Among the Filipinos by Floyd Ashbaugh

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FromReview and Herald, Harvest Ingathering Number

Among the Filipinos

By Floyd Ashbaugh

“Now eat heartily,” my Filipino host said, “for it is a long way to the next town, and you will get very hungry if you don’t.” Then he gave me two raw eggs and a piece of bread for breakfast. His heart is large, but sometimes the store of food is very scanty. We usually board with the people when out on the colporteur trips.

It is sometimes pathetic to see the efforts some of the Lord’s poor make to purchase books containing the gospel. One man sold his pig to get the price. A woman pawned her jewelry. A family arranged to make small monthly payments from their meager earnings. And all that they may have the truth of God.

The work has its difficulties as well as its pleasures, but bookmen do not enter the field looking for easy places. Whether traveling over the hills or through the valleys, with the blistering tropical sun above, or in pouring rain, and typhoons, among friendly tribes or among robbers, in healthful localities or in those infested with plague and fever, the Lord’s blessings are always the same. His promises are sure, not one faileth; and we abide under the shadow of the Almighty. We find in him a rock of defense, a covert from the storm, a shelter from the heat.

FLOYD ASHBAUGH. Philippine Islands.