Apkilwankakme (The Man Who
Forgot His Face) Used To Be Called Nason When He Moved In High
English Circles; Now He Is Ragged And Torn-Looking; But The Old Book
My Mother Used To Read Says:
"He that loseth his life for My sake
shall find it." Some of us have yet to learn that if we would
remember His face it is necessary for us to forget our own.
If the
unbeliever in mission work were to go to Waik-thlatemialwa, he would
come away a converted man. The former witch-doctor, who for long made
"havoc," but has since been born again, would tell him that during a
recent famine he talked to the Unseen Spirit, and said: "Give us
food, God!" and that, when only away a very short while, his arrows
killed three ostriches and a deer. He would see Mrs. Mopilinkilana
walking about, clothed and in her right mind. Who is she? The
murderess of her four children - the woman who could see the skull of
her own boy kicking about the toldo for days, and watch it finally
cracked up and eaten by the dogs. Can such as she be changed? The
Scripture says: "Every one that believeth."
The Lengua language contains no word for God, worship, praise,
sacrifice, sin, holiness, reward, punishment or duty, but their
meanings are now being made clear.
The church at Waikthlatemialwa has no colored glass windows - old
canvas bags take their place. The reverent worshippers assemble
morning and evening, in all the pride of their paint and feathers,
but there is no hideous idol inside; nay!
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