March 1927
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K i n g ’ s
B u s i n e s s
DR. J . STUART HOLDEN RECTOR OF ST. PAULAS EPISCOPAL CHURCH, PORTMAN SQUARE, LONDON, ENG. WHO PREACHED ANNIVERSARY SERMON
DR. CHARLES E. HURLBURT SUPERINTENDENT
DR. JOH N M. MACINNIS DEAN
Tw en tieth Anniversary Bible Institute of Los Angeles Sunday, February 13, 1927
O N Sunday afternoon, February 13, 1927, at 3 o’clock, there gathered in the large auditorium of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles a host of friends and well-wishers to join in commemorating the twentieth anniversary of this great Christian institution. The meeting was presided over by Dr. John Murdoch Maclnnis, Dean of the Institute, assisted by Dr. Charles E. Hurlburt, Superintendent. Following the singing of “How Firm a Foundation,” Dr. Hurlburt invoked the divine blessing upon the assem blage, after which Dr. Ralph Atkinson, the Associate Dean, read the 27th Psalm. The Men’s Glee Club of the Institute, consisting of thirty voices, under .the leadership of Prof. J. B. Trow bridge, Director of the Music Department, sang “While the Days are Going By,” after which Dr. John McNeill, pastor of the Church of the Open Door, led in prayer. The combined Men’s and Women’s Glee Clubs, under the direction of Prof. Trowbridge, then sang “O Holy Lord,” a negro spiritual. Rev. Albert E. Kelly, Secretary Extension Department, officiated in taking the offering, when Rev. J. H. Hunter, Secretary of the Faculty, offered prayer. Prof. Herbert G. Tovey, Assistant Director of the Music Department, led, the Girl’s Glee Club of thirty voices in singing “My Lord and I.” Dr. Maclnnis then introduced as the special speaker of the afternoon, Dr. J. Stuart Holden of St. Paul’s Church, Portman Square, London, who is also the chairman of the
Keswick Conference, and the Home Director for Great Britain of the China Inland Mission. Dr. Holden commenced his;address by expressing his satisfaction at finding himself on the platform of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles, with which he had long main tained,personal and prayerful interest. He mentioned his long friendship with Dr. Maclnnis and Dr. Hurlburt, as well as his intimate touch with the missionary operations of the Institute carried on in China by Dr. Keller and his Evangelistic bands. “It is often true,” he said, “that an ideal gives birth to an Institution, and that the Institution proceeds by its own growth to kill the ideal. That this is not 'the case with the Bible Institute was,” he declared, “a cause for hearty thanksgiving. The Institute is founded upon the divine inspiration and supreme authority of the Word of God, and to this day it has not shifted either from or upon its firm foundation.” Dr. Holden went on to say that the theme of the entire Bible is Christ,—foretold in the Old Testament, and forth- told in the New; latent in the Old, patent in the New; in the one enfolded, and in the other unfolded; in the Old Testament every ray of light and truth converging upon Him, in the New all such rays radiating from Him. And the Instituted testimony is to Him and to His entire suf ficiency for the eternal need of the world. He prayed that the Institute in all its membership and in all its activities may never waver in its witness, nor diminish the force and influence of its testimony by any admixture.
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