Bo.

January 6, 19bl' ,

Dear Chris-fcian brethren,

The holidays are over, and life is now returning to normal. There is always a lot of
drinking going on at this time each year, "but there have heen no incidents. The
students in the ible Institute had three weeks holiday vacation} this gave them an

opportunity to return to their villages and get some food and money. Scane of them,
however, are holding student ministries5 these spent their three weeks with their
churches.

Classes will resume Monday.

We have just begun to study the Gospels which

the students and I "both are finding very interesting and profitable.

il is not coming in at all now from the States.

It has been over two weeks since I

ave received any mail and even that was censored. It is not even sure that this
letter will get to you. The last letter from Betty said that she plans to return
here in the middle of February.

Upon learning this I sent her word to cancel her

reservations, for with so much political uncertainty it is unwise for them to be here.

The British Consulate in Stanleyville advised a couple weeks ago all women and child
ren to leave the province* So we do not know wheii she and the children will be able
to come back. We hope that it will not be too long yet5 it has been over six months
since they left the Congo.

As you have probably heard by now, my parents have decided to come over to help in ,
the work. Dad was recently pensioned from the Standard Oil Co., and he and Mother
have decided to dedicate the rest of their lives to serving their Lord in the Congo.
The doctor said they were unusually healthy. Wj are, of course, doubly happy for
their decision.

There is much to be done that is left undone for there are not

enou^ missionaries. We are looking forward to their arrival along with that of the
other new recruits, the Batlers, just as soon as the political climate settles

Supplies are becoming increasingly more difficult to get.

There is n?

?i]fh

at all to be bou^t in Stan. Even the;service stations are limiting their sales to
three gallons per customer for as long as the supply lasts. Their is no_loa3j and

it' is impossible iven to get bread with meals in the hotels. There are nn ;pprii^
batteries, no matches, no keroaene - arid on it goes.

Every week the sJLtuation worsens

for L^opoldviTle has cut off all river boat traffic to ^r province in ^ effort to
bring it into submission.

So no new supplies are coming in, and existing stocks are

nearly gone. There is enou^ gas at the mission to last about four or five months,
and I happen to like many of the locally-available native foods. So eve^rvthiis
running fm

While passing throu^ a village recently we saw a dance in progress (which is not
unusual). The'unusual thing was that there was a leopard skin hanging nearby. This
meant that the village had killed a leopard, and they were having a great dalhce of
joy to celebrate it.

They especially hate leopards and always dance when one is

killed.

I?LJUi_filldst, _of all confusion the preachers^are sti3JL.jijcdng their work, we are still

conducting the Bible Institute, the HEHstians axe sWll meeting land most everything
is carrying on as normal. Tha^ you for your interest in the progress of the gospel
here.

Please continue in your prayers for everyone connected with His woBk in the

Congo.

In Christ,

Ronald Harshe

Bomili Station ;

Missionaries:
Miss Zola L. Brown
Mr. and M. Howard A. Crowl

Bomili par Bafwasende via Stanleyville

Congo Beige, Afrique

Mr, and Mr>. Ronald D. Harshe

Mr. and Mrs. CUflbrd W. Scbaub

OHna Station :

B.P. 3, Nia-Nia via Stanieyvilie

Coni^o Beige, Afiique

Rtcruits:
Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Bittler

Forwatding Address:
P. O. Box 996,

Forwarding Agent:
Mr, MiUon W. Dills

Cincinnati 1, Ohio, U.SA,

Letter

19

T'limmry 17^

Bffiin 11

Dear Prienda in Christ,

There was a young maii here just a few ainutes ago wanting to "buy a hymn hook
and a Bibls, He had just been baptiaed last Lord's Day, and his face tostifie^l
to the truth of hie words when he .'>aid his heart was full of joy now. Ha wants
to jet gt3rt<3d rii^t.

So he v.*ill

read God's Word for himself.

able to join in the singing now atid to

So fow can clo this

Last week one niOffning in chapel ons od" the cdsaion employees
nie fellov;Chi^itiirians a j^ocd taHcing^to. He said that the preacher here at Bcmili wao not
recniVinf: hie full pey enoh week bocaase the offeringsi were not enough. He
elaborated on the disgrace it broutih^ on uk and the lacsk of love it rereals.

Most of the Pinployer.s and their f&Liilies aro Ohrietiane, and they make up a
fair part of the ofcurch at Bomili#

givin^^ accordingly.
as usuel.

TKey reooive pay sach v/eek but have not "besn

So last ?3u"fida>' thiere was three times as imich in the offering

They paid the preacher's biu>k debt and hare a little balance besides,

^he best of all about it is that it waib done from beginning to end by theaselvGs.
I

never said a Tord,

'i'his aoming early I met one of the student preachers ooming bade to the miasion

with a wet chiclcen in a little basket*

He explained that it was siok,

yoa see that one eyo is bulging??" J>o ha and a friend had forced open itu mouth
and poured dov.-n a concoction of supoihot peppers. He then took it to bh oreek
and dunked it a fev/ times in the hope that it would swallow some '.mter. If it
t/aon't tsick it probably is now. Sone of their home reaedios for humans are even
more drastic,

A orooodile has taken another person here at Boinili. He was a leper froia the
leper vi.llae. He was sitting on tlie edge of a (hig-cjut canoe fishing when the
croo com up from behind him and leaping out of the water snatched liim from the
oanoe. The last one killed before this v7as the brother of one of our etadnt
preachers.

The TT.:,. has just started policing tha foroGt,

Last weak a tniokload of troops

came through hex*e on a tvdce-a-mont.i aircuit of about 450 lailes,

atop everywhere.

They do not

It is good to kao ' that you a:;; reuienborod a ooiiple times a

ionth evon if all they do is drivo through.

Man^'- tVj,a*iI--s for whra". ./Ta a./:; doiir;: v;e

-v

o.

Hav you a hand in helping to win the CQNGO-F0R 0HRIST ?

Bomili

March 6, I96I
Dear Friends,

The mail is now open again, and so I have hopes of your receiving this lettero
week ten letters and one telegram arrived from my,wife.
letters came.

Last

Then this week seven more

This was the first I had heard from her since December 7

Five churches met at Bafwagali at the end of January for a revival meeting of two

full days.

Part of the meeting was rained out, "but the rest went well.

were present, and there were about 30 young people for the youth meeting.

I96 people
One night

after services the preachers, some student preachers and I were sitting in the
preacher's house talking. One of the students wearied of the conversation and
picked up a bed and started to take it to the house where ho was to stay the night.
For some reason he put it down after he got outside and came back in with the rest of
us. At this someone became very excited and told him not to leave the bed out there
for the people in this village were bad people and would smear some charm medicine
on it and make whoever slept on it sick. He brou^t it back in. This is just another
example of their need of preachers to teach them the Word of God.
In January I was called to the Olina station.

Some man tried to make the mission pay

outrageous sums to present and past employees for no good reason.

He wrangled, plead,

threatened and everything else for five hours. He had three policemen with him and
threatened to put me in Jail for not paying. A couple days later the territorial
government settled it by putting him in jail. We have found the local administrators
very fair.

I was in Stanleyville last month when the'word came in of Lumumba's death. There
were 300 people wishing they were someplace else. The town was closed up tight for

several days, and with one thing and another it was 2 l/2 weeks before I could get
back out to Bomili. When I finally returned to Bomili at night all the people rolled
out of bed and came to greet me laughing and piimping my arm off. They had heard all
kinds of gruesome tales of what was happening to white people in Stan and thought
that I was dead. Everyone called it mirabulous that there was no more trouble than
there was.

'

But it was not long until some were angry with me. Supplies are just not &,vailable,
but I did manage to get a very little bit of soap. We cut the squares in two so that
there would be enou^ to go around to all the mission people. No one said, "Thank
you" but some did become angry because I would not let them have two pieces instead

of only one^^^^hey thought I was not showing Christian love.

There^aTB still little hope for the family's return here. They and the Butlers and my
paj?nts had planned to come in April, but it had to be cancelled. This is the second
Jime that a departure date for them had to be cancelled. Incidents are still happen
ing, and the future is still not clear.

Continue, we ask, in your faithful support and in your prayers for this work. The
Congolese need the gospel now more than everj and they, together with us, someday
will thank you face to face.

In our Lord,

Ronald Harshe

s-

Bomili Station :

Missionaries:
Miss Zola L. Brown

Bomili par Bafwasende via Staoleyville

Mr. and Mrs. Howard A. Crowl

Congo Beige, Afrique

Mr. and Mrs. Ronald D. Harshe

Olina Station :

Mr. and Mrs. ClifTord W. Schaub

jWi?^r2
/'A*

Recruits:

IP.' -

Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Butter

B.P. 3, Nia-Nia via Stanleyville

Con^o Beige, Afiique
Forwarding Address:
P. O. Bov 996.
Cincinnati 1, Ohio, U.S.A.

Forwarding Agent:
Mr, MiUon W. Dills

llarc.h 22

Letter #4

Dear Friends in Christ,

We are novv' at Olina for a fe.v days# We arrived Sunday night and found th'it the
people had heard that I had left the Congo,so one of theci had gone to Bomili via
another road from the one -^e oame over on to learn if it vraa true. I sta^- most of
the time at Bomili and only make monthl.,.

short visits to Olina.

passed the

normal time by a coupla :ir0el<:s and they -/vere worried. Rumors are terrible here.
In adaition to this I have been previoufjly reported to have been la jail and twice
I

'.YdR nuppoaea to be dead.

Ar, -rre o^.rae over -^-e visited some ohurchss.

their preachers anything at all.

We foxmd some of them ware not paying

We preached from 1 Ooriiithians 9^7~14 Vi^araiiig

then: thn.t their preaohfir -vould leave thon^ some day and they would not be able to

jet another.

Their 30ul'3 '-'ould dry up :.ind the ohuroh v/ould die and God 7/ould be

displeased.
It seemed to have som9 ef.Cect on thej:!} we ^i^ill kno?r for 3ure in a
r.oath. Th?>t is the time it will take to lea if they '.vill start helping their
/reaoners.

We found, though, that three of the churches v^sre paying' their preachers well,
and one nven had a

disable balance left.

These same

three ohurohes had a

Christmaia

conference on their own initiative, and over 300 people attended and gave an
offering of 500 francs.
One ohuroh geive their ohare to their preacher. We are
happy to see them doin-^ these things on their o-.?n, I did not even know about it
until it was all ovei*.
One of theae three, Mambati, is doing especially well.
There ia :i great iuorearse in attendance and they are paying ?ronderfully. It is
significant that thio is the church I -^/rote before about having weekly prayar
meetings.

As 'te came over v/e met a very unoomEnon site.

bundle of roofing leaves on his head.

A man was walking along carrying a

Behind him v/alked a woman in a maa's hat

and carrying a bo^ and arro??. Their positions^wjre^exactly reversed from what is
customary. The people^ -/ith me about Kade them^flic^^'laughing at it. One man was
rather x^t cut about it ?,nd ntarted firumblint".

One -"oman spoke up and said,

"Well,

that -.o/nan is paying uhis is my inclepo.'idenoe.

All is calm and -veil here, and the Lorv. is bl .::3ain;',; us and the. work daily thanks
to your praypra and faithful 3up.:-'0rt

Have you a hand in hebinq to win the CONGf^f'^FOf''(f^RI^T ?

Bomili

April 5) 1961
Dear Brethren in Christ,

The "biggest hindrance to the progress of the gospel nov/ is that caused by the expect
ancy of everyone for the new religion which is coming. It is supposed to replace all
the former religions. Just what kernel of truth is in it, if any, is not clear. I
can only guess that it might be a cult honoring the late prime minister or communism
or wh t. It is very likely that it is Just pure rumor since this is the fairest
rmmor-fbroeding ground in the whole wide world ever since independence. For months
now there have been only a very few baptisms. Most people are waiting to join the new
religion. In many churches a group of Christians have left and are awaiting the new
arrival. The preachers are all unaffected, though, along with most of the Christians,

Some things that may appear odd to Americans came to ray attention last week as I was
sitting in church at Bafwasendej and so, thinking of you, I jotted down a few. A
former soldier and government messenger was wearing his old army stockings that reach
to his knees. The odd thing was that the feet had worn out so he had cut them off at
the ankles aJid was just wearing the tops. He had also taken a piece of old tire for
the soles and strips of inner tube for the straps on the top and made a pair of sandals.
Then there was the man sitting in the middle in his obviously brandnew raincoat just

glistening purple. The sun v/as scorching outside. One of the deacons was wearing a
suit jacket, white shirt and tiec He buttoned the jacket and left the tie hanging on
the outside like a thirsty dog's tongue. He was barefooted. One man was doing a

fancy job of balancing a bent and crooked pair of glasses on the tip of his nose. A
dog was asleep under the communion table. And during the offering the preacher's
two-yea.r-old son came bouncing in waving a woven uhuru hat around with a feather stuck
in it.

All this in the most "cultured" tovm where we have a church.

Where the end of stealing is going to lead wo do not know.

These things have happened

at the mission v/hile I have been gone on various trips. Someone got into the house
and stole the bedding off the bed and a couple changes of clothing. A couple boards
were stolen and later recovered.

A couplo bunches of leaves have been stolen.

Two

chickens disappOc?-rod during" my last safari. One Sunday a screen door was found laying
on the ground in broad daylight. Someone got cold feet after taking it off its hinges.
This preacher, thou^, has the best story of all. Someone stole the refill out of his
ball point pen and inserted an empty one.

V/hile grading papers for the Bible Institute today I noticed these nicknames that some

of the students had taken.

"The Prophet Elisha" (his name is Eliasi), "Unlucky Arnold,"

and one fellow wrote his in French obviously having only a hazy ides of v/hat it meant,

"His Majesty George." One exasperated student after floundering on trying to answer
an essay type question made a couple unbright remarks5 then there was a space on the
paper; and in very small handwriting he wroto, "Bwana, I did not study."

V/ell, the mail is clogged again.

After sv/allowing all my wife's letters for nearly

three months the mail opened up in March. It lasted a couple weeks, and nov/ it is
closed again. It has been three weeks now since letters have come in from Betty.

Accept our gratitude for your prayers and giving, and rest assured that v/hat you are
doing is being multiplied many times over by the Lord's pov/er in bringing His own
will and message before the Congolese.
In our coming Lord,

Ronald Harshe

, A

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tf
[iid

Station:

Missionaries:

Bomill par Bafwasende via Stanleyville

Congo Beige, Afrique

Mias Zola L. Brown

Mr. and Mrs. Howard A. Crowl

Mr, and Mr. Ronald D. Harshe

Olina Station :

Mr. and Mrs. Clifford W. Scbaub

B.P. 3, Nia-Nia via Stanteyville

Congo Beige, Afiique

Recruits:

Ml. and Mrs. Ronald Butler

Forwarding Address:
P. O. Bov 996,

Forwarding Agent:
Mr. Milton W. Dills

Cincinnati 1, Ohio, U.S.A.

Rnmili

19Si

April 19

Letter #6

Dea^ Friends in Christ,

Aman was just here who asked for work. I told him that

T^LHeter'seen

world that I would give work "because he is always drunk. In a ,

first
>iin riot drunk and he lives here at Bomilio ut todayj he was soher for the lii'st

time. He theA said that he has ahsoluteljr given up all drinking heoa^e tto

ffovomment agent told him that if he catches him drunk again he will put

3^

for two months. Hearljr everyone drinks some, and many get

are litirally drunk all the time. Liquor is one of the curses of the Congo.

The week-end before last I made a safari to nine churches in the Bafw^daka

Two and three churches grouped together so I only had to hold four
we arrived at the first church the Christiana came to greet us md I noticed that

one wfflnan looked very ill. She is a very faithful Christie ^d outstanding in
comparison to the rest. As she turned to leave, a man, a heathen, who had heen
talking with me said, "That is my wife. She is sick. I asked what
_
hut he just shrugged and said that he did not know. Later on I
sickness she had} he started heating around the bush ^d finally
had had an argument, I said, "^ou mean you heat her." I then proceeded like a good
missionary to teach him about the evils of heating your wife. He very gravely agreed
*4.V

TT +>iB+ T ani/i

"Yoli are riidito

It is had to do that*

If it had heen anyone

Use beating her I would have become angry, but she is my wife," That made it alri^l
At one church a man said he wanted to be admitted back into the
*^
church refused him. He had been jailed upon his own confession of practicing
crocodile witchcraft. That is to call up a crocodile to kill someone. So the church
disfellowshipped him. He later wanted to repent and he taken hack into the fold.
The church told Mm they would accept him back when

the church and destroyed them before their eyes. He thought this was being unfair.

He wanted me to set the church straight, but I complimented them instead.

It seems like ages since I have seen the family. They left ten
""monent there is nothing happening here, but you never
^

out again. It is good for awhile, and then not so good. The Congo

,f *^
tl bf

quiet for several months before I would be easy about them being here, ^8
you are praying about this. Thank you kindly for your interest and support of
Christ's mission to the Congo.

AFKICM

Have you a hand in helping to win the CONGO FOR CHRIST ?

SSI OH

JvN

5 1961

Bomi l i

May 11, 1961

Dear Brethren,

We have heen made sorry by the attitude of one of the student preachers, and we are
afraid he will have to be dismissed. He has a threeyearold son, and one day the
wife of one of the other student preachers gave him something to eat. That evening
the child became nauseated. For several days now the child has not been well, and so
the father has accused the other student preacher of putting a spell on his child

through something his wife put in the food# His child was slightly ill even before
eating the food. He has responded to medical treatment and appears nearly normal now.

But the father has it in his head, and so he is going to accuse the other student of
witchcraft before the chief. Since independence this is even a more serious charge

because the government now sanctions such trials. I talked with him at length about
accusing without cause his brother preacher before worldly judges and the effect it

would have on the gospel. He seemed to be convinced until this morning when he
informed me that he is going to the chief today to make the complaint. Since indepen
dence there has been an increase of this sort of thing. Whenever anyone gets sick the

first thing they think of is ulozi (witchcraft).

There has in many ways been a rever

sion to the old customs.

A man came to me recently as I was in his village saying a young lad "was ill.

That is

not unusual, but I v/as not at all prepared for what I saw. I have never seen such a
sickenening sight here and there have been many bad ones, too. His left leg was
swollen from knee to anklo several times the size of the other leg.

It had split

open and was seeping badly even through several layers of dirty cloth.

As we were
driving to the dispensary at Bomili, even with all the truck windows down the stench
was nearly unbearable. It could readily be seen that he was in constant pain* It
had all begun months ago with a small sore. He v/as being treated here at the dispen

sary, but the progress did not please his family so they returned to the village with
him and used native medicine. Over a fev/'months it progressively grew worse, and they
then came to me. It makes you angry to see something like that when it could have

been prevented.

If his life can be saved'at all he will be a cripple and may even

have to have the leg amputated.

Beginning next week the annual three-day conference begins at Bomili.

The following

week the two in the Bafwasende area will take place, and then the next week the Olina
churches will have theirs. We are prepared for a disappointment in attendance for
some have left the church since last July and some of the others who remain have grown
indifferent. We hope we are not disappointed beyond our expectations.

In June of i960 the family left the Congo for what we thought would be a couple months
Nearly a year has now passed. Thoue:h ' "Ho si+n^'tion is better now and has been slowly
improving the last couple months,we still cannot icel at ease about them coming here.
So when Mr. Growl comes back in June I will return to America for a furlough until

the situation will permit the family to return to the Congo v/ith me.

Our first five-

year term has expired anyway, and so v/e are eagerly looking forward to reuniting our
:^amily soon.

May God bless you for your part in preaching to the Africans, and may He bless that
preaching of the gospel that the Congolese may share our walk with Him,
Sincerely in Christ,

Ronald Harshe

fiomiii Station :

Missionaries:

Bomili par Bafwasende via Stanleyville

Congu Beige, Afrique

Miss Zoia L. Brown

Mr. and Mis. Howard A. Crowl

Mr. and Mn, Ronald D. Harshe

Mr. and M's. Clifford W. Schaub

Olina Station :

B.P. 3, Nia-Nia via Stanleyville

Con^o Beige, Afiique

Recruits:
Ml. and Mrs. Rooald Bmler

Forwarding Address:

Forwa rding Agem :

Mr, Milton

P. O. Bov 996.
Ciacionaii 1, Ohio, U^.A,

DilU

Letter

T)ear Frionds in Christ,

The Bomili confors!no3 ha oorae and gone and 90 have 272 p(3ople,

This attendj=inoG

3.S vastly below thd ?s.v9ra^o for those annii^.l meetings of the Christianso
r^oord attendr^jice

thinf2;s have alowed.

1959o

The

V/ith tlis advent of In'.lependenoe msjiyji laany

The people had aof^lected to ])lani; fields thinking; that it

would no lon^"r be necessary to bother v.'i.th the annoyrince of worK. to hs-ve a

qOOsI -living oRce Indepsndence comeso

Thsrs Giitered a ^eriral attitude of law

lesf^ness. - Tho devil then nRed all this to work on the churoho

Some people lef

the church, ^id some of the x-einainiiig (7,rcvv very indifforent There is a. good
group of faithful Chrietians in nep.rly every place, thoa/;h5 and some churches
are even proGpfti'in,' bf^v'oud v/hcit they '/fere before. Indepeiidence. '^.e look on tnis
ar a necond h3gin:iinr", '^.nd
'vonder if the Lord iB not using thio as a purge 1
n? churoh in pr'J7i?im.tion ? or f:rT^.ter things that He vrlll do with io# People a
rtow startin^" i;o plant fields ar-i.injhaving,
the folly of their way. -he nevi
government and pubiiri OTjinion iu i-.enera-i is maicing a drive against criae and
v.'itchcraft, and it ip tsTierin^^ off
b'^lieve, ton, that i;hO::=;e whooe hearts
wei'e not v?ii:h the Lord ha-ve left iHe Ghurch,

that perhaps tho chux'ch will n

longer be troubled 7;ith the host^^wanl". to "join" because j.t ie tie populax- thin
to do

Crur carpenter and hifi v/ife ar-'^ cn vr.ication and visiting in their nome vilxage
awjiy. The other day aa X was Gtr:*liin-; ''.hrongh the village I oa>Be bo their xiouse,
tind sui'rounding their little garden of Manioc v'as a Jangle vine faatexied on 3tic,<';
to form a sort of fence.

About every

feot aiid faetened to the vine was a

folded leafo I opened one aiid found a concoction which tho v/ife had nia.le and puT
there before leavingo She did this so no one v/ould cross the vine and steal fro>-i
her garden in their ^vhsenoe. The leaf v.'ith the concoction in i i s '^/itchcralt,
"hicb

c;eans that v.hC'ever Grosses t)ie vine v/ill die.

It i;: varv eff::!ctive in

r-caring -v'o.rid-bo ti?espa3secs a'.vayj butj of coo.rse, has r.o place --^.t all on the
{iisnion, I destroye-l it, -and v/hea they r-=-3tiirn I vvill have to think up a suitable
iiLinir.h."nent for the.'su They arc Qhvistianss, too Indnpenlpucel
Thank yoa for )iolding np ou.r hands over here "vith youx' prayers ;:Uid offerings.
/LmiGiU? G7[:?I-''.'TIAJT ; 1X331011

Have YOU a hand in heloina tn win tke?

PWPI^T ?

Bomili

June 10, 1961

Dear Christian Friends

The annual conferences have come and gone.

The attendance was way down, but the

preachers v/ho had planned the. conference and preached the sermons did very well.
The Bomili, Bafwabiago and Bayawa conferences each ran between 250 and 300 in attend
ance.

This is one-half to one-third the usual attendance.

The Olina conference

could not be held. Soldiers had put up a roadblock near Olina and all the Christians
on that side of the mission v/ere afraid to try to pass it. Some others who had
tried had been beaten. Then only one man from the three churches on the other side
of the mission came.

The others lazily said that they v/ould come when the missionary

came in the truck to get them. This left- only the two churches near Olina who had
been left without a preacher due to their falling away. So it was impossible to
have the conference there.

At Bayawa I was awakened one morning about 4s00 AE by the noise of someone shouting
in the middle of the road in front of my house. This is not so terribly unusual so
I went back to sleep. I kept waking and dozing. Finally, about 5^00 A.M. I opened
the window and listened. He was berating the American and telling him to "git" like
others for he was not wanted in the Congo. I v^ent back to sleep again waiting for

daylight, but was again av/akened by an angry voice rebuking the troublemaker. The
agitator's voice then trailed off to the far end of the village. Later, the leaders
of the churches at that conference were unanimous and enthusiastic in their letting
it be known to me that they wanted the missionaries to stay.

After leaving Bayawa we passed a wrecked^truck on the main highway.

rather oddly, though.

It was Vinrecked

The top was all bashed in, yet it had not been turned over.

We learned that a few nights previously it had encountered an elephant in the road.
The elephant would not leave so the driver foolishly tried to pass to one side. In
the process it bumped Jumbo, and the enraged beast proceeded to demolish the cab,
the hood sind fenders v;ith its trunk.

He did a first-class job.

He even bent the

windshield corner post. It is amazing how much damage it did5 the truck body is
wholly beyond repair. No one, thou^, was hurt; unless it might be that the elephant
had a mighty sore trunk the next day.

I had hoped to return to the States this month, but some problems have arisen, and I
do not know now if it will be possible. Next week I expect to go to Stanleyville,
and after some inquiring around there I will be able to make a decision. So before
next month's letter I may be in the States and writing from there - or I may still
be here. We hope that the former vri.ll be the case for our family wants and needs
to be reimited. We know that many of you have been praying concerning this matter,
and we appreciate it deeply and are convinced that the Lord will hear those prayers.

Your continued prayers especially for the preachers and the Christians are as needed
as ever. There are many times now more obstacles to the gospel, and before His Word
will be successful here many problems must be overcome. We trust that you will stand
with us and the- Congolese.

In the Almighty One,

Ronald Harshe