The Ohio Independent Baptist, March 1964

one elbow and looked around. None was clo e o I got onto my hands and knee and crawled into the garage. ' 'We had already taken our Volk - wagon away for the garage had a gra roof and we feared omeone might throw a ga oline torch onto it. They didn't find the car that night but they did later. "I was very cold. Dew bad been falling from the tree onto Irene and me. In the garage I emptied a sack of cracked wheat and put my legs into the sack. I emptied a sack of beans and wrapped it around my chest. Then I lay down on the cracked Vt heat. ' I don't know when the young men went away but it was probably after dawn. After daybreak I wrapped one sack around me, like a sarong, and went out to the tree. Irene was covered with blood. The blood on the ground wa already clotting. I put one of the sacks over her. Pastor came ' 'Later in the morning, a pastor came from the village. He went into the house and found a bathrobe for me. I said we must bury Irene. Other people from the station came and I asked them to make a coffin. But they were all afraid. Finally I found a bed spread. We wrapped Irene in for me to follow hin1 through the gra and he would hide n1e. He ran and I tried to follow. But I oon wac; by n1y elf. I lay down, hoping to hide myself. But a young man, an ugly young n1an, found me and bent over me and took out his knife and sa id now I would join my friend. Witnessed for Savior "H ad I shown any fear, he certainly would have killed me. But the Lord gave me peace and I told the young man about our Savior. ' Of cour e you can kill me, I told him. But you can also show mercy. I uppose you think I am angry with you because you killed my friend. But I am not, I feel sorry for you. If you kill me, I will join my friend, and my Lord, but what wi ll happen to you? Don't you know that the Lord love you and will care for you if you will accept Him?" "His face changed. 'I will save yoL1, ' he aid. 'But there are many evil men about, come with me. I will hide you, and get the pastor.' ' 'I went with him far out into the grass and lay down where he said. H e went away. I don't know if he told the pastor, but the ,pa tor did come. H e took me to a vill age and put me in the 1 home of a non-Chrj - "I spoke to him. He said I would n~t be killed but must remain alway<; with them. He put me in his bedroom and aid I should sleep, that I would be afe. ' 'I think I did sleep quite a bit. "In the morning the president said I should return to the mission. The chief and the two pastors and the other hould go, too, and he the president would send a guard to make certain we arrived safely. "The guards left us when near the mi sion. The chief said I should come into the village and he would protect me. He put me in a hut far from the mi ion, a hut u ed for storage. 'During the afternoon someone came running through the village aying the oldiers were out of bullet and everyone should come and kill them. I don't know what oldier they were talking about. But the Lord wa at work, once again, for soon the village wa<; de erted of all young men. Ran to mission 'Late in the afternoon I saw a plane and two helicopters circling over the mi ion. I ran through the village, for I knew they would not ee me there, ,that I mu t get back to the mission. '' h I k H h ,, en was wea , e gave me strengt that and the ,pastor took her and buried her. "I wrote a note to Miss H aller, in another mi ssion about 10 miles away, and gave it to one of our Bi ble students. He et off on a bicycle but later gave it to someone cl e to carry it on. I don ' t know whether Mrs. Haller ever got it. My houseboy came. The day be– fore I had given his wife a <lre5~. He now went and got it back anti gave it to rne. ' ' hristians in the village we11e afraid to take me into their homes. o I str1yed all day i11 the d is1)en ar)' . l) uri11g the night, I eve11 111ar1agcd to slee1) a little, or1 the cxa111inatio11 tabl e. "On unda) 1 tl1e young 111e11 were agai11 about i11 ga11gs. Tl1t: l1ri Lians ker,1 r110\' ing 111e t'ro,11 ho J)it,11 lllll to 11 s1,ital l1L1l tl1e J)atie11ts l1ad all disaJ>pcared ,~.1itl1 tl1e fir t trouble ~lul tlie )' OL111g 111e11 al\\'ays foL111d 111e . Ile)' aid I 111u t sta)' a11d it a11yonc ca111 l g t 111 , lllc)' \vou)d kill 111 . "' 11c 011e f tl1e tudei1t ai l THE OHIO INDEPENDENT BAPTIST tian. H e aid I would be af er there. "Sunday night was quiet and so was Monday. Villagers brought n1e boiled eggs and all sor t of thing to eat. They aid they then1 el ve had not eaten ince the terrible thing of Friday night. By evening there wa no sign of a rescue helicopter so the chief and the villagers decided I hould be taken to ldiofa. That i about 40 n1ile away. Started at dark HWc 5tarted off at d,1rk. The cl1icf ca111c wiul1 n1c a11d two p,1~tor a11(l toLtr others lro111 the 1111~\io11. 1 l1c) ha<l a bicycle ,1nd whe11 I cOLJl(.l \\ alk. 110 111orc, tl1cy f)tll 111c 011 tl1c L11c) cle an(.I pL1.l1e(I 111e. ']"'he\ car11c(I kn1,cs and bows ancl arrows. ..We 11,t(l go11c 11t:rl1aJ)S ft1ur or fi, 1 c n1i1cs wl1c11 tl1e ) ' Ot111g 111c11 sJJra11g fro111 t 11t: \\' OOtl . N 0\\ 1 , t Ile)' ~aid , t 11 ) ,-voLdd kill n1e, a11tl the l1i f n11cl l)a l >rs a11<l otl1er as ,v0ll. '111 )' l ok us 0111c (lista11c to a 111a11 tl1 ) call ti tl1cir 11r sill 111 . l le l1acl a 11i e ll >ll e. 'I grabbed two n1en b1 1 the band and aid, ·You mu t pull me, for I cannot run fa t enough.' ' 'Along came a man on a bicycle. He wept n1e onto hi handlebar and pedaled f t1riot1 ly for the n1i ion. On the ccond circle. the pilot a\\' 111e. ·· he man rode n1e tip to the edge of the gra · field, \\ here one h~li– copter wa landing. I j11111p t1 frt1111 tl1e bic 1 cle and ran to it. fhc l soldier pt1llcd 111c i11. ·· nd nO\\ I a111 her c. ,lft; ,vitl1 fricncls ,. he fold~ti her l1a.c1cis a11 l l)O\\ Ctl }1cr lll!,\(i f 01 \OI11C ti111' ~ll " ra1\CLl l1e1 l1c'1tl , 1111l~J l)cat1tifL1ll), a11ti ,ai(I .. It, l1k.~ J told 1l1c ) t)t111g 111c11 . I a 111 nt)I at 1 ,ltlf to ti i\!. --,,tr '– [)t)(.l\ ,, dill~ to b~ al,, t! ·111d al ot1t tll l... t)Itf' \·\'Ork. ' MARCH, 1964 Page 5