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March 1926
main trouble seems to be insomnia and I am generally run down. This is a very pretty place, high elevation over looking the sea. It is kept up by a rich estate, and is for people of limited means, and everything is free— one must have a doctor’s certificate to get in.” Miss Frieda Franz, ’ 24, is taking training in a Christian Hospital in Mountain L a k e , Minnesota. She writes: “ My thoughts and prayers are often with B. I., and its happy mem ories can never be forgotten. “ At present I am breaking all B. I. rules, for I am on night duty and writ ing this at one A. M. Oh, these long, dark nights! I am beginning to ap preciate Rev. 22:5 more than ever. It surely will be wonderful to be in a place where there is no night. "So many things I thought abso lutely impossible for me to do, have had to be done, and Phil. 4:13 means so much to me now. God’s Word has become real life to me. His grace and strength is truly sufficient to meet any trial or difficulty. “ We are expected to have devotions with our patients every day if possible, so there are many opportunities for personal work.” In a recent letter from Miss Mary Chen, ’25, she says: “ I had the oppor tunity of attending the Bible Confer ence of the Moody B. I. at Henderson ville, N. C., shortly after we started on our journey back to China, having a pleasant trip across the U. S. On the voyage over, the dear Lord was very gracious to me for I did not get sea sick at all. “ We reached Shanghai safely but were four days late, so we had' to hurry to get back to Nanking for the opening of the school, and everything was new to me. When I looked into the hundred new faces it made me realize that soon many dear ones would be entering my beloved B. I., and the welcoming committee would be very busy at the doorways meeting those whom God had called to be His messengers. I prayed for you speci ally at that time. “ It is good to be in the home-land again. I am quite well and very busy wjth my new work. I just depend on Him for dally strength and wisdom for all the duties. My dally prayer is that God will help me yield myself fully that He mgy make me a channel of blessing among the people where He has placed me as His witness.” Miss Chen is at the Bible Teachers Training School, Nanking, China. In a recent letter to Mrs. McAnlis, written from Tabor College at Hills boro, Kansas, Miss Sarah Hiebert writes: “ It was about two weeks ago when I received a letter of the 1924 Class, and how I rejoiced to hear from
in Bible study. If there were no reci tation at all that would be worth the effort. I know they are learning a great deal; but, my earnest prayer is that it may be in their hearts as well as in their heads. Some say, ‘Oh, I love Bible better than anything else,’ and several have expressed a desire to continue it as preparation for going in to the Lord’s work. I love my new work and am grateful to all of you for your prayers.” A card recently received from Rev. W. E. Craighead, Balti, Str. Cuza Voda 46, Roumania, shows a picture of their new church, which was dedicated last November. He says the building was almost en tirely constructed by believers from his own and neighboring churches; masons, carpenters, etc., who volun teered from ten to fifteen or more days of their time for this work. Christians from all over Bessarabia participated. The erection of this new place of worship was made necessary by the large increase in the number of be lievers. In three years their number has been increased three-fold, and they had been praying and working toward this end for two years. Mrs. F. W. George Hall (nee Mrs. Armstrong) says: “ I have great reason to rejoice at the response to the Gospel among the children in the public schools here. I have been giving, for some time, re ligious instruction in three public schools in Melbourne.” Referring to her husband’s work she says: “ God is doing things these days in the shop meetings. We had a wonderful meet ing at Newport last Friday. God poured out -His mighty power on all the workers, the speaker was especi ally filled with the Spirit for that day’s message, and we cannot but believe that prayer was answered for an in gathering of souls. A work like ours is full of difficulties, yet our God is able, and does meet and surmount them all.” , Miss Aurora Fluker writes from Kwong Tung, So. China: “ The anti- foreign feeling and other disturbances have been very strong all about us during the past summer and most of the missionaries throughout the prov ince have had to leave their work for the coast or some place of safety, but the Lord has graciously allowed us to remain and our work has gone on as usual. “ I have been very happy in my work here and have had blessed fellowship with the other members of the mis sion. I have done a little office work from the beginning and have studied the language some, but have had Mr hold up on everything on account of my health. ’ I have been here in the Matilda Hospital for a month. My
ALUMNI NEWS Word has been received concerning the death of Maria Richert, *19, in China. She and her sister, Sophia Richert, ’ 18, had been laboring in Eng. Teng, via Swatow, China. Let us re member her loved ones at this time of sorrow. A copy of "The Hillsdale Outlook," of Tacoma, Washington, published by the East 64th Street M. E. Church, Rev. T. A. Graham, Pastor, shows that Mrs. Rertha B. Payne, ’24, now resid ing at 6409 C. Street, Tacoma, is the Managing Editor. From the appear ance of the paper she is doing a good work. May the Lord greatly use her and make her a blessing to many. Miss Della K. Evanson, ’24, is teach ing in the Junior High School at Can ton, S. D. She says it seemed to be the Lord’s will that she should take up that line of work again and be near her old parents while they need her. She thinks of dear old B. I. and it thrills her to think of all that the Holy Spirit is working in the hearts of all the students, both new and old, through His Word and the consecrated men and women who compose the fac ulty.' "B. I. means more to me every days as time goes by,” is her convic tion. Miss Maggie F. Potter, ’ 24, in a re cent letter to Mrs. McAnlis, writing from Long Bank, Sask., says; ." I am praying mostly for the students at dear old B. I. that they may be faithful in the ‘Morning Watch,’ for I believe that is where most of us failed and where we missed the blessing. “ I started work in our United Sun day School last Sunday. Have a class of Junior boys, and I’m sure I shall enjoy teaching them. There is such a need of workers in our school that 1 wish I were two or three folks all at once.” Rev. Peter H. Siemens, *20, and his good wife Katherine, writing from Elk Park, N. C., in December last, says: “ The Lord has wonderfully led us into this large and needy field of service. We have six mission stations, where we go to preach the Gospel and teach the grown-ups and the children to memorize Scripture portions. We are sowing the seed in the hearts of these people and trusting the Holy Spirit to use it in .their regeneration. There have been many conversions. B. I. is lastingly engraven on our hearts.". Miss Nina Hntton, ’ 24, writes from Chattanooga, Tenn.: “ I have 78 stu dents in my class. There are 800 in the school and many have already had ‘ Bible,’ so I feel this is a good propor tion. We begin all classes with prayer and they all learn to pray in public, and spend from one to two hours daily
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