JUNE 2010

A WOMAN’S
TRIBUTE
TO FATHERS ANY HUSBAND OR WIFE
Let us be guests in one anoth-
I find it hard to begin this article. What I am er’s house
about to write should have been written a long time ago. With deferential “no” and cour-
I feel I have never adequately given my husband the teous “yes”;
praise that he deserves, although I have praised him Let us take care to hide our fool-
often. I don’t think our society has a proper respect for the man’s life today. I look ish moods
around today and I think many couples have never stopped to thank their mates Behind a certain show of cheer-
for the work they do in their lives. We take our relationships for granted. We have fulness.
expectations for our mates and we feel they owe those things to us and that atti-
tude does not bring about adequate praise. I am sure there are many women who Let us avoid all sullen silences;
would join with me today to say thank you to our men and fathers for the effort We should find fresh and
and work that they put forth to be what God has called them to be to the family. sprightly things to say;
I have done hours of counseling over the last 40 years and nearly every I must be fearful lest you find
struggle can be traced back to a misunderstanding of our value and who we are in me dull,
Christ, or a misunderstanding of who God is and His character. When we have And you must dread to bore me
a right perspective of ourselves and of our God, life makes sense and we have a anyway.
right evaluation of others. It seems the women are afraid to say good things about
the men and the men seem to be afraid to say good things about the women. What Let us knock gently at each
are we afraid of? Too often we are at odds with the opposite sex. We seem pitted other’s heart,
against one another at times. Glad of a chance to look within
I remember hearing about a couple who had been in a very heated argu- - and yet,
ment, when the husband said in frustration, “I don’t understand!” His wife said, Let us remember that to force
“You don’t understand what?” The husband said, “I don’t understand how God one’s way
could make you so beautiful and so stupid at the same time.” The wife said, “I Is the unpardoned breach of
understand. God made me beautiful so you would desire me and He made me etiquette.
stupid so I would desire you.” Sometimes we can be very cruel to the very person
God has given us to love. So, shall I be host - you, the
Jerry and I, in fun, often give each other a hard time, but only in fun. We hostess,
laugh with one another, not at one another. When we were first married, many Until all need for entertainment
times our funnies were not funny at all, because we used them to get at one an- ends;
other. Today we are not so touchy and can laugh about most things. We have We shall be lovers when the last
come to accept our differences, and believe me, we are different. I am left handed door shuts,
and Jerry is right handed. I am cold natured and he is hot natured. I am a night But what is better still - we shall
owl and he is a morning person (we cover the whole day that way). We don’t be friends.
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 (Continued from page 1) The father’s position either
A WOMAN’S TRIBUTE TO FATHERS! blesses us and draws us to God, or it
squeeze the toothpaste the same way either! If we leave the house in two cars, tries us and attempts to draw us aside
going to the same place, we will take different roads to get there. Our children from God. We the family say thank
say, “I’ll ride with mother, she gets there faster!” I start projects and Jerry finishes you to the men who bless our lives with
them. He excels in some things and I in others. It must be very boring to be just godly character and protect us from
alike. We are never bored! evil. To the man who would draw his
It is time for us, the women, to give thanks for the men in our lives. First family away from godliness, it is our
of all I want to say thank you to my husband, but I also want to say thank you to prayer that his family would love him
every man who is a father. A father has an awesome responsibility. The father’s and bring him to the person of God, so
position is an opportunity to show God’s character and person to mankind, es- he can do his job for the family the way
pecially to his family. Father’s position also carries a great accountability. The God designed him to work.
father will give an account for the picture of God he portrays to his family. To be I have been blessed with godly
ungodly is to misrepresent God to those in your life. men in my life. It is easy for me to see
The father vows himself to his wife. He promises to love and cherish her God as a loving, caring and providing
as long as he lives. One of the greatest ways a father presents God to his family God, because I have seen men exhibit
is to keep his word. There is no greater security to a family than to have a father these qualities in their lives. I know
who keeps his word. God puts His word above His names. I have found through that many woman and children have
these years of marriage to Jerry that I can trust him to keep his word. Now there to overcome the pictures that evil men
is a difference in Jerry and God. God is perfect and Jerry has failed from time have put in their lives in order to be-
to time to be perfect with his word, but should he fall short of his word, I know lieve that God is not like that. Those
he will be repentant and make it right to his family and friends. It is not Jerry’s men will have to give an account to
perfection that I look to, I only expect that from God, but it is his attitude and God for misrepresenting Him to the
desire to be perfect that gives me confidence in his life. As a family, we need to world. What kind of a man are you?
be able to rest in the father’s word. This takes a lot of strength of character and Our country has made women
we the family say thank you for the work you invest in keeping your word. equal to men in the daily work force
We the family carry the name of the father of our home. While the father and in our attempt to make women feel
should keep his word to his family, the family should keep his name with honor. wanted, We have put aside the honor of
I think about Queen Esther, when the king gave her his ring, which was his seal of the men’s position in the family. In cre-
approval, and let her do as she pleased with it. He trusted her to do him good and ation, we are equal in the sight of God,
not evil. When a man gives his name to a woman and his children, he is trusting but man’s position is in charge of the
them to benefit his name, not to do damage to it. When a woman takes her hus- women and children and we say thank
band’s name, it makes her joint heirs with all he possesses. This takes great cour- you to those who have handled that po-
age for a man. Many men today do not have the courage to make commitments sition with the strength and character of
like this. They are choosing to live with a woman without commitments. In this our Almighty God.
case, the man and the woman are just using one another’s lives to meet their own I am one woman that has great
personal needs. A relationship without commitments is a relationship without respect for the man’s position in the
love. Why do we love the Lord? Because He first loved us! To our fathers, we family and I don’t think I stand alone.
say thank you for loving us and for entrusting us with your names and we ask that I think there are many godly women
you live in a way that would honor your name, because we also bear it and what who would say with me today, THANK
you do reflects upon us. YOU, SIR! We are praying for you and
A woman bears children for her husband, to carry on his name and lega- we appreciate your prayers for us as we
cy. Today, however, many women are not including the father in their children’s attempt to serve your will in our fami-
life. It reminds me of the parable that Jesus gave about setting up a vineyard and lies.
leaving it in the care of his servants. Later, He sent someone to receive His goods To my husband, my three sons,
and they killed him, because they thought it was theirs, not God’s (Mark 12:1-11). my sons-in-law and my grandsons, I
Women often feel the children are theirs and not the father’s. Jesus said, “I came say thank you for loving God. Thank
to do the will of the Father.” The women and the children are to do the will of you for the love you give me and your
their father, yet today most households do not even know the will of the father. families. Thank you for the benefit
Jesus not only did the will of the Father, but He did it the WAY the Father wanted your are to my life and the lives of our
it done. Man is not always right before God and we cannot allow ourselves do family. May the Lord greatly bless the
evil to please man. We can do man’s will, but we must do it in a WAY that godly fathers who seek to please God
honors God. We serve man as unto God, therefore we fulfill man’s will in a and serve their families with godly
way that pleases God. likeness..
----Gloria Brewster
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 THE REAL STRAIN OF doth gather her brood under her wings,
and ye would not!
MISSIONARY LIFE PART 11 Behold, your house is left unto
you desolate: and verily I say unto you,
(These notes were given to me by Mrs. Mel (Dottie) Rutter and were written
Ye shall not see me, until the time come
some time ago by a missionary)
when ye shall say, Blessed is he that
There is the monotony of missionary life. The novelty of new scenes cometh in the name of the Lord.
soon wears off. When our families visit us they see things we look at every day Luke 13:34-35
and do not see. The missionary must accept the intimacy of the family near them Editor’s note: In reading the life of
whether he likes it or not. They have no choice, as do we at home. this missionary, it stirs our hearts and
Then there is the distress, which every sensitive mind feels, in looking reminds us that we all struggle in our
upon suffering that one is unable to relieve. Heathenism is hard on the poor, sick, daily walks with the Lord. Our strug-
crippled, while the woes of woman in maternity are awful beyond description. gles are akin to their struggles, only we
Yet, amid such daily scenes the missionary must live. struggle around our families, in our
Then there is the mental suffering which comes to any pure minded man own country and with the blessing that
or woman in constant contact with the most debasing forms of sin. our Christian heritage has brought to
Many of the missionary’s heaviest burdens are summed up in the one us. Most missionaries sacrifice these
word, whose height and breadth and length and depth none knows so well as he, benefits in the hope that Christ can
that word EXILE. It is not merely a physical exile from home and country and and will sustain them in the work He
all their interests; it is not only an intellectual exile from all that would feed and has called them to. How about us?
stimulate the mind; it is yet more - a spiritual exile from the guidance, the instruc- Do we TRUST the Lord Jesus Christ
tion, the correction, from the support, fellowship, communion of the saints in the to sustain us in our daily lives? We
church at home. It is an exile as when a man is lowered with a candle into foul need to be willing to leave all if Christ
places, where the noxious gases threaten to put out his light. Yet, he must explore calls us away, but should He leave us
it all and find some way to drain off the refuse and let in the sweet air and sun to at home, the least we can do is pray for
do their own cleansing work. The missionary is not only torn away from those so- our brothers and sisters as they go. I
cial bonds which sustain or even almost compose, our mental, moral and spiritual hope this has stirred your life as it has
life, but he is forced into closest relations with heathenism, whose evil he abhors, mine.
whose power and fascinations too he dreads.
Another phase of the real strain of missionary life is the spiritual burden.
To look upon myriads of human beings who are bearing life’s loads unaided and
meeting life’s sorrows unhelped, to offer them the assistance that they need for
time and for eternity, and to have the offer fall upon deaf ears - this is a grievous
thing. One man stands and looks upon almost innumerable villages whose inhab-
itants do not know that God loves them and that Christ came to the world to save
them. The thought of the dull, plodding poverty and wretchedness of those lives,
unillunimated by a single ray of hope, gives one an oppressive feeling of what it
A little boy was waiting for his
is to be “without God in the world.”
mother to come out of the grocery store.
Sorrowful scenes rise to the vision of any who journey through non- As he waited, he was approached by a man
Christian lands. The superstitious Koreans toss stones to the foot of the wayside who asked, “Son, Can you tell me where
tree or tie a rag to a branch, in the hope that they may be able to dodge past while the Post Office is?”
the demon of the tree is satisfying his curiosity as to what the stone or rag is. A The little boy replied, “Sure! Just
Hindu woman approaches the hideous, blood-stained image of the goddess Kali, go straight down this street a couple of
offers a sacrificial lamb and beats her head upon the hard pavement, in the hope blocks and turn to your right.”
that the goddess will reward her by granting her heart’s desire for her child. In the The man thanked the boy kindly
capital of enlightened Japan, a suffering woman pitifully rubs her cancerous body and said, “I’m the new pastor in town. I’d
against the corresponding part of a bronze statue in the temple, in the pathetic be- like for you to come to church on Sunday.
I’ll show you how to get to heaven.”
lief that she may thus be cured of her malady. In Mexico you have the shrine of
The little boy replied with a
Guadalupe. In Canton, the proud city of China, another woman is in tears because chuckle. “Awww, come on... You don’t
the bit of paper, which a priest has shaken out of a box, in return for her widow’s even know the way to the post office.
mite, reads a bad fortune for her instead of good.
As one recalls these and similar scenes all over the world, he enters more IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO GIVE
tenderly into the woe of the Master when He stood on the slope of the Mount of A LOVE GIFT IN MEMORY OF A
FAMILY OR FRIEND, WE WOULD
Olives and wept over Jerusalem, stretching our His hands and saying in love,
BE HONORED TO PUBLISH THEIR
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them that
NAMES IN TID BITS OF WISDOM.
are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen

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INSPIRATIONS
receiving. Most of the time we com-
THE PERFECT LAW OF LIBERTY! plain about the things that come into
But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty , and continueth therein, he our lives when we should be examining
being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his what has been going out of our lives.
deed. James 1:25 How do you treat the waitress
So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty. at the restaurant? How do you treat
For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy; and
the person who checks you out at the
mercy rejoiceth against judgment. James 2:12-13
store? How do you treat that person on
What is the “Law of Liberty”? Do you know? God judges you by that
the phone that you know you will never
law. How many times have you heard someone speak of that law? I don’t think I
meet (at least you hope not)?
have ever heard it preached on from the pulpit. It goes hand in hand with the royal
In verse two of Galatians 6,
law. Do you know what the royal law is?
If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy
we find we are supposed to HELP our
neighbour as thyself, ye do well: neighbor carry their burdens (we are not
But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the to take the burden from them, we are to
law as transgressors. James 2:8-9 just join them and help lift a little of the
These laws work together. The royal law we are all aware of, but too load off them). That’s what we are to
often we do not practice it and we wonder why we have so many problems. The do for others, but our rejoicing comes
royal law is a commandment, but the law of liberty is a judgment. when we do our personal work right,
God tells us clearly to love our neighbor as ourselves, but if we do not because we bear our own burdens! The
have a proper love for ourselves we will not treat others right. The Bible says the heaviness of our lives does not come
wages of sin is death! When we mistreat our neighbor we are killing ourselves because of other people’s actions; it
because the penalty comes right back upon us. First of all we need a proper love comes because of the way we respond
for our own lives. to other’s actions. We are living the life
Who are we? We are God’s creation, created for His pleasure. He made that we created by the way in which we
us to have fellowship with Himself. To have a right fellowship with God, we must have responded to God and to others.
be believing, obedient and humble children. If our godly relationship is damaged, This is the law of liberty.
all relationships suffer. Next, we are to love our neighbor with the same love that Do you need mercy? Then
God loves us. God gave His only begotten Son that we might live. Our relation- give mercy. Do you need compassion?
ship with our neighbor must be a giving relationship with an attitude of paying Then give compassion. Do you need
the cost in order to love them. Why is it important for me to treat my neighbor the forgiveness? Then give forgiveness.
way I want to be treated? Because of the “Law of Liberty,” that’s why. Now your needs may not be meet by
The law of liberty gives us back just what we gave out. If we gave mercy, the one you ministered to, because it is
then we receive mercy. If we gave money, then when we need money for our God that repays and not man. God says,
needs, God will supply it. What we put out comes back to us. If you are half “Wait, and again I say wait.” His tim-
heartedly giving out your love, then you will get back half hearted love! If you ing is perfect, but it is seldom when we
withhold from those you could serve, then they will withhold from your life when think it should happen. We will be re-
your needs comes about. warded. He promises. It is a law. The
This month we will celebrate father’s day. What kind of love have you blessing will come in His time.
given to your father or husband? How great of respect have you given their posi- Do you live in a home of
tions? Do you respect their position, even when their ways are wrong? If you WARM love? If not, start checking on
are like most, you withhold respect until you become pleased with their ways. We how you give out your love to others.
then wonder why they don’t give us the respect due to our position. Maybe they One person can make the difference.
are judging us by our ways instead respecting our position. If everyone loved you You may not change others, but it will
4 back exactly the way you have loved them, what kind of love would you be change you!
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NONE BUT and insects quieted their various nois-

es. The entire jungle seemed to hold

GOD!
its breath, as the pot-bellied cannibal
grinned; again, he showed his pointed
teeth, and asked, in broken English, “Is
We landed in New Guinea, ear- white boy Christian?” I felt as though
ly in the year 1944. We were assigned I were being electrocuted with spiritual
to a relocation center awaiting assign- joy; it seemed as if the Holy Spirit was
ment to our permanent outfits. While playing a tune up and down my spine
there, the soldiers had free time under like a vibra-harp! I was thrilled with
circumstances that allowed the natural spiritual ecstasy, as this humble ex-
man to give vent to his desires. The cannibal asked me if I were a Christian.
harness of society was off, and men As I answered him, with a thankful
were soon to face imminent death. So, “yes,” the tears rolled unbidden over
the attitude of eat, drink, and be mer- my cheeks, and my heart pounded
ry prevailed. Everywhere, they were so furiously in my breast it seemed it
getting drunk on a cheap liquor that would bound right out. As I turned and
brought about insensibility to many slowly made my way back to camp, my
Bro. Mel Rutter and even blindness to some. Poker and soul was burning! The Holy Spirit was
dice games were as thick as the mosquitoes. Cursing was the language of the drilling deeply into my soul with his bit
hour. Obscene stories were being told and retold with lustful eloquence. Pictures and auger of love. He was whispering,
of nude and semi nude women hung everywhere. Sin had dropped its disguise! “Mel, somewhere back yonder was
I wanted to get away from it all, not because I was a “goody-goody,” a real missionary, born again, re-
a “holier-than-thou,” or a “mamma’s little darling,” but because I had been re- ally called of God, really burdened
deemed by the precious blood of Jesus. When I accepted Christ as my personal of God for souls, and here is one of
Saviour, I was literally made a new creature in Him. These things had once been the products, a poor benighted pa-
attractive to me, but now the attraction had passed away and was replaced by all gan now a glorious Christian.” God
things being made new in Christ Jesus. I wandered away from the noisy din of had made the first of four life changing
the camp and, almost before I realized it, was deep into the thick green under- impressions upon my heart. My heart
growth of the jungle. I was musing on the things of God, thinking of my precious was truly aglow, as I returned to camp.
wife, back home in Texas, and wondering, at the same time, what I would do if I God had made a lasting impression.
encountered a cannibal. Suddenly my thoughts were shattered by a “hubba, hub- God was working! God was molding!
ba” in broken English. I looked up and I was standing face to face with my first It was NONE BUT GOD! Glory to
“fuzzy-wuzzy,” a cannibal. He smiled, evidently trying to calm my fears, but His Name!
seeing his pointed, filed teeth, stained with beetle juice, only added to my qualms. So, the first native I met was
I was expecting other cannibals to swarm out of the jungle at any moment and truly a “fuzzy-wuzzy,” but he was not
begin making soup out of me. I wanted to run, but my legs refused to carry me. a cannibal. He was an ex-cannibal.
Then, I momentarily forgot my fears and almost laughed, when I noticed that he He, too, was a new creature in Christ
had green hair! Now you are wondering where he acquired green hair so far away Jesus. This poor savage, who had once
from the beauty shops of Fifth Avenue. Well, you see, the natives like brilliant delighted himself in the degrading
colors and, at times, they would venture down to the air strips and motor pools practices of cannibalism, voodooism,
where the fellows were spray-painting planes, vehicles, and tanks. As the native and heathenism, was now a fervent
stuck his head down closer, in order to see what was going on, the soldier just soldier of the cross. So in love with
could not resist the temptation to spray the awful wad of fuzzy hair; so, he would Jesus was he that he was constrained to
give the native a “squisssh.” Then, he would raise up with the color of the paint go everywhere and seek the lost, even
in the spray gun (later on I saw natives with brilliant blue, yellow, red, and green if it meant testifying to the invading
“hairdos” and one sported a two-tone job of half blue and half yellow). Then, my soldiers who had come to his island
thoughts came quickly back to my present situation, as I stood facing this cannibal in pursuit of the Japanese! This
in the dense jungle of New Guinea! I expected him to have a spear in one hand “fuzzy-wuzzy” not only knew Jesus
and a scalp in the other, but to my pleasant surprise he was carrying only a book Christ as his personal Saviour, but he
under his arm. Never has my heart been so stirred, or my soul so thrilled, my vi- was a faithful soul winner. Friend,
sion so enlarged, or my life so challenged by any of the great speakers whom I you may be highly educated, talented,
have heard at Bible, Evangelistic, Missionary, or Power Conferences, than in the (Continued on page 6)
moment I stood facing the “fuzzy-wuzzy” with the bright green hair. The
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NONE BUT GOD!
and have much of this world’s goods and wisdom, but have you accepted the
Lord as your personal Saviour? If you have, are you telling others about
him?
Editor’s note: Bro. Mel and Dottie Rutter (better known as Uncle Mel
and Aunt Dottie) helped establish the Maranatha Mission International, with
Bro. James Crumpton, in Natchez, Mississippi many years ago. Uncle Mel
went home to be with the Lord December 31, 1999. Both Bro. James and Jenny
Crumpton have also gone home to be with the Lord. Aunt Dottie Rutter resides
in her home on the property of the Maranatha Mission. She turned 87 years
old on the 21st of May of this year. I am sure she would enjoy hearing from the
readers if you have been blessed by this story.
Gloria and I had the privilege of meeting Uncle Mel in meetings he held
in the Dallas area. Later, we met Aunt Dottie when we moved to Harlingen,Texas,
and the Rutters were living in Brownsville, Texas. We had some wonderful
times with them around the Word of God. Later we work together at Maranatha
Missions. Many missionaries are on the fields today because God spoke to their
hearts through Uncle Mel’s sermons on missions.
We are giving a copy of the booklet (15 pages) “NONE BUT GOD” to
anyone who sends a gift to Tid Bits of Wisdom this month. This is just one story,
out of four, that the Lord used to burden Uncle Mel’s heart for missions. I know
you will enjoy the booklet.
MINUTES OF GOLD
Two or three minutes - two or three hours,
What do they mean in this life of ours?
Not very much is but counted as time,
But minutes of gold and hours sublime,,
If only we’ll use them once in a while
To make someone happy - make someone smile.
A minute may dry a little lad’s tears,
An hour sweep aside trouble of years.
Minutes of my time may bring to an end
Hopelessness somewhere, and bring me a friend.
----AUTHOR UNKNOWN
We left home at 5:30 a.m. on Sat-
urday and should have arrived in Knoxville
about 7:30 p.m. The weather was getting
pretty violent as we left Dallas, but we
thought we had gotten out of the weather
about an hour down the road. What we
did not know was it was raining ahead of
us in the Nashville area and it had rained
10 inches in less than an hour. We were
told that at the 56 mile marker, Highway.
THE GOOD HAND
40 was shut down because of water. When
OF THE LORD!
we got there they had just opened the road
May the 18, my wife and Re-
and we thought we had it made. At the 96
nee Walters graduated from the Ft. mile marker there was over 4 inches of wa-
Worth School of the Bible and had the ter coming across the highway and we sat
privilege of walking across the stage for over 3 hours, not being able to get off
with the college graduates of Crown the highway. After 3 hours, they opened
College, in Knoxville, Tennessee. the road and we went about 10 miles and
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found the highway shut down again. They
were detouring us to another route. We
were about 30 miles from Nashville but
on the detour it was 96 miles through the
mountains and heavy, heavy rain, with tor-
nadoes landing right behind us. We fol-
lowed an 18 wheeler for 96 miles and his
lights where the only way we could see the
road. The people 30 minutes behind us
were trapped in the small cities for the next
two days.
When we got back to Hwy. 40 in
Nashville, the rain was tremendous. We
had about 150 miles to get to Knoxville
and my wife said she just didn’t think she
could survive if the rain didn’t stop. As we
left Nashville, the rain stopped, but as we
got nearer Knoxville we in came into heavy
fog. By the time we checked into the motel
it was 3:00am Sunday morning.
We got a LITTLE sleep and
dressed for church looking forward to a
good service. Because we did not know
where we were going, we missed Sunday
School, looking for the church. We arrived
in time for the morning service and as we
were seated, Gloria began having an attack
which would not let up and she had to leave
the service. It did let up after a while, but
Gloria sat in the car and missed the preach-
ing.
After lunch, we arrived at our
motel to find that the lights were out and
we could not see to dress for the afternoon
meeting, so we missed that. We did make
it to the night service and it was wonderful.
The next day was graduation and every-
thing went very smoothly. We were very
impressed with the godliness that we saw
in the church and in the school. It was a
wonderful time.
Tuesday morning, we did the un-
usual and left on time! We could not go
back Hwy. 40 because it was still under
water. We went Hwy. 20 and in Birming-
ham, Alabama we met our son (who was
traveling the opposite direction) for lunch
and it was a great day, UNTIL, somewhere
in Alabama the car began to over heat and
we thought we had broken a belt, BUT we
were nowhere near an exit and no place to
safely pull over. We babied it for about 5
miles and came to an exit with one station.
We pulled up to the pumps and I raised the
hood. A lady ran the station and said she
would call Charlie! Fifteen minutes later
two young black boys came in an old pick-
up truck that looked like it had been pieced
together at the wrecking yard, and I’m sure
that is where they had come from because
they still had most of the wrecking yard on
them! These were backwoods boys. Way,
way, way back! Every man who came to
the station had to put his head under the
hood of our car to see what the young man
was doing and if he was doing it right. The
young man found that the pulley was bro-
ken, not the belt and he said he would go to
the parts house (5 miles away) for us. He
raised his hood to start his truck and Gloria
asked, “He is going to fix our car?”
The young man worked very hard
for three hours. During those three hours
we were able to give out about 15 tracts
and several Tid Bits of Wisdom papers. We
were able to witness and encourage others.
Everyone who came to the station had to
see what was going on. We must have been
the most exciting thing that had happened
in that town in years. Even the Sheriff
stayed around to see if our car would work.
I don’t think anyone thought this boy could
fix it.
The time came and he said, “Start
her up!” We did and it yelled to high heav-
en. About that time Charlie showed up and
said, “You put it on backwards!” Fifteen
minutes later, Charlie had it on right and
we were repaired. We paid the young man
$131, but I think Charlie got his part and
maybe a few others who had their heads
under the car. As we left we realized that
God’s good hand had been upon us. What
if this had broken when we were running
from tornadoes and rain? We got a burden
for these people while sitting there three
hours. God reminded us of the blessings
that He has given us and not everyone has
had those opportunities. Our hearts burned
with a love for those people when we left
and it didn’t matter that we had lost 3 hours
and $131 dollars. We were a day late and
many dollars short when we got home, but
we knew that God had ordained our way!
TID BITS OF WISDOM MONTHLY REPORT
We are half way through the year again. Can you believe that? Time
is quickly going away from us and as the Scripture says, we need to redeem the
time.
I hope you are making good progress in your daily Bible reading. Re-
member, “DON’T GIVE UP!” It feels so good to accomplish reading through
the Bible. You know that you have looked at every word and that will mean a lot
to you.
Tid Bits of Wisdom is on it’s way to becoming established. The office
is looking better everyday. Words cannot describe the peace that God has put
upon this office. Gloria does the typing and the putting together of the paper and
she has often spoken of the peace that surrounds her as she works. The office
couch also makes into a bed and we have arranged things so we can use it as a
guest room for overnight company. We had our first guest to spend the night this
week. She is a friend of the work and we enjoyed her visit. We thought about
putting a microwave in the room, but the Holy Spirit quickly said, “No! This is
not a room to cook in, it is a room to work in.” OK! Then we thought about put-
ting a television in the room so our company could watch the news, but the Holy
Spirit was very quick again to say, “No! This is not a room to watch television
in. It is a room to think and study upon Me and My Word!” We thought this was
our room, but we were mistaken. This room belongs to the Lord Jesus Christ and
will be used for His glory. That explains the peace that the Lord has put upon this
office.
In the four years that Tid Bits of Wisdom has been publishing the monthly
paper, we have been able to minister to many people and many missionaries. It
was your giving that made this possible. We began with a vision and our son Tom
and his printing company made it possible by printing the monthly paper for us.
You, the givers, began to help monthly and provided the money for the mailing
and the office supplies. A dear friend shared with this work and made this office
become a reality. Sometimes we have supporters that we have never met. They
are aiding a stranger and we are so grateful that they have intrusted us with their
gifts. As the gifts come in each month, we look at the names and ask the Lord to
bless their lives. We were blessed this month with a new supporter, one who was
Gloria’s Sunday school teacher when she was a teenager.
We heard of an elderly woman’s death and was reminded how impor-
tant our work in the Lord is. Her daughter reminded Gloria that it was Gloria’s
grandparents that led her mother and father to the Lord many years ago. At the
woman’s death, her four children stood around her bed and sang hymns. Instantly
Gloria wondered just what the children would have been doing had they not been
raised in the Word of God. They might have been standing there arguing about
how to handle everything. Only God’s people live united! That time that Gloria’s
grandparents spent kneeling at the altar with her parents changed their lives and
the lives of their children. We also ran into two people that Gloria’s father lead
to the Lord many years ago and we have been reminded that what we do for the
Lord today changes the lives of others forever!!! Don’t quit! Don’t let Satan tell
you that your little bit in life does not matter. It might make all the difference in
someone else’s life.
Please pray for the Guay family in Thailand. The country is in turmoil
at this time and it is very dangerous in some places. Their biggest problem is
communication with America. Sometimes it is shut down for days. Also pray for
Debbie Durey in Mexico. Their country is also in turmoil with many killings, plus
Debbie broke her ankle and is in a wheel chair at this time. Keep praying for
Flossie Abbott, a missionary in Mexico, as she recovers from her injury. Pray for
friends, Pat Archer, Margie Jenkins, Mary Cory, Connie Martichuski, Margaret
Suter who have long illnesses and are waiting upon the Lord for healing.
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Faith of our fathers, holy faith!
We will be true to thee till death.
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