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THE K I N G ’ S BU S I N E S S
August, 1941
Bible Institute FAMILY CIRCLE
WORD FROM “ BIOLA IN CHINA” [ Continued from Page 292]
gellsts and sixteen of their missionaries in attendance. It proved to be a very helpful time. Why God 'gives me these wonderful opportunities I don’t know. But I love to preach the Word in Chi nese. . . . This week we have finished the evangelistic campaign for the city, and in spite of evacuation orders and other difficulties, we have had a wonderful two weeks’ activity and with excellent results. The Lord surely has worked., The reports of the Biola Evangelistic Bands for the past' month are also so encouraging. But what are we going to do with rice soaring in price as it is? When you were here this time last year, it was only $8.00 (Mex.); now it is over $100.00 a load. Many people have just given up hope, and suicides are on the increase. It is heart-rending. Recently there was great confusion in our compound, and the word went around that a woman had attempted to hang herself on one of the trees of our compound. I rushed out with the doctor. Happily, we got there in time. The woman mumbled something incoherently about her husband and children as being all dead, bombed in some town. She had just arrived here and had had nothing to eat for a couple of days. Oh, what sorrow! Multiplied cases like these make one’s heart ache. We long to open the Bible school again. If conditions should remain as they are now, we plan to open, if only in a small way, the Lord willing. Pray that we may! There never has been a better spirit on the compound than there is now, and there is much for Which to give the dear Lord thanks. Oh, that we may go forward without faltering, in line with His will! A Letter to Christians A special message from Indians in the high mountains of Bolivia has been brought home by a member of the Class of 193.4 of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles. Shortly after arriving in June for furlough from service under the Bolivian Indian Mission in South Amer ica, she sent the following message. The most heart-rending treasure I brought back with me is a letter which a group of Indians wrote for me to bring to my country asking for mission aries. In that letter they are pleading for'some one to go to teach them. They asked for missionaries four years ago, and they are still waiting. We could not go there when we heard of theip because we had promised to go to an other village where the people’s request had been in, not for four years, but SEVEN. ARRIE ROI INTREE Bt. 1, Box 80 Boring, Ore.
stead, A. I. M. Maitulu, Watsa, Congo Beige, via Matadi, West Africa. Ruth D. Farquharson, ’28, has been engaged in work among orphan chil dren for eleven years at Haines House,. Haines, Alaska, under the Presbyterian Board of National Missions. Mrs. Harvey J. King (Beatrice F. Tannehill, ’25), Africa Inland Mission, Kasengu-Nioka, Nizi, Congo Beige, via Mombasa, E. Africa, is responsible for the work in a girls’ school and' a women’s school at the Station, 'besides going, on safaris out into the villages as frequently as possible. She Writes: ‘/The feltographs and the little folding Organ have become real missionaries, as I take them with me on every safari. Such remarks as this have been over heard in the villages after the natives have been hearing arid ‘seeing’ a message with the use of the feltographs: ‘Even though one had not believed before, one could not' help but believe after ‘‘peeing” that message.’ Arid from those on the mission station, who have heard the message over and oyer again, comes this comment: ‘I anj hearing the gospel now as though I had never heard it before!’ ” - Degrees Conferred on Former Institute Students Clifford E. Chaffee, ’35, was graduated from Princeton.Theological Seminary on May 13, receiving the degree of Bach elor of Theology. William E. Kliewer, ’22, 412 Ash burton PI., Glendale, Calif., was gradu ated from the Southern California Col lege of Chiropractic on June 26, receiv ing the degree of Doctor of Chiropractic. John W. Kopp, ’33, received the de gree of Master of Theology from the Dallas Theological Seminary, Dallas, Tex., on Mgy 20, the subject of his thesis being "The Certainty of Israel’s Restoration.” lone Lowman, ’22, of the faculty of the Bible Institute Of Lbs Angeles, re ceived the degree of Ph. D. from the Los Angeles Baptist Theological Sem inary on June 8. The subject of her thesis was “The Principles and Practice of Christian Psychology.” Fred McIntosh, Rt. T, Box 474, Hunt ington Beach, Calif., received the degree of B. A. from the University of Cali fornia at Los Angeles on June 14, being graduated with honors in Greek. Mary Frances Redding, B. Chr. Ed. ’39, 1311 Alameda Ave., Glendale, Calif., who has been leading the Speaking Choir of ’the Institute for the past year, was graduated from the University of Cal ifornia at Los Angele3 on June 14, re ceiving the degree of B. A. [Continued on Page 325]
Missionaries on Furlough John (B. Th. ’40) and Mrs. Dedrick (Mary Jane David, ’40) have been serv ing in the state of Sonora, Mex., under the Pioneer Mission Agency among the Yaqui Indians whose language they are investigating with a view to doing trans lation work. From about August 10 to October 1, they expect to be having a vacation time and period of deputation work in Southern California. Their ad dress will be 640 Milo Terrace, Los An geles, Calif. Laura ( ’35) and Mary Best (’35), members of the Sudan Interior Mission, are on furlough from service in Nigeria and have been' living at 2834—12th -Ave., Los Angeles, Calif. At Distant Posts of Service Eldo H. (’37) and Mrs. Epp and their two-year-old daughter, Lois, aré sta tioned at Blukwa, Djugu, Congo Beige, Africa. Mr. and Mrs. Epp are members o f’ the Africa Inland Mission. They are praising the Lord for their Dodge truck, which enables them to take all of their camping equipment, as well as two African boys to prepare their meals, when going out to their' district out- stations. By bicycle Mr. Epp is able to go to the stations that are inaccessible to motor cars. At a conference forty- five miles away at Aungba, Mr. and Mrs. Epp met Gurney Harris, ’39, Harold (’29) and Mrs. Amstutz (Jane Yeths, ’32), and Peter J. (’38) and Mrs. Brash- ler (Edythe McKee, ’37), Henry A. Senff, ’23, Africa Inland Mission, writes: "We have seen airplanes at Maitulu for the first time. One came by very suddenly and unexpectedly one day. Within a few moments of time the natives were in tree tops, and on the tops of high rocks and roofs to see the wonder o f the air. So they bad their first instruction about' shelters in case of need. A b o u t a week later, another friendly plane came unexpectedly and this time they were out of sight, but greatly amazed at the motor car of the air. Even the chickens ran for shelter. They have been bothered a lot by eagles and chicken hawks, so to them it was another real eagle.” En couragement has come to Mr. and Mrs. Senff through earnest appeals for the gospel, the requests coming from a leper camp and from other villages. Because of war conditions, Mf- and Mrs. Senff should not be addressed via Egypt as formerly, but by one of the two follow ing addresses, whichever the changing situation seems to-indicate: A. I. M. Maitulu, Watsa, Congo Beige, via Mom basa and Kasenyi, East Africa, or, in-
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