THE CEBU CHRISTIAN

Publication of

Cebu Christian Mission,

RAY and IMOGENE CARLSON

States Address:

P. O. Box 41,

Missionaries

P. O. Box 7, Latonia Station

Covington, Kentucky

READY TO RETURN

On the 15th, Til go to Negros to dedi

cate the new Camingdangan church,

Cebu City, Philippines

AMERICANS AND THE HUKS
A recent article in the Chicago Daily
News from Manila reported the follow
ing:
"Americans are No. 1 Targets of

and hold meetings for two weeks. We

have four prospects to be baptized this

week in Martires.

Have not been able to do much call

Philippine Huk killers.

"Communist Hukbalahaps gun for
Yanks, Defense Secretary Ramon Magsaysay warns, in order to discredit this
republic and its government in Uncle
Sam's eyes and to sabotage Philippine
efforts to secure

additional

ing recently because of the classes I

teach in the 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 about until 4:00 P.M. After this
I have my two classes in Southwestern

financial

College working toward my A.B. From

7:00 to 8:00 P.M., I teach the evening
class in the Seminary.
I have received many invitations and
calls to preach, but I cannot please ev
erybody of course. How hard when you

and arms aid from Washington.

"It is a diabolical game of hit-andrun attacks. Magsaysay charges, opera

ted 'upon orders from outside the coun
try.'
"Americans killed by Huk maraud
ers in recent raids, he says, were vic
tims' of a deliberate attempt to lessen

are not here! !

BOYS' SUPPORT

American faith in this republic's abil

ity *0 maintain internal peace and to
play its full role in the Pacific defense

The church at Cherokee, Iowa and

that at Corona. California have each

indicated their purpose or

pattern.
"They hope that Washington, alarm
ed by this weakness, will diminish its
handouts of money and weapons to
Manila, Magsaysay reports."

The political problems in the Philip

pines do not mean in any way that op
portunities to preach the Gospel there
are at an end. There are many areas in
which the-Huks-arc not actively oper
ating.
Even where the communists are most

respect.

Who will do the same for Teddy

our three year old? We are praying.

Ray Carlson
The American

President lines have

informed us that the freighter faces

now from San Francisco to the Philip
pines is $385. Each of our three boys

active, Filipino preachers are going for

ward with evangelism. These troubled
times require more than ever before a
vigorous presentation of the plan of

about the first of August. Designated

gifts toward this travel fund should be

salvation in Christ Jesus that is the on

sent within the next six weeks. Would

ly hope of the world and^he Philip

pines.
Is this the convenient season in the

Philippines? Perhaps not, but if we

wait for propitious occasions to do the
Lord's work we will never go to any
foreign mission field.
A young woman was recently ap
proached by her well-meaning friends

will require a

half-fare

ticket.

would like to be able to leave

on

We

or

your mission group like to be recog

nized as among the thirty sending $50
for passage of the Carlson family that
we might begin the eleventh year of
work in Cebu? Recognition and reg
ular reports of this project will be
made in the Christian Standard.

BERNABE IN DA VAC
Brother Santiago Bernabe in the
great city of Davao j.s doing good work

in establishing a New Testament

people in that are?. The city limits of
this important abaca (Manila hemp)
producing center cover a larger area
than those of Los Angeles, California.
Brother Bernabe tells of preaching to
five different groups every first day of
the week. Through the week he teach
es school to support himself and his
family. He is one of those converted in
the jail in Cebu and trained in Cebu
Bible Seminary. Davao i.s the largest

city on the immense and undeveloped

island of Mindanao, Wc are happy that
someone is bearing a witness for Clirist
in this place.

MISSIONS: HOME OR FOREIGN?

If We wait until all at home are con-"

verted, we will never do any foreign

mission work. The
church sent its best

New Testament
workers abroad.

Paul did not stay either at Jerusalem

nor Antioch. He was ever anxious to
preach Christ where He had not been

named. He was unwilling to build on

other men's foundations.
The problem is not missions: home

OR foreign: but missions: home AND

foreign. Are we doing as much for
others as we are doing for ourselves?
Every church supporting a full-time
minister could probably support an
evangelist abroad if all loved and gave
as they should.

who tried to discourage her from going

into the possible dangers found on the
foreign mission field. "You miglit not

come back," they warned. "The Great

Commission says that I must go," she
replied courageously, "it doesn't say
anything about coming back."

supporting

one of our three boys to the extent of a

dollar a day. Thank God for the faith
of those who hold up our hands in this

VILLAGRACIA LETTER

April 1I held a two Sunday evan

gelistic meeting in Balamban and have
found many prospects. I baptized two
and one of these is a clerk in the muni

cipal building and anotlier is a faithful

brother living near Brother Bantilis.
Mrs. Pagba is active in the assignment

I have given her in the job of gathering

"Every person is either a missionary

or a mission field." Harry Schaefer
COMPARISON
We have ten missionaries

in

the

Philippine.s t.o evangelize eighteen mil

lion people on over seven thousand is
lands. The Roman Catholic church has
282 American missionaries alone in the

the children every Sunday afternoon

Islands after 430 years of papal effort.

in Abuno.

Catholic missionaries never take fur

loughs,

I am closing the Seminary tiiis 12th

of April. The Martires church is pro
gressing but we are .still working for

the

monthly

land

rentalespecially

since some have failed in their respon

sibility in this recently.

We arc going with Sister Pagba and

some of the others to

Medellin

and

Daan Bantayan next Saturday and see

thing.s over there again. I'll talk with
Brother Ibanez about how to

secure

that land he spoke of tor the church

buildingwill have meetings for two
nights.

THANKS

We thank the Lord every day for

your unselfis'n help in making this min
istry possible to the people of Cebu.
Please pray that every provision will
continue to be made and that we might
have our travel fund bv the first ot
August. Wo cannot fail the Filipinos
and our eight Cebuann Churches in
these days when they must build every
spiritual and moral force po.-sible to
meet the days of testing ahead.

MAHCH MISSION MEETING

*Iiiiogene Carlson*^
Birthday Greetings to Cebu Chiistian Mission

On March 22nd, Cebu Christian Mission celebrates its thirteenth birthday! As we

glance backward we must stop and thank the Heavenly Faither for His wonderful loving
care and constant guidance. We learned to rely on Him as never before for everything

we had or did, fikjmetimes we have been a bit discouraged and blue, but when we 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, we feel a s if much has been accomplished in spite
of our human weaknesses.

There are now 18 Qiurches of Christ in the Southern Philipoines and many Philippine
Christians.

How would you like to take a trip with me today to one of the Provincial Churches

and meet some of the brethren. We'll 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 we start out from our house
in San Isidro, we 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
if 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 we go, "The roads are awful," You say.
Oh, these are good roada. The bad road don't start for 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 the pillows, besides at night of course!

Was that a tire? Ch, Well, we'll just have to take it off and roll it back to that

last town. Yes, its pretty hot in the sun, even at seven in the morning, but this is
stfill winter, friend. After a vrtiile it will be really hot. Oh, the crowd? Of coursethey 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 little 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 it is,-"Say bred, we want to get
this tire fixed! What?" He says they only have a bicycle pvmp. It will take at least an
hour now, maybe two- Well nothing to do, but wait. Let's go over to the beach and rest

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 little bit about the Church, Yes,
they are really interested. Too bad we can't stop here all day with the equipment and
hold a real meeting. Perhaps seme day we can,- Well, wonder if the tire's finished yet?
I^et's go over and see- Cfti, not yet? Well, they were tired and had to rest awhile 1 guess.
We can't rush them, Well, at last now we can roll it 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 in bac k better hlld the records. Watch that recorder. See that old Catholic

Church? It 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 the basket on her head is

selling babinkas, rice cakes,.,Pretty good aren't they? It's about noon so let's stop
and have lunch. This rice is still hot. You know if we roll it up in banana leaves it
stays hot for ever so long,,,Would anybody like to lie down for a few minutes under those

trees, we can cut same banana leaves and make a bed,,. Well, better start again. We'll
be passing thru mountains soon and drive along the coast at the same time. The scenery

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is really beautirul^ isn't ita See those old towers along the coast there? Those are

old Spanish watch towers. Cebu was "ttie first Spanish settlement in the islands. They
had lots of trouble from the tribes in MiitHjEUiao the Mohammedansfor a long times Those
towers are probably at least four hundred years old and maybe older. They're still in
good condition too. The Spaniards really built good walls and stone churches. Of course
most of it was slave labor. We can be glad that all of that finally stopped with the
Spanish-American war.

We're been driving for almost four hours. Now we'll soon be in Santander. The folks

will have a lusbh ready for us probably in the store of Brother Januario Hoyohoy. Ahhere we are. It's just little town. There's the eleaentary school. Over there's -ttie
church. Quite a niee building isn't it? It's all made of hard wood. The Mission gave
tha the aluminum for the roof when they first started to build in 1947. Each year at

Christdias time we gave them a little to help on the building^ but they have done most

of it themselves. This Church has quite a history. The old ^s. Hoyohoy was one of the
first Protestants on the island. She and her husband were converted over on the island

of Negros there at that point across the channel at Dumaguete. They came back by sail
boat with their New. BLble hidden in a large clay Jar of rice. Her husband was the band
leader for the Roman Catholic Churchy Nhen they quit going to Churchy the priest got
after them. Then he discovered that they had Joined the Presbeterian Qiurch and had in
fluenced some of their friends to do the same. The priest was very angry and got 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 with clubs and bolos (long knives). One
of the mean waskilled after they had,run thru the river bed a long way. The priest was
in the penetentiary for awhile because of his crime. There is a marker at the spot not

far from the present church building where the man was killed. Tiiese people later leftthe Presbyterian church and Joined another church called Universalist Church of Christ,

It was the same as the Pre8byterim bixt not affiliated with them. One of the daughters
of Mrs. Hoyohoy visited ihe Martires Qiurch of Christ in Cebu, and was later baptized,
she and all her family. So the word spread to Santander about further truth and a church
of the N.T. So Brother Ray Carlson was invited to go and hold a meeting there in June
1947. After a two weeks' meeting, the whole church came forward and everyone old enou^
was baptised. They left the old building as they wanted no trouble with the other group.

So they bbarted their own building.

Most of the churches put up cheap buildings in a hurzy. These fplk didn't. They
said they wanted to have a building that would be standing for their grandchildren's
children to use.

Well the folks have a hot lunch (it will really be our suppoer, so eat heartily)
ready for us here in the store of Brother Joyohoy. Isn't tiiis roasted pig good? You'll
have to see scmetime how they roast them on long bamboo poles over open fires.

We will have to set up the generator and string up the lights before dark so we'd

better get started. Roll the generator back of the Church. Some of the local boys will
climb up on the rafters and arrcmge the wires for the li^ts. We'll have to get the loud
speakers up high on the outside of the church. Now, everything is in readiness. A few
records coming over the speakers will announce to everyone in town about the meeting,
tonight. We can nudce announcoaents concerning it and tomorrows meeting.

Time to begin the meeting. Miss Cresencia Labrado is going to lead the song service.
How do you like their singing? Pretty good, isn't it. Mrs. Carlson will play the folding
organ. Qie' s teaching some of the girls to play. Perhaps in another year Patria Hoyohoy
can play for the hymns. Hear those children^ Miss Betty Yarbrough is giving a fine fanelgraphy. She tells it so well, and the adults press close "to see it too.
Now comes time for the sermon. Brother Ray Carlson will preach in the dialect.
really speaks very well in their language.

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6rot]:^r Alston Knight \4ill show slides. He is new here and so hasn't mastered the

language yet. But give him a few years. He'll be running it off his tongue as glibbly
at the rest.

Brother Villagracia will e^lain the pictures in the dialect. How 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. If they just weren't so af
raid of the priests maxyr more would take a stand for Christ and leave the Roman Catholic
Church.

Four young men came forward tonight to confess their Lord. They'll be baptized in
either the sea or the river tcmorrow ri^t after morning worship. One of the boys says

he wants to go to Cebu Bible Seminary and learn all about the Bible and be a preacher.
We must make it 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 if he is resLlly sincere and will
work like the other boys.

The records are being played again. Such a crowdl It'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 they
will be Christians 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
thing.

Are you all very tired? I'm sure you are after that long tiring trip over the bad
roads amd no siesta this aifternoon. The brethren have infomed us that we will all 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 all down on the floor. Th# ^rls
and ladies will sleep here in this 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 ni^t.

Good morning, do we all look like zebras with stripes on our backs? We should, after
sleeping on those bamboo floors. The p|gs and chickens and goats have been running around
under the house for at least two hours making hungry noises. - This way, folks, to the
faucet. Just stand in line here on the road and wash your face and hands. Put your mirror
in the car and you can ^ave very well. Here I'll pour water fpcaa this coconut shell over

your hands, then you do it for me. Just wet yoxir tooth brush and spit over the side.- The
bus is stopping loaded with people. How they stare at all the Americans performing their
abolutionsi Never;,mind. Just grin and act like you've wa^ed yp in front of the multitudes
all your lives. Really there's nothing to itl

Ch, breidcfast is to be at the Chief of Police's house. Brother Alejandro Joyohoy's

house. They a re the most hospitable familyalways "feeding" and "sleeping" us.
What excellent ffesh fish I And the papayai lia. So good. And the hot rice and scrambled

eggs. How do you like the thick chocolate? Tasty isn't it. They always serve more than we
can eat.

"Daghang salamat for the lovely breakfast, folks," everyone says. And now to the
church. We must check
the equipnent before Simday School b^ins. Tes, everything is
all right.

Sunday School with such a fine audience. The singing is grand. Everyone joins in the
class discussions.

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. How sweetly they sing.

Two mre additions at this service. There will be six to baptize now. It is to be

in the sea, as the river is too shallow now. See the expression on all their faces. Joy
is written there. All of their burdens seem to go rolling away, "Down at the Savior's
Cress."

The trip h<mie must be quicker. I do hope we have no more tire trouble. V/e must

get home and help in the service at San Isidro and also at Pelaez Street eveBt^ servide.
Seme will be going to the Carreta chiirch and some to Haritres St. Church. It has been a

long> hard trip but so much good has been acc<x&plished. The brethren have been s trengthened
and we have been able to know tdiem better.

Pray for those new babes in Christ and for the others idio are growing up in Jesuso
Hope you enjoyed your visit to Santander.

Remember the Cebu Bible Seminary in your prayers and offerings. The classrooms and

library and office are all cramped in two small rented rooms. Help make the new buildixig
a reality soon. The well has been dug and finished. The foundation will be started soon.
How we hope to be able to have the new building for next school year, June 15th.
The summer vacation begins l^rch 30th.
Several teams bf two girls will be going out to the various churches to work with the
children in the D.7.B.S. this summer. If you have colored pictures to donate for this

please send them as soon as possible. Frannel graphs are especially usefhl. So if you
have s<Me you are no longer using, send them as a birthday gift for the Cebu Christian
Mission.

TIAN
Mr. & Mrs. Ray Carlson, Missionaries

Published Quarterly By the Cebu Christian Mission

P. O. Box 41, Cebu City, Republic of the Philippines

Vol. II

October, 1948

No. 2

THE COST OF A MISSION

DEATH AS AN OCCASION
FOR EVANGELISM

Is independent missions cheaper

than organized missions? Indepen
dent missions have no paid propa
gandists publicizing prodigiously

Once in a while, Catholic tradi

tion helps us as in the case of the
custom after funerals. Romanists in

padded proclamations. Elaborate

ly furnished private offices with
many stenographers are unknown.
No independent missionary that we
know of travels in drawing rooms

the Phihppines have nine nights of

prayer and singing after the burial
seirices are over. They, of course,
are praying for eternal repose of the
soul. We have often used this as an

and few even have berths on trains.

We have no funds to establish "credit

opportunity to hold small preaching

sei^vices where families are wilHng.
We explain carefully that we do

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 accomphshed on a shoestring. White
people among our brown, hlack and
yellow brethren cannot fall below

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 hearing in this fash

"the night is far spent, the day is at hand."

ion that would be quite impossible

in any other way. Many have been
won through this device.

Rom. 13.12

certain economic levels without 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
Cannot Start a Mission

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

dollar a day for a worker went far

before the war, but now it is a bare

meals away from home.

We will

not count 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

time

to time in the

roles of doctor, carpenter, plumber,

electrician, mechanic, gardener and
teacher in addition to the full-time

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

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 last 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 run than to

neglect entirely the educational part

of mission work. The FiHpino breth
ren in tliis time have contributed

a total of 401.56 to the work of the

preaching of the gospel.

land. This does not amount to a lot,

MAILING LIST

but there are times when the $20 a

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 having talent.

month rent we pay for the Martires

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

300w, lOOv outfits run about $175

from the Surplus.
Relief problems on the mission
(cONTmUED ON NEXT PAGe)

Street chapel is very hard indeed to

find. In most places in the Phihppines, we must rely on kerosene
lamps for light. A portable, electric
plant would be a valuable asset, but

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.

The

Cebu

Christian is

sent

free to supporters and friends of the

Mission. Write Cebu Christian Mis

sion, P. O. Box 41, Cebu City, Re

public of the Phihppines.

The Cebu Christian

Page Two

THE COST OF A MISSION

FILIPINO CHILDREN

{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 17V2C 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?

The boys and girls of America

will enjoy knowing something of
those their own age in the Philip
pines. We should notice that there
are many ways in which the child
ren here are 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 variety

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

children

have

these

blown up for enormous balloons.

people study for the future Chris

ever popular and

the older boys en
joy volley ball

tian service. In the Cebu Bible Sem

and

inary we charge no tuition, but many

cannot afford to buy paper on which

which they call

"bolly bol" and

We have a duty to help young

to write their examinations! We have

students coming to class without

their meals. 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

basketball

"besket bol."

game whose aim

is to keep the ball
''Takyan"
always in the air
by hitting it with the side of the

trying to study in a house 8' x 10'

foot and the ankle is called "tak-

in which live two other adults and

yan." A ball woven of rattan is

maybe four children. Imagine hund

reds of houses like 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 are 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

rather than before. The diet has

little variation and consists for the

most part of dried fish, rice or corn

and a few vegetables like greens
or squash.
Desire Education

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 lacking. Boys
and girls come to school either bare
footed or wearing "bakias." These
are wooden clogs held on by a rub
ber strap made from used auto tires.
Children are frequently known to
come to school without breakfast.

They are taught what foods are good

to eat but seldom are able to use

their knowledge because their par

ents are poor. Most boys and girls
never know what a glass of fresh
milk tastes like. Now and then can

ned milk may be had, but rarely.

Most

M a r b 1 es are

Our DutyYour Duty

Fihpino children eat with their

fingers while sitting on the floor.
The custom is to wash after eating

used. These and other games prove

that Filipino children can have
fun even though they have very
little money. They make their own
toys and are seldom able to buy any
sort of plaything.
While they try their best to be

American

children

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 yourself the
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 spiritual dark

ness and help them every way you
can?

happy, there are many sad prob

Exchange Letters Asked

If you, as a child, would like to
write to one of these Filipino Child
ren, please send us your name, age

lems in their lives. Most children

and address and we will have one

pray more effectively and give more

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

of these boys and girls write 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

purposefully.

borhood.

and sisters in Christ.

God has called us to do our little

bit in this place. We know you want

to know. If you know, you will

children. Pray for these our brothers

The Cebu Christian

Page Three

Ignacio Tagalog

Cresencia Labrado

ointments, mercurochrome, oil of wintergreen, alcohol, iodine, boric acid, absorbent

cotton, bandages of assorted sizes, adhesive
plaster and cotton clothing suitable to tliis
tropical climate especially men's cloth
ing.

The mission has been paying Brother Ber

nabe 15 a week. We recommend him unre-

sei-vedlj' as a living link project of some

church. He should be raised to SI 7.30 a week.
He has won many to Christ and will win
many more with encouragement and the help
he deserves, He is studjdng full time in
tlie Cebu Bible Seminary and is teaching
three classes in the Seminary seven hours
a

week.

Some church in the States will

always be glad of the decision^ to use him

Born May 5,
Cebu.

1929 at Tuyan, Naga,

Father and Mother members of the

Presbyterian Church.
Baptized May 5,
191-8. Educational attainments: third year
high school. Attending Cebu Bible Semi
nary full time. Studying short hand and
typing in a private business college. Has
been leading about 24 children between
the ages of four and eight in a club on
Saturdaj's called the Young Soldiers of
Christ

at

whicli

time

she

teaches

them

from tlie Primary Quarterly. On Sunday

has a large class of the same age averag

ing about 40 in attendance.

She is in

terested in music and is practising organ.

Requests pictures, primary lesson leaflets,

crayons, scissors, pencils, paper and cotton
clothing for the children.

Boi'n Feb. 1, 1912 at Liloan, Cebu,

Finished High School. Taught Shop and

as a permanent mission project.

Arithmetic one year in the Cebu Chinese

School.
Employed by Visayan Electric
Company and was gang boss in the Bu
reau of Public Works. Is single. Was
baptized Dec. 16, 1946 coming from the
Roman Catholic church. Has done preach
ing in various evangelistic meetings and
travels from time to time to Santander,
Balamban and other places to hold ser
vices.
Preaclie.s regularly at the Provin
cial Jail. Requests clothing, food. Bibles
and reading matter for prisoners. Is at

Jose 0. Villagracia

present studying full time in the Cebu Bible

Seminary.

We recommend him as worthy

of the help of some group in the States

who would like to have a definite mission
project which they could call their own.

We recommend her to some church or

organization in the States as worthy of

their help. One dollar a day would be

Santiago Bernabe

an investment in missions that would be

the means of preparing her for increas

Bom June 19, 1924 at Bacolod, capitol

-of Negros Occidental the same province
from which the late Brother Justo Lusoc
came and later returned to establish the

ing usefulness to the cause of Christ. Her

support will be given as an exclusive pro
ject to the first group that writes us in

church at Guiljungan, Cauayan, Occ. Ne

gros. A High School graduate. Finish
ed the first year of the pre-law course in
Iloilo Citj' offered in the Baptist Central
Philippine College and took some Bible

her behalf.

courses

FORWARDING MONEY

the Chartered

until

the

outbreak

verted to inactive status after the libera

the means of sending money to

Our bank

there

tion. Converted in 1944 by the preaching

of Brother Filomeno C. Bolongaita the
only worker of tlie church of Christ (noninstmmental) in Negros. In 1945, taught

There is no problem concerning

Cebu.

while

of the war. After the disbanding of the

USAFFE joined the guerrilla forces in
Negros under Captain C. C. Kayanan. Re

Bank of India, Australia and China

can handle any sort of check,

Talisay, Cebu. Baptised July 31, 1945 com

in an elementary school and studied some

theological subjects in the Presbyterian
University of Silliman of Dumaguete,

draft or money order through our

full time for the church of Christ Feb. 8,

Oriental Negroes.

account.

1946. Has been able to convert of his own

Bible Seminary after my visit to Tayasan

in Negros at the invitation of Brother Bo
longaita. Studying full time in the Cebu
Bible Seminary and leaching a class in
English there four hours a week. An in
teresting preacher and zealous student of
the Scriptures. Has won his father and
many others to Christ. A good song leader.

Postage on first class letters to the

Philippines is five cents air mail
Air letters on

government forms supplied at post

offices cost only ten cents. This last
is a speedy and economical means
of communication, but no enclosirre
is allowed.

ing from Catholicism.

family:

MAIL TO THE PHILIPPINES

twenty-five cents.

Born December 30, 1913 at Camp Three,

Began Working

his mother, mother-in-law, wife,

sisters, children and a few other relatives.

A Junior Normal graduate. Began teach
ing as a high school graduate in 1936.
Taught grades one to four in Minglanilla
for four years, grades five and six one
year in Talisay and grades three and four
for one year in the same place. Has been
active in extensive and varied evangelistic
work for us the last two years and has
proven to be a careful student and ex
pounder of the Word of God. Is trust
worthy in every way. He has the confi
dence of tlie people who come to him
in streams with every sort of problem. His

Decided to attend Cebu

Has baptized twentyfive since his conver

sion. Plans to return to Negros after his
Seminary work and take over the work

left by Brother Justo Lusoc while evange

lizing in other parts. Sacrificial and con
scientious.

Reliable in every way.

We recommend him to the bretliren as

sick bodies as well as sick souls wherever

worthy of at least $1 a day while be is

studying with us looking toward the day
when he will be prepared effectively to be
gin preaching the hundreds of thousands

he goes.

of unreached on the island of Negros.

experience in one of the goveimnent skin

clinics has proven valuable in treating
Requests the following: salves.

CEBU CHRISTIAN
215 E. Hillcrest

Inglewood, California

(POSTMASTER: if undeUyerable for any reason, notify

sender stating reason on Form
3547 postage for which is gua
ranteed.)

WHAT YOU CAN DO

You who cannot leave home but

GIFTS RECEIVED FROM MARCH I.

1948 TO AUGUST 31. 1948
CALIFORNIA,

Inglewood,

Mary Ann

who are interested in bringing the

(thru Mrs. Faddis), $5; Women's Coimcil,

cause of Christ to the attention of

$25; Los Angeles, Miss. Soc., Cardiff Ave.

those in spiritual darkness may do

the followmg if you would like to

share in this task:

Chr. Ch., $60; Mrs. Faith Parke & sons,

$40; San Femando> Chr. Youth Group, $10;
Santa Rosa, Mrs. Clara McCauley Memo

rial, Chr. Ch., $3; Women's Miss. Council,

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 all 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

Chr. Ch., $12; GEORGIA, Atlanta, Miss

Hazel Jean Davis, $10; East Point, Four
fold Class, Chr. Ch., $10; ILLINOIS, Chi

cago, Chester 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. Morris St., Chr. Ch.,
$22; Tipton, Etliel 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

Rohrersvifle, Chas. V. Summer, $15; MI

nary Library, Bible School litera

ture and Quarterlies that you have

just finished using, cotton clothing

the projectors being sold by the

Standard Publishing Company and

ton. Miss. Soc., C of C., $25; MISSOURI,

Mt. Vernon, Miss. Soc., $10; Springfield,
Miss. Soc., Walnut St. C of C., $8; MON
TANA, Conrad, F. G. Hulburt, $60; NE
BRASKA, Alliance, Orville Deal, $50; Ba
yard, C of C., $37; Wild Horse C of C.
$15.27; NEW YORK. Tonawanda, C of C,
$15; 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; Jeromesville, C of C.. $37.30: OKLAHOMA, Buf
falo, Miss. Soc., Chr. Ch., $20; Sand
Creek, Fairview Chr. Ch., $25; Shidler,
Women's Council, $37; OREGON, Eugene,
Mrs. L. E. Allumbaugh, $15; Ind. Miss.
Grp. No. 1, $25; B. J. Whiteley, Rock-

any other standard size machine.

away Chr. Ch.. $10.60; Portland, Nathan

medicines like the home remedies

you have in your chest.

Film Strips
35 mm. film strips on the work
of the Cebu Christian Mission are

being prepared.

These will fit in

If you would hke to borrow one

of these strips for use in your church

or missionary society, please write
fpr a rpcprvation for them to Mrs.
--Eleanor -Watldns- FirstChristian

_Church, 215-E.-Hillcrest,Inglewood,
California. You will 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.

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

irregularly. 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.

son. Vol. Miss. Band, Ky. Chr. Coll., $10;

Mason, Lystra C of C., $75; MARYLAND,
CHIGAN, Buchanan, Bible School & Miss.
Soc.. $3.50; Duplain, C. of C., $10; Forest

for children and men especially, ana

Cebu Bible Seminary

THE PROVINCIAL JAIL

Hill, C. of C., $5; MINNESOTA, Worthing-

Sams, $18; PENNSYLVANIA, Meadrille,

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 City, Mrs. F. D. Hill,
R. 3, $10; VIRGINIA. Church Road, T.
P. Clarke, $5; WASHINGTON, Colville,
Ch. at 9th & Main, $17.50; Everett, Miss.
Francese Franklin, $4; WYOMING,
Wheatland, 1st Chr. Ch., $27.23; Payments
on loan (ARC), $750; Sale of books, $9.27.
Total: $1,986.92.
Total paid out in the same time includ

ing previous debit balance: $2,079.83.

Present deficit: $92.91.

For some time we have wanted

to secure for you a picture of mem

bers of the church of Christ (Iglesia

ni Cristo) in the Provincial Jail.

The necessary permission from the

Provincial Governor was finally
granted. In this picture are most
of those who have been baptized who
are still 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 their hour of

trial. A few have proven to be ex

cellent workers for God.

A num-

OUR

LIFE IN THE PHILIPPINES

During World War 11

^C

THE CARLSON

FAMILY

November, 1948

Harroid KcFarlaud\^
SE

r^irmaanolls

Purpose of 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."

Achnowledgment
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 publishing this 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.
Cebu Christian mission

The CEBU CHRISTIAN MISSION was founded in 1941. For ten years
we have continued the mission work under many difficulties. Our goal is
to establish 50 Churches of Christ 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 are in the United States. We are available for
speaking engagements to present the work of the 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 the near future to continue in the 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
Missionaries

_ _S.

LARRY CARLSON S STORY

Story by Imogene Carlsof)

Pictures by Ruth Pistor

9/

Traveling began in earnest when

my mother toolc me with Robin, my
two-year-old brother, to the mountains .. .

Where we were supposed to meet my father,

but mountains are big, and bat
tles are long,and my father did
not find us.

After a while we got to Sudlone, the camp where

all Allied nationals lived together. Robin said,
"Where's rny Daddy?" when we got to camp,

After the Japanese planes strafed the camp, we

lived in caves, and when 1got a bath, in one-half cup

of water, I was lucky.

but no one knew.

Finally we decided to give up

to the Japanese. Guess who
came to help us move.

Then I began my career of making friends with

Japanese sentries. I couldn't help itI was born

Daddy!

He was a prisoner, too.

Daddy cleaned up the porch of the Junior College

so we could have church.

When I was learning to sit up and crawl,

my parents were learning to laugh at being
hungry. One Japanese said, "I no under
stand white man. When he wins he laughs.
When he loses he laughs. Very funny."

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.

The kind Filipinos gave us warm cloth

ing. They were afraid we were going

Nb

to Korea or Japan.

It was December.

sm

!wi

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.
In 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

In 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.

I learned some good music In November and

December. Daddy sang in the "Hallelujah Chorus"
and I sang "AHeluiah!" all the time at home.

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.

In December, Mother and Robin and I started

making Christmas decorations. We made chains
and stars and bells from

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 Eve. She was our Christmas gift.

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

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)

JI&

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>

Mother and Daddy tried to

grow onions, but Robin and
I ate them up. There was
no more milic or [dim.

"Tell Mother and Daddy the Males are here, too."

We

never whined,

After I was well

two friends

brought Robin
and me a duck

it

((i((

Now we found many

friends: the Wolfes, the Males, Miss

Schimmel and Miss Jones. They liked me, too!

egg.

Mow good
it tasted!

Robin and I wanted a party every day!

One night, when we had

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.

not had salt for three

months, one of my ad
mirers brought us some.

Quickly we left Los Bancs, and did not stop to watch the flames eat it up. Now I am in America,
but I hope to return soon to Cebu City, where my father can preach to the Filipinos every night.
I want to unpack the suitcase that was my cradle!

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 the American

-Arrriy telegraph office.

3. (left) His wife, Imogene, and

their two sons, Robin (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.

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 and

the children wait for Ray while
: refugees from Cebu City stream

past the house.

1. (left) Finally, Imogene Carlson

starts for the hills with the two

children.

Four times she has to

hide under Filipino houses from

the low-flying Jap planes.

'- l
8. (right) They walk until 2:30 in
the afternoon, when a family,

cooking rice by the roadsi^i,

gives them food.
'"rc-7^'\

rice and bananas.

Their meal is
^

9. (left) The natives bring leaflets

dropped by the Japanese to Imogene Carlson to read. The leaf
lets offer rewards for the cap
ture of the Americans. She fears

there may be spies among the

natives.

10. (right)

Imogene Carlson deter

mines to climb a

mountain to

reach a certain colonel, who may

give aid In finding her husband.

The soldiers tell her she will nev
er moke it with the children.

(left) She receives help from

11.

a doctor's assistant who carries

the baby and gets someone to

carry Robin.

12. (right) When they arrive they

find that the American officer

hod left, and Imogene Corlson

is forced to sleep that night on

1^

the floor.

13. (left) The next morning, Imo

gene Carlson and the children
start down the troll of the moun

tain. A few minutes after they

leave the fort, the Japs bomb it.
As the Japanese are bombing the
fort,
14. (right) Mrs. Carlson sees on

American plane bombing a ship

in the harbor.

One ship goes

down. This Is the lost American

plane she sees for a year and a

half of complete Japanese dom
ination.

5.

(left)

She learns of on Ameri

can encampment, and on the ad

vice of on American navel offi

cer, decides to go there. As they

approach the encampment,

6. (right) a Filipino woman tells

her that her husband is at the

inn. This proves to be false. Her

wot ry OS to the fate of her hus
band increases.

17. (left) The encampments of

Americans are well supplied with
food, but are bothered by the
bombings and strafing of the
camp, and by the monkeys that
tear the clothes, hung out to dry,

iftn i>Ow, nn

r.

off the clothesline.

18. (right) Mrs. Carlson learns

that her husband, Ray, is in
terned In the jail of Cebu.

19. (left) The encampment of

Americans decide to surrender

to the Japanese and send a

signed paper of surrender.

20. (right) Ray Carlson is released

from the Japanese prison to aid
his wife and children on the jour
ney to Cebu, and they ore re
united after long months of sep
aration.

Interment awaits all of

them.

21. (left) The Japanese take the

people's food from them after
promising they can keep it.

22. (right) The Carlsons enter the

jail, which is only one of the
places they are to be interned.

23.

MX

(left) The prisoners are forced

to feed themselves by what pur
chases they can make from the
Filipinos.

24. (right) Many of the Japanese

guards yielded to Larry's (the

boby) cooing and would some
times give the children presents.

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
ore allowed to send food in at

Thanksgiving; the prisoners re

ceive several turkeys.

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 shipwith 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. .

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 party Is held for' the
children.

31.

(left) Christmas is-celebrated

in the camp with a traditional

Santa. When Larry sees hjrp^,]!^ .

cries, "Candy man. Mama !'''--Re-'
remembers candy received oth^.
Christmases.

32. (right) The Corlsdns^re

(together with other-'.prispners)."
by the arrival of Red Cross sup-;-

plies. They learn that the Jap- anese are, selling .part of the
plies in Manila.

' .'

33. (jeft) The Carlsons volunteer

to go to the Los Bonos camp, and
are taken on a long truck
convoy with other prisoners to

that camp.
34. (right) Larry Carlson spends
much time imitating the Jap
anese soldiers. Some grow to like
him very much and obey his or-

ders.

35. . (left) Air raids by American

planes start.
Rations become
scant and the prisoners suffer
from malnutrition.

36. (right) They see an American

plane go down and learn that
the Filipinos have saved the pi
lot from the Japanese. They re
joice thot the coming of the war
to the Philippines may mean lib
erty.

37. (left) The prisoners are driven

to eating boiled leaves, weeds, or
anything they can find.
38. (right) The American line
comes close, and the Japs leave.
The prisoners kill an ox and have
a real feast.

39. (left) The Japs return, and

when they find their barracks
looted, demand the return of ev
erything.
40. (right) When g radio is not
turned in, they threaten to kill
one of the prisoners. Another
radio is turned in, but the Jap
anese are still angry.

41. (left) The American Army res

cues the prisoners and all the
Japanese guards are killed.
42. (right) The Carlsons board
amphibious tanks and are taken
to safety.

43. (left) Twice they are fired up

on by Japanese machine-gun In
stallations.

The tanks "let the

"Installations have it."

44. (right) They are taken across

the bay to safety, and food, and
health. They have lived through
an ordeal for Christ.

45.

(left) The Carlsons decide to

stay in the Philippines, and Ray

flies to Cebu.

46. (right) Later, Imogene and the

two boys return via "Libetry"
ship. They find the chapels are
burned, and build onother of na
tive materials.

47.

(left)

The

number of Chris

tians grows ond when the Carl

sons are forced to leave in June,
1946, there are 108 members of
the 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 "Adventure for