Dear Mr* McFarland,

Eugene, Oregon
August 28, 1952
Some time ago I received a letter from you asking news of
Miss Margaret M. Alldridge for whom I am forwarding agent.
I wrote your request to Miss Alldridge but at that time it
was advisable that no news be given out. Margaret was In Rangoon
several months working constantly trying to get a permanent
Visa to go up country to work with Miss Dorothy Sterling.
After all this time her visa was not granted and she has
returned to Bangkok, Thailand where she is making preparations
to ^oin the mission in the northern-most province of that
country. She will be getting out a newsletter In the near
future and I shall mall you one and then you may feel free
to publish any part of It you choose, but in the meantime
Margaret asks that no other news be published other than
the following in the Standard and the Horizons:
" WORD HAS JUST BEEN RECEIVED THAT MISS MARGARET M.ALLDRIDGE
HAS ARRIVED IN BANGKOK, THAILAND AND IS MAKING PREPARATIONS
TO JOIN OUR MISSION IN THE NORTHERN-MOST PROVINCE OF THAT
COUNTRY I'VHERE THE C. W. CALLfilWAYS, IMOGEIffi WILLIAMS,
DOROTHY UHLIG AND THE GARLAND BARES ARE AT WORK".
Prehaps my name and address as her forwarding agent should be
Included so that any that Is interested may know frho to contact.
I like your new publication Horizons and appreciate getting it.
I am enclosing a $1.00 for my wder for the 1953 Missionary
Prgryer Calendar and would likyVthe free copy of the 1952 one.
Sincerely in His Service
Mary M Klor
70 E. 23rd
Eugene, Oregon
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VIEWING THE TEMPLED CITY OF BANGKOK. CAPITAL OF THAILAND
for Qod his Ivay is perfect: '^he word of
Jehovah is tried; he is a shield unto all them
that take refuge in /lim.
^or "who is Qod, save Jehovah? cAnd who
is a rock, beside our Qod, the Qod that girdeth
me "with strength, and maketh way perfect?
^fKe maketh my feet like Kind's feet: c^nd
sitteth me upon my high p/aces.-Psalm 18:30
In the Fall of 1951 a fetter was senf out to teff you
of the circumstances and events which led Margaret
AJldridge, a student volunteer, to leave quickly for
the field. It was hoped that she would be able to join
our workers in northernmost Burma. The letter, in
part;
" . . .because of what He has always meant
to me, and because of my love for Him, it is my de
sire to follow wherever Christ leads me .... a defin
ite call .... I have takrm each step believing
in Him to guide me, and wirh the realization that we
can be used of Him only as we show ourselves will
ing to trust Him and to make use, with care and wis
dom, of every opportunity with which He provides us.
All over the world the doors are closing to Chris
tianity.... with large portions of Asia lost insofar
as our own outside missionary endeavor is concerned,
and entrance to the areas still open on the verge of
closing, the need for urgency is extreme.
Because of the situation that prevails. and since
qualification as a special type of student may open
doors closed to someone entering under a different
classification my departure will not be highly publi
cized.
V ..N* 4 i
MARGARET M. ALLDRIDGE
October, 1952
Dear Friends,
It has been nearly a year since I wrote you last, and now I must set down in or
der something of the experiences through which I have come. Our freighter, the
"Giga Maersk" embarked from San Francisco on the eve of Thanksgiving, which
seemed to me most especially appropriate, and after a voyage of nearly two months
brought me safely to the port of Bangkok, Thailand. On the way there were visits
with Mrs. Carrie Wolfe, Miss Ruth Smith, the McElroys, and the Hales in Manila;
Jane Kinnett, the Alex Bills, Martin Clarks and others in Japan, and calls at For
mosa, Hong Kong, and in Indochina, the city of Saigon. Everywhere we felt the
uncertainties that prevail, but they have come to bealmost our "native air" and life
goes on: big business invests, the UN experts and workers are everywhere, the
people seek their daily bread, and missionaries go on with their task, "canny mer
chants" come to "buy the heartsof the nations for their Prince."
Arriving in Bangkok, I was glad to have Dorothy Uhlig and Imogcne Williams
on hand to greet me, but sorry for the occasion of their visit to the cit)', which was
Imogene's eye injury. There too, I met Garland and Dorothy Bare, and with these
four other young missionaries discussed possibilities the future might hold, and
learned a good deal more about the work in Thailand.
"ABOVE ALL THAT V/E ASK OS THINK"
And then to Rangoon, where it was "Burma gained, but not won." The entry
was, in a word, triumphant, but as you will read, I could not stay. When Robert
and Betty Morse and small son Joni returned to Burma last fall, from linguistic
work at the University of Oklahoma where they had gone preparatory to transla
tion of the Scriptures into Rawang. they found it necessary to fly and were thus
unable to take along the supplies needed by the Mission, so, since I was travelling
by ship as far as Bangkok, I became the official "baggage sitter." The continued
journey to Rangoon by air presented numerous problemsfinding sufficient bag
gage space on one airplane, keeping down expense, etc. It all began to seem rather
impossible, but at just the appropriate time a plane was delayed, a small one sent
in it's stead, and the end of the matter was that I flew over on an airship for twenty-
two passengers, was the only one and was privileged to take all tlie supplies with
me at a somewhat reduced rate. The co-pilot came back and said, Well, where do
you want to go with your chartered plane!" (Later, going through customs, I began
to wonder if it wouldn't have been better to just have directed him straight up-
country!) Do you wonder that I was thrilled? The Evil-one may seem to be having
an inning in this part of the world, but truly the Lord is mindful of His own. My
heart was full of the wonder of it as I sat there in tlie back of the plane, saw the
seats filled with boxes (the mission supplies), and remembered, "I'm here on
business for my King." We winged our way over the tiny fields and plains country,
across great rugged mountains, high over an uneven sandy coast-line and the blue
waters of the Gulf of Martaban, and at length descended over the delta of the
Irrawaddy to land on the big runways of Mingaladon airport outside the city of
Rangoon. Truly, "The earth is the Lord's and the fulness thereof!
HEIGHTS AND DEPTHS
But high mountains have deep valleys, and there was to follow nearly six long
months of waiting. How shall I describe it allofficials and offices, many applica
tions, hours of patience "hard put", a traveler's nightmare come true with purse
and passport stolen, a time of illness, the hot season, sieges of homesickness, and
with all, a feeling of urgency and the great suspense of waiting, waiting . . . . And
so our human hurry must learn Divine trust, and what are we to Him if we have
not that?
At last, toward the close of the month of July, the final answer came as "no"
and the door was closed, the key turned in the lock. In accord with previous arrange
ments, made in the event this should prove to be the case, I have returned to Thai
land, and from henceforth, as long as God wills, this will be my field of service.
It is good to be going ahead once more and heartening to realize in retrospect the
significance of the time just passed. A senior missionary, writing her encourage
ment, says that she thinks there is no need to expect anything worse than the long
and trying months spent in Rangoon. She continues, "Difficulties concerning hard
travel on weary mountain roads, poor food, and other trials which came (up-roun-
try) are much easier and of entirely different category than those you have been
facing, because there are also compensations." And, in turn, I cannot count the
worth of the hours of study, the lessons in understanding the East, the errands ana
small tasks accomplished for the mission, and the chastening and exercise of heart,
mind, and spirit brought about by the trying and testing days. God has brought me
through all these things and to this place; He has kept me by His Holy Spirit, and
my thankfulness is very great.
A CHALLENGE
Why to Thailand, and not Burma? Perhaps I will never know, but He knows,
and it is enough. Pray for Burma. Pray for the strengthening of your missionaries,
for the upholding of the Lisu and the Rawang Christians, and also that there may
yet be those who will be able to gain entrance as new workers and helpto carty the
load, At this moment these six adults are on the field; Drema Morse, Dorothy
Sterling, R. N., Robert and Betty, and Helen and Eugene Morse and their families.
They are not enough, for this work is the fruit of long-standing labour and has
grown to demanding proportions. A doctor is sorely needed, and if there is one free
to go, this challenge is to him.
"WE ARE SEVEN"
Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Galloway and Miss Imogene Williams were the first of
our missionaries to come to Thailand, Burma's southeastern neighbor. They arrived
in 1949, and were led to the north where dwell the hill people hitherto untouched
by the Gospel. Miss Dorothy Uhlig, R. N. was called to join them early in 1951,
and some months later Dorothy and Garland Bare also arrived, increasing the num
ber of workers to six. Last and least, I have come, and "we are seven." There are,
however, four "junior" missionaries in the Galloway family. At present I am study
ing the Thai language in Bangkok in order to get a good foundation before going
to live where only poorer teachers arc available, and also because during this sea
son our section is separated from the rest of the world by very much mud andwater.
In a short while, as the rainy season comes to an end, the road will be open and I
will go to join the others in Chiengkcm which is located in the east of Chiengrai
Province in the northern-most part of the Kingdom.
"ASK. BELIEVING"
Nothing is more important to us than your prayers. We have our special work
to do, but nothing we do can take the place ot your prayers. Perhaps you do not
understand nor realize how strong arc the powers of evil as they exist in these far-
off places, but we can tell you that the strength of evil is tremendous and ever pres
ent. We feel it; we know it is here, and we affirm withffie writer of the Ephesian
letter that our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against principalities,
against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world. This is no falsely
imagined battle, but a real fight and one in which we can only overcome as we real
ize again and again in our hearts and minds, the truth that "Greater is he that is in
you than he that is in the world," and claim, as it were "with all four feet" the fact
that Christ has overcome the Evil one, and appropriate for our selves that victory.
So much for the missionary; your prayers help us to stand, and ^^Lnd it hard to
express our gratitude for them, but there is a ministr}' of prayer i^pbnd this, and
ve ask earnestly for you to fulfill it. We need you to prayfor the people among
whom we must work. Pray for prepared hearts, for encouragement for those who
have already come seeking, and for willing and helpful informants wlio will assist
the missionaries in learning their tribal languages. Satan will not be lax in his ef
forts to obstruct the Gospel and to keep these people as his own wretched bond-ser-.
vants, It is a real task to set before you, and of such great importance that an older
missionary once wrote that his efforts prevailed in direct proportion to the prayers
of love and faith of faithful hearts in the homeland.
Now that 1 am more or less settled on the field it will be possible to write you
at regular intervals. Your own letters are very happily received, and prove to be a
great help and encouragment. My address is simply:
Talat Chiengkam >4.^
Changwat Chiengrai
Thailand '5-^
Thank you for your prayers throughout these days. I have needed them very^^l
much. There have been times when deep peace and assurance have come sud-*^
denly and quietly into my heart, and I have known most surely that somewhere a
friend was praying. It is a beautiful experience, renewing courage and strength,
and calling to one's own lips prayers or thankfulness and praise. May that same
peace which passeth all understanding guard and keep your hearts in Christ Jesus
our Lord.
A worker together with
Margaret M. A!ldf|d
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70 East 23rd Street
Eugene, Oregon
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