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About The Alliance herald. (Alliance, Box Butte County, Neb.) 1902-1922 | View Entire Issue (April 23, 1914)
MISS WASHBURN WRITIS LETTER Letter from Mis Orilla K. Wash, bum, Formerly an Alliance V.lrt, Vil of Interest The Herald has told before of Miss Orilla F. Washburn, the former Alliance girl who la now a mission ary In the Philippine Islands. I- went to Vlgan by boat. Left San Ferdarido at eleven o'clock at night, reached Vlgan at five In the morning The sea was very quiet and I enjoyed the trip Immensely. The stars were so bright and just above the horizon hung the beautiful Southern Cross. The boat-was so small we all had to sleep, on deck, which added to our pleasure. At Vlgan we were enter tained at the mission house.- The sessions of conference were very In teresting. I wish you could have heard the reports of both the mis sionaries and the native pastors and deaconesses. There has beep much persecution and unrest during the past year because the spirit of Inde pendence is so widely spread among the people, pur native pastors have held on manfully to keep their peo ple together and to present a strong face to sin and unrighteousness. One j of our deaconess girls told of the j work In the Junior League and how ithe padre would give the children H'. it Orilla P. Washburn Orilla F. Washburn, daughter of Rev. A. Mi Washburn and wife, fof several years pastor at Lakeside and Alliance Circuit, was bora in Wis consin. When quite a young girl she came with her parents to N. W. Conference. Ambitious for an edu cation she went to Crete making her home with a friend of ber family during the school year, graduating from the high school. Then follow ed four years at Nebraska State Uni versity. While at this institution she presented herself to the Woniena Foreign Missionary Society, and was accepted. The special"1 training re quired was secured at the Chicago hit 4 MM ( I 1 HiDie x raining acuuui. During all this time, except the three last years, she worked her way by domestic work. In her Junior year at Lincoln she was an assistant In laboratory; the money for her year at Chicago was provided by a good man a friend of the cause at Broken Bow. In 1912 she, with a party of mis sionaries, sailed from San Francisco for tho Philtnnlna whprfl hv an-' pointment she was placed in charge of the Bible Women's Training, WUUUI HI L.lllf.',itjf II. Miss Washburn is supported by! g'fts from friends in the northwest Nebraska Conference. j The following letter, written to; her friend, Mrs. Harmony, at Chad ron, 1b full of Interest: Women's Bible Training School Lingayen, I'augaslnan. P. I. Orilla F. Washburn, Principal Feb. 14, 1914. Dear Mrs. Harmony: Your lovely Christmas letter and package came some time ago. Thank you so much for everything; I would like to send personal letters to each one of the ladies who so kindly re membered me, but that Is impossible for the present at least. Please give my thanks to each one. Everything was so lovely and "homey" it gave me a big warm feeling around my heart to be remembered that way, bo far from my own folks and loved ones. Thank you again for the things you sent. : ; School closed In December with seven girls graduated; Bishop and Mrs. Eveland came for commence ment and Bishop made the address. After that I made a little speech in llokano, and presented the diplomas. . How proud I was I will leave you to gueaa. How much I am hoping from these girls! They are out at . Work now, and need prayers to help them stand against the temptations they meet. Because of Boc'al stand ards among the native people it is 1 hard for a Filipino girl to stand alone and keep pure and true. Pray ' for God's blessing upon them as they work for him. We expect many more girls this year, at least forty have been accept ed; but we cannot squeeze in more than thirtv. Some of them will drop off the list before school begins so we will probably not have to send any home after Vhey get here. My greatest blessing of this year tame in the form of a new fellow worker, and a dear old friend.. I cannot tell you the joy In my heart as I welcomed Mildred Blakely to the Philippines and to Lingayen. God has surely been very good to : me. I thank Him for the strength He bus given me to endure past bru dens and I look forward to the com ing year with trust and confidence in Him. Do not forget to pray for me. because I greatly need strength for my work among the people. Conference came during January at Vigan, the second city of import- A - t ..... p. t ance on l.uwu. Ja ii was ou iai from Manilla the women were. un able to leave their work, so the worn I jtentavos If they Would not attend the Protestant service. Once she was walking with a number of child ren to the service, when other child ren came up. These are her words: "The children spit at us, but their ;splt was not strong enough so it could reach us." "I wish you could have heard her say it with her pe culiar, broken English and emotion al expression, We had a procession thru the streets of all the missionaries and native Christians. On a vaca cart was placed a huge open- Bible made from cloth and bamboo; behind this was a closed Bible with a church on top of it representing Catholoclsm. Bishop Eveland rode ahead distrib uting tracts. As we passed a Cath olic church a group of children grab bed the tracts tearing them to piec es. The padre without doubt was paying them to do so. " There is much beautiful scenery near Vigan. One place where the Abra river cuts thru the mountains is called the gap. We visited it in ' tthe afternoon. A short distance a-! way lay the China Sea bright and I sparkling a most . exquisite blue, i The mountains are very rugged, like j the Rockies, and are covered with a j deep brown Velvety moss. The Abra j is deep aad swift where It cuts thru j the rocks. As the sun sank Its glow touched up mountain, river, sea and sky until we seemed very near the city celestial. One of the things i which gives me courage for my work is the glimpse I get into heaven thru j the beauties God has thrown around ; Soon the rest of the missionaries came across with the baggage leav ing me auto behind. The men found vaca and carabao carts to carry the women and the baggage a raranao cart is a box on two wheels without springs or seats. The caracao Is so slow that the men walked ahead all the time. At nine o'clock the auto caught up with us; they had worked It out and It cer tainly looked like an old friend. We arrived at San Fernando at half rest two. The United Brethren mission anes were looking for us, and In sisted on our eating, altho'we were so tired we would gladly have rolled up in our steamer rugs on the floor and gone to sleep. However, the food refreshed us and at four we were ready to retire. We had to rise at six to reach the tiain for home. It took some time to recvoer from that trip. Next wnek I start out on an evan gelistic trip thru the province; will keep up thai work most of the time until July, which will afford some Interesting experience, I a HI sure. Please send this letter around north- I west Nebraska, as I cannot find time to write personal letters to all. Orilla F. Washburn. Join our suit club and get suit cleaned and three pressed 12. Alliance Cleaning Works. one for Dancers of a Cold. Do you know that of all the minor ail ments colds are by far the most dangerous T It is not ths cold themselves that you need to fear, but the seriou diseases that they so often lead to. 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At Candon the Bishop dedicated their new church here a great crowd had assembled, both inside of church and outside crowds were gathered. The service was most impressive. After the service we had dinner, and then left fos San Fernando. The Band was very deep, and many, many times it was necessary for all of us to get 'out, while the men helped lift the wheels out of the deep rut they hud bored into. We crossed five rivers on "balsas" or bamboo rafts. At five o'clock we reached a very swift river; it was thought that the auto with all of us aboard would be too heavy to pull across, so four of us girls crosse don a small raft. In the meantime in trying to run the auto onto the balsa, they ran it Into the river, and there it stuck. On the opposite side we girls waited for two hours. Crowds of children and grown people gathered around us. I talked to them in ilokano (I for got to tell you that I passed my con ference examination with a grade of ninety-eight in Ilokano). 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