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NOTES FRO Rev. J. A. Tumblih, who mwith his f wife of a few weeks sailed from New I York for Brazil on ESeptemuber 17 for d the mission OlPek of Brazil under the a Foreign Mission Board of the South- V ern Baptist Convention, in a letter to 8 his parents, 'Mr. and Mrs. J. 11. Tum- t blin, who live near the city has given I an interesting account of his experi- I ences so far. -Hls letter written from t Pernambuco, Brizal, is as follows: I Sat., 14, 1922. Caixa 178, ,Pernambuco, Brazil. Dear Folks at Home: It has now been a week and two days since we landed in Pernambuco. We got here last Thursday a week ago. Let me say in the beginning we are just as happy and as much at home as if we were in the States. We have many more conveniences than you have there at home, electric lights, running water, shower bath, sewer age and so on. Now of course we don't expect ;o have all tils all the, time. When we get the language and go to !Bahia or Casca out in the state of Bahia we don't know just what we will have there. But here in this city of three hundred thousand people and in. our own Baptist school and college and our own property and buildings, we have every modern con venience anyone needs to want. Well, J -know you want to know something of the people. I will tell you. Of course you dind all colors 'here like you do there but the jopula tion here is mainly made up of Por tugese and 'Ddtch. There is a gen eral mnixture of all these and a good many negroes too. The real Brazil lans though, are much the smne color as'De Souza that you saw at Furman. Of course all are Brazilians but I was trying to get back at the root stock or ancestry. Some of the .girls here in the training school are real pretty and none of them that I have seen so farl are negroes though they may have some negro 'blood in their veins. They arc the finest Christian characters you ever saw. All the Christians here would make 'most of our Believers ailhamed of the way they live. Not a one ainokes, goes to a picture show, plays cards, dances, or anything else that most of our Christians think noth ing of doing. And they don't want to do these things. They wint to live right wihen they do get away from the Catholic churqh. They can do all these things and be a good Catholic Be Fair With Your Pocket Booki Time Is Sho: - IT'S A C) Prices thai merchandise. for the coming dise, the finest us to quote pri ially priced foi -for less. You M BRAZIL or the priests do the .same but they now they cannot bo a Christian and .o so, You see the old priests every vhere, 'most .with long 'black robes nd little black hats. They are some ight. Many of their faces are any hing but pleasant to look upon. They ook dissipated, haggard and pale. It a strange what a hold they have on hese ipoor people., They certainly do ook mean at us when they 'pass here nd know who we Baiptists are. They all us "Goats" the Missionaries say. )h, I am so anxious to get the lan ruage so I can 'preach to the people nd tell them the gond newvs of a real 3avior. It is really news to them. Now a word about our Baptist work tere. I have already told you of the great campus iwith the high school and .ollege and seminary. The seminary, jowever, only has eleven students now >it they do the same work that we do it Louisville, taking 'both Greek and -lebrew. So you see they are training Li[) native pastors to take the churches. rhat gets mc to the point L was mak ng. We have eleven.3ajptist churches n the city. The Presbyterians, the only other iprotestant denomination here have been at work 1here nearly fifty years and they have four church es. -We have not been in Brazil that long. I think about .25 years, 'perhaps, here in 'Pernambuco. Now if you were to see some of the church buildings you wouldn't think they looked much like a church. I 'have been to two that ,vero about like the old house there be low home, a little longer perhaps but Just about as -wide, old and dilapadat ed, with 'plank benches. .Whxen you go there it is packed full and crowded around the doors and windows, 1black, white, tah, and all colors. Just as in terested as can be. And oh my, how they can sing. They make me tiDk of the negroes back home. I think they have enough of the negro blood in the lbest or purest of them to make them love to sing. They sing sby heart too for few of them can read. Every church 'has a song leader and believe me he 'leads too. He rwalks down the aisle and bends over towards a bench of good sisters and keeping time by waving his hands and singing the song himself he soon has thom singing it right along and perhaps they have never 'heard it before. Oh, I tell you the Lord is here and working for Ills chosen ones in Brazil. He loves these people as much as any other and we Americans must "carry on" this great THE CROWE HURR rt, the Bargain To You We BARI LAN OUT--SELL OF THE V FRI are unmatchable, You, too, will joinm year. We feel cor: in the world, is of f ces on entire lots th: Friday and Satura~ must act quickly---c tork and I 'believe Southern Ba'ppsts I ,re the ones the (Lord wants to do it. I Ve have the unadaulteratod Gospel, he Now Testament church, and conse rated young men and women who are eady to coeic it only our local church s coulld get the missionary spirit and oosen u) their pocketbooks so the oard could send them out. Now I did iot mean to preach a missionary ser non but the need here, compared to what it is at home is so great It just nakes one's heart sick. Wihat about the fruits? Yes sir, we inve them of all kinds. Bananas grow n the yard. P1incapplds too. One of he missionaries' wife brought us ibout a dozen and a -half of line ba ianas the other day that she( took off . tree in her yard. They have several n their yard -buti no 'pincapples. Then ;iey have several other kind of fruits icre that we haven't eaten any of yet. rhey ire ont yet ripe. The pineap ples are just coming on the market ow. We had a big one for supper. nd oranges-well, they are like ba ianas, you can get them for a song ilmost and all the year round. The .iamnmao, ipronounced like it was Manait-, accent on J'e 'ist s %ble. is soniething like a long cantalope and tastes very much like one. It is good and we have it most every day. It. grows on'a tree and looks funny up there when two feel it should 'be growing on a.vine. They eat lots of pumpkhi, here 1but it is much better than what we have there. It is sweet and 'tastes much like pumpkin yarn po tatoes. I will tell you more about the other kind of fruits when we have had some of 'them: I forgot to say cocoanuts are growing all over the &!ty and everywhere. - I haven't told you a thing about my '(pet". Well I surely have a big one and I have had to nurse it now for a week. A great big boil on the back of my neck. Oh my, it has given me some trouble and the end is not yet. We oannot get the core out it seems. Mar row and the two girls here work at it above twice or' three tims a day and they have only got a little of it out. II don't know why -I 4have such a thing for I haven't had a iboil in 15 years as I know of. I guess it is the change of climate for two of the other mission aries had boils when they first came out. I believe there is another one coming on my shoulder. We both eat heartily here. Really Marrow eats more than she did al home. She weighed the other day ani she had gained six pounds since sht left Virginia. How is that? Shi weighs 116 pounds now. I weigh aboul )S STREAM ID are Fleeting. 3ay Follow the ~AIN A OUT-CLEAR 0OL i T HE F I1 ~HARTON CLOTI DAY ANI ~conomies that/ screa he great throng of ~ fident that such los~ red you now at pri e last days of this sa ry. These will be v lo not wait until the BUY .YOUR WIN Lauren., he same as I did at home, 161. The ruits agree with her and she oats lots E f it. Now- I believe I have told you all lie interesting things I .an think of 1o if there Is anything else you would Ike to know about, ask me in your otter when you vrite. I was about to forget to tell you tow much duty they made us ipay on ur things. They passed everything )ut our bed, Victrola and Five Dollars wvorth of the aluminum that had not been used. Just these three things we had to pay .Fifty-'Iwo lDollars and something. On the bed alone the duty wvas more than it cost us in New York. But we could not have gotten a bed anything like it here and we are still glad swe brought it. The duty was paid out of whaL ve jha :icft of the board's money and so did not cost us anything after all. They pay as much of $75 as needed on excess baggage, etc., and it took nearly that much for ours. We had to pay $20.00 extra in New York for extra space for our excess bag gage. We were allowed 750 pounds free and rwith our bed, mattress, and all trunks, etc., we had nearly two' thousand, no, not that much I guess, but about 1,500 pounds, 4 guess. Now I 'must close. Write us soon. A boat leaves here for New York Tues day, 17th. Today is Sat. 14th. It Is a slow one I think and .it will take it about 19 or 20 days to get to New York. We were 19 days coming down. Love to all, Bert, Lola, Mille, all the boys, kiddies and dear old dad. JOHN AND MARROW, "Your Missionaries." See the New Goods on the Big 10cts Bargain Dry Goods Counter. J. C. Burns & Co. Dr. KING'S PILLS y -for constpation Su, rds'ef /ivni biliousness Got a cold? MENTHOLATUM clears it out. 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