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Sorock San, Korea-

Juno 16, i960

Stout)
Christian
riends t

The three years since we have come to Korea have contained many interesting oxperiencee ,* now wa are just closing one of the nicest* Perhaps you noticed! that we are writing from a different
place this tiroeo San means mountaini Sorock is the name of some

beautifully roclcy mountains that lie about 3'0 miles from Kangnung ud the coast. We are just finishing a ten day period of vacation. It has been a good rest; like those times when r/o used to take books hone froai school over a Chri3t:Tiaa vacation intending to do mucli^ but never studied# Ify typewriter has been gathering dust ever since we
came, but tomorrow we have to head back to the workaday world, and this letter must be ready to catch the afternoon mail plane in order to make connections so that the

enclosed postal announcement may get out before July 1st. 1*11 be writing briefly this time, but there are several very important things to sayj The first is that this is still a very important time to be praying for Korea. The country is still going through a time of great uncertainty and danger, We feel a
bit out of touch now, not having had any news for a weak and a hair, but imagine what
it would be like in America if both the President and Vice President were out of of

fice, the one being a suicide and the other having to flee the comtry to avoid popu lar recrimination, Jn addition, imagine f.iat most of the leaders of the Republican
party had been thrown into jail for election fraud, and that the Democrats were ex tensively rent by internal divisions. Let all high government officials quitthe cabinet, the members of the Supreme Court, etc.and all State Governors, as well as many local officials in every community resigns And let all this be happening in a country vfhere the police are paralyzed by a fear of retaliation, and where there is no next strong ruler in sight. Then you b'^gin to have a picture of what is going on i'i Korea. Investigations and arrests have continued for more than a month now, and a l^t of old charges are coming to light. Popular unrest also continues strongly and

t>.reatens to get out of hand. It seems that almost any grievancepoor coaches on a railroad train, a disliked school principal, a newspaper printing something that was
rssented, etc.can call forth a demonstration, and these, too, often result in vio lence. Even in peaceful Kangnung it has happened, and we have seen students swarming through the streets armed with clubs and sharp pointed weapons. Hecently even the
'?.^surd ultimate was reached-anti-demonstration demonstrationsand these ended with *'

tjiose who wanted peace fighting against those who advocated further reform. Corrupt.'.on was so deep-seated that much of this perhaps was necessary, but now anarchy
xlireatens. The martial law commander has quit, and now it is more true than ever that tnis country needs to be guided by the One 'HiVho holds the king *s heart in His hands

and turns it whithersoever He will." I>et us pray for a climate propitious to mission
ary work, if that be God*s will.

Second, we would like to say that this is also a very critical time for you to
pray for us,..your missionaries 1 I mentioned last time that the recent months had

contained more of nearvous, physical, and spiritual strain than we had ever known be fore. That has continued true# There are strains to missionary work hard to imagine to the outsiderstrains of being often misunderstood; the frustrations of different language, customs, and thought patterns) the irritations of inconveniences and of long distance from supplies j the drain of ali-vays being alone in giving forth the Word, and never having a rest from the responsibility for others^ the disappointments in

ot-hers, which seem to come so frequently herej and also disappointments with self.

All these drain one*s nervoiis and emotional reserves,

wielba especially, who is more

sensitive than I (and I say that not critically; it can be an asset), has been near
the point of a nervous breakdoi^jn. She jxist plain over-did this last winter, and now is having to pay some of the consequences. Also, we realized finally that a visit to
the home of another missionary, though enjoyab3.e, is not the vacation that a complete rest can be, and that is the main reason that we have come up here to the mountains, V/e are hoping that it will help pull us past the crisis. But we still need ho3.p. Usually one likes to wait until after times like these are past before they tell any one, and then they can say, "Boy, we v/oiidered there for a while if v/eM make it,.," But we don't want our pride to stand in the way of our receiving the help that might

gain for us the victory, and this is help that you can supply through prayer. The problem is important enough that our tiissionaiy future is at stake, so we ask that if you have ever pulled with us, or ever have intended to do so, please do it now L Pro
bably within six months of this time we will have rounded the corner and will be on the way to more successful missionary work,..or we will be home as those who couldn^t

make the grade, so please give us your help that v/e may see success rather than de feat. "Prayer is what we claim away from Satan in the Name of Jesus." Please PRAYo
This is a critical time in the work also, but in a good way, and it may be partly the reason for the other crisis. Satan does not bother much to oppose the building of buildings or even the learning of a language. Though necessary steps to a good end, they hurt not his kingdom. But he doesn^t like the spreading abroad of the Gos pel, and it is just that v;hich we are getting into. Already this Spring we have been taking tract trips up and down our coastal strip, and this is something that we want

to increase extensively through the Summer and Fall. At present vre are trying to ar range for help with the church in Kangnung so that ray interpreter and I will be even
more free to enter into this work and to follow up new leads. I will want to write

more about this later. Please pray also for these advances in the workfor God*s guidance and blessing, that we might find many who will be called unto eternal life*
Passing out tracts in Korea can be almost fun* Stopping to do it almost creates a

riot, as the people push in to get whatever is being given out# paper says.

Tossing them from a

moving car creates a scramble amongst the youngsters, and even women on the country roads with heavy loads on their heads will stop and stoop to see what the strange

This is more just natural curiosity than eagerness for the Gospel, but

still it makes this an effective method of sowing the seed. X am going to be writing some more tracts. Anyone who v^ants to share in the expense of printing may designate gifts for that purpose and it will be so used.
Now I must close. There are other interesting things. A seminary is going up

in Seoul now; we saw the start. Taylors are headed home on furlough and will be tell ing you about opportunities to share in the school,.,and the accompanying blessings. There is much to do, and much to pray for here. Let's do it together so that the land
behind the land of the rising sun may become a land of rising hopese

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Iilr. & Mrs. Richard G. Lash

Tours in Christ,
The Lashes

0/L 21, 6lli6 AFAG

APO 970, San Francisco, California
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h03 N. Griffing Blvd. Asheville, N.C.

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Letter 027

(mailing delay explained later)

UM/-

Kangnung^ Korea

July 20, i960

Dear Friends in Christ:

I want this to be a personal letter from me (Melba) to all

of our praying friends. Two or tharee months ago as I was read ing in God's Word and seeking words of encouragement and help for ray deep need, I read the words of the Psalmist

"Mine eyes are ever toward the Lord; for He shall pluck my feet out of the net." In the darkness of my experience of nervous and physical exhaustion, those words came bringirig light into my troubled heairb. But, friends, my complete deliverance from severe depression and exhaustion did not come until you prayed for me Since Dick wrote our last newsletter and told you just a little of our problems here and re
quested prayer, I have continued to improve, and I am now better than I have been fotr six or eight months. Since that time, too, many of you have written letters of love -

and encouragement, and I have wept often as I have read them.

Two months ago my heart

was fil3^d with despair and hopelessness regaining my recovery5 today there is a re newed hope and a new knowledge of Christ as my sufficiency*
Friends, we cannot continue in our work here without yoxor dally and earnest
prayer support, God wants you to share in this work too. We must daily face the tre

mendous pressures which seldom seem to ease up; will you fight this daily battle with us in prayer? We have given ourselves out here for "front line" duty, but how can we carry on without your faithful supply of "ammunition" from the rear? And how can I say how much your letters mean to us I Do you laio\? that it is a rare privilege for us

to have the encouragement of Christian fellowship with those who speak our own- lan
guage? Do you know what it means to go for months without singing hymns together with other Christians in your own native tongue? If you can understand just a little v^at it means to be without those blessings, you can imagine what joy and warmth your let ters bring to us# Do not think that your letter is unimportant.
Some relatives and friends joined with us in asking God especially that the month of June might be a month of new beginnings and a turning point not only in my person-^.1 problem, but also a turning point in eveary phase of this work. And how abundantly Gcd has answered o\ir prayers I It was during that month that I began to definitely improve^. During that month attendance and interest in our church services increased rapidly, and that month brought in the largest amount of financial help for the work of any month since our coming to Korea I God answers prayerj may those of you who responded to our request for prayer be encouraged to continue praying for us. We have in our
group a number of young people who have heard the preaching and teaching of God's Word for a number of weeks, many of them for a niimber of months. They continue faithful in their attendance, but when they have been approached regarding decisions to follow the

Lord, they still say they are not ready. Vfe are praying much for several young men. One of them is the nephew of the crippled, sick Christian girl about whom we have pre viously told you. We covet these young lives for Christ,. Will you pray for them? At their own request our interpreter, Mr.Ghueii.,. began a special class to teach them more of the Word. About 25 to 30 young people (both boys and girls of high school age) at tend this Friday evening class. Many of this same group attend English conversation classes (in which I also use flannelgraph for telling Bible stories) which Dick and I
teaoh, and many attend the regular church services as well.

Last Sunday was also a time of joy for us. Our interpreterwife was not a Christian. His heart was burdened for her, and although he often talked with her of the things of the Lord, and taught her from the Word, she failed to see her need of Christe One morning less than two weeks ago I suggested to him that he stop talking to her and that we begin praying together each morning in om* daily prayer meetings for her salvation. Then just last Saturday morning ho came joyfully and told us that she had that morning told him of her decision to follow Christ On Sunday morning she stood before the church group and with her mouth confessed the Lord Jesus. Imme diately after church we gathez'ed ai^ound the baptistry as she was buried with Christ in baptism. And then together we sang, "Oh, happy day that fixed ny choice on Thee, niy Saviour and ray Lord." It was a moving time for us as we thanked God for another definite answer to a definite prayer.
Many of you have prayed with us regarding someone to come and minister the Wo3rd

to the little group of Christians here. We believe God has answered that prayer, too. A deacon from tho nearby Chnmoonjin church is coming to take over that part of the
work the first of August, This man is a mature man with an earnest and evident con

cern for those around him outside of Christe

Because of a large family to support

Vvliile supporting his

(nine people look to him for their daily needs l) he has been unable to fulfill his
heart's desire to study full time someplace for the ministry.

large family, however, he has continusd to carry much of the teaching and preaching

load at the little Chumoonjin church, as well as give much time to persona^ evangel
ism. His business has been running a machine which threshes wheat and barley (not

the large threshing machines which we know in the States I) and recently his health has been failing. He says that is due to the dust and chaff which he must continually breathe His business is suffering setbacks, too, and when we approached him with the idea of his coming here to work with tis, after several days of praying and con sideration he told us yes, and said that he felt the Lord had been preparing him for
this through his failing health and btisiness
cit to provide a living for his family.

His support will come from the small

offerings which the Christians bring, and we (with your help) will make up the defi
This change will free Dick for more language

study and for evangelism an other villages and areas near \is. As young people our selves, our ministry is pretty much limited in this country to young people. Older
people do not listen to or have much respect for young people until they reach the

age of 3^ or liO.

The number of years you have "eaten" is very important in this

country 1 That is the way they speak of the age of people,.."He has eaten for 50 years." By the way, Deacon Kim has eaten for about hO years 1 We feel that God is

blessing our ministry among the young people, and we shall continue that ministry through our various classes, but we feel that Deacon Kim will do much to bring the older people around us to hear the Gospel. Pray that many of the older people will
hs^r and believe that Christ is the Son of the Living Godo

Thank you again for all of your prayers, your financial support, and your let ters. May each of you have a real sense of sharing in the work here. Be encouraged witih -as in these words from II Corinthians 14:17,19: "For our light affliction, which is buxi for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of gloryi while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seenj
fo7 Uie things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are
ETEIuT^L."

3h His Victorious Name,

Business address:

c/o Mrs. R. Hobert Lash, Forwarding Agent ii03 N. Griffing Blvd.

Melba & Dick

Personal mail: Mrs. Richard G.Lash

Asheville, North Carolina

O.L. 21, 6lii6 AFAG

APO 970, San Francisco,
Calif.

September 5^ I960

Asheville the day AFTER my folks left on a six-week trip. V/e had to accept the delay without understanding it. We thought we had planned carefully and allowed plenty of time# We had not wanted to wait so long to tell you the good news of how the Lord had answered prayers in response to the June nev;sletter. So many people wrote and expressed conOem that Melba just couldn't help but get better...and that response remains as one of the roost encouraging tiroes we have ever experienced. Probably you
have no idea just what your interest and love has meant and how vital it is i

The newsletter is a double-header this time# Melba wrote the preoeoding part more than six -weeks ago and we expected you would have read it long before now, but Uncle Sam goofed us up A stamp came off in the mail and the letter was returned to us; it was sent again but made an exceptionally slow trip (11 days) arriving in

Several things have happened since i^lba wrote, so I would like to add a P.S. of several paragraphs, to keep things up to date. The Loitl has continued to bless the

work.

The new preacher Melba mentioned hes come, and he seems to be working out very

well here* He .is a small man,, but full-of .seal and very gregarious by nature. He-isalso very energetic and diligent, and he has very sincere Christian convictions# We prayed a long time about a helper, but we are very well satisfied with God's answer# We feel that having set this man fi'ee so that he can preach full time might be one of the better things that we, through your financial help, have accomplished on the mis sion field. One thing which they have begun, which we are very glad to see, is a church member visitation program. Chueh, my interpreter, and the new man, whom we still call Deacon Kim just from force of habit, have started taking Wednesday after noons and all day Saturday for calling, and it has been producing good results. We have had three baptisms in the last two weeks. It is so necessary to have a national worker for the close counseling. Peopls just won't open up their hearts through an
interpreter, and you can't blame theme

Another new thing which we have started, and which I find to be one of the most satisfying things I've ever done on the cjission field, is village evangelism. Last Tuesday five of us went out from this church and tramped for an hour and a half

through muddy roads (it \vas the day after a typhoon) to two small country villages. At one of these villages there is a small struggling church. It is a Baptist church, but is close enough in doctrine that we have been developing a fellowship. We met a
number of the members from that church, and then teamed up to go to all the houses of

the villages to give out tracts and talk to people about Christ.
can converse enough to keep up with the social amenities.

It was fun, and I

It was amusing one place.

Three women and a man were sitting in their ya3?d splitting long reeds into mat weav
ing strips when we went in. The person that I was with plunged into the conversation telling them we had come to preach and, as they sometimes did, referred to me and said that this man had come from America for that reason, too. At this, one of the women who was sitting on the ground bui^t out laughing and said, '"/irell, why doesn^t
he say something then?" So I had to assure them that I also wanted them to believe

in Jesus. We returned home footsore and good tiiae by then that v/e decided to try will not come immediately from somethiiig regularly enough so that when people see those preachers again," and then we i^dll

weary that evening, but we had had such a to make this an &veiy Tuesday thing. J^esults like this, but we would like to keep at it us cpaing, they ^ill say, "Oh, here come bogin to find the ones with hungry hearts.

There are so many country places around here like the ones we visited. In some of them at least r^'e would like to try to help start new ch\irches, and it vdll be ex cellent exercise for the young Christians here too. Since I have been moi'e free, I

have had time to write some of the tracts that have been in my mind for a long time,

and soon we will have an abundant supply ^ we would like for you to pray with us

about this venture. VOien you think of Tu&sday, thajik of us...and pray that God will
bless the Lashes and the other Christians who will be giving out the Gospel to new

people that day. If you want to pray at the time we are doing it, you will have to remember Monday night as you go to bed, for our Tuesday comes here Just about during the time you are getting your night's sleep. We do not know hovj long we will have
here in Korea, nor do we Imow for sure what will be the results of our having been here but before we leave v/e hope to have seen this area thoroughly saturated with the Gospel of Jesus Christ I That we want We are content to leave other results
with Him.

Vfell, lest my P.S. grow too long I*d better begin to close. The summer certain ly did seem to hurry away. Seggelkes, our friends from Seoul, came out early in August for a visit, and we took them to the mountains a;id the sea. The high light of

their trip was that both Melba and Maxine learned to swim during one of our trips to
the beach. Both husbands were very glad, after all these years I

Right after the Seggelkes left we had a week of DVB3 with the Sunday School children here. The average attendance was about 80. Attention was good; many scrip ture verses and choinases v/ere learned, and everybody seemed to have a good time*
This next week we have to go over to Seoul to get the dentist to do some work on our teeth and to get a mechanic to do something about some toothless gears which
we have in the transmission on our truck, but soon m will be back again and busy. We will write again to tell you what the Lord is doing here in Korea.

Your servants in Christ,

Dick & Melba Lash

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PEOGRAM

I TJish to take this remaining space to thank those of you who have cooperated in keeping the slides on cchodu?s;, and for your expressions of appreciation for the use of I will be making up the schedule for tha rest of this year pretty soon., so if ycu have any desire to work them :Lnto your missionary ohallonge in your chiirch^ be sure and get your requests in to allow time for arrangements to be made. There are no obligations attached, except to mail the package on to the next place. Giving a choice of two or three dates helps in formulating the schedule and saves corresponc]ncej if y^urs is a missionary meeting with a set date we try to work in flexible requests around the set dates.
Sincerely in His service,

Mrs. R. Hobert Lash, Forwarding Agent

I1O3 N. Griffing Blvd.

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Letter #28

taShe-i
Kangn\ing, Korea

November 3, I96O
fS 00.
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Dear Friends:

Every newsletter should have a definite point. That I know. But what that point should be is sometimes harder to figure out. I have hesitated in writing this because of a note of uncertainty that has been in our plans of late. Usually uncertainty is not a good note to sound, but to tell you of ours now I think may be a good thing, because
perhaps you can help to resolve it by your prayers.

\ A

The uncertainty has to do with v?hen we should take our furlough from Korea. Let me explain how it came about# Two months ago, shortly after the last newsletter
we went over to Seoul on business. We Gxpected to be gone for about a week or ten

days. Little did we know then that we were heading into a family change.. .that I was going to become a commuter...and that iflelba was going to experience one of the worst sieges of sickness she has ever krownj but so it was. She wasn't able to get
home for more than six weeks. I came home after our business was finished. The

girls and felba had decided to stay so that they might get some extra rest, and so

that she might try to get more con5>letely over the nervous exhaustion which has been a problem this year. After about ten days of being a bachelor I went back to gat
them, but Just as we were about ready to leave, Melba came down with a severe case

of the flu. She shivered and shook for '.Tiore than a week, and despite all that could be done, a painful bladder infection set in, and treatment of this was complicated
by a reaction to medicine. It was just a hard time about any way you look at it.

There was a bright spot, however. Tie learned a real lesson about Christian friend ship during the experience. were staying at the Seggelkes when all this began to happen, and during the time ivielba vras sick they turned their own bedroom over to us, and spent their nights out on a breezy sun porch on an old couch that had to be reassembled practically every night*. Furthermore, they were able to do all this without making us feel that we were imposing I Later, after a doctor had advised Melba that she had better not tiy to teach Dojx)thy this Fall, they offered to keep
Dorothy with their own four children, that she rsight attend the missionary-co-opera

tive Seoul Foreign School, and we have had to take them up on that offer also. In the face of such help as this- in a time of need, the vjord "thanks" seems to become
a very email word.

Melba finally got over the flu and irifection, but she was slow to. gain back her strength because she hadn*t eaten for a week or so during the illness. When it looked as though she would be ready to follow by plane in a few days, I came on home to a Sunday of preaching and a couple of days of tract distribution. But while we were visiting homes out here, disease again visited the Seggelkes, and several were
laid out with a virus. Melba wasn^t missed. These little attacks like this come

so often in Korea, despite all our precautions, that we don't consider them too seriously because we usually get over them in a day or so, but t'felba was slowed down by most of a week in her recovery, and before that time- was ended I went back over to Seoul again. I wanted to see about the family, and also about some car trouble. Korea and cars just 7/eren't made for each other. Within the last three months we have had to buy most of a new tranjjiriission, two new front springs# both of which have already been broken and welded since then. We are beginning to have trouble with the differential, and there have been other miscellaneous wheel bearings, king

pins, etc. too numerous to raentionc

I'tot makes this so sad is that it isn't un-

us\aal. During this same period the other mission car in Seoul, which doesn't get nearly as hard useage as ours, has also needed both new front springs, a starter motor, and several gears in the transmission. He who drives a vehicle here begets to hittself much trouble But anyway, by the time I was ready to take the car back on the road again iielba was ready to come v/ith She could have flown, but she

preferred going back in the truck. We took the trip easy, and stopped frequently to rest. We didn't get home until after dark that evening, when prayer meeting was in session in the church. As we pulled up in the driveway we could hear Deacon Kim
preaching to a good crowd inside*
to be backi

I can never remember a time when it felt better

But this still has not explained the uncertainty.

That comes, as probably you

have begun to guess, in relation to Melba's health# We are not sure just how much more she is going to be able to stand without a good long rest in the States. Missionary doctors in Seoul advised that this might be a necessity. Fortunately, the nervous breakdown which was threatened because of having tried to do too much seems to have been averted, but the strains that have been piled up over a period of months or years are not quickly erased. This sickness came at a time when she was hardly prepared to cope with it, and she has been av/fully slow to make any per manent gain. Even now, after two weeks at home, she still has to spend most of her time resting. The problem seems not to have come primarily from being in Korea, but there are strains in living here that make recovery harder. There is the iso lation. I can understand how it would be hard to live with only me for some years I Also there is the cultural shock of being in a foreign land which can never be dis counted. Call it "battle fatigue" as they did in World V/ar II when it was accom panied by hard circumstances, or call it simply "getting rock happy" as they did in Okinawa where I was a GI in time of peace, and you still have a phenomenon that crops up often among strong men in a shorter toxir of duty than missionaries usually try to put in* Current tour in Korea is thirteen months now, and most fellows can tell you to the day how much longer they have left.

Well, anyway, with all of these facts in mind, we have had to begin to consider returning to the States earlier tlian we had at first planned. TJe have contacted our living-link church about this, and they don^t want us to risk Melba's health to the point of endangering future service. They said to come ahead if need be, and that they had been preparing a furlough fund for us which could be called for when
we need it this was the first we had known about this fund which has been build

ing up almost ever since we left the States. This is Just another example of the interest and love shown to us by these fine folks at E. 38th Street church, in
Indianapolis.

It seems that the work here is in about as good a condition to leave for a while as we could hope for. Everything was going smoothly all three times when I returned, each time without any notice when I would arrive, and knowing how things often change so quickly as soon as a supervising foreigner turns his back, this has been assuring to us. Classes were carried on, calling went as scheduled, and even the church attendance held up well. The biggest problem was one that Chueh ha^ with

the American peppers in our garden. The only variety that he knew was the small,

finger-size Korean variety which turn a firey red to match their flavor as they ripen. Ours however kept getting bigger and bigger until he finally wrote in alarm to find out what to do, for as he said, "They still gots green i" Relieved he was to find out that this was quite normal.

FToprty ol

In the meantimo we will be busy here.

rounding area that we want to reacha

iShould it begin to look as if we might

go home this winter, I will probably drop other thi-ngs and concentrate on the tract work that has been close to our hfearts^ so that we can cover at least once the sur
Good Fall weather often lasts until Christmas

here. The tract work seeras to have gone along pretty well, even though hindered by my absences# The people do seem to be getting to enjoy it> though I do note that often we have more volunteers T/hen the trip seems interesting. For instancei we

miles down the coast south now. We got stuck in a river that day, but v-"e want to
go back again#

had more than we could haul the day we went up to Chumoonjin to pass out tracts to the crowd that had gathered for a large sport's event. But another day when we v/ent to the same place we also had a good group, and among them was our nearly TO-yscir old tubercular grandmother who has been a Christian for about a year I used to think I was a good walker, but this old lady went with us evei^here that day, trudging up hill and down, and she seemed to enjoy it. We have also been fifty

Yesterday v/as a tract Tuesday. We had planned to go out in our immediate neighborhood because the farmers are very busy with harvest now, but Chueh showed up in the morning with the news that Deacon Kim had gangrene iii his knees and would not be able to go v/ith us. Fortunately, the affliction turned out to be only arthritus instead of gangrene, but Chueh was just as sure that he had the right word
as we v;ere sure that he was v/rong until a Korean-English dictionary convinced him

otherwise. We get as amused sometimes at his mistakes in English as he must at ours in Korean. That day he and I started out to visit homes by ourselves, but mid
way through the morning who should we nm into but Deacon Kim and his wife. He was

hobbling along, using the bicycle we had loaned him to go to the hospital on, to
support his weight; they both had a handful of tracts and they were calling.

doctor had given him some pills, so he thought he ought to help v;ith the tracts, even though walking was quite painful, Vfe appreciated the spirit, but sent him home to bed and let his ?;ife accompany us the rest of the day. Her oldest girls are ab^ to take care of the babies, so she always goes along, and she is a great
help with talking to the women in the homes#

The

Now that we have been home a while things seem almost back to normal, except that we miss our Dorothy. She seemed such a little tyke (only 6) to be staying away from home. The decision had seemed to come so suddenly, and I suppose we were chance to be around many Americans. But her new teacher called on Melba one day and it seems as if Dorothy felt at home right from the beginning. The very first
concerned about how she would get along vrith other children. She has never had a

afternoon they were doing some copying work of alphabet letters v/hen Dorothy siiddenly got i*estless. She stood up and said that she was tired of that for the present, that she would finish her*3 later, and that she v/ould like to sing a song for the class so she favored the first grade class of about thirteen pupils with "Skip to the Lou, Ify Darling !" That ended our fears about Dorothy.
I think I will let that be the close for this time. You might remember in prayer the possibility of two short evangelistic meetings this month. Harvest is

still keeping the farmers busy. We have a tract all printed for them and as soon as theipr work slacks off we want to go out and do some more sowing. We may not write again until after the Christmas rush, and if so, we wish now to extend you our Sincerely,
TIE LASHES

greetings and best wishes for the holiday season, in the Name of the Prince of

Peace, whose Kingdom we seek to extend upon the earth.

ii03 N. Griffing Blvd '

Business mail; c/o fe, R, Hobert Lash

Asheville, N.C.

Personal mail: (70 airmail) - Mr. & l/Irs. Richard G. Lash

O.L. 21, 6lli6 AFAG, APO 970, San Francisco, Calif#