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Helen Claassen, ’32, is teaching school at Beatrice, Nebr., where twenty-seven chil dren are in her charge. The reading of the Bible has a place in the opening exercises, and in numerous other ways the children are being influenced for Christ. Sunday- school, choir, and missionary work increase Miss Claassen’s opportunities for witness ing. Willabell Bigelow,’32, and Mabel Phipps, ’32, are students at Fresno State College, Fresno, Calif. A Bible Club,, under the direction of the University Bible Clubs, Inc. (headquarters at 572 Hilgard Ave., Los Angeles) has been organized on the campus. Nineteen students have signified a willingness to spend twenty-five minutes each day in prescribed Bible study. This is a heartening beginning, but with 1900 stu dents enrolled in the school, “there remain- eth very much land to be possessed.” Prayer is asked for Beth Mahon, ’28, who is serving in Congo Beige, West Africa. She has been having much trouble with her eyes. “In spite of severe headaches,” she writes, “I have kept up the reading of the Word, especially in the early morning hours. I believe the devil Would attack my body and put me out of use for a while, but I refuse to be put by him !” Claude H. Pearson, ’21, continues his great work among sailors at San Pedro, Calif. “ Since our last letter,” he writes, “two Japanese deck officers, one British engineer, and two navy boys surrendered to the Lord Jesus.” Friends of the work are asked to observe the first Tuesday o f every month as a day o f fasting and prayer for this en terprise. Mrs. H. W. Saucy (Jeanne Weber, ’25)7 whose home is in Switzerland, accompanied her husband on a very gratifying two- weeks’ mission among vacationists—minis ters, teachers, professors, students, etc.—at à seaport in France. “Never had I seen so many persons weep over their sins,” Mrs. Saucy writes, “It Was a real joy to lead many to the cross.” Nora E. Jordan, ’24, and Beatrice Spies, ’27, have been holding evangelistic meet ings in the New England states. They re port that there are more Open doors than they are able to. enter; They, held fifteen campaigns during the year. Bertel Pagard, ’27, E.S., with Mrs. Pa gard (Pauline Seifert, ’27), is doing a fine piece o f work for the Lord in Transvaal. South Africa. Mr. Pagard writes of a humorous incident, for missionary life has its smiles as well as its heartaches: “ I wish you could have been with me last Saturday to take my picture. I was going out to one o f our outstations to conduct communion service the following Sunday. I could not make the journey in one day, but had to start on Saturday and spend the night in a native kraal, the home of one of our evangelists. I was heartily welcomed. As it had been a hot day, the wife of the evangelist quickly prepared a meal for me consisting o f a bowl of sour milk. She placed this on a little table crudely made from a grocery box, and asked me to sit down and eat while she stood directly in front of me and fanned me with the tassel of an ox tail, the handle o f which was the tail itself ! What a picture that would have made !” James I. Jones, ’29, has resigned the pas torate o f the Keystone Baptist Church, Torrance, Calif., in order to become pastor of the First Baptist Church, Holtville* Calif., in the Imperial Valley, near the Mexican border. His successor at Torrance is Ernest E. Nichols, ’24. Clifford Lilyquist, ’25, a student at U.C. L.A., sang at the wedding of James Black- stone and Jean Steffen, December 20, at
the First Presbyterian Church of Holly wood. His sister, Ruth ( ’27), is teaching in Claremont, Calif., while Mildred (’24) is director of girls’ work at the Immanuel Presbyterian Church, Los Angeles. Ethel Miller, ’27, is at the Moody Bible Institute. She expects to be graduated from the Missionary Course in April, and to serve the Lord in Africa. Eric Walden, ’30, with Mrs. Walden, is staying at the Pasadena headquarters of his mission, the Navajo Indian Evangeliza tion Movement, o f which Mr. and Mrs. B. H. Stokeley (Edith Menzer, T4) are the directors, 335 Monterey Road, South Pasa dena, Calif. They are open for calls to speak in churches, young people’s groups, etc. It is their hope to go soon to the field; Oraibi, Ariz. The need is apparent in the following statistics: There are 45,000 Na vajo Indians; one and one-half per cent are Christians; less than fifty per cent have been evangelized. Adam Hunt, Box 303, Lemon, S. Dak., has preached the gospel for the past two years in a group of country churches in South Dakota. His work as an evangelist has been greatly blessed of God. He has succeeded also in placing twenty-seven sub scriptions to T he K ing ’ s B usiness in the homes of his people. Under the auspices of the China Inland Mission, Marjorie Meyers sailed from W il mington, Calif., for China, on December 16. She was accompanied by a returning missionary of the same society and was given a typical B. I. “send-off” by about fifty students and friends o f the Institute. Chester Rutledge, ’21, assistant pastor of the Central Presbyterian Church, Denver,'; Colo., stopped in Los Angeles on his way home from Dinuba, Calif., where his fa ther was buried on December 23. For sev eral years he was business manager o f the work of the Bible Institute in China. Mrs. Rutledge will be remembered as Helen Fraas, ’20. O. E. Sanden, Jr., ’23, sends this report from La Feria, T ex .: “We have moved into our new two-story church building, and it is all paid for. The house was filled to capacity on the opening Sunday, and on the day o f the open-house service, more people attended than the building would accommodate.” Bom To Oscar E. ( ’23) and Mrs. Sanden, Jr., a son, September 7, La Ferià, Tex. Married Ira. E. King, Chaplain of Los An geles County and City Jails, and Dorothy Thompson, T9, December 22, Santa Bar bara, Calif. Harry K. Hurlburt and Alice Phair, Sep tember 23, Santa Monica, Calif. Marion G. Gregg and Martha Kopp, ’31, December 27, Yakima, Wash. Mr. and Mrs. Gregg have resumed their study at the In stitute. —----------- With the Lord Sympathy is expressed for W. R. Hale, for several years superintendent o f men at the Institute, and Mrs. Hale, in the Home going o f their daughter, Helen, on Jan uary 1, Miss Hale was a teacher in River side, Calif., where the fragrance of her de voted Christian life will linger long, es pecially among Negroes and Mexicans that she met in Americanization work. Edward J. Reese, brother of Bernhard E., ’28, Gertrude, ’30, and Esther Reese was injured in an automobile accident and died the following day, December 22, in Los Angeles, Calif.
OUR LITERATURE TABLE Souls Aflame B y J oseph M. D awson The book is a series of addresses preach ed in the Baylor University pulpit. Chris tianity is distinguished from other reli gions by the dynamic fire that is within it. When the fire is lost, no effort to restore it by ritualism, numbers, or any form o f in cantations will be successful. The fire must be the fire o f G.od, and this falls only when God’s conditions are met. There is a mysticism that marks all men of outstand ing spiritual power. Contact with God in the secret places will do what no human technique can accomplish. 143 pages. Revell Co. .Cloth. Price $1.50. This tenth revised edition of a famous text on teaching is designed to meet the needs o f “ a new generation of readers.” Statistical information has been brought up to date, but in the main, the book re mains unchanged. Since its first appear ance in 1905, it has been regarded as an au thority on the subject. There are twenty- five chapters, each closing with questions and suggestions that add greatly, to the value of individual or group study. Dr. Charles C. Ellis, President of Juniata Col lege, says in the introduction: “ The Mak ing of a Teacher is not the latest book on education; neither is the Bible which its author loved. But the latter, if not the latest, is certainly the greatest book on education ever written; and few of the educational treatises o f today will run through ten editions and after more than a quarter century justify a commendation to a new generation o f teachers as this volume is now doing.” 223 pages. Harper Bros. Cloth. Price $1.50. Seventy-Eight Year-Round Stories B y L ouise M. O glevee In this valuable source-book o f informa tion for teachers of Beginners and Primary children o f the Sunday-school, the writer, who is an experienced worker among children, has brought together a fine collection of narratives with a pur pose. They are not patronizingly told ; young people themselves will find them in teresting reading, and workers with chil dren should welcome them. 208 pages. Standard Pub. Co. Cloth. Price $1.50. . Bible Cross-Word Puzzle Book B y S. K. D avis A great breadth o f knowledge o f the Bible can be obtained by working out the fifty puzzles of this book. Except in a few cases, the text is confined to the Bible. The plates are clear and of ample size to be easily used. Correct answers are contained in the back of the book. Both adults and children will find these puzzles fascinating and informing. 120 pages. W . A. Wilde Co. Cloth. Price $1.00. Golden Grain Diary This is a unique pocket memorandum book. It contains several tables of useful information and writing space for each day in the year. In addition, there is a daily Bible verse, as well as a verse for the week and an appropriate bit o f poetry. It is at tractively printed and bound, with a pen cil attached. In two sizes, standard and vest-pocket, and in various bindings rang ing in price from 50 cents to $2.50. Picker ing & Inglis. The Making of a Tdacher B y M artin G. B rumbaugh
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