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money to take care of the worker’s half time in Colusa county (which I am now doing at this date). I might add that the worker in Mendocino county, Herbert Grings, has, in four weeks, visited 116 families, dealt personally with 120 people about their souls’ salvation, had eighteen professed conversions, gave out 771 tracts
and forty-one Gospels, besides Testaments, colportage books., etc. We expect to be ready for a worker for Lake and Colusa counties very soon. The real work that has been done cannot be put into figures. Many lives have been transformed, many given the assurance of salvation, and many awakened to their responsibility to God.
THE EXTENSION DEPARTMENT Geo. W. Hunter,
Representative A Bible Conference of over-a week Vas held1 recently at Kittitas Community church, about 125 miles east of here over the mountains toward Spokane. Your representative was sent to attend this con ference, and we have received an enthu siastic letter of appreciation from them regarding the work done there. This con ference has opened the way for another at Ellensburg; the churches there uniting for the work. Will the praying readers of T h e K ing ’ s B u sin e ss remember this, as open ings of this kind are the greatest oppor tunities we have for making known the work of the Bible Institute? An invitation has been accepted from the Christian Endeavor News (the official organ of the State Christian Endeavor Society), to prepare a series of Bible-study articles for that paper, to cover a period of some months, and this we welcome as another open door. With the opening of the new term, the prospects are good*for developing a deeper interest in Bible knowledge, in the minds and hearts of the people,, and we look for a long step in advance of the past three months. AT SAN QUENTIN TA7 RITING of San Quentin prison, * * Loren S. Hanna, who is carrying on the work there, says: “To be on business for the King is great
T HE work of the Seattle auxiliary of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles has developed steadily until now, at the close of the first term, we have it well defined and in shape for the opening of the next semester. Interest in the work has grown each month, and we are endeavoring, as fast as possible, to dispel the idea that it is a denominational school, this haying been something of a handicap. The book sales are growing. We are con cerned rather with getting good Bible- study literature into the hands of the people than with the financial returns. . Mr. Blake, the manager,- is also having a goodly measure of success in introducing T h e K ing ’ s B u sin e ss among the people along with the excellent books which the Biola Book Room has supplied. Seed-Sowing time is always precious to the farmer in anticipation of the reaping later. * Seed-sowing time for the Christian is often a time of joy because of the immediate results. This has been true of our work here, and we expect to witness a bountiful harvest ere long, especially in students for the Bible Institute of Los Angeles. The condition here is much the same as elsewhere; the people in the churches have a negative desire to know what the Bible teaches, but it is our prayer and expecta tion that this negative shall become posi tive, for only so can it become of practical benefit to others.
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