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An interview with a pioneer missionary

An Hou r With J . Russe l l Mor s eStone: When did you first go to the mission field. BrotherMorse?Morse: In 1921, together with Dr. Albert L. Shelton. Thejourney beyond the end of the railway made as rapidly aswe could by pack mule c ara van took two mon th s. Wearrived the re two days before Christmas.Stone: Where were you located?Morse: Batang, in Chinese Tibet. Just six months afterwe arrived there, when this great pioneer missionary (Dr.Shelton) was returning from a trip to inner-Tibet, he wasshot down by bandits. Many of these Tibetan bandits hadbenefited by the medical t reatment and surgery of Dr.Shelton; they did no t realize who it was because th e newshadn't gotten ou t that he had returned.Stone: So that left you all by yourselves.Morse : I was with him on th e night that he died. At thattime I cried out to the Lord in agony because Dr. Sheltonwas the one who had brought us there. He was the onewho had approved us, over the objections of the UnitedChristian Missionary Society. (They opposed us becausewe had not attended the College of Missions in Indianapolis.) My wife had graduated from the Universityof Oklahoma. She was a Phi Beta Kappa and we had beentaking post-graduate work in Phillips University.I remember praying when Dr. Shelton died, "Lord, ifhis dream of establishing a hospital as an opening for thegospel in Tibet is not to be realized now, what would youhave me to do?" At once it came to my thought that if itwould not be possible to work in Tibet , there are regionson th e bor de r o f T ibet whe re no missionaries had everlived. We prepared to carry on as well as we could. Following the death of Dr. Shelton there was a great deal ofcontroversy. Some felt it was unsafe for missionaries tot ra ve l a nd establish new stat ions.Stone: They wanted you to return home?Morse: The ones did who, during Dr. Shelton's lifetime,had crit ic ized his work. They said that it was a waste oftime to travel among these wild Tibetan people , doingmedical missionary work. Yet when we felt that othermissionary work should be established, they didn't wantpeople to go ou t into new areas.Finally aftermuch prayer, my wife and I decided that ifthe w ork couldn't be done under th e United Chri st ianMissionary Society (Disciples of Christ), it had to bedone anyway, because Jesus Chr is t had commanded usto do so. So, in 1926 we resigned from the UCMS. Amemorial fund of $250,000 had been raised at the t ime ofDr. She lt on' s deat h. We said that if o th er s want ed tobuild a memorial of evangelism among these people inand around T ibet, we would dedicate ourselves to dowha t w e could as a memorial to Dr. She lt on and to Him

who has bought us with His own b lo od. Andlaunched out .At that time I was having some dental troublewife, Robert, and Eugene (as my only children atsix years old) s tayed out there on th e mission fieldwent down to th e end of the rai lroad to get mywork done. I couldn't ge t it done t he re and I hac lear to Hong Kong. My brave wife and th ese twchildren s tayed out there until I got back, duringgerous time of war and revolution. This was actubeginning of the Lisu work. Thi s was also the fithat th e Communists were try ing to take over inStone: What year would this have been?Morse: 1927. In May all th e missionaries in Chiadvised to get out of the country by the shorteavailable. So at that time, my wife and ItogethEugene an d Robert, carried in baskets on th e bmengot together what of ou r possessions we comade this seventy-day journey to the end of thein north Burma .Stone: Brother Morse, when th e UCMS didn' tyou, how did you secure funds?Morse : We did not realize a t t ha t t ime tha t th ehundreds of churches and other missionar ie s as wwere withdrawing support from the Disciples, bectheir modernism and because they were makingtoration movemen t into another d en om in atiolearned that of f in th e Philippines, in India and Jaabo ut the same time o th ers were res igning frUCMS. Our letters to my mother were sha redwith friends and they started to send supporthrough my mother. She just kept up writing heand telling other people about the work. Of coursent in help. After we res igned from the miss ionaety, very short ly others then started to support thi

When I first went to th e mission field in 19mother said, "I 'm an old woman, sixty years oldnever meet you again. But your going ou t to thef ie ld is an answer to my prayers even before yoborn that I might have a son tha t I could raise forAfter that she l ived for th ir ty-two years to be ninyears of age and a one-woman-missionary societhat time! Sh e was ou r original forwarding agentStone: Is there more of an interest in world evaamong ou r churches now than th ere was when yoout?Morse: I feel that one of the greatest events in th et ion movement in modem t im es w as when al l ochurches decided that they were no t going to bnomination. They were going to continue in a pmovement. God has blessed ou r world outreach


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(PhoFoby John Dressier, Valporaiso, Ind.)

pose there are at this t ime ove r two thousand d ir ec t support missionaries.

We don't like the word "independent," because wetried to be very dependent on the Lord and on th echurches. We like t he word "direct-support" much better, since it follows the New Testament pattern. In ourown mission field, we t ried to work on what we calledindependent cooperation to help othersnot necessarilyth e Mor ses, but o th ers like Isabel Maxey Dittemore,Harold Taylor, and others. They would write their ownnewsletters and have their support separately, bu t wewould cooperatenot because of organization but because of the lordship of Jesus Christ.Stone: How did you come to be a believer in the principles of th e restoration movement?Morse: My parents and grandparents were a part of th echurch of Christ. An interesting sidelight is that th e father

of George Mark Elliott, G. W. Elliott, was a pioevangelist in the horse and buggy days. He wentone place to the other holding revivals in South DaMy father became a Christian under the ministrBrother Ell iott . My mother, joined by G. W. Ellioprayer, asked God tha t she might have another childshe could raise fo r th e L ord. T he n ex t t ime t ha t B rElliott came into our area to hold a revival, my fathemother stood there with me in their arms in th e receline and praised the Lord for answering their prayers is te r who was about eighteen years older than Itold me that I a lso held out my hand to shake handsthe preacher!Stone: That's great!Morse: It was a joy to me, when one of our sLaVerne, married Lois Elliott, the daughter of GeMark Elliott, the granddaughter of G. W. Elliott.Stone; You have a lo t of missionaries in your famEugene , Robert , and LaVeme.Morse: Well, it star ted when my wife and I were woning whether we should leave Eugene and Robert inUnited States to go on to school, while we wentalone to the field to car ry on. Both Eugene and Roobjected vigorously and said, "You can't run tha t wou t there without us . We've go t to go along, tEugene was fifteen years old at that time. They cspeak the languages like natives and a lready hadsionary experience.Stone: I'm sure they were a real help to you in the wMorse: They had been developed as God gave this vof some of t he mos t needy people on this planet anhow worthwhile these peop le were. The first probwas t o get t he se peoplethe Lisu tribesto becomerate. Then we gradually produced the Scriptureshymnbooks f or them.

However, I soon found out tha t th e missionary habe a sort of Jack-of-all -t rades. In this region wherewere for about twenty-five years , there were no docor hospitals nearer than four or five-weeks journey aW e had to d o a lo t o f medica l work . Firs t a id was l a stAgain and again I met wit h c as es t hat weren't inmedical books. I had taken a special one-year-coursmissionaries who were going to be in parts of the wwhere there were no doctors or hospitals available. Aand again, I found cases and conditions that werenany of the medical books. I always made a point t ofor the s ick people and to point t hem to God , as th e GPhysician. In answer to these prayers, amazing numof people were healed.Stone: Brother Morse, would you tell us about th elater in your work when you were imprisoned by


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Communists? How long were you a prisoner?Morse: Altogether, I was under the Chinese Communistsf or two and one-half years. All of our mission, exceptmyself, had headed out of China for Burma. Suddenlythere was a turnover by the Provincial government because they saw that ultimately they would have to beunder th e Communists, so they tried to get into theirgood graces. However, during that fifteen months, beforeI was seized and arrested, the native Christ ians and I hadbaptized in to Christ 235 souls. The little church that hadbeen started among Chinese people in Kunming (YunnanProvince) at the end of t he ra il ro ad , h ad g rown to fivedifferent congregations.

'7 so on f ound o ut th at th e m issionary has to be a sort of Jaclc-of-ai i - t rades ."

At the same time, different people would seek to curryfavor with the Communists by giving false accusationsagainst American people. So one day as I was on th eporch of our house, in from al! sides came eighteen ornineteen enemy soldiers with bayonets on their rifles.Others had tommy guns and the officers had revolvers.They said, "Come with us. We have some questions thatwe wan t to ask you." I said, "Will you a llow me to gointo my room and ge t some of my bedding so I wouldhave something for overnight?" "Oh, you don't need toworry with it," they replied. "Perhaps in a few days youwill be able to come back to you r own home. In themeantime, we will provide for you." As I was beingtaken away to this prison with the armed guards in the ca rwith me, I realized that there was nothing that I could do.It must be God who provided guidance and deliverance. Iprayed.

Out of th e many hundreds of Scriptures that I hadmemorized whi le I was in the high school and college,Phi li pp ians 4where Paul himself had been aprisonercame to mind: "Rejoice in the Lord always:again I will say Rejoice. ... In nothing be anxious; but ineverything by praye r and supplication with thanksgivingle t your requests be made known unto God . And th epeace of God, which passeth all understanding, shallguard you r he ar ts a nd you r thoughts in Christ Jesus."Well, if t he re was ever a time when it was humanly impossible to rejoice and not to be anxious, it was then andthe times that followed. Bu t I took that as my golden textfo r my imprisonment.

Stone: After they p ick ed you up, you were theremonths?Morse: Fifteen months in solitary imprisonmentthe biggest prison in the province of Yunnan. Frcould gather, there were as many as five thprisoners there. People were being tortured andday and night. I cou ld hear a lot of this. Throughin the place, I could even see some of the things goStone: How did you manage to keep your balancesanity?Morse: It was the consciousness that I had prothey couldn't knock out. I didn't have a bomenot my Bible , nor a hymnbook, or anyththat. But again and again as dilemmas and dangerthe Holy Spirit instantly used some verse of Scrisome of th e great hymns of th e church to counYou might say my legal counsel was from God. Othat amazed me was that, in spite of my chelplessness in the face of all I was confronted wwords of a hymn kept coming back to me so oftnot dismayed whatever betide, God will take careBeneath His wings of love abide, God will takeyou." That came to mind so often . I didn't believit c ame true .Stone: How were you finally released?Morse: For four or five months I prepared dailyimprovised Communion, the Lord's Supper, andof it. I had nothing but tea and some Chinesebread that's called man t 'eo they gave us once asaved that for this dai ly preparation for my execwould partake of the Lord's Supper and rededicself to God .Stone: Because you never knewthat might be tMorse: Yes, anytime that there was a knock on tor a call to go ou t before the inquisitors, I was coprepared to die. After you have gone t hrough ta ft er day with all they can do to you and yothrough, you just praise the Lord each time. It 'san experience in resurrection.

One day they told me, "You have been heenough. We're going to l et you go back to yourBecause I was famil iar w ith th e C hin ese Commdouble talk, I said, " I don't want to go to mybecause he ha s been dead fo r fifteen years.laughed and said, "No, we really mean this. We'to s end you back to yo ur native land ." They diwhy they were releasing me, except in being "lenme, t hey were showing how generous th e Peoppublic of China can be . It was an eighteen-day jouHong Kong. We went through Chungking doYangtze River on a small boat loaded with


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headed for Korea. I slept out on the open deck on top of atable, without any bedding, just th e poor ragged clothesthat I had worn in prison. At each place we stopped alongth e way , I was examined again. I didn't know bu t that Iwould be executed. Finally I go t on the rai lway at Cant on .I just wondered if I would have to begin life al! overagain. In prison, I had been led to believe tha t they hadcaptured all t he members of my family, no t telling mewhether they were alive or not. At the border the Communists took everything I had, and I just walked acrosswith nothing left except my old prison clothes.In Hong Kong, I went to a small Chinese hotel , theStar Hotel. I said, " I have just come ou t of CommunistChina. I have a friend who used to live here and I need tocall him. Of course, I'm an American citizen." She said,"There is t he phone . You can use it." I told her thatwhere I had been they didn't have telephones, and Ididn't know how to use it. She hunted up the phonenumber of Howard Phill ips. Mrs. Phi ll ips answered. Isaid, "Is Howard Phillips there?" She said, "Who ist hi s?" "This is Russe ll Morse. I 've jus t come ou t ofCommunist China." I heard he r scream in delight,"Howard, Howard, Mr . Morse is here!" Howa rd cameto th e phone and said, "Brother Morse, you just stayright there where you are and I 'l l be down for you soon."I said, "The first thing I want to know is what newsyou have of my family. Are any of them still alive?" Hereplied, "Alive? Brother, they are all alive! Your wifeand one of your sons just arr ived here in Hong Kongabout three days ago and have been inquiring around tosee if there had been any news of you."As I hung up the phone, I began to feel my faceall ofthat hair! They had left me enough money to pay .myrailroad fare and have a night in a hotel. So I rushed overacross the street to a barber shop.Stone: You wanted to look your best when you saw them!Fo r two and a half years they had been praying and waiting.Morse: A group in California had been having prayera round the c lock , day and night, during the week before Iwas r e le a sed .

Stone: What did your prison experience teach you aboutth e Wor d of God?Morse: Because of this experience of being deprived ofthe written Word, and having only what had been hiddenin my heart, I have felt that one of the things that weshould do in all of our churches is to memorize Scripture.This would prepare us fo r the t imes of tribulation that arecoming on the world, when we may not be able to havethe Scriptures available. The Holy Spirit knows what

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Scr ipture He wants to use for our help in a specificand He can get it for us, like a doctor gets medicintherapy.Stone: But f ir st w e h av e to learn it .Morse: First we have to have it in ou r mind, proceinto the "computer," so it will be there for instant rral. I feel that before our Lord 's return, there will bintense increase of spiritual warfare. We need to buthese spiritual shock absorbers that the Holy Spiriuse. The Holy Spirit is our comforter. One of theways He will comfort , counsel , and encourage Hisple, is when they have the Word of Godthe swothe Spirithidden in their hearts. Little children shbe memorizing Scriptures. Not only that, but they shbe taught how to pray. On the foreign missionwe've seen the prayers of little chi ldren answeremarvelous ways. Lit tle children pray in simple, trufaith.

'7 have felt that one of ththings that we should do in all oo u r c h u r c h e sScripture."

i s to memo r i z

Stone: T he L ord h on ors th at kind o f faith.Morse: I want to add this. All through the years Ibeen interested in what is going on in all of ChristenGod ha s worked with our restora t ion movement, buidea has also caught on in other places. We shouldout the se people and have fellowship with them.Priscilla and Aquilla taught Apollos the way of themore perfectly, we should be wil ling to help these petoday. And if they have anything good and t rue thathave discovered in their Christ ian experience, wehave it right in our Christian churches.I believe in ou r p le a. We have never been membeany other than the Christian church or church of Cbut we've come to feel that God has a restorat ion mment of His own to unify His people. Paul exhChristians to strive to maintain th e unity of th e spithe bond of peace. We need to find a common grwith other Christians, and use that as a beginning plashare with them ou r faith. If we are going to be toopendent and too separat is t from others who a lso lovLord, we're not going to have as great an influencthe promotion of New Testament Christianity as weinally s et out to have.


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USPS 48Z-030NORTH BURMA CHRISTIAN MISSION

Vo l . 3P. 0 . Box 4074

OCTOBER 1981

OCT 2 9 198]

Terre Haute, IN 4No

J. Russel l Morse HonoredA t th e N o rth Am e r ic a n C h r is ti an Cont ion i n Lou isv il le , KY. in July, J . RuMo r s e w a s h on or e d a s " Ch ur c hm a n oDay" on Fr iday of t he conven tion , DeSulton, Minister of Chape l Roc k Chr i sChurch inlndianapolis , Indiana gave agraphical sketch and introduced J , Rsel l , then presented h im with a plcommemorating the occasion.

TIBETJ . Russe l l Morse wen t to Tibe t in 1Since t h en the Morse family has workeChina , Bu rma and Tha il and , Now the tgenerat ion of Morses is working in Ta ga in th ro ug h Lisu miss iona r ie s . Te lders of the supervis ing Burmese cg re ga ti on s s en t the fol lowing le t te r :Dear Joni and Nangsar ,The commi tt ee e st ab li sh ed to supervthe Tibetan w ork sen ds greeting s towhom we r emember c o n t i n u a l l y inLo r d . Just a s w e c on tin ue to r em a i nand w el l in th e w atch c a r e of ou r Lowe p ra y th at yo u to o a re in good heal t

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We want you to know that to date, therehav e been f ive Tibe tans w ho h av e t u rn edto the Lord. The remaining fo ur T ib eta nChr i s t i an s con t inue to be f a i t h fu l .

Your suggestion that two full time missionary families be sent to the Tibetanshas been wel l received, and accordinglywe have he ld ex tens ive consu l ta t ions amongourselves conce rn ing thi s matter . As aresu l t , the shurches have se t apar t twofamil ies for the Tibetan work . They are ;1. Preacher Yvngmi Yosep and family.2. Preache r Mon Yaku and fami ly.In l ine with your proposal , the congregations in the Tvluq area all p it ched in andcons t ruc ted a house seven a rm spans long.The preacher 's hous e was completed injust one week! Preacher Yvngm i Josepand family will live in this new house int he Tibet an v il lage of Tvwundvm. Preach--erMonY-aku ^idfamily-will-L o c a t e inKrong village. The following elders havebeen appo i n t e d to handle and distributefunds and support for the two missionaryf ann i l i e s .

1. Langwang Pong2. Langwang Dcp3. Nvmga Abay4. Yvngmi K(pna5. Mvliu Punghcpy6 . Tv l a nvm P i t e r7. Stpn Chang Scpn

Tvwundvm villageTvwundvm villageDvzung villageGvway villageTvsh (ptuq vil lageTvla tuq villageKrong village

These men have been as signed to look af terth e wel lbeing of the mis sionar ies and theirn e e d s .

Although the Tvluq area churches are notyet able to adequately support even theirown preachers, we will do our best to ass is t the two missionary families and theT i b e t a n work in any way we can. Anyass is tance we can p rov ide is l im i te d to

physical help and some food. At theleast the twofamil ies willneedkyats 5to get by on in a year . We are looforward to these funds coming froms i d e .

Since preacher Mvk mgang Yodephasthe main cont ac t w ith you in regard tonew work, we ask that a ll financial supand commun icat ion be channeled thrh im in th e f u t u r e a s we l l .

We also want you to know that th e g otapes sen t in by Robe rt Mo rs e werece ived , a nd the T ib etan s he re wereable to unders tand t he t ea ch ing . We wlike to r eques t more such tapes with ational teaching if possible. Other v iaids a re also much needed and veryf e c t i v e .We have already begun to work in thisfield. Please keep praying for thegress of the work. We continue toforward to input and momentum f roms i d e .

On beha l f o f th e o t h e r s .

Elder Yvngmi KcpnaE l d e r Tv l a n vm PiterE l d e r Mv liu M in

Gvway villaTvlatuq vilTvshtptuq

New Forwarding AgenMrs . Diane Laxen , 13 Canterbury DrTer re Haute, IN 47805 , Tel ephone :466-5550, is the newpersonal Fo rwi ng Agen t fo r Rober t Morse ,Mrs, Laxen replaces Mrs , Laura NLit t ie who has se rved in th is ca pa cit30 years . A t remendous debt of grat ii s owed to Mr s . Littie who h a s b efa i thfvi l s e r v a n t in a n un s e e n r o l e f o r td e c a d e s .


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Bu rma Rev i s i t e d

It was so good to again s ee S arip Jong (thefa ther of Joni 's wife, Nangshar), and tomee t for the f i r s t t ime Pas to r Joshua , whohas been living in Rangoon, preaching theGood News to people the re . For the fiveweeks p re ce din g o ur ar r iva l , the Southeas t Asia Evangelixing Mission had beenconducting an Asian Leade rsh ip Semina r,for which some seventy or so l eaders hadgathered . About fifty of the Lisu and Ra-wang l e ad e rs f rom Nor th Bu rma r ema inedf o r a n a d d i t i o n a l w e ek in order t o meetwi t h u s .

Beginning on Monda y, Bible study c lasseswere held each morning, taught by Eugeneand R obert , A fte r a noon br eak , the aft e rnoons were spent i n t al ki ng with differen t g roups and ind iv iduals , d i scuss ing s i tuat ions , prob l ems and s o lu ti on s , o ppo rt unit ies andhowto use them, and in catchingup o n n ew s of fr iends. Each eveni ng wa sa noth e r t ime of Bib le s tudy and fellowship.In b e tw e en t i m e s there w a s d i s t r i b u t i o n o fthe Bibles , s tudy notes , teaching tapes,ca s s e t t e s , med i c i n e s , e t c .

We ta lked with one young preacher who hadbeen over to the Sa lween Va ll ey in China,and he told of his e xp er ie nc es a s he metw ith Commun ist o ffic ia ls who questionedh im , and to ld h im to r e t u rn home . But healso told how God opened the w ay for himto mee twi thChr i s t i ans , and give them thefew Bibles eind hymn books he had been

able to ca r ry . He received news of t hr e a . The Ch r i s t i a n s to ld h im th a t t ha re a t l eas t seventy congregat ions , ming in homes now a fte r y ea rs of "hibet ion" when meeting openly was f or bi ddand o f Ch r i s tm a s conven t i on s with 300400 and up to 2,000 in at tendance andthe grea t need for Bibles, hymn bookso th e r C h r is t i an l i t e r a t u r e .We also talk ed w ith preachers whobeen serving as mis si ona r ie s i n the Narea along the Burma-India border . Ttold of areas previous ly r es i s t an t toGospe l which are now asking for teachof villages of 2, 000 people turning toLo r d en ma s s e ; o f an a r e a wi th mo r e40 vil lages , some w ith as many as 20people, where they are begging for teae r s ; and of the p la ns fo r s endi ng i n t eof evangel is ts and for t ra in ing new l eadOne of the big problems in this a r ea ccerns l a n g u a g e . Almos t every vilspeaks a separate language or dialectB u t we h e a r d a l so abou t th e t r eme n dn eed fo r teaching a id s, such as f i lmstand pro jectors , picture char ts , and pua dd re ss s ys tem s (a MUST when speato crowds of severa l hundred peoplet ime) . They also need smal l portable gerators t o take i n t o t h e s e areas w hth ere is no e lec t r ic i ty . If the re a re thwho are in te res ted in helping to prosome of th is much needed equ ipmen t, gcan be s en t to the Mis s ion f o r w a r dagen t des igna ted fo r "Burma evangel i


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The 3-year Bible Seminary (Putao Chris-tion Bible Seminary) is continuing, withnine teachers and 52 s tudents , represen t - ,ing eight e thnic g roup s: Rawang, Lisu,Chin, Burmese , Naga, In dia n, L u s h i a ,and Ngochang, Classes are t augh t in Rawang, Lisu, and Burmese, and E iigl ish isstudied as a foreign language.Sho r t - t e rm s c hoo l s a r e a l so he l d in th ePu t ao a r e a . Six t h r e e mon th Bib le Schoo l sa re held each year , in different a reas ,e ac hw i th a n a t t e n d a n c e o f on e to tw o hundred , Besides th is , the re a re one months ch oo ls f or e l d e r s and deacon s , and o the rschools fo r women, young people, etc, ,of 1 to 4 week durat ion, held in the localcongregat ions ,

Eugene on FurloughEugene Morse i s in the U.S. for a shor tfurlough. He will be able to sp eak in thec hu rc he s until h is expected re turn to Thailand in January, To reach him for preaching dates contact: Pat Bi t ts , P. O. Box4074, Terre Haute, IN 47804. Telephone;812-466-5955 .f

Rawang Old Testamenft'

Robert Morse and several Rawangworkers have been working on t ranslaof the Old Testament i nt o Rawang, Rore tu rned to the U. S. on furlough in Jubut the work is continuing as Jerry Tp rom, R. Andrew, and Samuel Mani ppare the f i r s t draf ts of the t ransla t ionAl re ady compl et ed and in the hands ofprin ter is the Rawang hymnal , c ompwith responsive readings. An editio8500 books is being printed in HongKoHopefully, t h ey will be finished in tfo r at least s o m e o f th e b o o k s to reNorth Burma by Chris t inas .

NBCM Newslet ter is published quartfo r the N orth Bu rm a C h ris tia n MissP .O . Box 4074, Te r r e Haute , IN 47Second Class Ma i l privi leges at 410Second , Columbus, IN 47201 . P ls e n d PS F o r m 3579 to P .O . Box 4Te r r e Haute , IN 47804 . Gene S. Ca rC hm n,, M /M A rt Bi t t s , T r e a s . - Se

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