ANGELS IN SUMATRA
I love the true story found in the book Taps by a Dr. Mantle. The setting is Sumatra among the wild Battas. Two American missionaries had been killed and eaten. For twenty years there was no further effort to reach the Battas. Then a brave missionary named Von Asselt, with his equally heroic wife, determined to go among these cannibals with the story of Christ’s redeeming love. They knew perfectly well, before they went, the terrible perils of their position, but they had great faith in the Lord and the angels that could, at a moment’s call, stoop down to guard and to deliver. “The first two years,” declares Von Asselt, “were of such a character that I shudder even now as I think about them. Frequently it seemed as if we were encompassed not only by hostile men but by hostile powers of darkness. Their presence was so real, that we often had to get up in the night to…
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