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' About forty years ago a group of Baptists in Baltimore' invited Dr. Dixon to lead a movement for establishing a church on a vacant lot in a rapidly growing suburban district. A fter eight years th e church had more th an eight hundred members and is today one of th e most prosperous churches in the city. Baltimore has grown a mile or two in th a t direction and there are doubtless a hundred thousand people when forty years ago these were vacant fields and forests. The Johns Hopkins Univer sity has moved from th e center of the city and is now erecting its buildings in th is new p art of Baltimore. Now another group of Baptists, a- mong whom are some of th e original group, have invited Dr. Dixon to retu rn to Baltimore and lead a sim ilar move m ent for establishing a church on a vacant lot beside th e Johns Hopkins University, to be known as th e Univer sity B aptist Church, and though he had planned to spend four months on the Pacific Coast, he feels th a t th e pillar of cloud leads him back to B altimore for a t least th ree or four months. A beautiful chapel and Sunday-school room has been erected on th e vacant lot and Dr. Dixon begins his m inistry w ith them th e first Sunday in Novem ber. He expects to rem ain w ith them un til April first, when he will re tu rn to th e Los Angeles Bible In stitu te for April and May. He earnestly requests the readers of th e “K ing’s Business” to pray for God’s blessing upon his m inis try in th is g reatest city of the South. A WORD OF APPRECIATION Mr. Oscar Zimmermann, who has had charge of th e Seamen’s Work of the In stitu te since November, 1912, has been led of th e Lord to resign his position as Superintendent of th a t de partm ent, and tak e up sim ilar work, under other auspices, making his head qu arters in San Francisco. The Bible In stitu te of Los Angeles desires to express its deep appreciation of the faith fu l service Mr. Zimmermann has rendered, and rejoices th a t it has been his privilege to reach so many hun dreds of men from every nation under heaven. The unusual privilege was given him, during th e recent war, of access to all vessels coming into San Francisco H ar bor, which privilege he utilized in the
A . C. D IX O N I n s tr u c to r in B ib le highest possible degree to the glory of God. Our prayers follow him and our de sire is th a t he may be used abundantly in w hatever capacity th e Lord calls him to serve. T. C. HORTON. PREVENTING PROVIDENCES. We never know how n ear we are to' danger. We are like blind men wan dering near the edge of a precipice, the mouth of a well or the m argin of a deep p it; and then God, by a severe wrench it may be, and a violent jerk th a t puts us to some pain and gives us a severe shock, plucks us from the ruin th a t we saw not. Oh! w hat h air breadth escapes from destruction, ef fected perhaps by some distressing visitation, shall we in etern ity be made to understand th a t we experienced on earth! We now often stand amazed a t some sore tria l; we cannot con jecture why it was sent; we see no purpose it was to serve; no end it was to accomplish: bu t th e re was an Omniscient Eye th a t saw w hat we did not and could no t see; and He sent fo rth th is event to pluck our feet from the n et which had been spread for them . How we shall adore God in heaven for these preventing mercies th a t came in the form of some dark and inexplicable event, bu t which filled us a t the sair~ tim e w ith lam entation and woe!— J. A. James.
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