EDITOR'S NOTE


 HAITI DIARY has been compiled from the letters of
Paul Orjala, young missionary to Haiti. Paul, with his
young wife, Mary, arrived in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in
the fall of 1950 to take over the native work which had
become affiliated with the Church of the Nazarene in
1948. The intimate record of a pioneer missionary's
first struggling years is best recorded in his daily journal
or in his personal letters to those closest to him back
home.
 In compiling the diary from the letters, very few
changes have been necessary. The dates are all authentic.
Deletion of certain items of purely personal interest was
necessary of course. Space restrictions dictated other
omissions. Diary form required an occasional change of
word, and in a few rare instances an abridgment in the
editor's words was thought expedient for the sake of
brevity.
 The editor is indebted to Paul's mother, Mrs. Gertrude
Orjala, of San Diego, California, for graciously lending
her letters from Paul; and to Dr. Remiss Rehfeldt, gen-
eral foreign missions secretary of the Church of the
Nazarene, for giving access to the file of Paul's letters
to the missions office.
 Special thanks are due to Paul for allowing his letters
 to be used. A more modest and unassuming young man
 it would be difficult to find, and he was apparently some-
 what startled at the request for the use of his letters.
 His answer indicates his attitude: "About the idea of a
 reading book composed of our letters-we never dreamed
 that there was a chance of our becoming notorious at
 such a tender age! How would we ever be able to face
 the world when we are back in the States on furlough?
 ... We are not opposed to the idea ... but since we