Hilda Riffel ’32, P.G. ’36, R. 2, Box 145A, Orland, Calif., relates a thrilling incident in traveling on an ice-bound ship for 100 miles, while being evacu ated from service under the C.I.M. in China. God delivered in His own mar velous way. A six-year-old boy gave public testimony to his teacher and schoolmates that he did not think the missionaries so bad as “he lived on the same compound with them, and they [the missionaries] told them about Jesus!” Pray for the lessening of the confusion resulting from the order to evacuate, and that all missionaries will be directed to the places of service the Lord has for them. Carol Terry ’40 and ’46, Ramabai Mukti Mission, Kedgaon, India, came home in response to a cable from her father announcing the sudden death of her mother, Mrs. Wilhelmina Terry, at 219 Pearl Ave., Balboa Island, Calif., on March 7th, from a heart ailment. Carol is comforted by the knowledge that for her mother to be “ absent from the body” is to be “ present with the Lord” which is “ far better.” The resignation of Olive B. Taylor, for more than twenty years Registrar of Biola, brings to a close a remarkable career, and a delightful Christian fel lowship with faculty and student body. All regret that Miss Taylor feels the need of letting up a bit in her strenu ous labors, but are glad that she will continue for a time in a special capacity. Dr. James H. Christian ’42, has been called to succeed Miss Taylor as regis trar. After graduating from Biola, Dr. Christian continued his studies at West mont College, and at Eastern Baptist Seminary where he received several de grees concluding with his Th.D. in 1950. Mrs. Christian will be remembered as Mildred McBride ’42. They have two children, Alice Louise, 3, and James H., 2 months old. Wedding bells rang February 22, in Africa when Eula May Flippo ’46, was united in marriage to Rev. Elliott Roy Blanchard. Both are serving under the Conservative Baptist Foreign Mission Society. Grace Byron ’27, veteran missionary to Africa under the Brethren Church, has contributed an interesting article relating a number of interesting inci dents in connection with a missionary conference in her area. Among other items mentioned is that of loading their pickup with cassava flour for mush, greens, white ants and other meat for lunch ! One result of the conference was that a native later attended church and said that after reading thè thir teenth chapter of First Corinthians, she wanted to confess that she had a bad temper and wanted the help of the Lord to control it. The offering following the conference was so great that Grace says “it overwhelmed the treasurer.” Thelma Frith-Bagby ’29, Box 118, Porto Alegre, Brazil; S.A., has been in service for the Lord for the past 18 years in Brazil under the Southern Bap- Page Thirty-four
to work on a railroad a big package of literature to distribute . . . through this, one man has declared his desire to come to America to attend a Bible school and to be ordained that he may return to preach the gospel to his own people.” Florence Hardy ’27, Box 100, Hong Kong, is still bemoaning the fact that she has been forced to leave the work at Kukong, although she is busy giving out the Word. One tubercular hospital patient who even refused a tract on her early visits, later received Christ as his personal Saviour. Less than two weeks later he was called into His presence. One woman for whom she asked prayer has been restored to health. The aver age weekly attendance at her Bible classes is one hundred and twenty-five. Arthur and Mary Bushnell-Bakker ’40, and four children have been moved to Calcuta, N.de S., Colombia, S.A., near the Venezuelan border where they began their work six years ago. They have a lovely home here, rent very high, but will be shared by two other mission aries. They will need our prayers for the work, and for the health of the children. Biola Flashes Marjorie Foster ’48, 910 Bostwick Lane, Santa Cruz, Calif., is director of the Child Evangelism Fellowship in her area, and living at home with her parents. Nicholas Simponis ’31 and his wife, Marin, are rejoicing in the birth of a son, Constantine, on March 5th, in Tanta, Egypt. Their home address is Box 1818, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Edwin E. Cory, ’33, and ’44, and Mrs. Cory, serving under the China Inland Mission for some years, have been evacuated. Mr. Cory is now assistant to the pastor of the College Avenue Baptist Church in San Diego, Calif. Bob Smith, formerly on the Bible Institute Hour radio tech nician staff is currently in Africa gath ering material for Christian broadcasts from the Los Angeles area. Norman ’42, 45, and Florence Allensworth ’42, of the China Boat Mission, arrived in America just in time to participate in the great Annual Conference held in the Church of the Open Door. Others introduced at the conference were: Annie Bethke ’19, Mary Lopp-Fields ’38, ’39, Jack Brown ’41, Dorothy Hosking ’33’, ’36, Gladys Jones, Alvin Lewis, ’36, Venezuela, Dean and Mary Pittman, Peru, Sydney and Mrs. Best. (Dorothy Cornell ’34), C. J. Kopp ’38, Africa, Mary Bishop ’25, Grace Pietsch-Tobelmann, Alaska, Geneva Kosher '42, Kenya Colony, Allyn and Esther Cooke ’18, C. H. Charlton ’17, Leonard Gaylord ’22, Charles Chaplin, Carol Terry ’40 and ’46, John K. L. Yong, China, Ford and Carolyn Lovejoy Canfield ’18, beside many others labor ing faithfully at home and in the far corners of the earth. Mrs. O. J. Kirk, 18, R. 1, Linden, Calif., is in serious con dition, and asks our prayers for recov ery to health, ghe and Mr. Kirk, former ly with the Ceylon and India Mission, have been working among the migrants in their area. T H E K I N G ' S B U S I N E S S
“Behold, the Lord’s hand is not short ened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear” (Isa. 59:1). tist Mission Board. She is supported by her home church in N. Little Rock, Ark. Apologies are due the Kemptner (Flo ra Pierson ’14) family, 2701 S. Chero kee, Englewood, Colorado. An item in Biola Family Circle in the February issue erroneously mentioned “Neal and Mary Kemptner-Senseman '49 . . .” Edna Kemptner is the wife of Neal Senseman, while Mary, 49, is living at home with her parents.
Carol Terry, at left, and group of teen-agers.
Mary MacDonald-Bruce ’23, Valleyfield, P.E.I., Canada, says the first thing she does upon receiving The King’s Business is to hunt for familiar names in the Family Circle. Her sister, Christine MacDonald ’23, lives at 616 W. 116th St., New York City 27, N. Y. Mary’s daughter, Irene, was married in Decem ber to Lloyd Fraser, son of Rev. A. C. Fraser. She is in active service among young people. Nicholas Thomas ’25, osteopathic phy sician and missionary representative of the Greek-American Miss. Ass’n., 2632 N. Burling St., Chicago 14, 111., has just paid his first visit to his Alma Mater. Dr. Thomas has made a number of trips to his native land in the interests of the mission, and plans to return in Sep tember. He is married and has a daugh ter, Euodia, and a son, Paul. He states that the plight of the Greek people is pitiful. Everett B. Chambers ’49, student-pas- tor of a rural church in Blacklick, Ohio, writes: “ I gave a man going to Africa
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