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cart, but we were not allowed to take any of our baggage. The carts travel about three miles an hour, and they are absolutely springless contraptions. The next day, after we had been on the road for about four hours, a big Japanese army truck came along and picked us up. They brought us all the way to Luan Ping—such a ride I never had in all my life and never hope to have again. We were all bruised at the end o f it. That day we had nothing to eat till we got home, and very little water to drink. W e were very glad to get home, and a good meal and a hot bath worked wonders for us. Mr. McColm had the job of going back in a cart for the car and our baggage. It took him three days, and in one of the rivers he and the Chinese carter were almost drowned. The roads were so washed out that he could not bring the car, and he had to leave all my baggage there, too. However, Romans 8 :28 is always true, even though we can not explain it.” Among Former Students Samuel Thierstein, ’31, writes from Lawrence, Kan.: “I am going to the school of medicine at K. U. I do not know how I would be able to stand if I had not learned to know God as I did at B. I. In this day it takes a good foundation to with stand the storms on every side, and this foundation is what the Bible Institute is helping young people to lay.” Eula E. Greenway, ’24, is planning to take further training at Columbia Bible College. Speaking o f the Bible Institute o f Los Angeles, she writes: “ The days there were rich with blessing to my life, and I am hoping to help others to have the same privileges when I have a position again.” Nicholas Simponis, ’31, has been trans ferred from Addis Ababa, Abyssinia, to a station farther south. Referring to the natives among whom he is working under the Sudan Interior Mission, he writes: “They live very primitively. They are all devil worshipers, except the Amharas, who are Coptic Christians (a degenerate form of Christianity and heathenism). There are thousands who have never heard the name of Christ. We had a good congrega tion last Sunday—about 140 men and women, and 100 children.” Mrs. Allan G. McIntosh (Marjorie Phair) hopes to return with her husband and family on furlough from Congo Beige, Africa, early next year. She is praying that she may not pass her sister and her husband, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hurlburt, en route. The Hurlburts are accepted candidates for Africa, and are hoping to leave soon for the field. Mrs. McIntosh writes that the native Christians are taking the burden of the work and are showing a fine zeal for teaching their fellow men. Rachel T. Seiver, ’25, affiliated with the American Mission, Fayoun, Egypt, camped during the summer on the shores of the Mediterranean, and welcomed this oppor tunity to take Arabic lessons. She re quests prayer for the Moslem girls who attended the school which she taught last year. They were not allowed to finish their school year due to much opposition which has arisen against missionary work in Egypt. The Moslems have formed a
Society for the Protection of Islam, and their aim is to destroy Christian influence and mission work. Laura Larson, ’26, sends word from Rio Cuarto, Argentina, as follows: “W e have not had a real rain since the first of May. Many predict a very hard year for Ar gentina, and it makes one wonder what will occur, for many are already reduced to absolute poverty. The saddest part o f all is that so many of the people have no hope for the future; many o f them delib erately choose darkness rather than light. The Lord has kept us through it all, giving grace and strength, and even visible fruits. Mrs. C. L. Sickel [Loree Cutright, T8] is much improved in health and expects com plete recovery in a few months. We are looking forward to Mr. Sickel’s coming here to Rio Cuarto as pastor in about a month. Mrs. Sickel and the girls will come as soon as the girls’ school is out in the spring.” Roy H. Fuller expects to sail the last of October from Venezuela to join
A Pen Picture o f Life in China M ir ia m G r u b b , ’32, is in China under the Brethren Board. The following written from Jehol Province, Manchukuo, China, in a personal letter to a former stu dent o f the Bible Institute: “ I was thrilled to realize how the Spirit had spoken to you o f me when in need. May 22 was a day o f grave danger in Peiping, for 5,000 retreating soldiers, without any one in the city being respon sible for them, marched in and settled in the homes o f the Chinese in the East City. These men were the poorest soldiers I have ever seen—with no shoes, only old pieces of matting tied around their feet. The city was in real danger of being looted by these men, who not only had not been payed, but who had no food. Among those o f us who knew the only One who could keep peace in the city, there was much time spent in prayer to Him. He gra ciously undertook, and in two days the soldiers had all moved away. You, too, were kept so in touch with the need by the Holy Spirit that you were praying for us when we were in danger. How wonderful it is to know of the way God moves in our behalf and raises prayer for us! “At last I got upcountry to my station by the tenth o f July—but what a trip it was! The rainy season started early this year. It makes traveling by auto almost impossible, because the roads are just mud. As soon as the war was over, Mr. and Mrs. McColm felt they had to get to Peiping for some dental work. The trip down was difficult—so much so that they did about fifteen miles in low gear in mud! When they were able to get down and back, I felt I should go up to my sta tion. We hoped to make this trip in two days. It is only 150 miles northeast o f Peiping, and under good conditions, we can make it in one day. The first day we did only thirty miles, and it took us six hours I We were stuck several times, and finally the differential wheel broke when stuck in a nice mud hole 1 An ox, a mule, and a donkey pulled us out. Fortu nately, Mr. McColm had a spare wheel and was able to use it for repairs. We did not get started again until the next day, how ever. That day we again did about six hours, when the small differential wheel and the ballbearing gave out. Four don keys had the job of pulling us to a way- side stand, where travelers stop to buy Chinese bread and to drink tea. There was no hope this time for repairs, so back to Peiping our Chinese servant had to go to get spare parts. W e sat, slept, and ate in the car for two days. The second day, little David McColm took sick, and we simply had to find a way to get home. In the afternoon, we started out by Chinese
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Mrs. Fuller (Re becca Harrison, ’27) and their little d augh ter, Ruth W y n o l a , who are making their h o m e at present in Glen dale, California. “ S i n c e I last wrote,” Mr. Ful ler says, “there have been several conversions; but along with that, there have been t h i n g s t h a t w o u l d discour age, were it not for the assurance that our labor is
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not in vain in the Lord.” Warren Hall, ’33, during a summer evangelistic tour, stopped in the home of Abraham N. ( ’20) and Mrs. Willems (Matilda Heinrichs, ’21), in Fresno, Calif. Mr. Willems is in charge o f a small mis sion church. Mr. Hall is one o f a number who returned to Biola this year for further training. Jemima Thompson, ’28, is superinten dent o f the junior department at the Lin coln Avenue Presbyterian Church, Pasa dena, Calif. She has been graduated from U.C.L.A., and has attended the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. Margaret Nyquist, ’33, spent the summer in Daily Vacation Bible School work in Modesto, Calif. Edward L. Allen, ’26, is a pastor in Yuba City, Calif. A new church is being erected. Ernest Brown, ’28, is pastor o f the Mis sionary Baptist Church, Prineville, Ore. Mrs. Brown was formerly Elsie L. Hol- linger, ’27. G. F. Evans tells o f the evangelistic work in which he is engaged in Los An geles : “ God has been graciously blessing our labors in the salvation o f souls. He has supplied our needs, and we intend to go forward in His name. We are remem bering the school in prayer, and solicit your prayers for our work.”
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