Elmer ’47 and Gloria Fricke ’42, Kal- yandrug, S. India, give revealing items of the need of their field. Gloria relates the story of a wealthy woman who slipped out into the dark of the night and wound her way to the big open well into which she plunged headlong in utter despair and hopelessness. There the horrified villagers found her body as they came to lower their pots for the water supply of the day. Elmer tells of meeting a Telugu boy of 17 who seemed interested. As Elmer proceeded with the open-air meeting, one old man continually interrupted by shouting “ Who is God?” There was much hos tility manifest, but another old man frequently tried to say something. Final ly Elmer said, “ Let us hear what this gentleman has to say.” Says Elmer, “ Imagine my surprise when he began, ‘In the beginning God’ (Gen. 1:1), in good English, and then explained it in Telugu!” The young Brahmin was lis tening, and Elmer states that he be lieves he was realizing the truth. Dean and Mrs. Sutherland were de lightfully surprised and entertained by Biola Board of Directors and faculty members on February 20, in the new and beautiful Faculty Lounge located on the seventh floor of Lyman Stewart Hall. This was indeed a fitting occasion with which to celebrate not only an auspicious event in the lives of our dean and his life-companion of twenty-five years, but a memorial to the opening of a much-needed recreation unit of the Bible Institute. Dr. Dean Nauman, chairman of the Lounge Committee, was ably assisted by Dr. Eva M. Tovey, Mrs. Margaret Jacobsen and Mrs. Gloria Graham. A number of faculty members, and talented student body representa tives, offered a delightful and refresh ing program, beginning with the Lo hengrin Wedding March and closing with the cutting of the three-tier wed ding cake by Mrs. Sutherland. Arthur and Mary Bushnell-Bakker ’40, Apt. Aereo 576, Cucuta, Colombia, are meeting with a little less opposi tion. They print and distribute some 10,000 tracts every two months, and in the contact of over 2,000 homes, 1,000 Gospels of Luke were sold. Occasionally some minor difficulties arise, but they are encouraged in their work. Their little Becky is showing improvement in health although she has been confined to her bed, evidently with rheumatic heart. Sydney and Dorothy Cornell-Best ’34 have moved into an upstairs apartment at 30 Ochiai Higashi Kurume, Kita- tama-gun, Tokyoto, Japan. Their Chris tian day school has opened a boarding department over which the Best family have supervision. Their three sons, Tedo, Trevor and Richard, are happy to be in their own home, and all partake of the meals served to the school children. The Bests have been able to purchase a ’47 Jeep Station Wagon, enabling them all to attend church and Sunday school in M A Y , 1 9 5 2
American Prayer Fellowship requests our prayers as she has been obliged to return home because of malaria and un- dulent fever. Magnus ’35, and Reta (Kiser) Gonnsen '35, ’37, have recently dedicated a new Picuris Indian church at Taos, N. Mex. Magnus’ father is a contractor in the Los Angeles area, and for this reason we are not surprised to learn that Magnus’ own hands did much of the work, and that the members of the congregation did much of the actual labor on the building. Marjorie 7,uer- cher ’45 is teaching Sunday school classes at Warner, Okla. Plans are under way for organizing Bible Clubs as soon as supplies are available. Viola Bong-Markley ’19, 1301 S. Date Ave., Alhambra, is recovering from a serious operation. Viola had charge of the Cradle Roll in the early days of the Church of the Open Door, and has con tinuously confined her activities to work among the children. Some of these little ones are now occupying important posts in the work of this church. Adeline Gordon ’48, Formosa bound to work under the Go Ye Fellowship, after spending three weeks in Japan, may be reached by addressing her c/o Child Evangelism Headquarters, Kei Jin Hos pital, Taichung, Taiwan, Formosa. Adeline has worked in Biola’s business office for a number of years, and has done some sketching for The King’s Business. Other students new addresses follow, listed in the hope Biola friends will contact them where they are now stationed as emissaries of the Cross: Betty Dewdney ’49, New Zealand Child Evangelism Fellowship, 16 Athens Rd., S.E. 5, Auckland, N.Z.; Paul J. ’49, and Helen Anderson-Pietsch ’47, Estrada de Serra, Portalegre, Portugal; Marion Settles ’42, 232 Brugmann Ave., UCCLE, Bruxelles, Belgique; Jean Thomas ’48^ Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, E. Africa, c/o S.I.M.; and E. Rexford ’27 and Grace Weller-Smith ’26, are back in Monterey, Mexico, Aptdo 1415. Grace bears the distinction of having been secretary to Dr. Torrey, first dean of Biola. Ruby Casjens ’47, for five years secretary to the superintendent of men has resigned to take the secretaryship of the Cochran Avenue Baptist Church, 1304 Cochran Ave., Los Angeles 35. Dr. Paul Aijian has been chosen as faculty advisor for Biola Chimes, popular student body organ. Biola Family Circle send sym pathy to Evelyn Palmer-Hoobyar ’21, in the recent translation of her mother who has recently gone in to see the King. The Hoobyar family have been continu ously in the Lord’s service in church or home mission fields since their gradua tion. Maybelle Weber ’23 was called to her heavenly home March 2, following a lengthy illness. She had been active on the home field until failing health neces sitated her retirement. She had been making her home with a married daugh ter living at 1548 S. 38th St., San Diego 13. May our wonderful Lord comfort these bereaved ones. Page Thirteen
“Brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course, and be glorified” (2 Thess. 3:1). Tokyo. They are progressing in their language study. Timothy Pietsch ’33, 179 Myamae Cho, Meguro Ku, Tokyo, tells of the vic tories won through his adventure of faith in taking on a six-months’ con tract radio broadcast. In two days he received over 800 letters and cards in response to his Christmas program. The very encouraging outlook is the support of the program by Chaplain Robert Rayburn and his men of the 187th Paratroopers who see the tre mendous need and the wonderful op portunity. Timothy pleads for much prayer for missionary effort in Japan. Clarence ’49 and Marianne Gamble- Nuiswma ’48, are packing and getting in readiness to go to the Philippines, where they have been accepted for serv ice under the Far Eastern Gospel Cru sade. The Church of the Open Door has underwritten a part of their support. Biola Flashes Jim ’44 and Viola Halbert ’45, and family Boundiali, Ivory Coast, Fr. West Africa have now celebrated their first Christmas in a foreign land. The fe tishers have arrived. With a horn from some animal the horn is supposed to speak to the leaders, who in turn, give their message to those seeking it! They call it a new God. They hold many pe culiar ideas and customs at this time; the people are bound by fear; and thus the missionary has an opportunity to present the only one who can liberate them. J. Earl Reavis ’50 has been called to the pastorate of the Elysian Park Baptist Church. With his wife and three children he is residing at 2822 Part ridge St., Los Angeles 39. Dawn Kath leen took up permanent residence with Wilbur E. and Verna Bolstad-Sten- strom ’50, January 17, at Richvale, Calif., Box 215. Curt and Olga Claas- sen, their sons Lloyd and Gordon, now serving in Mauhadih, via Champa, M.P., India, are packing and making prepara tion for their furlough this spring. They will start furloughing at Whitewater, Kansas, a community that has sent many students to Biola. Florence Eisele ’42, serving in Mexico under the Latin
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