The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, November 22, 1922, Image 3
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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
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merchandise.
for the coming
dise, the finest
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-for less. You
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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
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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
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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."
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