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The Zuni Mission Work 
 
 H UR Mission Station at Zuni, on the northern bank of the Zuni river, is 
 about forty miles south of Gallup, N. M. The village with its three 
 farming villages, which are from fourteen to twenty-five miles distant 
 ^——1 from Zuni, has a population of a little over eighteen hundred. The people 
 live mostly from farming and stock raising. They farm by irrigation at the three 
 farming places and in the Zuni valley, and are as a rule quite well able to take 
 care of themselves materially. 
 
 Zuni Village, N. M., looking from the Mission Property 
 
 Among these Indians our mission was opened in the fall of 1897, by Mr. A. 
 VanderWagen and wife, who moved there from, Fort Defiance, Ariz. Their first 
 living quarters were a few rooms in the old Ethnological Survey building and in 
 the spring of 1898 the missionary family moved into a little house bought from a 
 Zuni on a place which is the present mission site. On this plat is now found a 
 school building originally intended for a chapel, another building formerly used as 
 a parsonage but now as living quarters for the missionary helpers, Y. M. C. A. 
 reading rooms and living quarters of the Government Physician, and the new 
 parsonage of the missionary. The accompanying cut shows these various buildings. 
 
 In the fall of 1906, Rev. H. Frijling took charge of our Zuni Mission and Mr. 
 VanderWagen resigned his position as missionary helper. In the fall of 1908 Miss 
 
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Zuni Mission Property. The Uttle Building: with the Steeple Serves as Church and School 
 
 Zuni Mission Day School, 1918 
 
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Nellie De Jong opened our Zuni Mission Day School. Our present mission force 
 consists of the missionary and his family, a teacher, a matron and an assistant 
 missionary to work among the Zuni young men. The teacher is Miss Sophia 
 Fryling; the matron, Miss Hattie Beekman, and the assistant of the writer of these 
 lines is Mr. M. VanderBeek. 
 
 Our work in Zuni consists mainly in catechizing the young Zunis at three 
 schools. The Government Boarding School at Black Rock, four miles east of the 
 village, has 125 pupils whom we instruct in four classes every week. Before this 
 school and its force of Government employees the missionary preaches every Sun- 
 day evening. Every other Saturday evening the pupils read from the gospel of 
 St. Luke. In the village religious instruction is given to 150 Zuni children in the 
 Government Day School and 30 in our Mission Day School. In all there are over 
 
 Missionary Fryling Among the Zuni Villagers 
 
 300 young Zunis that receive religious instruction at least once a week. On Sunday 
 afternoon we have a preaching service for the mission force and whosoever desires 
 to attend. On Sunday evening Mr. VanderBeek talks to the Zuni young men in 
 our mission school while the missionary conducts the service in Black Rock. 
 Besides this work among the young Zunis, the old people are visited in their 
 homes and received and talked to when they call at the parsonage. When the new 
 parsonage was completed a reading room was opened for the Zuni young men in 
 the old parsonage. 
 
 In this reading room the Zuni young men come together to read the Bible, 
 sing, play and spend some time together in playing games. Every member of the 
 mission force has his or her own part of the work and each one has plenty to do 
 and all work in good harmony. 
 
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With our eyes fixed upon the Lord, we consider the prospects for our mission 
 in Zuni very encouraging because that continuous instruction of the young will 
 gradually bend the public opinion of the Zuni people in favor of the Christian 
 religion. May the Lord in His providence continue to guide the work, for the best 
 of our mission is our earnest prayer. The people are all very friendly towards us 
 and quite a number of them consult with the missionary about their civil affairs. 
 
 M. Vander Beek and a Zuni Convert 
 
 Last fall the Lord gave us as an encouragement two converts. Two bright Zuni 
 young men, who were home on their vacation from school, were accepted as church 
 members and baptized. We can safely consider them the first fruits of the great 
 harvest that will follow in our Zuni field. Let us rejoice, thank God and take 
 courage. 
 
 H. FRYLING. 
 
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Rehoboth, N. M. 
 
 G | EHOBOTH (“The Lord hath made room,” Genesis 26:22) is located six 
 miles east of Gallup, New Mexico, on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa 
 | Fe Railroad. It consists of three parcels of ground. One was originally 
 Si a squatter’s claim. Our church bought this claim through Revs. J. Groen 
 and E. Breen. 
 
 All of the Mission buildings but one are on an eighty kindly granted by the 
 "Santa Fe” for mission purposes. Lately a goodly piece of land was purchased 
 from this corporation and fenced in. School section number 16 is rented, since our 
 only well is located on it. Here too is the site of our laundry, boiler and engine 
 room and shop. Some of this section is farm land and gracing ground. 
 
 The soil of these lands is either a red adobe, very affectionate in wet weather, 
 with here and there a little sand covering or mixed with it, or just sand, which has 
 a disagreeable and aggravating way of flying around and penetrating into every- 
 thing on windy days, of which we have a goodly number. On all sides one sees a 
 “luxurious” growth of sage brush and in season, a green carpet of Russian thistle, 
 which turns to a sort of yellow tumble weed later on. Trees of all kinds are con- 
 spicuous by their absence. Ditto flowers, shrubs and vines. 
 
 Rehoboth, this name denotes first a Mission Station and then a congregation 
 of our church, belonging to Classis Pella. Every worker is a missionary in pur- 
 pose. Every building serves a missionary aim. All business is mission business. 
 On the signboard alongside of the railroad you read in large black letters: 
 “REHOBOTH MISSION SCHOOL AND HOSPITAL, CHR. REF. CHURCH.” 
 Our stationery carries a device with the words “Chr, Ref. Indian Missions” printed 
 circlewise; “Go Ye” inscribed on an open Bible, while “And Teach, Preach, Heal” 
 are found in the inner circle. Characteristic of what Rehoboth is here for. 
 
 This Mission Post now has THREE DISTINCT DEPARTMENTS: EDU- 
 CATIONAL, MEDICAL, RELIGIOUS. Not ever was it thus. And it will be 
 well, in order to appreciate how matters developed to what they are, that we 
 retrace our steps a bit. 
 
 Rehoboth came very near being located about two miles north of here, at the 
 foot of the red rocks, above which the Pyramid and Navaho Church tower. But 
 water could not be obtained, at least not with the means then at the disposal of 
 the prospectors, Revs. J. Groen, E. Breen, L. P. Brink and H. Frijling. This was 
 in 1902. In 1903 the first mission worker for the new station was appointed. It 
 was Miss Nellie Noordhof, trained as nurse at the U. B. A. Hospital at Grand 
 Rapids, Mich. She was, in a sense, medical missionary and, after the first six 
 Navaho children were brought to school by Mr. Andrew Vanderwagen, she also was 
 the matron. She remained till October, 1905, and then left as Mrs. D. Vanderwagen, 
 having been married to this brother during the earlier part of 1905. Their de- 
 parture deprived the Mission of two workers, but it was imperative by reason of 
 our sister’s health. It was at this time that Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Gorman, Chris- 
 
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tian Navaho, and Claude Haven, as then an ex-pupil of the Fort Defiance School 
 and member of Rev. Frijling’s Bible classes labored for our Church here. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. John Schreur came to fill the vacant place, but had soon to 
 return to Fremont, since the climate so little agreed with our brother that he had 
 hardly a well day the few months they were here. Miss Fanny Leys came to assist 
 in the work, but made only a brief stay. In the meantime men wrote 1905. The 
 Mission was two years old and had met some troubles. But this year things 
 became a bit more settled. Miss Mattie Van Dijken (now Mrs. Dr. L. S. Huizenga) 
 took up general housework. But the positive need of a teacher for the sixteen 
 pupils led to her becoming an instructor for a' time till somebody could be appointed 
 to fill the position. 
 
 This same year (1905) Miss Anna Derks (Fremont) came from Tohatchi 
 where she had been staying with Rev. and Mrs. L. P. Brink, and became the Mis- 
 sion cook. For awhile she was seamstress, but in 1910 1 she became girls’ matron. 
 This position our sister held with honor and as a blessing to many a Navaho girl, 
 till 1916, when Mr. Henry Teusink married her. 
 
 Nineteen-hundred-and-five was also the year of Miss C. Rosbach’s introduction 
 to mission work among the Navaho. She was what we might style, matron-in- 
 charge for a short time and then became matron under Superintendent Bouma till 
 1908. From then on she officiated as laundress till 1912, when she was obliged to 
 tarry in the east a while for reasons of health. Soon she was back here, but not 
 in service till 1914, when she assisted as all around help and as such, she was of 
 much use to workers and work. Her special task was bread baking. At present 
 she has two functions, for she is assistant to the boys’ matron and our postmistress. 
 I assure you that there is not a person on the place who must answer so many 
 questions, for she knows the history of this station as none other at present here, 
 and she has an amazing memory for persons and dates. Moreover, who can tell 
 us when the mail will be in, why it is late, whether there are any letters for us 
 and a few more such “vital” things, but “Miss Rosbach,” as we call her to dis- 
 tinguish her from her sister, “Miss Bertha”? Most gladly does she advance the 
 information sought, if at all possible. 
 
 For a short time Lee S. Huizenga, then student of our Seminary, relieved Miss 
 Van Dijken at school. This was in 1906. But the general work of the place, which 
 was also under his care, became so manifold that he had to give his whole time to 
 it and Miss Van Dijken taught again for a while. During this same year the 
 Board called Miss Cocia Hartog (now Mrs. Dr. Paul Wezeman), just graduated 
 from the Chicago High School, to come to the Sunshine State and preside in the 
 schoolroom of the Rehoboth Mission School* She gladly accepted and at once 
 took hold with energy of hearty consecration and faith. Miss Hartog not only 
 taught the usual branches, but also the Navaho language, as fast as she became 
 conversant with it, being instructed by Rev. L. P. Brink and using the translation 
 of Genesis and Mark as her textbook. Oft did she visit Indians in camp accom- 
 panied by some of her pupils, who sometimes acted as interpreters and sometimes 
 disappointed her in not doing so. In 1911 she resigned. She left, but her work 
 remains to bear fruit for this life and for eternity. 
 
 Mr. PL Schyam and wife came just before Brother Huizenga left, but after 
 about four months they resigned and were superseded by Mr. and Mrs. Mark 
 Bouma. This brother had quite a trial at the beginning of his labors, for the cot- 
 
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tage he was building burned down when nearly completed. Another was built and 
 it stands today. This Superintendent did much personal work with the boys. He 
 labored from March, 1906, to December, 1909. 
 
 During the years 1907 to 1912 the Misses M. Das, J. Bartels, Tsa Tso, Mr. 
 and Mrs. H. Bainbridge and Mr. J. C. Morgan were for a shorter or longer time 
 connected with the Mission. In 1910 Miss J. Dieleman assumed the oversight of 
 the boys’ dormitory. Her work was not in vain, and she has done something 
 towards the advancement of the Kingdom. From time to time ex-pupils of our 
 school have assisted in the labors. As for instance Miss Clarissa Pierson, one of 
 the original six pupils. Our sister labored in one capacity or another from 1914 
 till today, barring one year, serving our church at this post acceptably. 
 
 Mr. J. H. Bosscher occupied the Superintendent’s position from some time 
 during December, 1909, till April, 1912. These were years of growing into the 
 work, years of happiness too, for the Lord added unto him a wife and to them 
 both a daughter. He it was who installed Rehoboth’s water system. June was 
 drawing to an end. On one of its closing days Mr. and Mrs. J. Spijker took up 
 their abode among us, for our brother had been appointed Superintendent. Not 
 long after our Board offered Brother Bosscher the opportunity to return to this 
 pest to be his assistant, as Mr. Spijker desired. He came at once. As there was 
 much building our Board also sent Mr. G. M. Van Pernis to lighten the burden 
 for the Superintendent. Barring a short absence, Brother Spijker was either 
 Superintendent or General Manager till 1916 when his assistant received the ap- 
 pointment to this latter position, which he still fills. During Mr. Spijker’s incum- 
 bency building operations were going on just about all of the time. So that the 
 tokens of his activity stand on many sides. 
 
 After Miss Johanna Dieleman came Miss M. Van Deursen, followed up after 
 a short interim, filled by Miss B. Rosbach, by Mrs. Dr. E. C. Sipe, then at Two 
 Grey Hills (1/12). This matron had the advantage over all of her predecessors 
 that she could understand and use the Navaho language, so that she entered into 
 the life of the boys more than others could. When she left to become Mrs. H. A. 
 Clark, a missionary’s wife, the “motherless” boys and their care so appealed to 
 Miss B. Rosbach that she solicited for the matron's position and obtained it. Since 
 the fall of 1913 she has without interruption “mothered” our boy pupils. Two oi 
 these years were trying, for the hospital basement was the dormitory. But the 
 Lord gave special grace. And now she has moved across “the square” and is hap- 
 pily domiciled with her boys and sister in the new dormitory. 
 
 In the year 1911 the Mission acquired a steam laundry. Miss C. Rosbach had 
 charge of it some months, succeeded by Miss M. De Ruyter, who labored faith- 
 fully till 1915. The call for another laundress was answered by Miss C. Van 
 Zanten, who came that same year (1915). Upon Miss Derks’ leaving, this sister, 
 having applied for the position, assumed charge of the girls’ dormitory. And she 
 still is girls' matron. For two years she and her larger girls were domiciled in 
 the basement of the manse. But as you read this they too have transferred them- 
 selves and their “goods” to the fine new dormitory just “across tne way.” Miss 
 Van Zanten has all of “her girls” with her now. 
 
 One year before the steam laundry was acquired a mission hospital for 
 Navaho was built and dedicated to the Lord. Its first doctor was Dr. W. P. Sipe, 
 who died a few months after his appointment, but not till he gave full proof of 
 
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devotion to the Lord and this work. His hooks and instruments today form a 
 valuable part of the equipment of the hospital. 
 
 The first registered nurse who took charge of the nursing at the hospital was 
 Miss J. Vanderveen, graduate of the U. B. A. Hospital at Grand Rapids. Soon 
 after her arrival she began training one of the pupils of our Mission School as nurse 
 to serve her own people. This was Miss Christine B. Hood. During the early 
 months of 1912 Miss Fanny Becenti became the second nurse in training. Miss 
 Hood graduated in 1915 and served the Church as Field Matron and assistant in 
 the hospital for some time. Miss Becenti graduated later in the same year. She 
 too served in the hospital. Our sister was also assistant to the girls’ matron a 
 twelvemonth. Miss Vanderveen became Mrs. G. Heusinkveld in 1912 and in 1914 
 they both left, that he might take a medical course to qualify for physician. 
 
 It may be well to here briefly relate Mr. Heusinkveld's relation to this Mission. 
 Our brother came hither during 1911 to instruct the pupils of our school. He found 
 
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 the task difficult, not having had any practice, but he kept at it right manfully 
 and profited by his experience. So did the school. When he and his wife left in 
 1914 he had been teaching for some time in our new school building, erected by 
 Mr. J. Spijker. He was the Principal and Miss C. Ten Houten was primary 
 teacher. Miss Ten Houten had been, before coming hither, instructor and matron 
 of the Training School for Native Workers at Tohatchi. Since that year (1912) 
 she has been primary teacher here, gaining in experience every year. 
 
 Now that I am, telling about the school I might as well finish the story of 
 its teaching force. Mr. Heusinkveld’s successor was Miss Kathryn Venema, who 
 had been teacher for som,e time in Christian schools “back east.” This energetic 
 and capable young sister was with us till the spring of 1916, when she left to 
 
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become queen of a home “up north” in Michigan. It was due to her encouragement 
 that the first class submitted to the eighth grade county examination. All passed 
 but one and received a certificate to this effect. 
 
 “Teacher wanted for the Rehoboth Mission Boarding School.” Miss N. De 
 Jong, then school teacher in South Dakota, graduate of the Northern Arizona 
 Normal School, one time teacher at Zuni Mission Day School, heard this call. Her 
 heart still loved mission work and in the fall of 1916 she became Principal and 
 Disciplinarian of our school. And she is with us still. Last year two of her pupils 
 submitted to the county examination for an eighth grade certificate and obtained it. 
 
 Miss Mary Stiff became housekeeper at the old mission home in January, 1912. 
 She found hands full of work. Her difficulties were materially increased when on 
 October 29, 1915, the mission home burned completely down. Mr. Spijker built a 
 leanto onto the back of the school. There she did her work, while chapel and 
 schoolroom served as dining rooms. Miss Stiff enfoyed the facilities of the new 
 mission home and then left in the early fall of 1915. 
 
 Miss C. Rosbach proved a standby when Miss Stiff left, for she quietly took 
 hold of the work and persevered in it till Mrs. A. Van Bree answered the Board’s 
 advertisement and became housekeeper at the mission home. Since the fall of 
 1916 Mrs. Van Bree has given the Church and this Mission the benefit of her large 
 experience and varied ability in her department. She is ably assisted by Miss G. 
 Zandstra, who left family and friends at Lansing, 111., to help prepare food for 
 workers and school children. Coming from a large family she is used to work of 
 this kind. The first difficulties have disappeared and she is thoroughly acclimated. 
 For a time the bakery was the workshop of Anna Johnston, one of our ex-pupils 
 and fellow Christians. She was the bread baker. And right well did she bake. 
 But she too is no more with us. 
 
 One day in May of the year 1915 three Grand Rapids young men landed in 
 Rehoboth on their Oakland runabout. Soon two left for home. But one, Mr. P. 
 Hoogezand, remained. After the lapse of some time he was appointed and acted as 
 assistant to Mr. Bosscher. His particular duty lay in the line of machinery, plumb- 
 ing, tinning and the like. An efficient workman mechanic he was. 
 
 The hospital was for some time without a resident physician after Dr. Sipe's 
 decease. But in 1912, Dr. J. C. K, Moore accepted an appointment by the Board 
 and began his work July 25. He was our medical missionary till November 2, 1914. 
 Many a time did we two missionaries go out, with our interpreter or one of the 
 nurses in training, and bring medical aid and the Gospel to Navaho in camps. 
 Dr. Moore is not forgotten yet by our Indians. 
 
 Our next Medical Missionary was Dr. J. D. Mulder, son of our Church, ex- 
 student of Calvin, graduate of the Chicago University and Rush Medical College. 
 He came in August, 1916, and settled in the new cottage “on the hill” with his 
 bride. In the interim between Drs. Moore and Mulder, Rev. Lee S. Huizenga, 
 M. D., Holland’s missionary at Tohatchi, gave much time to the care of patients 
 at our hospital, thus helping in the hour of need. That he was busy, while so 
 doing, goes without saying. 
 
 Before Dr. Mulder assumed charge of the hospital a change had been put into 
 operation which made us lose the services of a faithful mission worker. We refer 
 to Miss J. Nyenhuis, who was housekeper at the hospital since 1911. Miss Nyen- 
 huis was also an older sister to the Navaho nurses in training. In this and other 
 
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ways she filled a large place. And she was a frugal housekeeper, handling matters 
 as if they were her own. The ruling that all of the cooking should henceforth be 
 done in the mission home kitchen made it impossible for her to be longer with us, 
 since she was not fit physically to assume the responsibility of mission home house- 
 keeper, which position was offered her. She was automatically relieved of her 
 work and departed in 1916 for Zuni, N. M. 
 
 Kev. I.. S. Huizenga, M. I). Dr. D. Mulder, of Rehoboth 
 
 Our Two Medical Missionaries Among: the Navalios 
 
 Miss S. Voss, R. G., graduate of the Hackley Hospital, took charge of this 
 work December, 1914. She had the superintending of the nursing, with Dr. Mulder 
 giving instructions to young Navaho women, who would know something about 
 nursing or be trained to care for the sick among their people. Naturally she is 
 an enthusiastic Red Cress worker. June, 1918, she resigned to become Mrs. P. R. 
 Hoogezand. 
 
 During its first years this post was under the jurisdiction of Revs. H. Frijling 
 and L. P. Brink, as Principals. Their duty was to visit the place at least once a 
 month and direct matters, give advice, solve problems which came up abundantly 
 at times, and the like. Once every three months a general conference of all work- 
 ers on the field was held at Rehoboth. At the same time Holy Communion was 
 celebrated. Soon the workers were joined by native converts to Christ. On the 
 Sabbath day there was oft a sermon read by one of the workers at the post and 
 all attended Sunday school. Later on the Superintendent would prepare a talk on 
 some portion of Holy Writ and lead the meeting. And the Lord blessed this read 
 or spoken word. Seme of the pupils accepted Christ, were baptized and admitted 
 to membership of the Church of Christ. Some of these early converts are still 
 
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in the land of the living, while a number of them sleep in the burial ground of the 
 Mission, awaiting the blessed resurrection. 
 
 This state of things continued, Rev. L. P. Brink at length having sole charge 
 of the school as Principal, till January 21, 1912, when the writer of this sketch 
 became Missionary-Pastor of this mission and congregation. Elsewhere an account 
 will be given of the religious activities connected with this post. 
 
 As has been said, Rehoboth has THREE DISTINCT DEPARTMENTS at 
 the present time: EDUCATIONAL, MEDICAL, RELIGIOUS. 
 
 It is under supervision of a General Manager, Religious work excepted. The 
 EDUCATIONAL DEPARTMENT centers in the Mission Boarding School, which 
 is located in two comfortable rooms of one-half of a cement block school building, 
 erected in 1912 by Mr. John Spijker. A Primary Teacher, Miss C. Ten Houten, 
 and a Principal, Miss N. De Jong, have this work in charge. The former has the 
 beginners and grades one to four. The latter teaches grades five to eight. The 
 school enrolls seventy-one pupils, all but three Navaho boys and girls. Nearly all 
 of the usual branches are taught with additions according to the purpose in view. 
 
 Prayer, Bible reading and study and Christian songs are part of the daily 
 routine. The Principal is also Disciplinarian. She strives to administer discipline 
 in the spirit of Christian love and forbearance. Results are, on the whole, grati- 
 fying. 
 
 With this school are connected: two dormitories, mission home, laundry and 
 various industrial activities. The dormitories are cement block buildings, con- 
 structed under the direction of Mr. John Spijker and the supervision of Rev. H. 
 Frijling, during 1917-18. They provide all of the conveniences thought to be re- 
 quired. Are steam heated and acetylene gas lighted. Fifty pupils and two matrons 
 can be housed in each. A matron, the Misses Bertha Rosbach and Cora Van 
 Zanten, presides over each. They are assisted by Miss C. Rosbach and Miss C. 
 Pierson. Miss A. Bouwma is soon to take their place as seamstress. 
 
 The mission home, built during the winter of 1914-15 by Mr. John Spijker and 
 presided over by Mrs. A. Van Bree, is the place where the kitchen, with its equip- 
 ment, bakery and meat room, the dining rooms for workers and children, one each; 
 living rooms, and so forth, are found. This is also a cement block building with a 
 commissary in the basement, built during 1914-15 by Mr. J. Spijker. Here all the 
 cooking and baking is done for the children, workers, hospital patients, white and 
 brown guests. Daily something like eighty-five persons are fed three meals. This 
 requires a high order of management on the part of the housekeeper and assistant 
 cook. To supply this host with suitable food requires 245 pounds of potatoes, 500 
 loaves of Victory bread, 315 pounds of meat, mutton or beef, besides so many food 
 items as go with these staple eatables. Resourcefulness, patience and physical 
 strength, with a goodly measure of consecration, are prime requirements here. 
 
 The laundry is under the supervision of Miss Nellie Baker, rt is a necessary 
 auxiliary to the work. What should we do without it? Here all that needs wash- 
 ing and ironing is brought from dormitories, mission home and hospital and, in due 
 time, returned clean as can be. It is quite a sight to see our girls with huge sacks 
 or pillows filled with the washing, going back and forth. These girls have their 
 troubles too when the wind and sand rush at, and threaten to upset them and 
 scatter their precious load. 
 
 The second department is the MEDICAL. Gradually the command, “Heal 
 
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the sick” came into the minds of our leaders. And in 1910 a substantial hospital 
 was built and dedicated to the work of the Lord. It was first in charge of Dr. 
 W. P. Sipe, then of Dr. C. J. K. Moore, and at present of Dr. J. D. Mulder, grad- 
 uate of the Rush Medical College, whither our brother went after some years of 
 study at Calvin College. When he came in August, 1916, he found Miss S. Voss, 
 R. N., graduate of the Hackley Hospital, Muskegon, already busy as nurse, suc- 
 ceeding Mrs. Van Heusinkveld, nee Vander Veen. Miss Voss came during Decem- 
 ber, 1914. Both she and her predecessor were actuated by mission zeal in taking 
 up this work. That hospital has rendered blessed service to a goodly number of 
 Navaho, afflicted with all manner of disease and diverse hurts. To many it brought 
 healing and to all the Gospel. What we would have done without that institution, 
 with so many of our pupils troubled with tubercular tendencies and affections, 
 trachoma and an assortment of ailments children are heir to, is beyond us. Then 
 not a small number of Navaho are ministered to by Dr. Mulder in camps. During 
 the time of his labors here our brother has treated 178 patients in hospital, per- 
 formed 14 major and numerous minor operations, assisted at the birth of 20 chil- 
 
 Dr. Mulder Among His Navaho Patients 
 
 dren brown and white, and traveled 3,173 miles, afoot, on horseback, per buggy or 
 auto. Superstitution and medicine men keep many a patient out of the hospital 
 and away from our medical missionary. But this will not always be thus. And 
 apart from this, that hospital is indispensable for our school children and workers 
 here and elsewhere on the field. And it will be instrumental of much good for the 
 people, if given yet a bit of time. 
 
 For a time Miss Christie B. Hood, well known to our church people, was con- 
 nected with the department of healing, as Field Matron and assistant at the hos- 
 pital, till her resignation, March, 1918. She is now serving as assistant to Dr. 
 Huizenga. 
 
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The RELIGIOUS work of this Post is, since January, 1912, in charge of Rev. 
 J. W. Brink, Missionary Pastor. We have two regular services every Sunday and 
 Sunday School. The latter Mr. J. H. Bosscher is Superintendent of. It is divided 
 into classes, which are taught by white and brown teachers, in Navaho and Eng- 
 lish. Teachers’ meeting convenes every Friday evening. Wednesday evening a 
 number meet for special Bible study. Every morning Dr. Mulder, or the mission- 
 ary, conduct religious meetings at the hospital. The Sacraments are administered; 
 Baptism as occasion requires; Communion every third month, at which time one 
 of the missionaries on the field has charge. 
 
 Every Wednesday the missionary, accompanied by an interpreter, instructs the 
 children at the government day school for Navaho at Pinedale. Oft an oppor- 
 tunity is granted to bring the Message to adults at the school. Camp work is 
 done, but, owing to various reasons, not systematically. This is unsatisfactory, 
 but cannot be helped under existing conditions. Navaho, visiting Rehoboth for 
 any length of time, oft hear the Message from the missionary. But we have few 
 visitors, as a rule. 
 
 The missionary’s first interpreter was Charles Livingston, ex-pupil of our 
 school. The next was Hugh Dinetdele, ex-student of our Training School for 
 Native Workers. When he left for Crownpoint to assist Rev. J. Bolt, Marinus 
 
 Henry Whipple Marinus Williams 
 
 Two Navaho Converts 
 
 Williams, another ex-pupil of our school, served for some time. These last months 
 Henry Whipple, one of the first six pupils at Rehoboth, put in half of the time at 
 this work and the other half assisting Mr. Bosscher. 
 
 Among the facilities our Mission enjoys is the United States Post Office. It 
 was established in 1910. 
 
 Rehoboth shows quite a bit of INDUSTRIAL activity. There is the laundry, 
 
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boiler and engine room, shop, barn, lighting plant, farm and so forth, to be taken 
 care of. Much freighting of supplies and coal must be done. Grading requires 
 some attention. So do wagon, auto, water and heating systems, cows, horses, pigs, 
 chickens. Mr. J. H. Bosscher, General Manager since 1916, has charge of it all. 
 Our pupils are divided into groups for detail work. Each detail has its set duties 
 and every so often the detail is changed, so that all may have an opportunity to 
 learn something of everything for future use. This detail arrangement calls for a 
 great deal of planning and after that, steady attention. 
 
 Rehoboth’s PROSPECTS ARE, subject to Divine blessing, VERY GOOD. 
 He who blessed in the past, in more ways than one, will do so in the future. Psalm 
 115:21. Since 1903 several of our pupils have confessed Christ and received Bap- 
 tism. We have reasons to believe that, as time goes on, the Gospel will show itself 
 to be the power of God unto salvation for more of them, as well as for adults in 
 camps. 
 
 This we write conditionally. We can expect these blessings while Rehoboth’s 
 mission force is consecrated to the Lord and His work, and in the spirit of co- 
 operation. This is our daily prayer. It is also a condition that this Mission live 
 in the heart and prayers of all the churches and be adequately supported. And 
 then too, it must have the prayers, confidence and co-operation of every missionary 
 and worker on the field. 
 
 Another urgent need, if Rehoboth is to bear fruit abundantly according to its 
 expense, looking at it only from this point of view, is a layworker (or two even) 
 with an efficient interpreter whose work will largely consist in systematic visiting 
 of our people in camps. This would gradually create better conditions at the 
 camps, lessen temptations for our youthful brethren and sisters to face when at 
 home. Such a layworker has been asked for. 
 
 A Training School for Native Workers would increase the efficiency of our 
 work in behalf of this people. As time goes on there may be some among our 
 pupils who would be fit and willing to continue at school, with a view to obtaining 
 broader and deeper Bible knowledge. More than one might, perhaps, be made fit 
 for mission work at a post or outstation. While well-equipped interpreters could 
 be made available wherever needed. Why may we not hope that the Lord will call 
 some young man to the ministry among His people? We expect that the Lord will 
 establish a congregation (perhaps more than one even), consisting wholly of native 
 Christians. Such a church will need members fit for self-government, native Elders 
 and Deacons and Pastor. A Training School would be of great service here. 
 Without such an institution our endeavor as Church is ever going to be somewhat 
 of an uncertain, inferior quality. Disappointing. If the opportunity is realized 
 and believingly, energetically made use of, mission history will repeat itself, God 
 will convert this people through the example and labors of its first converts, its 
 sons and daughters. We continually pray that the agitation for such a school, 
 kept alive by our Presbyterian brethren and missionaries, may be effective before 
 long in a well-equipped institution which can be called A TRAINING SCHOOL 
 FOR NATIVE WORKERS, 
 
 J. W. BRINK. 
 
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Names of Rehoboth Children and 
 their Supporters. 
 
 Averiso, Grace — Mrs. Ver Bree, Miss Ter Molen, Miss Neyenhuis. 
 
 Bainbridge, Herman— Rev. N. Burgraaf, 1335 5th St., Muskegon Heights. 
 Bainbridge, Julius — M. S. First Church, Kalamazoo, Mr. T. Afman, 1209 N. W. St. 
 Becenti, Grace — Mr. and Mrs. Bert Goudzwaard, Leland, Idaho, 
 
 Becenta, Paul — L. A. Lagrave Ave., Miss Delia Zoerman, 569 Cass Ave. 
 
 Bergen, Donald — Cor. of Bates and Henry St. Church, Rev. P. Ekster, 656 Bates St. 
 Bergen, Joseph — S. S. Englewood, N. J., Mr. P. M. Christie, 80 John St. 
 
 Beets, Wilhelmina — Church of Lucas, Mich., Rev. P. D. Van Vliet, Lucas. 
 
 Beets, Clara — S. S. Passaic, N. J., Rev. D. De Beer, 148 Prospect St. 
 
 Bode, Anthony — L. A. Broadway, Rev. E. J. Tanis, 1137 Turner Ave. 
 
 Bode, Emma — M. S. Franklin St. Church, Mr. H. Postema, 725 Lily St., Grand 
 Rapids. 
 
 Bode, Harriet — L. A. Peoria, Iowa, Mrs. Chas. Vos, R. R. 5, Pella. 
 
 Brink, Leonora — L. A. Englewood, Chicago, Mrs. J. Rietdyke, 7226 Morgan St. 
 Cadman, Ethel — S. S. First Church, Chicago, Rev. S. S. Vander Heide, 1324 W. 
 14th St. 
 
 Cadman, Paul — Y. P. S. Grandville Ave. 
 
 Cook, John — Overisel Church, Mr. J. Vos, Hamilton, Mich. 
 
 Cook, Mark — S. S. First Church, Roseland, Mr. J. Vander Woude, 11009 Went- 
 worth Ave., Chicago. 
 
 Curly, Jacob — S. S. Drenthe, Mr. N. T. Beyer, R. R. 3, Zeeland, Mich. 
 
 Curly, Wilbur — S. S. Allen St., Muskegon, Mr. P. Walhout, 134 Myrtle St. 
 Curlysmith, Jessie — Rev. G. L. Hoefker, Wellsburg, Iowa. 
 
 Curlysmith, Johanna — Mr. Henry Holkeboer, Holland, Mich. 
 
 De Groot, Charles — S. S. Lafayette, Ind., Mr. J. G Gorris, under Fowler Bank. 
 
 De Groot, Etta — Y. P. S. Grandville Ave., Grand Rapids. 
 
 De Groot, Robert — Church of Luctor, Kansas, Mr. G. Pakkebier, R. R. 1, Prairie 
 View. 
 
 Dolfin, Anna S. — Third Church, Zeeland, Mich. 
 
 Duncan, Richard (hospital patient, no longer enrolled as pupil) — Y. P. S. Midland 
 Park Church, N. J., Mr. R. Osenga, Box 23. 
 
 Gorman, Carl — S. S. Central Ave., Holland, Mich., Mr. H. R. Brink, 432 8th St. 
 Gorman, Mary — S. S. Central Ave., Holland, Mr. H. R. Brink, 482 8th St. 
 Gorman, Wallace — S. S. Lagrave Ave., Mr. John King, 627 Oakland Ave., S. W. 
 Green, Mattie — S. S. East Saugatuck Church, Rev. L. Lamberts, Holland. 
 
 Hale, Samuel — M. S. First Church, Kalamazoo, Mr. T. Afman, 1209 N. W. St. 
 Heshi, Tuli — Ora et Labora S., Second Church, Roseland, Miss Grace Fylstra, 508 
 W. 103rd PI., Chicago. 
 
 Hillman, Roger — Coldbrook, S. R. 
 
 Hillman, Willis — L. A. Oakdale Park, Rev. W. P. Van Wyk, 1000 Milliard Ave. 
 
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Holland, Brainard D. — S. S. 14th St., Mr. E. S. Holkeboer, 36 East 24th St., Hol- 
 land, Mich. 
 
 Holland, Martha — S. S. Douglas Park, Chicago, Mr. H. Bulthuis, 3225 So. 60th 
 Ave., Cicero, Clyde, Chicago. 
 
 Hood, Alice — Bible Class, Grand Haven, Mr. D. Kieft, 712 Washington St. 
 
 Hood, George — S. S. Grandville Ave., Mr. A. P. Laniers, 253 White St., Shopdale, 
 Grand Rapids. 
 
 Howard, Edith- — M. S. West Leonard St., Grand Rapids, Miss Cena Garnaat, 1212 
 Courtney St. 
 
 Johnson, Mary — S. S. South Holland, 111., Miss Mary Vander Ra, South Holland. 
 
 Johnston, Susie — S. S. Broadway Ave., Mr. A. Zylstra, 65 Leonard St., N. W. 
 
 Lambert, Franklin — M. S. Franklin St. Church, Rev. L. Veltkarnp, 805 Grandville 
 Ave. 
 
 Livingston, David — S. S. Paterson, N. J. 
 
 Livingston, Dorothy — S. S. Third Church, Paterson, Mr. Chas. Bewkes, 98 Haledon 
 Ave. 
 
 Moore, Franklin — Rev. J. W. Brink, Rehoboth, N. M. 
 
 Murphy, Catherine — Church of Reeman, Mich., Rev. J. L. Heeres, R. R.8, Fremont. 
 
 Murphy, Helen — Mr. D. W. Jellema, 544 Central Ave., Holland, Mich. 
 
 Murphy, Nonabahia — S. S. Broadway Ave., Mr. A. Zylstra, 65 Leonard St., N. W. 
 
 Paton, Jeannette — Church of Lynden, Wash., Rev. E. Breen, Lynden. 
 
 Peshlaki, Chee — Hope Ave. Church, Passaic, N. J., Mr. A. Tanis, 63 Van Buren St. 
 
 Peshlaki, Francis — S. S. Graafschap, Mich., Rev. R. Bolt, R. R. 1, Holland. 
 
 Peshlaki, Ida — Mr. J. Brouwer, Holland, Mich. 
 
 Peshlaki, Luke M. — S. S. Madison Ave., Paterson, N. J., Mr. C. Struck, 331 9th St. 
 
 Peshlaki, Martha — L. A. Manhattan, Montana, Miss Sadie Kuiper, Manhattan. 
 
 Peshlaki, Robert — L. A. and Y. P. S., Pella, Rev. C. De Leeuw, Pella, Iowa. 
 
 Sherman, Albert — L, A. First Church, Zeeland, Mich., Rev. M. Van Vessum. 
 
 Sherman, Cora — M, S. First Church, Muskegon, Mr. A. K. Scholten, 206 Terrace St. 
 
 Sherman, James — S. S. Sherman St., Mr. Henry Top, 905 Dunham St., Grand 
 Rapids. 
 
 Sherman, Minnie — Y. P. S. Cleveland, Ohio, Mr. W. T. Hylkema, 3775 Bursnell 
 Ave., Qeveland. 
 
 Smith, Elizabeth — S. S. Prospect Park, Paterson, Mr. Peter Huizer, 24 Struyk Ave., 
 Paterson. 
 
 Smith, Ellen — Third Church, Chicago, Rev. H. J. Mokma, 4140 Greenshaw Ave. 
 
 Smith, Louise — -First Church, Chicago, Rev. S. S. Vander Heide, 1324 W. 14th St., 
 Chicago. 
 
 Vander Vere, John — L. and H. Kos, Grand Raoids, Mich. 
 
 Vander Vere, Margaret — Y. L. A. Hull, Iowa, Miss Hattie Scholten, Hull. 
 
 Whitman, Herbert — Y. P. S. Second Church, Muskegon, Mich. 
 
 Whitman, Leonard — L. A. and Y. P. S., Pella, Rev. C. De Leeuw, Pella, Iowa. 
 
 Willeto, Clarence — Albert Gardener S., Alpine Ave., Jennie Baker, 832 Crosby St., 
 Grand Rapids. 
 
 Williams, Thomas — (%)■ — Williams St. Chr. School, Kalamazoo, Mr. Guy De Boer, 
 716 Elizabeth St., Kalamazoo. 
 
 Young, Egerton — S. S. 9th St. Church, Miss Frances Tripp, Voorhees Hall, Hol- 
 land, Mich. 
 
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The Tohatchi Mission Work. 
 
 UST as the sun was gliding away in its rocky bed in the west the Tohatchi 
 Mission auto with three visitors from Holland, Mich., was spinning over 
 the desert flats bound for the Tohatchi mission post. 
 
 “I heard your territory was the densest settled with Navahoes of all 
 the posts,” remarked one of the visitors, “and I see no life whatsoever here. Where 
 are the Indians?” 
 
 “Yes,” remarked the missionary, “we consider our Tohatchi field rather thickly 
 populated.” 
 
 For a moment there was silence. Evidently the visitor who had spoken was 
 vexed because he did not get the information he sought. The missionary-physician 
 held his hands to the wheel and sped along at his usual pace, as though he was on 
 a hurry-up call to some sick-bed. 
 
 “Pardon me,” said the visitor again, breaking the silence, “do the Indians live 
 along this road? We have gone 20 miles now from Gallup according to your 
 speedometer and I only saw one lone Indian on a horse, but saw no house or tent 
 on the way.” 
 
 “Yes,” remarked the missionary, “there are several Indian homes along the 
 way. I thought possibly you might want to go with me tomorrow as I make calls 
 on my patients, hence I pointed out no Indians to you this evening.” 
 
 “I would be delighted to go,” answered the former speaker, a man thin and 
 with a critical look upon his face, “but I cannot understand why I should not see 
 them now if there are Indians living along this road. I see prairie dogs skipping 
 into their holes and surely an Indian ought to be seen if they were here.” 
 
 The missionary stopped his car and said: "Indian hogans are covered with 
 
 mud, are often in the foothills or against some sheltering mesa and it is rather hard 
 to distinguish them from the surrounding country. Oftimes we pass by a hogan 
 ourselves, two or three times before we see it. Very rarely the Navaho builds 
 immediately on the road. Now look, do you see yon smoke curling up?” 
 
 “Yes,” remarked the tall visitor who had spoken before, and by this time he 
 was out of the car with his hand shading his eyes from the glare of the setting sun. 
 
 “Do you see that little mound about a mile to your right? That is a hogan. 
 See the hole facing the east? It’s the entrance. Indians always build their houses 
 with the door towards the rising sun. There is another hogan. There is some 
 more smoke rising, hence some family is camping there. But let’s go on, tomorrow 
 I will be glad to take you out, and Mr. Bouma and I will point out things of 
 interest to you.” 
 
 In a short time the well-fenced in, neat looking Tohatchi mission property was 
 reached. In the dusk one could still see the dim outline of the high mountain at 
 whose foot Tohatchi is nestled. The traders’ store and various government school 
 buildings were also faintly recognizable. Some campfires of Navaho homes ap- 
 peared in the foothills. 
 
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While sitting in the mission house that evening, where Brother Bouma and 
 family resides, the other friend, who with keen observing eyes glanced over the 
 cozy adobe house, remarked that the house was very neat and that it was far 
 better than he had expected. He had heard that the Tohatchi mission house was 
 a mudhouse. “But,” said he, “a mudhouse of this kind seems preferable to many a 
 frame house. I notice,” he continued, “that all the missionaries of our church here 
 among Navaho and Zuni Indians have splendid homes with all modern con- 
 veniences. Was this house built under direction of the Board?” 
 
 The Missionary’s Home, Tohatchi, N. M. 
 
 Our good brother Bouma went somewhat into detail about the history of 
 Tohatchi, telling our visitors how Tohatchi was at present our oldest post, how 
 under direction of Mr. De Groot the house was built and how shortly after that 
 Rev. L. P. Brink and family spent their first years of mission service here. 
 
 He named J 897 as the date of Mr. De Groot's appointment and 1900 to 1913 
 as Rev. L. P. Brink’s period of service at “Little Water,” or Tohatchi. 
 
 “At present, however,” added Mr. Bouma, “the churches of Holland, Mich., 
 bear all the expense of this post. Dr. Huizenga and I are stationed here and can 
 keep snugly busy with the medical and religious work. The doctor lives in Gallup 
 part of the time. A greater part of the time, however, he lives on the way, in the 
 auto, in the camps and at Tohatchi. Sundays he preaches wherever he can find 
 an opening and during the week his medical work keeps him, pretty well on the 
 go all the time. I assist him in the religious work and his wife, his faithful com- 
 panion on nearly all his trips, assists him in the medical work. My work is cen- 
 tered especially at the school, where I give catechetical and Biblical instruction to 
 about 100 pupils. We also make a special effort to reach our backsliding converts.” 
 By this time Brother Bouma got very enthusiastic about the work. He con- 
 tinued: “You cannot imagine to what duties we are called here. When a Navaho 
 dies we are frequently called to bury the body. If their sewing machines are 
 broken, to the mission they come and Doctor manages to put them, in shape again. 
 If the squaw wants a new skirt, Mrs. Bouma jumps in to her help. The other 
 
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evening as the doctor came home from an extensive trip, a Navaho had called and 
 wanted him to come over as soon as possible. I got into the car with the doctor 
 and in about an hour we reached the camp. 'While the doctor went in to examine 
 the patient, two Navaho men went out to catch two sheep, killed them and pre- 
 pared them for us to take home. Within a short time the hogan was filled with 
 men, women and children. The doctor looked at his watch and found it was now 
 about 10 o’clock in the evening, and asked the head of the Navaho family if he 
 might go ahead to vaccinate the family. Smallpox is spreading among them and 
 we seek to do what we can to check its spread. Soon the arms of men, women 
 and children were exposed, scrubbed, scratched, and inoculated. Nine vaccinations 
 were performed after 10 o’clock. After a little talk we left, pretty well near mid- 
 night, promising to return in two days to vaccinate some more. At such meetings, 
 when all gather, either the doctor or I give short religious talks. I could keep on,” 
 continued our missionary, “telling you of our varied experiences with this interest- 
 ing tribe.” 
 
 Rattlesnake Devouring a Prairie Dog. Taken from Life, near Tohatchi, N. M. 
 
 “You have several converts here, I read,” said the other visitor, who up to the 
 present had been rather quiet. “Do they come to service Sundays?” 
 
 “No,” replied Mr. Bouma, “we have service every Sunday. Two Sundays a 
 month I conduct the meeting and treat the Sunday School lesson and the other two 
 Sundays doctor preaches to us, but only the school children attend. In the neigh- 
 borhood of Tohatchi are several converts who live less than eight miles from here, 
 but who practically never attend church. We visit them and speak to them as they 
 visit us, but in vain. Their nomadic life, their customs and probably most of all 
 their indifference are accountable for their backsliding. Only once a year do we 
 have some adult Indians in church. It is on Christmas day.” 
 
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The conversation went on yet for some time when a distinct rapping was heard 
 at the door. On opening the brown face of a Navaho with an anxious, frightened 
 look, appeared. His hair was long and tied with string in a knot on the back of 
 his head, a handkerchief was tied as a band about his head. He asked for the 
 doctor as one of his children was bit by a rattlesnake while watching sheep. The 
 Navahoes have large herds of sheep and during the heat of the day the poisonous 
 rattler is apt to coil up in a bush practically hid from view. The little shepherds, 
 oft barefooted, occasionally get too near this dangerous serpent and are bit. 
 
 On hearing the message Mr. Bouma hastened to the little three room house 
 next to the mission house, where the missionary-physician makes his home while 
 in Tohatchi. In a few moments the auto was heard and into the dark of night 
 went the physician and his assistant, guided by the Navaho on horseback. 
 
 * * * 
 
 Dr. Huizenga Ministering: to a Navaho 
 
 As the sun rose the following morning our visitors prepared themselves to 
 accompany our Tohatchi missionaries upon their tour of preaching and healing. 
 All nature seemed at rest. The flats were barren and sandy. The whole appear- 
 ance was that of a desert. For fifteen winters there had not been so little snow 
 on the mountains as the past. The spring has brought no rain. Carcasses of 
 horses, cattle and sheep were strewn along the way. This spring the Navaho did 
 not put his plough in the ground to make one furrow. No corn or melons were 
 planted in the Tohatchi section. Many Navahoes moved away with their sheep 
 a hundred or more miles. 
 
 As the company was seated in the auto ready for hogan visits, Mr. Bouma 
 asked: 
 
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“Doctor, have you a shovel with you? I expect a sand storm today. This 
 morning silence is an ill omen.” 
 
 “Yes,” was the brief reply. 
 
 “A sand storm,” said the lady visitor. “I would like to experience it. I heard 
 much about it and can hardly realize what it means.” 
 
 About fifteen miles from Tohatchi, in what Brother Bouma calls the “Sahara 
 desert,” the company went to visit a lady patient suffering from a malady in which 
 superstition played an important role. The doctor went into the hogan first, 
 examined the patient, and then called the rest of the company. The Indian hogan 
 has but one room and during physical examination visitors either leave the hogan 
 or a blanket is hung up in the hogan, behind which the physician can examine the 
 patient. Ofttimes the doctor examines the patient outside of the hogan. 
 
 On entering the hut the head of the family, according to their custom, put a 
 blanket on the ground and gave the nod that all may be seated. The doctor pre- 
 pared some medicine and gave some hints as to treatment and thereupon Mr. 
 Bouma and the doctor tried to bring some little Gospel message to them. If pos- 
 sible some interpreter is found to speak for them, but in this case the husband 
 could talk English and what the missionaries wanted to say was said to him. They 
 expected him to tell what he had heard to the rest of the members of the family 
 some other time or at once if he likes. Frequently the missionary gets no oppor- 
 tunity to say anything really worth while, it would seem. Yet little by little they 
 plant and water, trusting that the Lord shall give the increase. 
 
 By this time the sun had well nigh reached the zenith, the wind was blowing 
 at a terrific gale and the sand was sweeping in clouds over the flats, entering into 
 the hogans, filling up the passages through arroyes and throwing up sand banks 
 here and there which had to be shoveled away before the auto could pass through. 
 About thirty miles had to be made before the Tohatchi visitors could have their 
 lunch at the mission house and be back in time for the evening train at Gallup, 
 hence the company bade farewell to the hogan and away they sped, facing the 
 wind and sand. 
 
 “Look at the poor sheep,” said the lady visitor, as she alternately wiped her 
 eyes to free them from the sand and took glances at the herd of sheep with the 
 herder as they were making their way through the storm. The Navahoes have 
 many sheep, in fact practically every family has some sheep. The herder ofttimes 
 walks all day with the sheep or is seen riding a burro or a horse, accompanying 
 the flock. 
 
 While passing along with the throttle wide open, the company encountered a 
 sand bank of several yards long. There was only one thing to be done — all out 
 and the men push. After pushing and shovelling sand, and shovelling sand and 
 pushing the car, the company finally succeeded in getting to the mission property, 
 but the return to Gallup for the train had to be postponed until the following day 
 because of the storm. 
 
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 As the visitors to the Tohatchi post were back on the train, riding comfortably 
 to their home in Holland, Mich., the conversation continued about the mission field. 
 
 “How discouraging the work must be,” said the lady in the company. “They 
 talk of converts and many of these converts seem to give them more anxiety than 
 
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the non-converts, owing to the responsibility that the baptism of these has thrown 
 upon the missionaries.” 
 
 “Yes,” remarked her husband, “from, previous reports in church papers we got 
 the impression that there were sufficient members to organize a congregation; men- 
 tion was even made of Navaho consistory members who had actually been chosen, 
 but we failed to see them. Even the faithful few of the converts manifest a dis- 
 tinct loneliness among the white converts. They seem to feel that they are not 
 heathen any more and at the same time they seem to feel they are not wholly 
 acceptable to the white Christians. They stand aloof, apart, in silence. This 
 struck me forcibly.” 
 
 “Undoubtedly it is partly due to the fact that those converts we met were for 
 the greater part children,” said Mr. Fellow, who had accompanied our two Holland 
 visitors. 
 
 Navahoes Among Their Sheep 
 
 “Another thing that struck me is the fact that the missionaries have so few 
 people to their audience. The largest number we saw was a dozen in a hogan,” 
 remarked the lady. “We are told that ofttimes they meet but one or two in the 
 hogan, to whom they preach.” 
 
 ‘ This is discouraging,” remarked her husband, “but this is part of the Pauline 
 method. Paul, accompanied by a fellow worker, spoke to Jew and Gentile in his 
 territory, spoke to men and women, spoke to Greek and barbarian, to learned and 
 unlearned. He spoke to Lydia and her little company as well as on Mars Hill. 
 I hear him talk to the simple folk of the island in simple language and to the 
 scholar and philosopher in learned language. And the two, Paul and Barnabas, or 
 Paul and Silas, go wherever the Spirit gives them opening, without selecting a 
 
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group or a class of people. The Pauline method is a most comprehensive method, 
 it is pioneering and leaving gained territory for others to enter upon.” 
 
 “Well,” remarked Mr. Fellows, “after seeing the field with my own eyes; after 
 seeing our men work and hearing them talk, it appears to me as though a new field 
 is advisable, and it seems to me as though the Lord of the harvest points our 
 denomination strongly to the childraces of Africa, but we should pray for unity 
 of purpose and field.” 
 
 Just then the Pullman conductor passed through the train calling, “Twenty 
 minutes stop for dinner at Trinidad.” 
 
 L. S. HUIZENGA. 
 
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Toadlena, N. M. 
 
 IVING a history of missionary efforts in these parts is a task for which 
 we have not sufficient data at hand. We can say that the first attempt 
 at mission work in our part of the Navaho country was made by the 
 National Christian Association. Its buildings were of the most primitive 
 type, being put up when building material was extremely difficult to obtain. They 
 were located where the Crozier P. O. and Trading Post are now, about five miles 
 to the southeast of the present Mission. 
 
 The Association turned over its property and work to the Baptists, their first 
 missionary being the Rev. R. B. Wright, who was in turn succeeded by the Rev. 
 Lee I. Thayer. While Rev. Wright was here the Mission was moved to Two Grey 
 Hills proper; the work of building the new Mission was begun by him, and com- 
 pleted by Brother Thayer. A good story-and-a-half adobe house and some out- 
 buildings were erected. 
 
 After Brother Thayer’s departure this Mission passed into our hands. Part of 
 the time it was occupied and part of the time it wasn't. Mrs. Ethel C. Sipe (now 
 Mrs. Rev. Howard A. Clark of Fort Defiance, Arizona) was our first missionary 
 here. She spent a whole year laboring among these Indians, visiting them from 
 hogan to hogan. After she left to take up work elsewhere, she was succeeded by 
 Brother William Mierop, sent out by the churches of Roseland. This good brother 
 spent a year of strenuous labor here, felt the need of more thorough equipment for 
 the Lord's work and resigned to take up studies in Chicago. Man proposes, God 
 disposes. Brother Mierop is now Presbyterian missionary to the Navahoes at 
 Kaibito, in the extreme northwestern part of the Navaho country. 
 
 When Brother Mierop had resigned the Roseland churches called the present 
 writer to be their missionary. He accepted, leaving his pastorate in California to 
 return to the Navahoes. They were no strangers to him, for he had already labored 
 among them for twelve years and a half. 
 
 On the evening of January 1st, 1915, he and his family arrived at the Two 
 Grey Hills Mission and since then has been in charge of its Mission work. The 
 country about this mission post is more densely populated than at our other posts. 
 
 In January, 1916, our mission home was wrecked by a terrific windstorm. We 
 repaired it as best we could, but in May of the same year it was completely 
 wrecked beyond repair. Considering that the house would have to be rebuilt en- 
 tirely and that Toadlena, two miles further west, would be a much better mission 
 location, we decided to move the mission to Toadlena, where it now stands. 
 
 Our present site is a very beautiful location. We have a very comfortable 
 mission home and a neat little mission chapel. The Trading Store is about a block 
 from us, and the Government Indian Boarding School about half a mile. At this 
 school 81 pupils are being given religious instruction by us. 
 
 There are three large white families here. During the past two years we have 
 been having our own Christian school, with Miss Renzina Stob of Raymond, Min- 
 
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nesota, as teacher. Miss Stob also takes an active part in all the regular Indian 
 services of the Mission. In the missionary's absence she has often catechized and 
 
 Missionary’s Home, Toadlena, N. M. 
 
 given Gospel addresses to the Indian children, besides teaching a white Sunday 
 School. We appreciate her labors very much, and so does our Board of Heathen 
 Missions. 
 
 Mission Chapel at Toadlena, N. M. 
 
 30 
 
A very efficient worker at this post is Brother Hudson Bainbridge, the mission- 
 ary^ native assistant. Under my direction he does the work of a Native Evange- 
 list, doing Gospel work in the Indian camps on week days and preaching in the 
 native tongue on Sundays. 
 
 I could tell you a great deal more about our work here, but I have already 
 exceeded the limit of 500 words as requested by the Secretary of the Board of 
 Heathen Missions. 
 
 C hildren of the Toadlena Government School 
 
 Toadlena is an Indian word meaning “Outflowing Water.” Our aim and 
 prayer is that the missionary and his helpers may be such as those of whom the 
 Savior said, “From the midst of them shall flow rivers of living water.” That we 
 may be the channels through which the waters of salvation may flow to those who 
 are dying for lack of it. And may the Lord speed the day when the Navahoes 
 in turn may become the bearers of the Gospel Message to others. 
 
 Yours in the Lord, 
 
 L. P. BRINK. 
 
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Grown Point, N. M. 
 
 r Crown Point, about twenty-six miles from the railroad, our churches 
 maintain a mission post. The missionary located here is supported by 
 the four Holland Churches of Paterson, N. J. Here the Government has 
 a boarding school for Navaho children. At present about two hundred 
 children are here cared for and educated at a great expense to the Government. 
 The first building was put up here about eight or nine years ago. Today the plant 
 comprises twenty-one buildings — an office building; five cottages, occupied by the 
 agent, physician and other employees; five dormitories; a school and chapel build- 
 ing; a hospital; an industrial building, and club rooms for employees; a carpenter 
 shop and smithy, engine house, laundry and barn. An electric light plant was 
 recently installed, which makes the plant look like a little city by night. About 
 thirty persons are constantly employed here. Quite contrary to the idea of many 
 people in the east, this is far from being a lonesome place to live. 
 
 The accompanying cut gives an idea of Crown Point, its buildings and 
 inhabitants. 
 
 * * * 
 
 The Government allows the Missionary to instruct the children in the Christian 
 religion. Two evenings every week we meet the children in the chapel for this 
 purpose. Besides these weekly meetings we have Sunday School every Sabbath 
 morning; and on Sunday evening the Missionary preaches. At this meeting, be- 
 sides the Indian children, all the employees are regular attendants, and also some 
 other white people that live in the community. 
 
 The great amount of the Missionary’s work at Crown Point is among the chil- 
 dren. And of all the work this is perhaps the most promising. Brought to school 
 at an early age, before the old Indian customs and rites have yet moulded their 
 tender minds and hearts, they imbibe the truths of God’s Word. Once the Truth 
 having been learnt by them there is hope that they will remain immune against 
 the superstitions and false religious conceptions of the Navaho. Of course mere 
 intellectual knowledge of the Bible, though it may cause them lightly to pass by 
 many superstitious ideas of their elders, can not and will not keep them from 
 accepting the Navaho religion in many of its forms. There are too many sad 
 instances of young men and women, who received instruction in the Christian re- 
 ligion and were even baptized, who today morally and religiously are not a whit 
 above the old Indians, for us to rest content with mere intellectual knowledge of 
 the Truth. Only the grace of God can change the heart and make them true 
 Christians. Yet faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God. And 
 these youths are apt subjects to hear and understand. 
 
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 In our mission work among the Navaho Indians we are, as a Presbyterian 
 missionary once expressed it, “up against a stone wall.” There is practically no 
 response to the Gospel from the older Indians. Instances could be related of 
 
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The Crown Point Government Agency, with Navaho Youth 
 
Indians saying, that they had heard the Gospel story often enough, and did not 
 care to hear it again. Generally, however, they listen quite patiently to what the 
 missionary has to say, and then they ask the missionary to listen to the Indian 
 story, and ending up with saying that they prefer the old Indian views. They 
 do not care for education and civilization, much less for the Gospel. They pursue 
 their own way in stolid indifference. It is difficult indeed to make any kind of 
 impression upon their mind. Moral persuasion leaves them unaffected. The one 
 thing that talks to them is money. 
 
 The Navahoes exhibit no interest whatever in the message of the missionaries. 
 We have never yet heard of Indians expressing a desire that a missionary should 
 come to live among them, or that a school for the education of their children 
 should be opened in any particular place. 
 
 Missionary's Home, Crown Point, N. M. 
 
 And it is not only toward the Christian religion that they exhibit such stolid 
 indifference. Men in the employ of the Government who are trying to help and 
 educate the Indians along the lines of agriculture and sheep and cattle raising, have 
 told me that all their efforts seem wasted. They will allow a man to do some- 
 thing for them, but they will not look on interestedly and then do it themselves. 
 Young men and women, after spending years at some Government or Mission 
 school, drift right back to the care-free, easy-going, hand-to-mouth living of their 
 forefathers. They make no use of their education for good, for the uplift and the 
 enlightenment of their people. They show an utter lack of appreciation of every- 
 thing that is done for them, and they feel no responsibility. 
 
 As a race the Indians are doomed to extinction, to be swallowed up by the 
 
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ever-encroaching race of white men. Theirs has been a sad lot, and their mournful 
 eyes are gazing into a future quite hopeless. 
 
 “Into the shadows whose illumined crest 
 Speaks of the world behind them, where the sun 
 Still shines for us whose day is not yet done, 
 
 These last dark ones go drifting. East or West 
 Or North or South — it matters not; their quest 
 Is towards the shadows where it was begun. 
 
 Hope in it? Ah, my brother, there is none: 
 
 And yet — they only seek a place to rest. 
 
 “So mutely, uncomplainingly they go. 
 
 How shall it be with us when they are gone, 
 
 When they are but a mem’ry and a name? 
 
 May not those mournful eyes to phantoms grow, 
 
 When, wronged, and lonely, they have drifted on, 
 
 Into the voiceless shadow whence they came?” 
 
 Let us bring God's Word to them, a light indeed, and pray God to open their 
 eyes to that light of life. 
 
 J. BOLT. 
 
The Work at Kinbeto, Blanco Canyon, N. M. 
 
 LANCO CANYON” is het zendingsterrein van de gemeenten resorteer- 
 ende onder classis Zeeland, die in 1915 ondergeteefcende beriepen en als 
 haar zendeling uitzonden. Kinbeto, alwaar de regeering haar agent 
 heeft gevestigd, werd als de standplaats van den zendeling aangewezen, 
 en sinds Januari, 1918, wonen wij daar en bearbeiden van daar uit het veld. 
 
 Het Blanco Canyon terrein ligt in het verre noordoosten van ons zendingsveld. 
 Het is niet bepaald en uitsluitend Navaho grondgebied. Het ligt geheel en al 
 buiten de "reservation,” het land fcan en wordt zoowel door blanfcen als door 
 Navahos opgenomen. 
 
 Missionary Heyns of Kinbeto and His Interpreter 
 
 Grenzen voor dit veld heeft de kerk nooit aangewezen, doch er is hier een 
 terrein dat zich 90 mijl ten oosten van de reservation line en 50 mijl ten noorden 
 van de Chaco Canyon uitstrekt, een terrein in alle hoeken waarvan groepjes van 
 Navahos te vinden zijn, een terrein binnen welks grenzen geen enkele zendeling te 
 vinden is dan alleen de Chr. Ger. zendeling te Kinbeto. 
 
 Het getal Navahos dat zich in dit veld bevindt wordt door regeeringsbeambten 
 verschillend geschat van 800 tot 1300. Dus, breed genomen, hetzelfde getal als in 
 onze andere velden doch verspreid over een oppervlakte dubbel zoo groot. 
 
 De geestelijke nood van de Navahos van deze streek is groot. Zij liggen 
 
gekneld in de banden van bijgeloof. Zij zitten in de doisternis van hun heidensche 
 Navaho godsdienst. Men vindt in deze omgeving een der heilige bergen van de 
 Navahos, El Huerfano, waar, volgens de Navaho legenden, het eerste menschenpaar 
 ontstaan is. 
 
 Tot nog toe werd er onder hen nagenoeg geen zendingswerk verricht. E>e 
 Methodisten hebben een tijdlang een zendingspost in het eigenlijke Blanco Can- 
 yon onderhouden, doch deze arbeid was blijkbaar van kleinen omvang. Als wij de 
 Indianen in deze omgeving het Evangelie verkondigen, dan luidt het vaak als 
 aanmerking daarop, “wij hebben dit nog nooit gehoord.” 
 
 Wat onzen arbeid in dit veld betreft, die bestaat bijna uitsluitend in het 
 opzoeken van de Navahos in hunne woningen om hen daar het Evangelie te 
 verkondigen. Er is hier geen school, noch regeeringskostschool, noch eigen zend- 
 ingskostschool, zooals dat op onze andere posten het geval is. Wij hebben niet 
 de gelegenheid om schoolkinderen in kerkedienst, Zondagschool of catechesatie 
 onderwijs in de leer der Schrift te geven. Blanco Canyon is in dit opzicht een 
 eenig veld. 
 
 Proposed Site of Kinbeto Mission, N. M. 
 
 Ook kunnen wij geen geregelde godsdienstige vergaderingen met de oudere 
 Indianen aan huis houden. Het gelukt ons wel zoo nu en dan twee a vier Navahos 
 aan huis te krijgen met het bepaalde doel om het Evangelie te hooren. Doch op 
 een geregelde opkomst kunnen wij niet rekenen. 
 
 Er zijn jongelieden in dit veld die elders eene opleiding hebben genoten en die 
 dus in het Engelsch kunnen bearbeid worden. Hoe heerlijk indien wij althans een 
 getal van zulke jongelieden geregeld naar een Zondagsdienst konden doen opkomen! 
 Of hen tot een Bijbelklas konden organiseeren. Doch ook zij kunnen slechts zoo 
 nu en dan overreed worden ons aan huis te bezoeken, en moeten eveneens in hunne 
 woningen opgezocht worden. 
 
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Men denke zich dus den arbeid in het Blanco Canyon veld als bijna uitsluitend 
 hogan bezoek. En dan nog wel evangelisatiewerk, bearbeiding van degenen die nog 
 zonder God in de wereld leven. Voor zoover wij weten, is er buiten onzen tolk 
 geen enkele bekeerling in dit veld. 
 
 Wij werden tot nog toe in dit nieuw veld welwillend ontvangen. En aan- 
 dachtig aangehoord, zooals wij dat van den Navaho gewoon zijn. Wij kunnen bij 
 velen belangstelling in onze prediking ontdekken. Ongetwijfeld omdat de boodschap 
 des heils voor ben iets nieuws is. Zij hebben van zendelingen vernomen, maar 
 hun boodschap nimmer gehoord. Zij willen ook eens weten wat de zendelingen te 
 zeggen hebben. Later, als onze Navahos alhier wat beter met den inhoud van onze 
 prediking op de hoogte zijn, en gewaar worden dat het een woord is dat hen als 
 zondaars veroordeelt, dan zal zich wellicht ook hier meer van die onverschilligheid, 
 zelfs weerzin, openbaren die wij elders hebben aangetroffen. Geve de Heere echter 
 dat velen door de prediking des Woords en de werkzaamheid Zijns Geestes 
 gebracht worden tot verootmoediging en schuldbelij denis en bewogen worden tot 
 het geloof in den Heiland die hen voogesteld wordt. 
 
 H. HEYNS. 
 
 “BROEDERS, BIDT VOOR ONS!” 
 
 Dat apostolisch woord mag wel worden toegevoegd aan de interessante op- 
 stellen door onze zendelingen geleverd in het voorgaande. 
 
 Het blijkt uit alles dat het arbeidsveld moeilijk is, de arbeid zwaar, en de 
 zendingsoogst tot hiertoe zeer schraal en teleurstellend. 
 
 Doch het werk onder de Navahoes en Zunies werd met biddend overleg be- 
 gonnen en het WOORD dat gebracat werd zal niet ledig wederkeeren. 
 
 Op Godes tijd ZULLEN wij maaien zoo we niet verslappen. 
 
 Dat laatste houdt minstens twee dingen in. 
 
 Van de zijde der arbeiders en arbeidsters voortdurende getrouwe toewijding, 
 om de eere Gods, en voor het heil der Heidenen. 
 
 En van de zijde der zendende kerken — aanhoudend en ernstig gebed: 
 
 “Och Heer, geef toch uw zegeningen, 
 
 Opdat men op deez' cerstelingen 
 Een rijken oogst van zielen zie!” 
 
 In de woorden van Eliot, den grooten zendeling onder de Indianen onzes lands 
 in lang vervlogen dagen: “Prayers and pains, through faith in Jesus Christ, can 
 
 do anything.” 
 
 De Comm, voor het zendingsboek. 
 
 JOHN DOLFIN. 
 HENRY BEETS. 
 
 Grand Rapids, Juni, 1918. 
 
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Rapport van de Synodale Deputaten 
 der Heiden Zendin£. 
 
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Navaho Woman and Her Baby 
 
Rapport van de Synodale Deputaten der Heiden 
 Zending, aan de Synode van 1918. 
 
 WAARDE VADERS EN BROEDERS: 
 
 Het rapport uwer deputaten fcan ditmaal betrekkelijk kort zijn omdat de 
 histone der verschillende posten, tot op heden, wordt gegeven in het zendingsboek 
 waarvan dit rapport het slot vormt. 
 
 Sedert de vorige Synode vergaderde de Uitvoerende Comm, niet minder dan 
 12 malen, en de “Board” tweemalen, in jaarvergadering. Dr. Y. P. Dejong die 
 sinds de Synode van 1914 het scribaat waarnam legde dit in Nov. 1917 neder wegens 
 vertrek uit Classis Grand Rapids Oost, zoodat Ds. R. B. Kuiper hem als deputaat 
 verving en schrijver dezes als secretaris. 
 
 Aan de Eerw. Synode wordt approbate gevraagd van de volgende door hunne 
 respectieve Classes aangewezen deputaten. 
 
 Classis Grand Rapids Oost, Ds. R. B. Kuiper. 
 
 Classis Grand Rapids West, Ds. H. Beets. 
 
 Classis Hackensack, Ds. K. Poppen. 
 
 Classis Holland, Ds. R. Bolt. 
 
 Classis Hudson, Ds. M. Botbijl. 
 
 Classis Illinois, Ds. D. Zwier. 
 
 Classis Muskegon, Ds. J. Dolfin. 
 
 Classis Orange City, Ds. L. Ypma. 
 
 Classis Ostfriesland, Ds. H. C. Bode. 
 
 Classis Pacific, Ds. E, Breen. 
 
 Classis Pella, Ds. I. VanDellen. 
 
 Classis Sioux Center, Ds. H. ML VanderPloeg. 
 
 Classis Zeeland, Ds. H. Walkotten. 
 
 Het blijkt uit het bovenstaande dat Ds. Manni vervangen werd door een ander 
 broeder, iets waarop wij de aandacht vestigen omdat ZEw. sedert 1914 het presi- 
 dentschap op loffelijke en effectieve wijze waarnam, en omdat het ons spijt dat hi j 
 zich gedrongen gevoelde, wegens afstand van het centrum, om zich niet wederom 
 beschikbaar te stellen voor deputaatschap. 
 
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Een woord van dank en waardeering tiler is ruimschoots verdiend door hem 
 zoowel als door Dr. De Jong. 
 
 A1 de depwtaten werden gedwrende de laatste jaren op de hoogte gehouden van 
 de transacties der Uitv. Comm, door middel van “typewritten copy” der Notulen, 
 terwijl finantieel rapport telkens verzonden werd opdat de Classes contact mochten 
 houden door middel van hare vertegenwoordigers. 
 
 De HOOFDZAKEN die voor vielen of besproken en uitgevoerd werden sedert 
 de Synode van 1916 zijn de volgende: 
 
 Het bouwen van een zendelingswoning en chapel op Toadlena, noodig omdat 
 de stormwinden het ottde geboow te Two Grey Hills verwoest hadden en omdat 
 het wenschelijk was dat men d'ichter bij de regeeringsschool aldaar woonde. 
 
 Het aanstellen van eene Commissie van Toezicht op de School te Rehoboth, 
 met het oog op leerplan en onderwijs. 
 
 Inspectie van het zendingsveld, door Dss. H. C Bode en J. Dolfin. 
 
 Het regelen van een fonds, onder supervisie van onze eigene mannen, dat dient 
 als onderlinge brandwaarborg van de gebouwen der missie. In plaats van elk jaar 
 zooveel of zooveel op te brengen aan andere maatschappijen wordt dit geld afge- 
 zonderd om in tijd van nood te dienen ter oprichting van wat het vuur mocht 
 verwoesten. 
 
 Het aankoopen van 480 akkers land nabij Rehoboth, tegen een dollar per akker, 
 opdat onze zendingspost niet benauwd moge worden door ongewenschte buren. 
 Met het oog daarop werden later door bemiddeling van br. Spyker nog 80 akkers 
 gekocht, tegen $1 per akker. 
 
 Een verzoek aan de zendelingen wat meer te schrijven in de bladen onzer 
 Kerk, lets waarin, wij erkennen het met waardeering, beduidende verbetering is 
 ingetreden. 
 
 Aanstelling van br. J. H. Bosscher als general manager van Rehoboth, in 1917 
 voor een jaar, tegen $1000 salaris en in 1918 voor twee jaren tegen $1100 per jaar. 
 
 Het introduceeren van de 9th grade in de Rehoboth school. 
 
 De uitgave, ook door medewerking van onzen Ds. L. P. Brink, van “God bi 
 Zad”, verschillende deelen der H. Schrift in de Navaho taal bevattend, was een zeer 
 verblijdend feit. 
 
 Evenzeer verschafte het groote vreugde dat te Zuni een tweetal jongelingen 
 door den H. Doop in de Gemeente des Heeren konden worden ingelijfd, de eerste 
 mannelijke bekeerlingen die we daar mochten doopen terwijl in Rehoboth sinds de 
 Synode van 1916 enkelen belijdenis des geloofs aflegden en evenzeer te Tohatchi. 
 
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Te Rehoboth werden twee dormitories opgericht, onder leiding van br. J. 
 Spyfcer, elk met ruimte voor 50 kinderen, en tesamen met toebehooren en alles, 
 ongeveer $23,000 kostend. Een inspecteur zal worden gezonden a. s. najaar om na 
 te gaan in hoever deze gebouwen in alles aan de voorgestelde plannen beantwoorden, 
 zoowel als om voeling te houden met alle de broeders en zusters op het veld, ter 
 uitoefening van Christelijke gemeenschap en opscherping in de liefde. 
 
 In Rehoboth zal een schuur worden gebouwd, eene zaak reeds jarenlang 
 aanhangig. 
 
 Het hospitaal personeel aldaar zal worden uitgebreid tot betere kweeking 
 dergenen die opleiding tot “nurse” zoeken. Door het vertrek van Miss Sena Voss 
 is er thans eene vacature wat de positie van hoofdverpleegster aangaat, 
 
 Het besluit werd genomen om Gallup te beschouwen als behoorende tot het 
 zendingsterrein van Rehoboth, en om daar te bekwamer tijd een ‘layworker te 
 plaatsen, volgens aanbeveling van het veld. 
 
 Daar er ongewenschte ophoopingen van vacantie ti j den plaats grepen werd de 
 regel gemaakt dat vacanties genomen moeten worden wanneer de tijd er voor is 
 aangebroken, en anders vervallen geacht. 
 
 Onze zendelingen zullen dit jaar op verschillende plaatsen der Navaho reser- 
 vation “campmeetings” houden, ter bereiking, zoo mogelijk, van al de inboorlingen, 
 wijd en zijd in het ons toevertrouwde district verspreid. 
 
 Ds. H. Heyns arriveerde op 16 Jan. 1918 op zijne nieuwe standplaats Kinbeto, 
 het terrein der kerken van Cl. Zeeland. 
 
 In antwoord op eene vraag van deputaten van Classis Zeeland werd door de 
 Jaarvergadering uitgesproken dat het Blanco Canyon veld misschien in de toekomst 
 geen permanent veld zal zijn door de indringing van “cattlemen”, doch dat het nog 
 steeds een goed terrein is voor “hogan” bezoek, ofschoon het niet vergeten moet 
 worden dat de tegenwoordige locatie daar tijdelijk is. 
 
 Aan Ds. J. W. Brink kom.t dank toe dat zijne zendingsreis door de kerken van 
 het Westen, ruim 16000 mijlen dekkend, flinke baten afwierp ten bedrage van 
 ongeveer $12,000. 
 
 Evenzeer gevoelen wij ons verplicht aan br. J. Spyker die gewillig was den 
 bouw der dormitories uit te voeren, en zulks deed terwijl hij onder de oorspronke- 
 lijke beraming bleef hoewel de prijzen der materialen gedurig stegen. 
 
 Voorgestelde arbeid te Albuquerque werd ter tafel gelegd omdat de noodige 
 gegevens nog ten deele ontbraken. 
 
 Om wille van de enorme stijging der reiskosten meende de Jaarvergadering 
 
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het lidmaatschap in de Uitv. Comm, wederom als vroeger te beperken tot de depu- 
 taten de r Michigan Classes. 
 
 De financieele verslagen van 1916-1918 luiden als volgt: 
 
 TREASURER’S REPORT 
 
 June 1, 1916 to May 31, 1917 
 RECEIPTS 
 
 General Fund— Balance per report May 31, 1916 $ 96.26 
 
 General Fund — Received during the year 17,994.10 
 
 General Fund — Borrowed during the year 4,000.09 
 
 Rehoboth — Received during the year 8,116.09 
 
 Tohatchi — Received during the year 25.00 
 
 Zuni — Received during the year 1,402.47 
 
 Blanco Canyon — Received during the year — 170.00 
 
 Interpreters — Received during the year 573.76 
 
 China Inland Mission 100.00 
 
 Rehoboth New Dormitory — Balance per last annual report 408.75 
 
 Rehoboth New Dormitory — Received during the year 5,460.40 
 
 Rehoboth New Dormitory — Received from insurance 2,100.00 
 
 Two Grey Hills’ New Parsonage — Received during the year 2,506.07 
 
 For liquidation of debt — Received during the year 2,039.93 
 
 $44,992.83 
 
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DISBURSEMENTS 
 
 Annual Board Meeting $ 230.01 
 
 Executive Committee meetings 74.05 
 
 China Inland Mission 100.00 
 
 General expenses 86.08 
 
 Salaries of employees (five quarters) 8,714.34 
 
 Traveling expenses — vacations, etc. 896.70 
 
 Rehoboth Budget 9,1 19*58 
 
 Rehoboth Extras 1,660.45 
 
 Two Grey Hills 1,016.04 
 
 Two Grey Hills new parsonage 4,000.00 
 
 Zuni 1,677.52 
 
 Crown Point - 385.37 
 
 Tohatchi 28.91 
 
 Notes and interest, including last year’s $4,000.00 debt 8,232.90 
 
 Refund to Classical treasurer for correction 100.00 
 
 Insurance on buildings 509.10 
 
 36,831.05 
 
 Balance on hand May 31, 1917 $ 8,161.78 
 
 Of this balance $7,616.25 is for New Dormitory, $170.00 for Blanco Canyon 
 buildings and $375.53 for the General Fund. 
 
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June I, J9J7- May 31, 1918 
 RECEIPTS 
 
 General Fund — Balance per report at last annual meeting $ 375.53 
 
 General Fund — Received during the year 17,593^)7 
 
 Rehoboth — Received during the year 7,602.90 
 
 Toadlena — Received during the year 51.72 
 
 Zuni — Received during the year 1 ,310-50 
 
 Crown Point — Received during the year 5.00 
 
 Interpreters — Received 388.50 
 
 China Inland Mission — Received 50.00 
 
 Special Building Fund — Balance of last year 7,786.25 
 
 Special Building Fund — Received during the year 13,366.25 
 
 Special Building Fund — Borrowed - 2,000.00 
 
 $50,530.22 
 
 DISBURSEMENTS 
 
 To Annual Board meeting $ 241.20 
 
 To Executive Committee meetings 112.45 
 
 To China Inland Mission 50.00 
 
 To General expenses 186.37 
 
 To Salaries of employes 8,074.77 
 
 To Traveling expenses, vacations, etc. 717.03 
 
 To Rehoboth — Budget - 10,080.00 
 
 To Rehoboth — Extras 385.47 
 
 To Rehoboth — Special Building Account 22,395.79 
 
 To Toadlena 1,315.27 
 
 To Zuni 1,776.05 
 
 To Crown Point 326.42 
 
 To Tohatchi - - 28.64 
 
 To Insurance premiums - 976.23 
 
 To Blanco Canyon buildings 2,000.00 
 
 48,865.69 
 
 Balance on hand May 31, 1918- $ 1,664.53 
 
 Indebtedness — One outstanding note, $2,000.00. 
 
 BOARD OF HEATHEN MISSIONS, 
 
 John Dolfin, Treasurer. 
 
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Behalve de approbatie der boven genoemde deputaten wordt owe vergadering 
 verzocht om te approbeeren dat het BUDGET voor Rehoboth voor bet volgend 
 jaar, vast gesteld worde op $37,000. 
 
 Voorts wordt uwe toestemming gevraagd tot het openen van een "Training 
 School for Christian Workers”, en wel in samenwerking met de Presbyterische 
 Kerk, volgens bijgaand voorstel van het veld afkomstig. 
 
 Ten slotte zij nog medegedeeld dat de Jaarvergadering gaarne adhaesie ver- 
 leende aan het voorstel der Classis Pella dat regeling gemaakt worde ter pensioneer- 
 ing van “unordained workers” op ons zendingsveld. 
 
 Met eerbied onderworpen, namens 
 de synodale deputaten, 
 
 HENRY BEETS, Sec. 
 
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