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Bible Institute FAMILY CIRCLE School Children Receive God’s Word An overwhelmingly large opportu nity for evangelism has pome to Rich ard W. and Mrs. Ohly (Ruth Umstead, ’21), Box. 655, Tyler, Tex., in opening^ for speaking in many rural schools in Texas. Mr. Ohly employs the lec ture method of study with boys and girls of high-school age, and Mrs. Ohly uses visual lessons for the younger children. These workers are not backed by any denomination or organization, and they simply enter doors as the Lord opens them. They park their trailer near a Church in Tyler, going out to the various schools, the daily mileage on their car usual ly runping from nearly 100 to 150 miles. day since we had presented them last February. This is not such a bad average when one considers this is public-school work, not church work, and the children have very little, if any, encouragement ' from parents or friends. We praise the Lord for this little ‘fruit’ He has caused us to see.” In addition to this activity, Mr. Ohly has been working on his disser tation for a doctor’s degree at Dallas Theological Seminary, Dallas, Tex., having completed his resident study. Recent Arrivals Charles (’36) and Mrs. Olvey, 1746 W. Buchanan St., Phoenix, Ariz;, have been ertgaged in deputation work while on furlough from service under the Orinoco River Mission at Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela, S. A.
Born To H. Lewis (’31) and Mrs. Coates (Helen Rittenhouse), a daughter, Bar bara Jean, Nov. 25, 1941, San Diego, Calif. To Arthur W. (’38) and Mrs. Eng lish, a son, David Arthur, Nov. 23, 1941, Pasadena, Calif. To Kenneth and Mrs. Friant (Mar garet W. Trowbridge, ’27), a son, Wil liam Porter, Dec. 14, 1941, Inglewood, Calif. To Rolland and Mrs. Rice (Mildred Dean), a son, Richard Dean, Jan. 8, Los Angeles, Calif. With the Lord E. A. Earns, who at one time served the Bible Institute of Los Angeles as radio program director, went to be with the Lord on January 5. For the past five, years he had been serving as pastor of the First Baptist Church of West Los Angeles. Institute friends extend their sympathy to Mrs. Earns, who has been living at 1711 Butler Ave., West Los Angeles, Calif. Cortland Myers, of 322 N. McCadden Place, Los Angeles, Calif., after fifty- one years of service as a Baptist min ister and author, went to be with the Lord pn December 26. Among his pas torates were those of Tremont Temple, Boston, Mass., and the Immanuel Bap tist Church, Pasadena, Calif. Dr. Myers served for a time on the faculty of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles and more recently in radio work for the Union Rescue Mission. At a memorial service in the Church of the Open Door on January 4, representatives of the church, the Institute, and the Union Rescue Mission gave public recognition to the fruitful ministry of the Lord’s servant. Mrs. Harry F. Sheerer, who formerly served as office secretary to the late W. H. Pike, secretary of the Evening School of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles, went into the presence of her Saviour on January 4 after an ex tended illness. With her husband, who was a member of the class of 1921, she had served for several years in the First Baptist Church of Orange, Calif., where Mr. Sheerer was pastor until his ill health prevented his con tinuing in service there. He can be addressed in care of L. T. Paulson at. Camp Bethel, La Verne, Calif. Hazel Todd, ’19, a member of the China Inland Mission since 1920, was called Home to the Lord on November 17, 1941, in China, having contracted typhus fever. Her ministry was par ticularly that'of encouraging Chinese Christians to assume responsibility in witnessing for their Saviour. Miss Todd’s fellow worker at Shucheng, Anhwei, China, has been Ruth Elliott of the class of 1927 at Biola.
In reporting on their activity for the month of October, 1941, Mr. and Mrs. Ohly wrote, “In October we vis ited 21 schools, taught 3,?20 Students and teachers, distributed 630 Gospels of John and 2,385 Gospels of Mark, received 161 confessions of Christ, and found 15 who had read Gospels every day since these were presented to them eight months previously. If one looks at numbers, there might be some gratification of desire, but when the need is surveyed, there is no cause of satisfaction in such small numbers. True, there is joy in heaven over every sinner that repenteth, but how much more there should be! “Our hearts leap with joy as we give out the Gospels of Mark this year, to have most of the children say they still have the Gospel of John and are reading in it. In ,a total of five schools there were fifteen who had read every
Frank E. (’28) and Mrs.' Manning (Augusta Balzer), members of the Africa Inland Mission, have returned to the United States for furlough and hope to visit Los Angeles in February. Their mail address is in care of H. P. Balzer, Rt. 2, Newton, Kans. Mr. and Mrs. Manning have brought with them the manuscript for the Kijita New Testament, and they ask prayer that it may be printed soon. Married Howard Duane Owings and Mary R. Best, ’35, Dec. 28, 1941, Los Angeles, Calif. J. Lewis Major and Sally Kessler, ’41, Dec. 25, 1941, San Diego, Calif. Sven B. Soderberg and Margaret Jean Richards, Jan. 18, Los Angeles, Calif.
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