Dear Mr* McFarland,

Eugene, OregonAugust 28, 1952

Some time ago I received a letter from you asking news ofMiss Margaret M. Alldridge for whom I am forwarding agent.I wrote your request to Miss Alldridge but at that time itwas advisable that no news be given out. Margaret was In Rangoonseveral months working constantly trying to get a permanentVisa to go up country to work with Miss Dorothy Sterling.After all this time her visa was not granted and she hasreturned to Bangkok, Thailand where she is making preparationsto ^oin the mission in the northern-most province of thatcountry. She will be getting out a newsletter In the nearfuture and I shall mall you one and then you may feel freeto publish any part of It you choose, but in the meantimeMargaret asks that no other news be published other thanthe following in the Standard and the Horizons:

" WORD HAS JUST BEEN RECEIVED THAT MISS MARGARET M.ALLDRIDGEHAS ARRIVED IN BANGKOK, THAILAND AND IS MAKING PREPARATIONSTO JOIN OUR MISSION IN THE NORTHERN-MOST PROVINCE OF THATCOUNTRY I'VHERE THE C. W. CALLfilWAYS, IMOGEIffi WILLIAMS,DOROTHY UHLIG AND THE GARLAND BARES ARE AT WORK".

Prehaps my name and address as her forwarding agent should beIncluded so that any that Is interested may know frho to contact.

I like your new publication Horizons and appreciate getting it.I am enclosing a $1.00 for my wder for the 1953 MissionaryPrgryer Calendar and would likyVthe free copy of the 1952 one.

Sincerely in His Service

Mary M Klor70 E. 23rd

Eugene, Oregon

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VIEWING THE TEMPLED CITY OF BANGKOK. CAPITAL OF THAILAND

for Qod his Ivay is perfect: '^he word ofJehovah is tried; he is a shield unto all themthat take refuge in /lim.

^or "who is Qod, save Jehovah? cAnd whois a rock, beside our Qod, the Qod that girdethme "with strength, and maketh way perfect?^fKe maketh my feet like Kind's feet: c^ndsitteth me upon my high p/aces.-Psalm 18:30

In the Fall of 1951 a fetter was senf out to teff youof the circumstances and events which led MargaretAJldridge, a student volunteer, to leave quickly forthe field. It was hoped that she would be able to joinour workers in northernmost Burma. The letter, inpart;

" . . .because of what He has always meantto me, and because of my love for Him, it is my desire to follow wherever Christ leads me .... a definite call .... I have takrm each step believingin Him to guide me, and wirh the realization that wecan be used of Him only as we show ourselves willing to trust Him and to make use, with care and wisdom, of every opportunity with which He provides us.

All over the world the doors are closing to Christianity.... with large portions of Asia lost insofaras our own outside missionary endeavor is concerned,and entrance to the areas still open on the verge ofclosing, the need for urgency is extreme.

Because of the situation that prevails. and sincequalification as a special type of student may opendoors closed to someone entering under a differentclassification my departure will not be highly publicized.

V ..N* 4 iMARGARET M. ALLDRIDGE

October, 1952Dear Friends,

It has been nearly a year since I wrote you last, and now I mustset down in order something of the experiences through which I have come. Our freighter, the"Giga Maersk" embarked from San Francisco on the eve of Thanksgiving, whichseemed to me most especially appropriate, and after a voyage of nearly two monthsbrought me safely to the port of Bangkok, Thailand. On the way there were visitswith Mrs. Carrie Wolfe, Miss Ruth Smith, the McElroys, and the Hales in Manila;Jane Kinnett, the Alex Bills, Martin Clarks and others in Japan, and calls at Formosa, Hong Kong, and in Indochina, the city of Saigon. Everywhere we felt theuncertainties that prevail, but they have come to bealmost our "native air" and lifegoes on: big business invests, the UN experts and workers are everywhere, thepeople seek their daily bread, and missionaries go on with their task, "canny merchants" come to "buy the heartsof the nations for their Prince."

Arriving in Bangkok, I was glad to have Dorothy Uhlig and Imogcne Williamson hand to greet me, but sorry for the occasion of their visit to the cit)', which wasImogene's eye injury. There too, I met Garland and Dorothy Bare, and with thesefour other young missionaries discussed possibilities the future might hold, andlearned a good deal more about the work in Thailand.

"ABOVE ALL THAT V/E ASK OS THINK"

And then to Rangoon, where it was "Burma gained, but not won." The entrywas, in a word, triumphant, but as you will read, I could not stay. When Robertand Betty Morse and small son Joni returned to Burma last fall, from linguisticwork at the University of Oklahoma where they had gone preparatory to translation of the Scriptures into Rawang. they found it necessary to fly and were thusunable to take along the supplies needed by the Mission, so, since I was travellingby ship as far as Bangkok, I became the official "baggage sitter." The continuedjourney to Rangoon by air presented numerous problems—finding sufficient baggage space on one airplane, keeping down expense, etc. It all began to seem ratherimpossible, but at just the appropriate time a plane was delayed, a small one sentin it's stead, and the end of the matter was that I flew over on an airship for twenty-two passengers, was the only one and was privileged to take all tlie supplies with

me at a somewhat reduced rate. The co-pilot came back and said, Well, where doyou want to go with your chartered plane!" (Later, going through customs, I beganto wonder if it wouldn't have been better to just have directed him straight up-country!) Do you wonder that I was thrilled? The Evil-one may seem to be havingan inning in this part of the world, but truly the Lord is mindful of His own. Myheart was full of the wonder of it as I sat there in tlie back of the plane, saw theseats filled with boxes (the mission supplies), and remembered, "I'm here onbusiness for my King." We winged our way over the tiny fields and plains country,across great rugged mountains, high over an uneven sandy coast-line and the bluewaters of the Gulf of Martaban, and at length descended over the delta of theIrrawaddy to land on the big runways of Mingaladon airport outside the city ofRangoon. Truly, "The earth is the Lord's and the fulness thereof!

HEIGHTS AND DEPTHS

But high mountains have deep valleys, and there was to follow nearly six longmonths of waiting. How shall I describe it all—officials and offices, many applications, hours of patience "hard put", a traveler's nightmare come true with purseand passport stolen, a time of illness, the hot season, sieges of homesickness, andwith all, a feeling of urgency and the great suspense of waiting, waiting . . . . Andso our human hurry must learn Divine trust, and what are we to Him if we havenot that?

At last, toward the close of the month of July, the final answer came as "no"and the door was closed, the key turned in the lock. In accord with previous arrangements, made in the event this should prove to be the case, I have returned to Thailand, and from henceforth, as long as God wills, this will be my field of service.It is good to be going ahead once more and heartening to realize in retrospect thesignificance of the time just passed. A senior missionary, writing her encouragement, says that she thinks there is no need to expect anything worse than the longand trying months spent in Rangoon. She continues, "Difficulties concerning hardtravel on weary mountain roads, poor food, and other trials which came (up-roun-try) are much easier and of entirely different category than those you have beenfacing, because there are also compensations." And, in turn, I cannot count theworth of the hours of study, the lessons in understanding the East, the errands anasmall tasks accomplished for the mission, and the chastening and exercise of heart,mind, and spirit brought about by the trying and testing days. God has brought methrough all these things and to this place; He has kept me by His Holy Spirit, andmy thankfulness is very great.

A CHALLENGE

Why to Thailand, and not Burma? Perhaps I will never know, but He knows,and it is enough. Pray for Burma. Pray for the strengthening of your missionaries,for the upholding of the Lisu and the Rawang Christians, and also that there mayyet be those who will be able to gain entrance as new workers and help to carty theload, At this moment these six adults are on the field; Drema Morse, DorothySterling, R. N., Robert and Betty, and Helen and Eugene Morse and their families.They are not enough, for this work is the fruit of long-standing labour and hasgrown to demanding proportions. A doctor is sorely needed, and if there isone freeto go, this challenge is to him.

"WE ARE SEVEN"

Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Galloway and Miss Imogene Williams were the first ofour missionaries to come to Thailand, Burma's southeastern neighbor. They arrivedin 1949, and were led to the north where dwell the hill people hitherto untouchedby the Gospel. Miss Dorothy Uhlig, R. N. was called to join them early in 1951,and some months later Dorothy and Garland Bare also arrived, increasing the number of workers to six. Last and least, I have come, and "we are seven." There are,

however, four "junior" missionaries in the Galloway family. At present I am studying the Thai language in Bangkok in order to get a good foundation before goingto live where only poorer teachers arc available, and also because during this season our section is separated from the rest of the world by very much mud and water.In a short while, as the rainy season comes to an end, the road will be open and Iwill go to join the others in Chiengkcm which is located in the east of ChiengraiProvince in the northern-most part of the Kingdom.

"ASK. BELIEVING"

Nothing is more important to us than your prayers. We have our special workto do, but nothing we do can take the place ot your prayers. Perhaps you do notunderstand nor realize how strong arc the powers of evil as they exist in these far-off places, but we can tell you that the strength of evil is tremendous and ever present. We feel it; we know it is here, and we affirm with ffie writer of the Ephesianletter that our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against principalities,against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world. This is no falselyimagined battle, but a real fight and one in which we can only overcome as we realize again and again in our hearts and minds, the truth that "Greater is he that is inyou than he that is in the world," and claim, as it were "with all four feet" the factthat Christ has overcome the Evil one, and appropriate for our selves that victory.So much for the missionary; your prayers help us to stand, and ^^Lnd it hard toexpress our gratitude for them, but there is a ministr}' of prayer i^pbnd this, andve ask earnestly for you to fulfill it. We need you to prayfor the people amongwhom we must work. Pray for prepared hearts, for encouragement for those whohave already come seeking, and for willing and helpful informants wlio will assistthe missionaries in learning their tribal languages. Satan will not be lax in his efforts to obstruct the Gospel and to keep these people as his own wretched bond-ser-.vants, It is a real task to set before you, and of such great importance that an oldermissionary once wrote that his efforts prevailed in direct proportion to the prayersof love and faith of faithful hearts in the homeland.

Now that 1 am more or less settled on the field it will be possible to write youat regular intervals. Your own letters are very happily received, and prove to be agreat help and encouragment. My address is simply:

Talat Chiengkam >4.^Changwat ChiengraiThailand '5-^

Thank you for your prayers throughout these days. I have needed them very^^lmuch. There have been times when deep peace and assurance have come sud-*^denly and quietly into my heart, and I have known most surely that somewhere afriend was praying. It is a beautiful experience, renewing courage and strength,and calling to one's own lips prayers or thankfulness and praise. May that samepeace which passeth all understanding guard and keep your hearts in Christ Jesusour Lord.

A worker together withMargaret M. A!ldf|d

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