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Long Service #nFormosa
'Dr; and Mrs .Hugh MacMillan interpreting: the significance of
(the former Donalda :Macintosh), the momentous THIRD ASS+EMB-
both , natives • of Kinloss Town- LY and for ` consideration of ,our
£iip, have returned permanently Formosan ' friends'special cern-
to
e n -
da and are' .presently, liv- mission. ' •
in Cana residence. During the; period of the As -
Afterat the missionary ,..
After spending close to two score sembly we took four days. °off ,to
;years in mission'work in For- visit the • MoClures.: The train.
rnosa, they . will give several, journey took 10 hours going &
months to deputation work. 24 hours returning. At 9 o'clock
among the .home churches before at night we received a . warm
their retirement. '
The following letter was writ --
ten, in Jerusalem while- enroute
home, and was originally intend-
ed for only a few associates.
Many "old friends" around Luck -
now, will be interested. in "Hugh
and -"Dorialda's" final. •, personal
contact with the Orient, India
and Middle East. `
Jerusalem, Jordan,
Written en route Taipei
to Toronto.
Dear Friends
I t :is: nearly ; forty years since
Donalda. and I made our first
journey '; from Toronto to Taipei,
. as missionaries . to Formosa. This
time • the travel order is reversed.
Now we : proceed from Taipei to
Toronto, and' for "retirement."
Does this reversal of order •have
any special significance? This
question wasfirst raised by ,For-
mosan. friends .'seeing 'us . off at
the. Taipei .Airport on November
' 15th. They 'describe us as having
become' "more than half Chinese
and sent us off to. be "missionaries
to`: Canada."
New Day
Was:,this' : just light-hearted
humour,' spoken more in jest
;;than in.. earnest, or did ' it .'signify
insight into the future • of the'
church's; wcrld mission? . Anyway,
we must', try to wake up to the
new missionary day our '.Formo-
san friends were were: seeing and wel-
coming; the new '•day. so many
in the world seem fearful of. We -
must not .not appear in out of -date
. miss i o n a r y garments, with.
strange customs, or speaking un-
known tongue's.. We •.must remein
ber the deep -tones< of thewords
of ourislander friends :and the
• contagious :harmony of : their
songs.' We - m. ust try' to be worthy.
of their trust in us. We hope that
a few breaths of Canada's" North-
• land air — the •air, we once brea
thed '- :may serve to .re -awaken
• us to our . •. old• homeland's: new
pioneering opportunities.
After leaving • Taipei we spent
same days' with friends in the
Knowloon Y.M.C.A., Hongkong.
On Sunday, we' attended the,pp-'
ening meeting of ` what was . cal-
' :led. a "Little Delhi," arranged in,
preparation for',the 3rd Assembly'
' of the World Council of Churches.
•The. Service :reflected the spirit
of the Ecumenical Movement: in
4. its oriental setting. To us it was
areminder of the missionary-.
ecumenical • stream which . had
• carried us out .to Formosa. It was
• memorable .'in its, stimulus to do
some "grass-roots" .re -thinking
about ` "missions.",
NO ;Room
In India, old friends; from uni
versity• days, Dr. and Mrs.; 'R. B.
(Bob) .McClure, at the- .Mission.
.Hospital at Ratlam, sought un-
successfully to find accommoda-
tion. 'for us in .Delhi while at-.
Z tending.
the World Council As-.
..sem�bly. They. cabled ,Hongkong,
"DELHI ' IMPOSSIBLE, •WEL-
COMI RATLA.M." The arrival of
the cable found us with, travel
bags in hand, so there seemed
nothing to do but to. proceed.
• towards .the, IMPOSSIBLE. New
Delhi was crowded with tens
'of thousands of visitors to the
a•
mammoth Indi• Trade Fair and.
more than a thousand church
leaders from all over the world
at the World Council
When we landed in Delhi via
Air France ,at 'a late home, ac-
commodation Was found in an
Arab 'tent pitched .on the grass
behind a hotel! To' travellers
from Taipei's• tro.pical heat it
• was a chilly..spot "after .sun -down
but in' the fun of "going Arab"
we forgot the cold. This also •be-
• came for `us: a symbol: western,
World Council visitors ' pitching
tents in the, oriental scene. Here
we were • provided with an in-
teresting', figure , of speech for
welcome on the • Ratl,am, railway`
station ' platform as we, alighted
from the Delhi -ii omibay "Fron-
tier Mail,," Old friends exchanged
old-fashioned Canadian greetings!
• Real Life
Here in the heart of India' we
were to see : something of real
Indian life. We had decided to'
,forego: seeing. the Taj Mahal in
favour of this visit: We.p, could
see • beautiful_ coloured pictures of
such; famous places; -made up for
tourists, but we wanted to : see
life around Ratlani with our own
'eyes rather than through the eye
of the camera. Thirty-eight years
ago ,we had come -,"within a
wind puff" . of being appointed
by the church to work inthis
part of India instead of to For -
noose, therefore the wind of this
special interest also• influenced
our : decision. 1. , • ' • •
•
;Ratlarn is a city of 80,000. peo-
ple. •These have, not yeti felt much;
of the ',repercussion ' of the jet
age.. In the sunshine of the first'
morning we were • reminded,' of
home on old Canadian farms in
and horse -and -buggy age, Tum_
erous .cows, and donkeys : stood
just outside • the hospital gate
awaiting morning feeding 'from•,
their : keepers, and ` families of
wild monkeys picked ;breakfast.
food nuts ` from the. hos'pi'tal coin
pound trees. We were in : an old
Indian city'surro'unded by jungle
and ancient .rural; villages. There
as we met, chatted and worship-
ped with the people' we were re-
minded of the overseas mission-
ary • challenge which' Canadians
in the ' past ' century had ' taken
up, in Moe an
0
er p aces. -
There,
ces.There, the. McClurescontinue in
work of laying • Christian " founda-
tions for the new society . now
taking.' form.in.India. Here ..is a
challenge ' which continues, to
make new ;appeals for new ven-`
tures Such work is still a pion
eering job. • . .
The 24, hour train journey back
to Delhi was an illustration of I
how, in the modern age 'of, speed,:
progress'. can often be seriously.
held, up by unpredictable 'obstac-
-res. Our usually' speedy and
punctual "Frontier .Mail" had to
,go on to ',siding after siding to
.allow great millitarytrains to
roar past on the, way to a build
up of Indian strength on the im-
pending Goa ' battle front with
Portugal: - •
4w SENTINEL, .LUCKNow,. ONTARIO, •
NIiiYR±GER Dr, and Mrs, Don
Mercer • (Bar)Ser) wish to an-
nounce the ibirth, of Barbara
Elizabeth, at Saugeen• Memorial
Hospital, . Southampton, - on Mar.
l lth, 1962,.
ADAMS At
.March l�7th, 1962
Robert Adams, R
a. daughter.
the NA/Ingham
General Hospital
on .Saturday,
to Mr:. and Mrs.
aR. 5, Lucknow,
Mae.DOSIALD ..-- • Gordon.' and.
Shirley ; MacDonald . are w very.
happy to announce the arrival
of 'their. daughter; , Mary 'Helen
at Kincardine General Hospital.
,on Wednesday, March 14th, 1962.
"Mud Place":
Another memory of •Tndia is
the •work Dr. N. ; J ,Cornelius of
the Y.M.C.A. is doing in 'the.
transformation of a mud• hut, a
`slum-, village . almost ,within the
city of Delhi, into , a model "min-
iature India.". Passing the village
three - years 'ago on a very ,hat
August afternoon' Cornelius .saw
a fight 'going on, over 'a 'slowly
dripping:tap, the., only, water
availalble •Por 3;000 people, many
.of • whom are dying from. thirst.
Here were 'refugees, from : all
pats of -India, speaking 'many'
languages and with different cul-
tural and religious backgrounds.'
Through a "helping people • to
help themselves";programme and
the• voluntary services ' of• YM.
Y.W.members, this, village has
become a 'white -washed, garden
plot where the 'residents are now
learning a better way • of •.life.,
Leaving Delhi we flew ilia Kar-
achi, . Cairo and Beirut. to . reach
Jerusalem. Here, "in old Jesu-
salern" we have reached a point
approximately half way, on the
"Taipei -Toronto journey. Here
We are 2;600 feet' above sea -level.
It is the "high place" t6 which
"the . tribes went up", in ancient
times. Yesterday :we "went down"
from Jerusalem to Jericho," and
to the. Dead Sea, 1,300 -feet, below.
sea -level, ."the ' lowest place on
earth," ' ' • •..
Ilene, ..our minds are .full off
thoughts/ about ancient history,.
about• the ups and downs and the
comings andgoings of peoples
throughout the ;ages; about world-
wide conrfusion in thinking, but
also with fresh, glimmerings of
the truth. It was here in 'Old
Jerusalem` that the Master of
mankind went.down to the lowest
of deaths:' Here are strewn the
relics of . nearly 2,000• 'years,, of
thisry. . • since ' that event, took
place. Looking. 'over this • scene,
what • is • one • to say?' ,. Our Out-
standing impression . inay best . be.
stated in words recorded at the
beginning,' •' of, the Christian' era,
"He is not • here.. He has been rais-,
ed again, • ELS. he said."
In an upper room not far from.
where :.We are staying in this
Y.M.C.A. Hostel, during the early
years of . Christian history, `His:
followers went ' out to all the
worldl''to: proclaim Iliml as the
world's Saviour.
city Divided
An old Scottish
paraphrase we
used ' to sing in church' ;says,
"Jerusalem as a city is, compactly
built together,'' .but' these words
could : hardly be used to describe
the .place to -day In the severely
divided w orld of ;our ;time, here
is the,world's most tragically div-
ided.city::Here is the cross
=roads
between East and West. Here -is
Jerusalem centrally, situated. in .
the midst of the wprld's'°probl:em:s
'and confusion.; To this spot on,
he --worlds —ma -p --wee have come,
up,. 'from :,the "heathen" lands.'
Here ;in this little Hostel we .are
SO:,Lose .to the stone :pile .bound—
ary ' and :rusty barbecliWire: line
separating the East. and the West
as to be .almost oii . top. of it.
Today's'' newspaper carries: pic-
tures ' of • "the- wall" • ' between
East and West Berlin, but . this
Jerusalem barrier suggests itself.
as holding ' even :more explosive
.and world-wide significance.
Here .in Jerusalem' we .see and
occasionally converse with pass-
ing 'tourists _from the West whose.
conversation indicates how' naive
we Westerners are . about East-
West `relationships: Here we:real
ize that colossal mistakes, have
been; made throughout history, in
the name of Christ,`Here,despite..
all the frustrations _ and problems
met with in tihe'"heathen lands",
•our sympathy ;goes out :to, the
Arabs, the Indians and the CChi -
ese . who find themselves 'so `sud-
denly immersed : in the modern
world of ' western. secitlaris+rn.
'Here, we see . something of the
:insight and the `vision .of men
+like Labib Nasir in his `Y.M.C.A.
.work among • the Arab, refugees
Camped 'on the sands of the de-
'serf at: :Jericho also in the activi-
ty, at the • Y'.M;C;A, camp in the
field. of the Shepherds at 'Beth- •
lehern, and inhis plans , for a
new Y.M.C.A. Building right 'be-'
side this dividing''boundaryy. Our
visit to- the Jericho' Camp School
Will be long rememlbered,. Here
in mud huts ,.and Arab tents we
saw 130 young men learning,car`
pentering.' and :iron working as..
a Means of rehabilitating them-
selves to normal life. Theses all
were life -like. pictures ' of the -
Master 'himself:the carpenter of
Nazareth.
Fro/1'r here welook ahead to
the second half of our ,horriewward'
journey. Soon we expect to be
back in• Canada. 1`to doubt. the
homeland.` will seem a strange:
place at first, but .we hope that
such strangers as we may 'have.
become may•not stand in the way
of "orientation" into life, "back
home.."
Yours sincerely,
Hugh MacMillan.
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