Hid Gospel From japs
How a missionary couple captured by the Japanese succeeded in safeguarding their translation into the Borean tribal language of St Mark’s Gospel was told by Miss E. M. Berg, during her address to the Whangarei British and Foreign Bible Society on Thursday evening. Apparently suspecting that the missionaries, Mr and Mrs Southwell, were holding something valuable the Japa,n|ese made surprise raids. On one occasion Mrs Southwell was at her wits end to find a safe place for the work during a search, of which she and her husband had been warned. Finally she hung the 'pages on the clothes’ line and draped wet clothes over them. They were not discovered, and, on her release, Mrs Southwell was able to hand over the translation, which had been the work of years, to I Bible Society headquarters. Mr Southwell died while a prisoner.
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Northern Advocate, 19 April 1947, Page 2
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