Eric M. Meleen
By Eric M. Meleen, Former Superintendent, Burma Union Mission
Articles by Eric M. Meleen
Just Between Us Missionary Wives—No. 1
June 1938
Although I married one of the best missionaries in the world, and although twenty of our more than twenty-seven years of life together have been spent in India, I still feel incompetent in the role of missionary…
Facing India's Problem—No. 2
December 1939
Probably every indigenous worker and every missionary in India, including those in our own ranks, could point to examples of individuals and groups who have improved their economic and social status by becoming…
Facing the India Problem No. 1
November 1939
India presents such a variety of conditions—geographical, economic, sociologic, and religious—that it is well-nigh futile to attempt any general statement about the country which would apply accurately to all parts or to all classes of people…
Insight One of Our Great Needs
October 1943
characteristic feature of reports of progress in our work is the attention that is called to the inadequacy of provision to meet the needs of the work, especially financial provision. No doubt more liberal financial…
Self-Reliance in the Indigenous Church
August 1945
Much of a helpful and appropriate nature has been said and written about the development of a self-reliant, self-supporting, and self- propagating indigenous church in our great mission fields. Surely we have approached the time when we…
National Worker Evangelism in India
January 1947
Even missionaries, it seems, are not immune from the fear and dislike of making new discoveries and adopting new methods in work. We seem to fear that something will be upset by a different approach, and that…
Just Between Us Missionary Wives—No. 2
August 1938
I like Benjamin Franklin's homely advice, "Keep your eyes wide open before mar-. riage, and shut them afterward." "Bear and forbear" must be the rule even with the most saintly people. "Love is blind" is a true saying,…
Just Between Us Missionary Wives—No. 3
October 1938
When in Rome do as the Romans do" was another of my mother's proverbs. The homes, the people, the food, the customs, the climate, the seasons,—everything is different in the mission field, and a missionary wife must adapt…
Just Between Us Missionary Wives—No. 4
December 1938
Piety and simplicity go hand in hand. Missionaries' wives and ministers' wives should be examples and set the ball rolling toward more simplified living. Many wives fuss so much over their cooking and housekeeping that…