f Brother
Januario
Hoyohoy. Ah-
here we are.
I t s
j u s t l i t t l e town. There s th e eleaentary
school.
Over
t h e r e s
-ttie
church.
Quite
a n ie e
building
i s n t i t ? I t s a l l made o f hard wood. The Mission gave
t h a th e aluminum f o r th e r o o f when
t h e y
f i r s t s t a r t e d t o b u i l d i n 1947. Each y e a r
a t
Christdias
time
we gave them a l i t t l e t o help on th e building^ but they h av e d on e most
of i t themselves.
This
Church has quite a history. The old ^ s . Hoyohoy was one of the
f i r s t P r o t e s t a n t s
o n t h e i s l a n d .
S he
a nd
h e r h us ba nd w er e c o n v e r t e d o v e r
o n
t h e
i s l a n d
o f Negros there a t t h a t
point
across th e channel a t Dumaguete. They came back by s a i l
boat with t h e i r New. BLble
hidden
i n a la rg e
c la y
J a r
o f
r i c e .
He r husband was t h e band
leader for th e Roman Catholic Churchy Nhen
they
qui t
going to Churchy th e
p r i e st
g ot
a f t e r
them.
Then he
discovered
t h a t
they
ha d
Joined
t he P r es be te ri an
Qiurch an d ha d
in
fluenced some o f
t h e i r
f r i e n d s t o do
the
same. The
p r i e s t was
very
angry
an d g o t many
Catholics to got
after tha in their service
in
their
hone one Sunday. The new converts
went out 6f their house
to
hide and were chased
wi th c lub s
and bolos long
knives . One
o f
t h e mean waskilled a f t e r th e y had,run
t h r u
the r i v e r bed a long
way.
The
p r i e s t
wa s
i n the penetentiary fo r awhile
because
o f h is
crime.
There i s a marker a t
th e
spot not
far from
the present
church building where
the man
was killed. Tiiese people later left-
th e
Pr esbyt er i an
church
and
Joined anot her church c a l l e d U niversalist
Church
o f C hr is t,
I t was the same as the Pre8byterim bixt no t affi l i at ed with them. One of
the
daughters
of
Mrs. Hoyohoy
visited ihe Martires
Qiurch o f
Christ
in Cebu, and
wa s
l a t e r
baptized,
sh e an d
a l l h e r
family. So th e word sp r e a d t o Santander a b o u t
f u r t h e r
t r u t h an d a church
o f
the
N.T. So Brother Ray Carlson was
i n v i t e d
to go
an d
hold
a meeting t here in June
1947.
Aft er
a two
weeks meeting,
th e
whole
church
came
f or wa rd a nd
everyone
old
e n o u ^
wa s b a p tise d . They l e f t
the
o ld b ui ld in g a s they wanted no trouble with
t h e o th e r
group.
So they bbarted th eir own building.
Most
o f
th e churches put u p cheap bui l di ngs i n a hurzy. These fplk d i d n t .
They
sai d th e y wanted t o have a
building
t h a t would be
standing
fo r t h e i r grandchildren s
c h i l d r e n t o
u s e .
Well th e folks have a hot lunch
i t
will really be ou r suppoer, so e a t h e ar ti ly
ready
fo r
us
here
i n
the s t o r e of Brother Joyohoy.
I s n t tiiis
roasted
pig good? You l l
have
t o se e
scmetime
how they r o a s t them on long bamboo pol es o v e r open f i r e s .
We w i l l have t o
s e t
up
th e generator and s t r i n g up t h e
l i g h t s
before
dark so
w e d
b e t t e r
get s t a r t e d .
R oll the
generator back of
the Church. Some o f
the
local boys w i l l
climb up on th e r a f t e r s and arrcmge the wires for
th e l i ^ t s .
W e ll have to g e t th e loud
speakers up high on the
outside
o f the church. Now everything i s in readiness. A
fe w
records coming
over the speakers w i l l
announce
to everyone
i n town
about th e
meeting,
tonight. We ca n nudce
announcoaents
concerning
i t
and tomorrows
meeting.
Time t o begin the
meeting.
Miss Cresencia Labrado is
going
to
lead th e song service.
How
do you l ik e t he ir singing? Pretty good,
i s n t i t .
Mrs.
Carlson wi l l
play
the folding
organ. Qie s teaching some
of
the g ir ls
to
play. Perhaps in
another
year Patria Hoyohoy
ca n play
fo r
th e
hymns. Hear those
children^
Miss
Betty
Yarbrough i s
giving
a
fine
fan-
elgraphy. She
t e l l s
i t so well,
and
the a d u l t s press
close
to see i t too.
Now
comes
time
fo r
the
sermon.
Brother
Ray
Carlson
w i l l
preach
i n
th e
d i a l e c t .
r e a l l y speaks v e r y w e l l i n t h e i r language.
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6rot]:^r Alston Knight \4ill show
slides.
He i s new here
and so hasn t
mastered the
language yet. But give him a few years.
He ll
be running i t off his tongue as
glibbly
a t
t h e rest
Brother
Villagracia
will e^lain
the pictures
in the dialect. ow closely tiie people
are
pressing inl All the seats were gone long
ago.
They stand in
the aisles
and even out
side and lean
in
the
windows. They
are
hungry for
God s
Word.
I f they
just
weren t so a f
raid
of
the priests maxyr more would take a stand for Christ and
leave
the Roman Catholic
C h u r c h
Four young men came forward tonight
to
confess their Lord.
They ll
be baptized in
ei ther
the sea
or
the
r i v e r
tcmorrow ri^t after
morning
worship. One
of
the
boys says
he wants
to
go to Cebu Bible Seminary and learn a l l about the
Bible
and be a preacher.
e must make i t possible for him to study there.
The
boys can sc^eeze him into the dor
mitory arri I m sure
the
Lord will provide for his food i f he is resLlly sincere and
will
work l i k e th e o th er boys.
The records are being played again. Such a crowdl I t s hard to
get
to
the
door. The
brethren are so happy
to
have us ccmie. So many of the town s people are here. Perhaps the
w i l l
be
Chris t ians
some
day.
Scmie
of
the boys
of
the church
will sleep here
tonight
in
the church watching the
equipment. We 111
wheel
the gerator inside the church. They ll take good care of every
th ing.
Are
you
all
very
tired?
I m sure you
are
after
that
long tiring
trip
over the bad
roads
amd no s ies ta
this
aifternoon. The
brethren
have infomed us that we wil l
a l l
sleep
^tB8t}^er Melchizedek Hoyohoy s house. les^ the
Hoyohoys
are one
of
the main families
here. Bach of them has a large family too.
The
mats are
a ll
down on the
floor.
Th
^ r l s
and
ladies w i l l
sleep here i n t h is room and the men there . Everyone hang
your
mosq^iito
net
before
they
blow
out the
lamp and get
your pillow and
sheets
arranged.
Good n i ^ t
Good
morning, do we a l l look l ike zebras with stripes on our backs? e should,
af ter
sleeping on those bamboo floors. The p|gs and
chickens
and goats have been running around
under the house for a t
least
two hours making hungry
noises.
-
This
way, folks, to the
faucet. Just stand i n l ine
here
on
the
road
and
wash your face and hands.
Put
your mirror
i n the car and you can ^ave very well . Here I ll pour water fpcaa
t h i s
coconut
shel l
over
your hands, then you do
i t
for me.
Just
wet
yoxir
tooth brush and
spit
over the side.- The
bus is
stopping loaded
with people. How they stare
at a l l the
Americans performing their
abolutionsi
Never;,mind.
Just
grin
and act
l ike
you ve wa^ed
yp
in
front
of the mult itude
a l l your
l ives.
Really
there s
nothing to i t l
Ch, breidcfast
is
to be at
the
Chief of Pol ice s house. Brother Alejandro Joyohoy s
house.
They a r e
the
most
hospitable familyalways feeding
and
sleeping
us.
What exce ll en t f fe sh
f i s h
I And
the papayai
lia. So good. And
the
hot r i c e and
scrambl
eggs.
How
do you like the thick chocolate? Tasty i sn t i t They always serve more than we
c a n eat
Daghang salamat
for
the lovely breakfast , folks , everyone says.
And
now to the
church. e
must check
the equipnent
before Simday School b^ins .
Tes, everything is
a l l
r i g h t
Sunday School
with
such a
fine audience.
The singing
is grand.
Everyone
joins in the
c l a s s d i s c u s s i o n s
Now
for
the morning
worship.
They are
singing
more
slowly
now,
but are just
as happy
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Scme
of
the
Seminary girls
are singing a quartette number. ow sweetly they sing.
Two m re
additions a t this service. There will be six to baptize
now.
I t i s t o be
in the sea as the
river
is too shallow now. See the expression on a ll their faces. Joy
is
written
there. All of
their
burdens
seem
to go rolling
away
Down at
th e
Savior s
Cres s
The t r i p h hard
t r i p
but
so
much
good has been acc
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T I N
Mr. &Mrs. Ray
Carlson,
Missionaries
Published Quar ter ly
By the
Cebu Christian Mission
P. O. Box 41, Cebu City,
Republic
o f th e Philippines
V o l
I I
THE
COST OF
A
MISSION
Is independent missions cheaper
than organized missions? Indepen
dent missions have no paid propa
gandists publicizing prodigiously
padded proclamations. Elaborate
ly furnished private o f f i c e s with
many stenographers are unknown.
No
independent missionary
that we
know of travels
in
drawing rooms
and
few
even have
berths
on trains.
We have
no f unds t o
establish
credit
unions loaning money to natives
for business purposes.
Independent Missions Is Cheaper
However, this does not mean that
the work of establishing well the
gospel
in distant
lands
can
be ac-
comphshed on a shoestring. White
people among our brown, hlack and
yellow brethren cannot fal l below
cer ta in economic levels wi thou t real
handicaps. The work of the Lord is
often seriously hamstrung simply be
cause of
the
lack of
money. There
are some independent missionaries
who have recently gone to the field
only to find that expected help has
not
come
forward and
they
are
faced
with the real possibility of returning
home
as
a result .
Thanks to Latonia
and
Ingle\vood, this is
not the
case
with us, but many more are ready to
give themselves if others would give
their money.
Living Link Support Alone
Ca n n o t S t a rt a
Miss ion
Native workers must be helped.
Filipinos are proud of independence
and the brethren are doing their
best to achieve self-support.
In
the
meantime, they must
be
nurtured.
A
dol lar a day for a worker went far
before
t he war, but now it is a bare
minimum.
Until
we stop paying
the wages of the common laborer,
we cannot expect to demand full
time of men with family responsi
bilities and hav ing talent.
Travel expenses are not over when
the missionary gets on
the
field. Go
ing
as
the Great
Commission de
mands, means gasoline or fares
and
October, 1948
the
night
is
fa r spent, t he day
is at hand.
Rom.
13.12
meals
away
from home.
We
will
no t
coun t
on bamboo
beds
and
bath
ing in pubUc.
The
equipment of an active mis
sion includes Bibles, books,
litera
ture, tracts, mineograph material,
bulletins, correspondence, sign paint
ing, hghts of some sort and tools
of
every
kind. We
have found
our
selves
from t ime to t ime
in
the
roles of doctor, carpenter, plumber,
electrician, mechanic, gardener and
teacher in addit ion
to
the ful l - t ime
task of preacliing the Gospel.
No work can be permanent with
out permanent buildings.
The
least
we
can
do
in
starting
a
church
is to
put up a bamboo building
that
costs
in the neighborhood of 250. If we
do not rent buildings, we
must
rent
land.
This
does
no t amount
to a lot,
but there are times
when the
20 a
month
rent
we pay for the Mart ires
Street chapel is very hard indeed to
find. In most places in
the
Phihp-
pines, we m u s t rely on kerosene
lamps for light. A portable , electr ic
plant would be a valuable asset, but
300w, lOOv outfits
run
about 175
from
the
Surplus.
Relief problems on
the
mission
cONTmUED O XT PAGe
No.
2
DEATH
AS AN
O C C S I O N
FOR EVANGELISM
Once
in
a while, Catholic tradi
tion helps us as in the case of the
custom
after funerals.
Romanists in
the
Phihppines
have nine nights of
prayer
and singing a ft er the burial
seirices are over. They, of course,
are praying for eternal repose of the
soul. W e have o ft en u se d th is
as
an
opportunity
to hold
small preaching
sei^vices where
families
ar e wilHng.
We explain carefully that we do
not pray for the dead since a
man
is judged according to
the
deeds
done
in the
flesh and then go
ahead and
preach
the gospel. We
sometimes get a hearingin this fash
ion that
would
be
quite
impossible
in
any
other way. Many have been
won through this device.
PROGRESS
Since
the
first of
the
year, one
hundred two have been baptized
in
Cebu
and
two added by transfer.
Our growth
has not
been
as
large
as
that
of las t year because we have
been spending more time
in
the Cebu
Bible Seminary. We have felt that
effort
in
the Seminary
will
be more
profitable
in
the
long ru n than to
neglect entirely the educational part
of mission work. The FiHpino breth
re n in
t l i is t ime have contr ibuted
a
total of
401.56
to
the
work of
the
preaching of the gospel.
MAILING LIST
We are constantly in the process
of revising
our mailing
list. If you
are interested in having
the
Cebu
Christian continue to come to you,
please write and indicate your de
sire.
T h e Cebu Christ ian is sent
free to supporters
and
friends of
the
Mission . Wri te
Cebu
C h r is t ia n M i s
sion, P. O. Box 41, Cebu Cit y, Re
public of the Phihppines.
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Two
THE COST OF A MISSION
{continued from page one)
field are just so great that one hard
ly knows where to begin. We are
often tempted to do nothing since the
needs are so many. As an example,
people at the leprosarium of Cebu
have recently been raised from the
daily allotment of
7V2C
subsistence
to
37V^c
The papers praised the
Secretary of Plealth and Welfare of
the Phihppines for his generous act
Prisoners
cannot
subsist on the jail
ration alone. Men making $1 a day
are expected to feed, clothe, house,
educate and give medical treatment
to their families averaging five and
six in number. Needy folk are given
from the mayor's and the governor's
office the right to beg in the form of
an affidavit stating that they are
worthy, etc How would you like to
be faced with the problem of a sick
person you knew could be healed
with
that
medicine
that costs $8.50 a
vial per day? If you did not buy it,
no one else would and the person
would surely die. How responsible
are we for these
needless
deaths?
Our DutyYour Duty
We
have a
duty
to
help young
people study for the future Chris
t ian
service. In th e Cebu Bible
Sem
inary we charge no tuition, but
many
cannot afford to buy paper on which
to write
their
examinations
We have
students coming to
class
without
their mea ls . Some have
been
known
to walk long distances
in
the tropi
cal sun to
classes.
Out-of-town
stu
dents we
cannot
house.
Just imagine
trying to study in a house 8' x 10'
in which live
tw o
other
adults
and
maybe four children. Imagine hund
reds
of house s l ike this crowded
to
gether with no yards and pigs and
chickens running around underneath.
There
are no
sewers
in Cebu or in
any other place in the Philippines
that
I know of except Manila.
These a re some of our problems.
We are not complaining. We count
ed
the
cost long before we came to
the mission field and are happy that
God
has
called us
to do
our
little
bit
in
this place. We know you
want
to know. If you know, you will
pray more effectively and givemore
purposefully.
FILIPINO CHILDREN
The boys and girls of America
will enjoy knowing something of
those
their
own age in
the Phi lip
pines. We should notice that there
are many ways in which the child
ren
here a re like those in the
United
States.
They
like to
play and
have
fun. Tiny tots are just as sweet and
lovable
here
as anywhere in
the
world. They
enjoy candy and
chew
bubble gum.
Swarms of them gather about the
many small sugar mills in the barrios
to get tira-tira
(taffy). They
climb
our
trees for chicos, santols,
mabolos, tambis,makopa and guavas.
They make pop guns of bamboo and
shoot corks in them by means of
a little
plunger in the
hollow tube.
Tlie boys
cut
old inner tubes to
make sling shots. A popular var ie ty
of
our
game
of jack
straws
is
play
ed by blowing on a pile of rubber
band. It is called
huypanay.
A
lot of surplus
rubber
gloves used by
army electricians are now on
the
market .
The chi ldren have these
blown up for enormous balloons.
M a r b 1 es a re
ever popular
and
the older boys en
joy volley ball
n basketbal l
which they
call
bolly
bol
and
besket
bol. A
game whose
aim
is to keep the ball
''Takyan always in
t he a ir
by hitting it with the side of
the
foot
and the ank le is called
tak
yan.
A
ball
woven of
rattan
is
used. These
and
other games prove
that
Filipino children can have
fun even though they have very
l it tle money.
They
make their
own
toys
and
are seldom able to
buy any
sort of plaything.
While they
tr y
their
best to be
happy,
there are many sad prob
lems in
their
lives. Most c hi ld re n
must live in
rather
dirty
surround
ings
and
as a
result
many die
when
very young. Few even
have
beds
in
their
homes.
They simply
lie
down at
night on a grass mat on
the
floor
in the
clothes
they have
worn all day. Bathing is public at
wells
in
use by the whole neigh
borhood.
The Cebu Chr i s t i a n
Fihpino children eat with their
fingers while sitting on the floor.
The custom is to wash after eating
r a the r
than before. The
die t h a s
little
var iat ion and
consists
fo r the
most part of dried fish, rice or corn
and a few vegetables like
greens
or squash.
Des ir e Educat ion
Since
the war, public
schools are
crowded. Some boys
and
girls can
not go to school
simply
because
there
is no room. Children
in
many schools
still must carry their own chairs
with
them because adequate class
room furniture is
l a ck ing .
Boys
and girls come to school
either
bare
footed or wearing bakias. These
are wooden clogs held on by a rub
ber s trap made from
used
auto
tires.
Children are
f requently known
to
come to
school
wi thou t breakfas t .
They
are taught what foods are good
to
eat
bu t seldom a re able to use
their knowledge because their par
ents are poor. Most boys and girls
never know what
a glass of fresh
milk tastes l ike. Now
an d th en
can
ned milk
may
be had, but
rarely.
M ost A merican child ren would
not like to live as do Filipino boys
and
girls. When we see how others
must live, we shouldThe grateful that
God has given us so many more
blessings. After all, we had no voice
in
choosing where we were born.
Have you
ever
asked yoursel f th e
questions:
Why
was I
born
here?
Why
wasn't
I bom in
China
or
India
or Africa or some other place in
the
world?
Only
God
can answer
Since we have
more
than most,
we have a duty to share with those
who
are less fortunate.
The Bible
says
that
the strong should help the
weak. Will
you
not consider these
little brown children of God
who
are living
in
such spiri tual dark
ness and help them every way you
can?
Exchange Letters Asked
If you, as a child,
would
like to
write
to
one
of these Fil ip ino Chi ld
ren, please send us
your
name, age
and address and
we will have one
of these boys and girls writ e you.
They understand Emglish and will
be happy to hear from you.
If
you
would like to help them, we suggest
that you send aU sorts of cotton
clothing, shoes and money to help
us
plan
a Christian party for
the
children. Pray
for
these
our
brothers
and sisters i n Chris t .
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CEBU CHRISTIAN
215
E.
Hillcrest
Inglewood, California
(POSTMASTER: if undeUyer-
able for
any
reason,
no t i f y
sender stating reason
on
Form
3547 postage for
which
is gua
ranteed.)
WHAT
YOU
CAN DO
You who
cannot
leave
home
but
who are interested in bringing the
cause of
Christ to t he a tt en ti on
of
those in spiritual darkness may
do
the followmg if you would like to
share i n
this task:
1.
Pray
that we may do God's
will and then men s
hearts
may be
opened to receive the truth.
2. Encourage Christian workers
to give their lives to this field
and
assume their support as a regular
mission project,
3. Send al l the financial help you
can for the support of workers and
the expenses of evangelizing and es
tablishing churches.
4. Mail by parcel post or ship by
freight
any
of
the
following-. Bibles
and testaments, books for the Semi
nary
Library,
Bible School li te ra
ture and Quarterlies that you have
just finished using, cotton clothing
for
children
and
men
especially, ana
med ic in es l ik e
the
home remedies
you
have in your chest.
Film
Strips
5
mm. film strips on the work
of the ebu h ris tian
Miss ion
a re
being prepared. These
will fit
in
the projectors being sold by the
Standard Publishing Company and
any other s tandard size machine.
If
you would hke
to
borrow
one
of these strips for use in your church
or missionary society, please
write
fp r a rpcprva tion for them to Mrs.
--Eleanor -Watldns- Firs tChris t ian
_Church, 215-E.-Hillcrest,Inglewood,
California. You wi ll be expected to
^fake good~care of these films and
pay transportation from and to In
glewood. You will be permitted to
keep
them
one week
only
unless a
previous understanding is made.
GIFTS RECEIVED FROM
MARCH
I.
1948 TO AUGUST 31.
1948
CALIFORNIA, Inglewood,
Mary
Ann
(thru
Mrs. Faddis), 5; Women s Coimcil,
25;
Los
Angeles,
Miss. Soc.,
Cardiff
Ave.
Chr. Ch., 60; Mrs. Fai th Parke sons,
40; San Femando> Chr. Youth Group, 10;
Santa Rosa,
Mrs . C la ra
McCauley Memo
ri al , Chr . Ch., 3; Women s Miss. Council,
Chr.
Ch., 1 2; GEORGIA , Atlanta, Miss
Hazel
Jean
Davis, 10; E as t P oin t, Four
fold Class , Chr. Ch., 10 ; ILLINOIS,
Chi
cago, Chest er Real, 25; Maywood, Bible
Study Group, Mrs . Edna Meiller,
35 ;
Mt .
Carmel, Isabel Denham Miss. Soc., 5 ;
W.
Frankfort, Harmony
Miss . Soc ., 1st Chr.
Ch.,
10;
INDIANA,
Burlington,
Miss. Soc.,
Chr. Ch., 10; Fort Wayne, Mrs. F. L. Ford,
5; Indianapolis, W. Morri s St.,
Chr.
Ch.,
22 ;
Tipton , E tl ie l
and
Pearl
Self. 10;
IOWA,
Cherokee,
Clarence Cave, C of C.,
5 ;
KANSAS,
Hugoton,
Chr. Ch., 60;
KENTUCKY. Covington, Willing Chr.
Workers, Latonia Chr. Ch., 44,251 George
town, Miss. Circle, Chr. Ch., 100; Gray
son. Vol. Miss. Band, Ky. Chr. Coll., 10;
Mason, Lystra C of C.,
75 ;
MARYLAND,
Rohrersvifle, Chas. V. Summer, 15; MI
CHIGAN,
Buchanan,
Bible School Miss.
Soc..
3.50; Duplain,
C. of C., 1 0; For es t
Hill, C. of C., 5; MINNESOTA, Worthing-
ton.
Miss. Soc., C of C.,
25 ;
MISSOURI,
Mt. V ern on , Miss. Soc., 10; Spr ingf ie ld ,
Miss. Soc., Walnut St. C of C.,
8 ;
MON
TANA, Conrad, F. G.
Hulburt,
60;
NE
BRASKA, All iance, Orvil le Deal,
50;
Ba
yard, C of C., 37; Wild Horse C of C.
15.27; NEW YORK. Tonawanda, C of C,
1 5; OHIO, Akron. Miss. Soc.,
Noble
Ave.,
C of C, 25 ;
Ashland, Miss Mable Kline,
2 ;
Mrs.
Laura Megie, 3;
Cincinnati,
Montgomery Road C of C., 15 ; Hillsboro,
Loyal Home
Builders
Class,
60;
Jeromes-
ville, C of C.. 37.30: OKLAHOMA,
Bu f
falo, Miss. Soc., Chr. Ch., 20; Sand
Creek,
Fairview
Chr. Ch., 2 5; Sh id le r,
Women s Council, 37 ; OREGON,
Eugene,
Mrs. L. E. Allumbaugh, 15 ;
Ind.
Miss.
Grp. No. 1, 25; B. J. Whiteley, Rock-
away
Chr . Ch.. 10 .60; Por tland, Nathan
Sams,
18; PENNSYLVANIA, Meadr il le ,
Miss Soc., 1st Chr. Ch..
20 ;
Monogahela.
Loyal Friends Class, 1st C of C., 5 ;
P.
I. , Cebu. Santander.
C of C,
1 ; TEN
NESSEE. Johnson C ity,
Mrs.
F.
D.
Hill,
R. 3,
10 ;
VIRGINIA.
Church
Road, T.
P. Cl arke , 5 ;
WASHINGTON,
Colville,
Ch. at 9th
Main, 17.50; Everett, Miss.
r a n c e s e
Franklin, 4 ;
WYOMING,
Wheatland,
1st Chr. Ch., 27.23;
Payments
on loa n (ARC ), 750; Sal e
of books, 9.27 .
Total: 1,986.92.
Tot al pa id out in the same time includ
ing previous debit balance: 2,079.83.
Present deficit: 92.91.
Cebu
Bible
Seminary
The
first
year
of
the
Cebu Bible
Seminary is offering a curriculum of
classes in the Life of Christ, Acts,
Church of the New Testament,
Per
sonal Evangelism, Public Speaking,
Old Testament History, Elnglish,
Church Music, Teaching Methods
and
Training
for Service. The teach
ers are
Mr. and
Mrs.
Ray
Carlson,
Mr.
Santiago Bernabe
and Mr.
Jose
Villagracia. Nine students are doing
creditable work and
others attend
i rregularly. Our beginning is small,
but the spirit among the
students
is
high
and
each
of
the nine are
actively engaged in some phase of
Christian service already.
THE PROVINCIAL
JAIL
For some t ime
we
h av e w an te d
to secure for
you
a picture of mem
bers of the church of Christ (Iglesia
ni Cristo)
in
th e Provinc ia l J ai l.
The necessary permission from the
Provincial Governor
was
finally
granted.
In
this pic ture
are
most
of those who have been baptized who
are s till serving their sentences.
Brother Ignacio Tagalog who regu
larly ministers to this group, is
shown wdth them. He is standing
second from the right .
Most
of those
already
released
have
not forgotten the
cLurch
that
remembered them in
th eir h ou r
of
trial. A few have proven to be ex
c elle nt wor ke rs fo r
God.
A num-
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LIF IN THE
PHILIPPINES
urin World War
THE CARLSON FAMILY
November
948
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KcFarlaud\^
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r^irmaanolls
Purpose o f This
MSoohlet
Many times we ore asked by people to tell
about
our experiences
during the Japanese invasion of the Philippine Islands
and our internment
in
the
Japanese
consecration camps
during World
War
II.
There
is so
much
to tell
that
we find it
hard
to
give everyone on
adequate
word
picture
of what happened. With this
thought
in mind, we
are
publishing this small
booklet to help give you a better understanding of
Our
Life in
the
Philip
pines During World War II.
chnowledgmen t
We
wish to acknowledge
and thank the
STANDARD PUBLISHING
COMPANY, 20 East Central Parkway, Cincinnati 10, Ohio, for its courtesy
in permitting us to use its plates in publi shing thi s booklet.
Larry Corlson s,5tpry on pages 3 through 10 of this booklet,
appeared
in the
Christion
Home Life, Spring
and Summer Quarters, 1947, and
The
Carlsons on pages 11 through 16, appeared in
the
Boys Life
and
Girlhood Days in
the
issues of
December
16,
1946, through March
2,
1947.
C e b u hristi n m i s s i o n
The E U CHRISTIAN MISSION was founded in 1941. For ten years
we have con tinued the mission work under many difficulties. Our goal is
to establish
50
Churches of Chr is t on
the
Island of Cebu
and
to enlarge,
the
facilities of Cebu Bible Seminary. At
the
time of this writing and)
printing (April, 1951), we ar e in
th e United States. We
are available for
speaking
engagemen ts to
present
th e
work of
th e
Mission.
We con
be
contacted at
our
forwarding address by writing
to
P. O. Box 7, Latonioi
Station, Covington, Kentucky, or by telephoning AXtel 3093. Wejhope
and
pray that if the Lord permits, we will be
able to
return to the Philip
pines in th e nea r f ut ur e to continue in
th e work
of
Christ
there. Our mission
address is P. 0. Box 41, Cebu City, Philippines.
We
ask for your prayers in our behalf and we hope to merit a portion
of your financial giving to support our mission work.
Yours,
In
His service.
IMOGENE AND
RAY
CARLSON
Missionar ies
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LARRY CARLSON
S
STORY
Story by
Imogene
Carlsof
Pictures by Ruth Pistor
Where we were supposed to meet my father
but
mountains
are big and bat
tles are long and my father did
t find us.
Traveling began in earnest
when
my
mother
toolc
me with Robin my
two year old brother to the mountains
.
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After a
while
wegot to Sudlone, the
camp where
all
Allied
nationals lived
together.
Robin said,
Where s rny Daddy? when we got to
camp,
bu t no one knew.
Finally
we
decided
to
give
up
to the Japanese. Guess who
came
to help us
move.
Daddy
He was a prisoner, too.
Daddy
cleaned
up
the
porch
of the Junior College
so we cou ld have church
After
the Japanese planes strafed the camp, we
liv in
caves,
and when 1
got
a bath, in one-half cup
of
water,
Iwas
lucky.
Then I
began
my
career of
making
friends
with
Japanese sentries. I couldn t help itI was born
When I was
learning
to sit up and crawl,
my
parents were
learning
to
laugh
at
being
hungry.
ne
Japanese
said,
I no under
standwhite man. When he wins he
laughs.
When he loses he
laughs.
Very funny.
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1
was happy in
the ptay pen Daddy
made me from swinging doors but
we had to leave it to go to another
camp in Manila.
b
w i
The kind Filipinos gave us
warm
cloth
ing. They were afraid we were going
to Korea or Japan It was December.
My first ocean voyage
was
not pleasant.
But a Japanese soldier lent me
his
nice thick sleeping mat.
My first
birthday was spent
in
Santa Tomas. To
celebrate 1
had my
first haircut and
my mother
had a
partyshe
opened a can of fig
pudding
and put a chicken
bone
on a cup cake for a candle.
n May Daddy
was
allowed to build a
shack
where we could
live
together
in
the
daytime.
With 6 000 other internees we
were
happy
to
have any place
we could
call
our own.
r >;
fj
n October when Robin was sent
to the hospital I ran away to see
him. Then I got tied to the bed
post.
But Robin
came
back.
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I learned some good music In
November
and
December. Daddy
sang
in the
Hallelujah Chorus
and I sang
AHeluiah all
the time at home.
m
In December, Mother and
Robin
and I started
making Christmas decorations. We made chains
nd
st rs nd ells
from
When
Robin was four,
he
had
a little chocolate
cake made from rice and cassara flour. And
^ \ Daddy
made
him a
cart out of
an
Thanksgiving Day we
had
a big meal. The
Leslie Wolfes and Willis Hales sent us a chicken
dinner
with cornbread, hominy,
vegetables,
and
bananas. We shared it with our friends.
On
December
I9,
Mother
got
very sick from
Dengy fever. But
for
the first
time
she could
sleep
without
hearing babies crying for
something.
^ She
came home
from the hospital in time
for
^^Christmas ve She was our Christmas
gift
had a cake,
too,
for my
second birthday.
Now I
could only have
two
cups
of
milk
a day instead of three. I wished I
could
go
outside
the gate
To be conf/nued
J
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Mother and
Daddy
tried to
grow onions, but Robin and
I ate them up. There was
no
more milic
or
[dim. We
never whined,
Now we found many
friends:
theWolfes the Males
Miss
Schimmel
and
Miss Jones. They liked me too
One day when I
was
A.W.O.L I
discovered
a friend of my par
ents. She Icnew
me
because I looked like
my
father She said>
m
it
Tell Mother and
Daddy
the Males are here, too.
fter I was well
two friends
brought Robin
an d
me
a duck
egg. Mow good
it
tasted
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Robin and I wanted a party every day
In November we began getting wallpaper
paste rice soup to eat. We ate cooked ferns
and weeds. Morning-glory honey was dessert.
Christmas was more beautiful than last year
Daddy made a tree
from
palm
leaves
m
%
One night, whenwe had
not had s lt for thr
months
one of my ad
mirers brought us some.
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Quickly
we
left
os
Bancs and did not stop to watch the flames eat it
up
Now
am
in
America
but hope to
return
soon to Cebu City where my father can
preach
to
the
Filipinos
every night
want to unpack the suitcase that was my cradle
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THE
CARLSON
FAMILY
]. left and 2. right Cebu in
the Philippine Islands is In
vaded by. the Japanese. Ray
Carlson, missionary, accepts a
V jo^ OS censor in
t he American
-Arrriy telegraph office.
5: left Ray Carlson goes to the
telegraph office to help remove
valuable
equipment before it
con
fall to the enemy.
6. right Imogene Carlson
nd
the children wait for Ray while
: refugees from Cebu City stream
past
th e house.
l
rc-7^ \
3. left His wife, Imogene, and
their two sons,
o in
two years
old
and
Larry three weeks old
are removed to Guadalupe, three
miles from Cebu City.
4. right On April 10, 1942, the
Japanese
invaded Cebu City. The
Carlsons hear the bridge being
blown up
at
5:00 in the morning.
s
1. left Finally, Imogene Carlson
st r ts fo r
the
hills with
the
tw o
c hild re n. Fo ur t imes she has to
hide under
Filipino
houses f rom
th e low-flying Jap planes.
8. (right) They walk
until
2:30 in
the
afternoon, when a family,
cooking
rice
by the roadsi^i,
gives them
food.
Their meal
is
rice
n d b n n s
^
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9. left The natives bring leaflets
dropped by
the
Japanese to Imo-
gene Carlson to read. The leaf
lets offer
rewards
for
the cap
ture
of
the
Americans. She fears
there may be spies among the
n a t i v e s
10. right Imogene Carlson deter
m i n e s to c l i m b a m o u nt a i n to
reach a certain colonel , who
may
give aid In finding her husband.
The
soldiers tell h er s he
will
nev
e r m o k e it w ith t h e chi ldren.
1 ^
13. left The next morning, Imo
gene Carlson and the children
s t a r t down
t h e
troll o f
t h e moun
tain. A few
minutes
after they
leave
the
fort,
th e Japs
bomb
it.
As the Japanese are bombing the
fort,
14. right Mrs. Car lson sees on
American plane bombing a ship
in th e
harbor.
One ship
goes
down.
This
Is
the
lost American
plane she
sees for a
year
and a
hal f o f complete
Japanese dom
i n a t i o n
m
w
11.
left
She receives help
from
a d o c t o r s a s s i s t a n t
who
c a r r i e s
the baby and gets someone to
carry
Robin.
12. right
When they
arrive
they
f ind
t h a t th e
American
officer
hod left,
and
Imogene Corlson
is
forced
to sleep that night on
t h e
floor.
5.
left
She
l ea rn s o f
o n Ameri
can encampment,
and
on
th e
ad
vice
of
o n Ameri ca n n av el o ff i
cer,
decides to go
there.
As they
approach th e encampment,
6. right a Filipino woman tells
h e r
t h a t h er h us ba nd is a t t h e
inn. This proves to be false. Her
wotry to the fate of her hus
b a n d increases .
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17. left)
The encampments o f
Americans are well supplied with
food, b ut
ar e
bo thered by
th e
bombings an d strafing of th e
camp, an d by th e monkeys t ha t
tear
th e
clothes,
hung
ou t to d ry ,
o f f
th e
clothes line.
18. right) Mrs.
Carlson l e a r n s
that
h er h us ba nd ,
Ray, is in
terned
In
th e
jail
of Cebu.
m
21. left) The
Japanese take th e
people s food
from them after
promising they ca n
keep it.
22. right) The
Carlsons
e nt er t he
j ai l, w hi ch is
only one
of
th e
places
they ar e to be
interned.
MX
iftn
i>Ow,
nn r.
19. left) The encampment o f
mericans
d e c i d e to surrender
to the
Japanese
an d
send a
signed
paper of
surrender.
20. right) Ray Carlson is released
from
t he J ap an es e
p ri so n to ai d
his w if e an d
children
on
th e
jour
ney to Cebu, and they
or e
re
united
after long
months
of
se p
aration.
I n t er m e n t a w ai t s al l
o f
them
23.
left) Th e
prisoners
ar e
forced
to feed
themselves
by w ha t p ur
chases t hey ca n make from th e
Filipinos.
24.
right)
Many of
t he J ap an es e
guards yielded to Larry s the
boby) cooing
an d
would some
times
give th e
children presents.
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25. (left) The harder the
life,
the
Americans laugh and joke. The
Japanese disappointedly say, No
white men, when he
winf^. je laughs. When he
loses,
he laughs. Very funny.
26. (right) The long ordeal con
tinues as everyone loses weight.
There is little food except on
special occasions. The Filipinos
or e
allowed
to send food
in
Thanksgiving; the prisoners re
ceive several turkeys.
29. (left) The prison-camp life is
continuous searching for food,
standing in line for soap, etc.
Sickness breaks out. The time
drags for the prisoners.
30.
,
right)
But
church
services are
held, and even an orchestra is
formed among the prisoners. A
Hallowe'en par ty Is held for' the
children.
i
m
27. (left) News comes that the
prisoners are
to
be
taken to Ja
pan or to Korea, and they ore
loaded on a dirty Japanese
freighter. The 165 prisoners are
loaded into the hold of the ship-
with
two
hundred Japanese sol- ,
diers .
28. (right) The ship docks at Ma
nila and the prisoners
are
tgken
to the Santa Tomas Camp. Here,
it is somewhat
better,
as
they
are able to buy clothes and food. .
31 .
left) Christmas is-celebrated
in
th e camp
with
a
traditional
Santa. When
Larry
sees
hjrp^,] ^
.
cries, Candy man.
Mama
'''--Re-'
remembers
candy
received
oth^.
Chris tmases .
32 .
right) The Corlsdns^re
together with other-'.prispners).
by
th e
arrival of Red Cross sup-;-
plies. They learn that the Jap- -
anese
are,
selling .part
of
th e
plies in
Manila.
'
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33. jeft The Carlsons volunteer
to go to
the
Los Bonos
camp,
and
are
taken
on a long
t r u c k
convoy w ith other prisoners to
that
camp.
34. right Larry Car lson spends
much time
imitating th e
Jap
anese soldiers.
Some
grow to like
him very much and obey
his
or -
ders .
37. left The prisoners ar e driven
to
eating
boiled leaves,
weeds,
or
anything they
can
find.
38. right he American
l i ne
comes close, and the
Japs
leave.
The
prisoners kill an ox
and
have
a rea l feas t
m
1
35 . . left Air raids by American
planes
start. Rat ions become
scant
and the
prisoners
suffer
f rom
malnut r i t i on
36. right They see an American
plane go down and learn that
the
Filipinos have saved the pi
lot f rom the
Japanese. They re
joice thot the
coming
of th e war
to the Philippines
may
mean lib
erty.
39. left The Japs return, and
when they find
t he ir bar racks
looted, d emand th e re tu rn o f ev
erything.
40.
right When g radio is
no t
turned in, they
threaten
to kill
one
of
the
prisoners.
Another
radio is turned in, but
th e
Jap
an ese are still angry.
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41 left)
The American
Army res
cues
the
prisoners
and all th e
Japanese
guards
ar e
killed
42. right) The
Carlsons
boa rd
amphibious t an ks an d a re taken
to safety.
45 .
left) The
Carlso ns d ec id e to
stay
in th e Philippines
and
Ray
flies
to Cebu.
46. right)
Later,
Imogene
and
the
two boys
return
via Libetry
ship. They find th e chapels
ar e
burned,
and
build
onother
of
na
t ive mater ials .
I
43. left) Twice they are fired up
on by Japanese
machine-gun
In
stallations.
The tanks le t the
Instal lat ions have
i t .
44. right)
They
are taken across
th e
bay
to
safety, and
food
and
health.
They have lived through
an
ordeal
fo r
Christ.
47 .
lef t )
The number of
Chris
tians grows ond when
th e
Carl
sons are forced to
leave
in June,
1946, there
are
108 members o f
th e new
Cebu Church .
48.
right) As
this
story Is
written,
the Carlsons are
in
America.
When you read it they will be
on their way back to Cebu for
their future
dventure
fo r