King's Business - 1937-07

With Mr. LeTourneau as speaker, the quartet was in great demand, and almost every week-end was spent in evangelistic services. It was while Mr. and Mrs. LeTourneau and the quartet were journeying toward Cleveland, Tenn., for special meet­ ings that the automobile accident occurred which caused the death of the Rutschman brothers and brought painful injuries to other members of this consecrated and self-sacrificing group. When last heard in song, the young men had voiced their joyful testimony in the words of a favorite hymn: “When the saints gather home, We’ll be there, praise the Lord, We’ll all be there.”

and dynamic Christian witness who has demonstrated to America that only THE GOSPEL, INTRODUCED INTO INDUSTRY, can make for the highest efficiency and peace among workmen. Sharing their chief’s en­ thusiasm for evangelism, these young men gladly worked as employes in the plant, in order that they might have contacts which would lead to the winning of their fellow workmen for Christ. “There is vast opportun­ ity for a person to be a soul-winner in an industrial plant,” Orrin wrote to the Bible Institute of Los Angeles several months ago. “There is always occasion to speak to some one dur­ ing the day. I thank the Lord that I have had the joy of leading several to Him.”

When Pete and Orrin Rutschman were called suddenly into the presence of the King on May 31, to them was given a place in that valiant com­ pany of Biola graduates who in their youth have laid down their lives while witnessing for Christ. Some of these noble young men and women had scarcely arrived at the place of the Lord’s appointment for their wit­ nessing when He called them from earth to Glory. To the Rutschman brothers, and to other Biola graduates who com­ posed the King’s Messengers Quartet, a unique field for Christian service had been given in one of the largest manufacturing plants in the Middle West. They were employed by R. G. LeTourneau, the mechanical genius

O F the eight young people whose names are displayed on this page, all received their training a t the Bible Institute of Los An­ geles. Each one was outstanding as a soul- winner. One was martyred in Poland. Four others found graves in still other foreign lands. They all “loved not their lives unto the death.” The inspiration of such lives as these is world-wide in its scope. In the passing of these young evangels, a threefold challenge is flung out: To the young man or woman God is calling into His service.

In the face of the spiritual possibilities in­ herent in the youth th a t approaches its doors, shall the Bible Institute of Los Angeles be hampered with deficits and encumbrances ? Or will Christians of this and other lands offer the means of deliverance? Will they quickly assist this institution in the task of training young people who would do exploits for their God? SHALL THESE, THEN, HAVE DIED IN VAIN? Who follow in their train? “Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fru it” (John 12:24). THE BIBLE INSTITUTE OF LOS ANGELES Incorporated 558 South Hope Street, Los Angeles, California

To the Christian steward to whom God has entrusted the means of sup­ porting financially those institutions which honor God’s Word. To the prayer warrior whose daily intercession includes the schools God is using to thrust forth trained and heroic laborers into His harvest.

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