Editorial

"He that goeth forth bearing precious seed" are the words that could be well applied to our brother and sister Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Bulander. We became intimately acquainted with the Bulanders at the time of the Ohio Flood Disaster in 1937. We quote from a copy of Annals dated April, 1937.  "Every time I go south I pass through Logansport and find it is a convenient center for reaching the needy people..."

In those days the Bulander home in Logansport became the center of distribution. The Bulanders not only were delighted to open their home but also threw themselves wholeheartedly into the welfare work, the distribution of Christian literature, and the preaching of the gospel.

Again we quote from an editorial describing a trip which we took with brother Bulander in those days. "We have just returned from an extended trip through the Ohio and Mississippi Valleys from Jeffersonville and Louisville, down to Memphis, Tennessee, trying to reach those in the concentration camps with gospel tracts and Scripture portions and Bibles. Thousands of the inhabitants of the lowlands of Tennessee, Arkansas and Missouri were forced out of their homes, and it was comparatively easy to reach them in the camps. Many of these people came from isolated sections where evangelists seldom go and the Gospel is almost unknown, Quite a few who received Bibles had never owned one before, and hundreds have sent to us since our visit asking for a free copy of God's Way of Salvation which was offered in the literature that was given away. We feel that we were a month too late in getting to the camps, but supposed that Christians in the different churches and their clergymen would at least seek to give these people the Word of God. Evidently there was little exercise among them, for it was common to hear men and women say, 'This is the first time I heard anything about the Bible since I came here.'"

That summer Mr. Bulander again gave himself wholeheartedly for Gospel tent work in the Ohio River valley.

Claude E. Bulander was born November 28, 1893. He was the youngest of six children of pioneer parents. At the age of 24 he was deeply convicted of sin and converted to God. He met and married Ruth Nelson while preparing for service at the Moody Bible Institute. He spent some time with the American Sunday School Union in the northern woods of Minnesota, then held a few Baptist pastorates. He met the Gilbert brothers in tent meetings in Indiana. Later he attended the first workers' conference and made his decision to go forth in the name of the Lord alone. That was in 1933 less than four years before the disastrous Ohio flood.

Two years after that flood World War II commenced and a new avenue of service opened up to the Bulanders. He did a great work among the soldiers in several camps, then took over personal work at the soldiers' center of the Pacific Garden Mission. Many soldiers were brought to the Lord during those years. Mrs. Bulander shared wonderfully in this service.

His later years were spent in helping small assemblies and giving out tracts at fairs and other gatherings. Still bringing forth fruit in old age he put a stock of tracts in his car and went to a fair in Iowa. He took sick at Waterloo. Flown home to Knox he spent a week in the hospital. Form there he received his homecall on October 16, 1968 shortly before his 75th birthday. The funeral was taken by T. B. Gilbert and Robert M Majonnier at Knox, Indiana on October 19. The grave services were taken by Robert W. Majonnier, Russell Fagner, and Art Melvin.   --W., Grand Rapids, Michigan "The Up Look"