Please may I say to you.

I want to show you this morning the greatness of the love of God in our people.

Clearly,

I want to make you understand the words that I have read

from the Book of God.

But,

my heart is shaking within me because the difficulty I have in making you

understand all the things that I have seen in the land of my birth.

Randy Mitchell.

How on earth shall I compare the great love that God has to

mankind. Can one

take hold of the wind?.

I think

that I think that you American people

can understand the wind and can take hold of  the wind because you have

learned so much wisdom in your schools and in your colleges here in America.

I see that you are here in America. You are able to wrok with the wind. You do things with the wind. You send the word. You send words in the wind, all the way across the ocean to our people in the Congo. You take the wind and put it in the rubber tires

of the automobile and your bicycles. I am amazed  at the wisdom that you people

here in America have. We are not able to do that in

the Congo. But, I am telling you that the love of God surpasses all the wisdom in the heavens and far beneath the earth. Because the matters that God has done in our land of the Congo, they surpass, to amaze me. And, in showing you this great love of God, I want to show you. three matters. The first I want to show you is this.  The judgment that people, that man, brought upon his people

God so loved the world that He

sent His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth on Him should not perish, but should have life everlasting. Truly, truly,

God is full of love, surpassingly full of love to mankind.

The

second matter i want to show you is this, that God so loved us, that he himself sought sent

his only begotten a world escape that he be.

We have all sinned.

We have done very badly, but God himself has found a way to escape.

We do thank God for all he has done for us.  Thirdly, we have

read in the Book of Ephesians the second chapter God has so loved us that he has given his,

his son that he might die on the cross to redeem us and to save us from all sins. The last thing I want to show you is this, our lives, our eternal lives, all said by Jesus Christ

is something of a tremendous value, great importance, God has redeemed us. He didn't redeem us with any goats or with any other animal like that, but

he redeemed us with his own son.  As was read in the First Peter, Book of FirstPeter,

the first chapter, eighteenth to nineteenth verses, For as much as

you know that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, as children go,  from your vain

conversation received by tradition from your father but with the precious blood of Christ, as a lamb without blemish and without spot.

I

would like to show you that  God has revealed to

you. I would say that God has revealed to you, the Presbyterian Church in this country this great truth. This great

good news that you were able to send it across  to us.  Truly, truly, the word that you sent,

the good news in our

country at a time when we greatly needed it at the time that was most

opportune for our people. Our land was full of

trouble, full of trouble, like fire, our land was filled with trouble when the good news came.

At the time the missionaries came with the good news,

our people were dying in great numbers with sleeping sickness and many other diseases as well.

So when the doctors, your doctors, the missionary doctors came to our country,

they were absolutely amazed at the number of people who dying of one disease and another.

Oh! How we thank God who sent for all of the things that have

shown us all, for the great news, for the great love that he put into your heart.. That he sent t

he good news to you and sent the doctors to us that we might become as you are--well

people and people who

know the good news.

Until this day, the African people, are all saying that the people in America, the Presbyterian people,

particular, are our friends. They sent us the doctors. They sent us the medicine. They sent us the needles

to put into arms to cure some of the great diseases.

Now, we thank God for all of these good things that have come from you.

We saw that

the people, the missionaries, when they came, they came with two different matters. First, they

came with life everlasting. They brought us the good news of life everlasting. And, then they also brought us

the medicines and things

that heal our bodies and let us have life, let us live. And, so many of us have

come to live and receive strength and go and tell our own

people about the good news. Many of people. Many of our young people have come to know many many things that we've never

been there before. We've learned how to sew sewing machines. We've learned how to sew shoes, to make shoes,

to make furniture and things like that. We never did know anything

about before. And so, we say that these people who have come to teach us these things

are our friends.

The time when the missionaries came was a terrible time in our country. It was a time of

great warfare when the Portuguese from Angola came from the west

our country and the Arabs from the east also came into our country with a

time of great warfare and a time of slavery. For the Arabs and the Portuguese took many of our people

and sold them into slavery.

Bad bad bad

bad bad bad bad

bad bad.

Portuguese were called important people. From that day all white people are called important, whether they are Portuguess or whether

they are Americans or whoever they may be. And when

a white person leaves the country they say he has gone to "imputu," that is a foreign country.

Bam. Bam That was a time of slavery when the Portuguese and the Arabs came into the country and caught a great many of our people.

They came with guns, and our people had never seen a gun. They had

never heard a gun

They came into our country with guns and caught a

great

many of our people. And, the Arabs took them to the east. Took them all the way into Egypt, but the Portuguese took them to the west, to the west, to the Atlantic coast. Many of those were our people. Aver people, he says, found their way right into the American colonies.

Come.

Back. Randy.

And, we thank God

that when the missionaries came with this word of God. They came with something. They came with a book.

It is able. It is powerful.  it can stop warfare. It can stop slavery. was

really

nice.

Now you don't see the Portuguese coming to our country to get slaves. You don't see the Arabs coming to our country to get slaves.  They are not there.

I want to tell you something. I want to tell you about a matter I heard from my own mother, from my mother about the time when, when that was all taking place

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When my mother was a little girl, like one of these little girls here, a small girl, maybe eight or ten years old, in her village, one

day they heard gunfire. They had never heard gun fire before. They didn't know what to do. So they ran. They ran until

they came to a stream. They came

to the stream. And,

they came to a river called the Lubilash. And, and they wanted to get across on the boat. And, the people that were handling the boat, were in the boat, said, "We won't take you across, except you `pay us." We

have nothing to pay. We have run away from our village. Pay us the little girl. She will be our slave. So they gave the girl, his

mother to these boatmen as a slave.

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When they reached the next village, where the slaves, the slave owner took the little girls. And, the Arab people followed them across

the river. And, when they came to that village. Also, they

heard gunfire. And, they` killed many people but all the people that were there, that could escape,

tried to run away. They couldn't go anyOwhere except in a cave. They all entered into a great

cave. It is between the Bushimaie and the Lubilash  Rivers.

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Only a very few escaped out of that cave, because the Arabs built a great fire

in

front of, in front of the cave, and threw stones into the cave. Only very few people came out of that cave. A great

number entered that cave. And, let me say in passing, that I myself have entered that cave. And, I have seen skeletons of hundreds and hundreds of people

They were

it.

When they arrived in the next village, after his mother and a very few people escaped, they came

to the next village and the people caught them. They found that the chief of that village, a great chief had died.  So they caught these

people and said, "You ought to sit down and wail and weep and wail for our chief. I do not know

the name of that chief. My mother didn't tell me. You must sit down and wail for the chief.

So. They found the dead chief in the village. And, the people caught them and made them weep and wail for

the chief.  But then after

that. Right.

Right.

But then after that, they took all these people and broke their arms, broke their legs. They dug a big grave, a

great big

grave  for the important chief. And, they put the chief in the grave, and they put all these people in the grave too with their eyes open. They were quite well

aware of what was going on. They were alive. They said, "We don't want our chief to go where he is going by himself."

Other than my mother, only

one person escaped out of that whole group of people, that were buried in that grave. Buried alive. And

my mother escaped only for one reason and that is the sister of the chief saw that the girl was

a promising girl. And said, "Don't break her arm! Don't break her leg. I want that little girl to be a slave in my house." Ah! The love of God sur

passes

understanding that he chose my wife my my mother. He save my mother

from this great and terrible death.

But when

my mother

arrived at the house of the sister of the chief, she was

very sad. She cried the whole day long because of the terrible, terrible things she had

seen. And, she had seen people buried alive in the grave. And she lost her appetite

completely. She couldn't eat anything at all because she believed the Arabs would come to this village, She didn't know what her end would be.

Well when the sister of the chief saw that this girl was

not eating anything and getting thin, she said this little girl is going to

die. She won't be worth anything to me. I'd better get rid of her. I'm going to sell her off to another village. I'd better give her to some

people and let them sell her while she still is strong. So. She gave this little girl,

his mother to

some other people were going to another village to sell for her. They took that little girl.  They took her all the way to Luebo. Luebo.  The first mission station of our mission.

There they took her to Dr. William Morrison [Morrison, William McCutchan] and our old missionaries Sheppard [Sheppard, William H.] and Hawkins [Hawkins, Henry Philip] and Miss Fearing [Fearing, Maria] . And, there they put this little girl in the Girls Home

That is what they call it, the Girls Home.

When she got into this Girls Home, she

was so happy.

Oh! She was so happy because she learned to read. She learned the Shorter Catechism. She learned

many things in this home. She became a Christian. She accepted the Lord Jesus

Christ as her Savior. She learned to sing songs. She was so happy she just

sang songs all day long.

All.

At the same time, my father had also

been a slave. And, he had been traded round from place to place. And, he finally arrived also at Luebo. And,

he was redeemed at Luebo.

Even as my mother was redeemed for one piece of cloth, eight yards of cloth, with the price

of a slave. They redeemed this girl. The missionaries redeemed the girl and redeemed the

boy. Put the girl in the Girls Home and the boy in the Boys Home.

Also, the parents, the parents of

my wife, who is with us this morning. Also her parents were slaves. And,

they were brought into this home for the boys and the girls at Luebo.

And

My father saw my mother in

the Girls Home. And he liked what he saw.

And so, he took her to be his wife.

They received their marriage at

the mission, a Christian marriage. And, they remained in that marriage

many years. But they didn't see a child. They had no child born to them.

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My father became weak in his Christian faith, and he married a

second woman. So he might have perhaps a child.

They the people of the church, the missionaries of the church and the native leaders of the church. They judged

him and they took his name from the roll of the

church. Would not let him have the communion

But my mother would never stop praying. She

just said basket of prayers all the time. If God wants to give me a child,

that would be good.

She never failed to enter into the house of God.

She remembered the word of God that says, "If

you ask anything in my name, it shall be done unto you." And so, she did constantly pray for a child.

She told me.  that I want God to give me a child.

God

heard her prayer and on the

13th of April nineteen hundred and nine, I was born.

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My mother named me Kanyinda Isaac,

because God had heard her prayer

and answered her prayer.

My mother just took me to church all the time. I was baptized in

the faith, because of the faith of my parents by

Rev.  Crane. By Rev. Dr. Crane.

and so my mother just took me to the church all the time and taught me all the things that she had known--to read and all of those things.

To

In nineteen hundred nine in the month of August. I had

learned the Shorter Catechism perfectly

and had learned many other things. Learned to read and to write. They took me before the church.

Mr. Mackinnon [McKinnon, Arch Cornelius] some of us may know, received him

into the church and he said Now you're a member of the church.

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At that

time.

My mother and my father both took me to the man who was in charge of the Boys Home.

Dr. Martin [Martin, Motte].

We wish our child to be a preacher of the Word of God. And, Dr. Martin asked me, "Do

you want to learn all about being a preacher of the word all the days of your life?"

Yes, he said. "That's what I want. That's what I feel that God called me to do, to be a preacher of his Word, all the days of

my life.

That was

the time he said when I knew so

well Mr. Segall and his wife and Dr. Sixrud, who has also

going to be with the Lord. And then, Mr. McGovern and also Dr. McElroy, who was then with us

from time to time. That was the time

when I knew all my friends in the Lord so well.

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We had a small school at that time, and I

entered this school and I learned

all the things that the school had to teach and some good

things of the future.

Another missionary

came, Mr. Frank Gilliam [Gilliam, Frank J.],

from Virginia.

And he was going to start a great school like Mutoto, our second mission station. He told me

I want you to go with me and help me in the school.

So we went to Mutoto.

All right, he said.  I told Mr. Gilliam I want to go to your school

and learn all you can teach me but I'm a preacher. When I finish that school, I want to become

a preacher.

When I got to Mutoto,

I finished that

school and entered the Bible school.

And when I finished that then I became a preacher of the Word.

That was the time, he said, when I saw

a young lady, the daughter of the high school cub normal. whom I fell

in love with. And,

she became my wife.

And, God had given us ten children and

four grandchildren. We thank Him with all of our heart.

We are amazed at the growth

that our mission has taken in the Congo. In those days, we had only one station, Luebo, then two, Mutoto; then Lusambo.

We had only three or four mission stations. But today, look, we have eleven mission stations! And, we have a theological school, a

Bible School. We have dental school, medical school. Many other schools are established. that your mission is making the Congo. That we are absolutely amazed.

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Were Made the things that our people have learned to do. Before

the missionaries come, they knew none of these things. But now we have pastors in the churches. We have elders.

We have deacons. We have teachers in the school. We have many of the elders who

have not entered the work of the church. They become carpenters. They become shoemakers. They

become tailors. Many of them are clerks in the offices of the

government. And one of them, the brother of my wife, has

come to America sent by the King of Belguim himself to settle the things in America. Kalonsi Issac

that is his name.

God be praised!

For all his

goodness to the people of the Kasai, who in their trouble, in their

punishment because of the goodness of God in sending the

good news over to us, now we are quiet. We are peaceful with.

What more can

we do? What can we give you? What can we pay you? What

can we do to repay for all of your kindness and all of your goodness

to us in sending us this Good News?

We are poor. We have nothing in our hands.

We just have God and he will. He will pay

you. We were not able to do it. He will repay, because we were poor. We are

not able to do anything.

But he is able.

Surely, he has never gotten on a subway, but he love us, the

people of Africa. He loves all people, and he loves us as well.

What shall we do to thank God

for all of the things that he has done for us? The only thing we c

an do is to give to him, to commit to him, to surrender to him our lives,

our hearts, our wisdom, all that we have.  All that we have, all the days of our lives.

Just as we have read in the book of Timothy

The first chapter [First Timothy, verse twelve].

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I thank God. I thank Jesus Christ, my Lord.

because he has given me the strength, who counts myself as

a person of

no worth, but he put me into

his work. Let him have the praise

for ever and for ever.

In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.