getting together and singing it. And, incidentally,
 one of my biggest motives in trying to get it going
 would be to get the message of the "Messiah" into
 the minds of some of these worldly Americans who
 never give God a thought. The words of "The Mes-
 siah" are all Scripture and are really quite evangelistic
 bringing in the basic claims of the gospel And it
 would also help to get the missionaries in more con-
 tact with the other Americans. We have a real burden
 for them. Most of them aren't really happy and need
 the Lord badly.

April 9-Monday was the "Festival of Sanitation." They
 paraded the school children, garbage and trash trucks,
 and public health vehicles around the city hall down-
 town.
 Sunday I went to Gonaives for their "Harvest
 Festival" (something analogous to Thanksgiving).
 There were between 300 and 400 there, including
 about 50 visitors from other churches. The church
 holds only about 250, so they built a brush and palm
 arbor by the side of the church and had it under that.
 It is their custom to bring in a part of their harvest
 as a gift to the Lord (on the order of a tithe); the
 church then sells the produce and puts the money in
 the treasury. This time they are starting a fund to
 buy metal sheeting for the church roof. I was really
 very pleased with the whole thing. There was a good
 spirit, and it seems that the people are really with
 us. We can't wait till we can live up there and start
 training those young people. There are over a half
 dozen preachers and about the same number of good
 prospects among the young men of the church who
 would be enrolled in the Bible school when we start
 it.
 There is a good chance that we will get another
 missionary couple appointed to Haiti in June at Gen-
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