Tachienlu, Apr. 23.
ECENTLY, the Bare family, six in number left the Tibetan frontier for the United States of America.
Dr. and Mrs, Bare who came from Nebraska rived in Batang in 1926 to carry on medical work in connection with the Church of Christ, but on their return to the States in 1932 they severed their relations with the Church of Christ and associated themselves with a Fundamental Mission known as the Tibetan Border Christian Mission. Unfortunately mission, conducted along strictly fundamental lines, has had a very short existence and is now more or less broken up into smaller parts.
The Tibetan Border Christian Mission established itself at Tsakalo on the left bank of the Mekong and actually within the borders of the Land of the Lamas.
From 1934 work was carried on there among the Tibetans and, while the Lhasa authorities were friendly, the local lamas did al they could to turn the mission aries out of Lhasa controlled territory.
From 1034 to 1099 Dr.and Mrs. Bare and their four children lived {requently at Tsakalo healing. the sick fand_preaching the gospel among the local Tibetans. Lite was not easy. At times the Jamas forbade the population having any intercourse With the missionaries oven forbld~ ding them selling any foodstuffs and fen one oF more occasions they even cut off their water supply, Bravely the doctor and his little wife tried hard to live down this bitter opposition and establish themselves, possible, in Lamaland, They worked bhard atthe Tibetan language and Soon gained enough knowledge of it to make the Tibetans understand the Purpose of their mission, But the four children, Edgar, Marguerite, Garland and "Maribel were the veal missionaries connected with the mission, These four children, Wie most of the other children of missionaries along. the border, soon acquired a ready knowledge of Tibe-{tan so could speak and preach quite fluently. in some of the local dialects, also a great help to arose and where the Tibetans they were not clearly unc stood. And very often the avenue to the parents was through the childen'and through the children to the Tibetans, Edgar, Marguerite and Garland soon acquited a knowledge of the written language, and day by day they made a point of spending rome time with a Tibetan teacher
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