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Glee Club Tours For several years it has been the desire of the director of the Men’s Glee Club, Prof. J. B. Trowbridge, that both Glee Clubs of the Bible Institute might make a tour of California coast and valley towns during the Easter vacation, meeting in the Bay region for a joint concert. This year the hope was realized. Under the direction of Mrs. Lillian Robinson, the young women, accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Cutler B. Whitwell, traveled the coast route to Santa Rosa. Professor Trowbridge took the Men’s Club as far north as Richmond. On Sunday, April 13, a. joint concert was held in the Gospel
meetings at the First Baptist Church, Ta coma, Wash., of which Rev. C. O. John son is the pastor. F. ERNEST DIEM, ’21, and MRS. DIEM, are at Yakima, Wash., on fur lough from Brazil, and are engaging in deputation work. They were in Los An geles for the mid-year Alumni reunion. REV. CHARLES A. NETHERY, T8, is Superintendent of the Sailors’ Rest Mission at San Pedro (Southern Cali fornia Floating Christian Endeavor Asso ciation). R. G. ROGERS, T8, is Finan cial Secretary. Among the converts is NIELS JENSEN who was brought to
MR. and MRS. W. R. HUNRICHS are located at Visconde de Taunay, Matto Grosso, Brazil. Mr. Hunrichs writes: “ The whole tone of this work is bright with prospect. The Lord has wonderfully answered prayer and we look for even greater things.” KNUTE O. STENSLAND, ’24, P. G. ’25, was graduated from the Jewish Mis sions Course of the Moody Bible Institute. While in Chicago he met a number of Biola friends, among them MR. D. L. FOSTER. Mr. Stensland is at Antler, N. Dak., in evangelistic work. REV. JAMES K. CHUNG, T6, is As
Tabernacle of th e Christian a n d Mis sionary Alliance in Oakland. During the week the Clubs sang in t w e n t y - e i g h t churches, t w o hos pitals, three schools, one Rotary Club and one cafeteria. Among the pastors who wel comed them was Rev. Paul W. Rood, who, with REV. THERON M. CHASTAIN, ’26, a n d MRS. CHAS TAIN (nee Mildred Bridge, ’29) is shown in the accompanying p i c t u r e of t h e Women’s Glee Club t a k e n at Turlock, California. News Items R. DAVID BEN DER h a s attended the Evangelical The ological College, Dal
sociate General Sec retary o f the Korea Sunday School Asso ciation, Seoul, Chosen. Since his graduation from the Institute he h a s attended San Francisco Theological Seminary, Princeton Theological Seminary and Teachers College of New York City. An article by Mr. Chung, “W h a t the Coming o f the Mis sionaries w i t h the Message of the Cross has Meant to the Ko reans,” appears in Foreign Voices. MRS. MARGARET STUART HAY, ’21, w r i t i n g in Inland South America, de scribes a picnic for the little Peruvian boys and girls o f the m i s s i o n Sunday-
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las, Texas. He hag been accepted by the Central American Mission and hopes to sail in the fall for Salvador. MR. and MRS. GEORGE JACKSON are missionaries in South America un der the Orinoco River Mission. MRS. JACKSON (nee AGNES HOSIE, ’26) has been critically ill, but is recovering. “It won’t be long now,” writes EU GENE CRAPUCHETTES, ’28, P. G. ’29. At first we thought he was referring to the coming of our Lord. But he meant that it will not be long before he starts up the Yangtze River, China, to the sta tion to which he has recently been as signed. REV. WALTER CARL SUBKE, ’21, on May 6, was installed as pastor of the Greenwich Presbyterian Church, Thir teenth Street, between Sixth and Seventh Avenues, New York City. REV. HARRY O. ANDERSON, ’IS, evangelist, has been holding evangelistic
Christ in a street meeting in front of the Mission, about two years ago. He spent a year at Biola, and is now on his way to Denmark, his native land, to work as a missionary among seamen. MR. and MRS. GEORGE VAN DU- SEN, ’20, E. S., have a responsible po sition in the Africa Inland Mission at Aba, Congo Beige, Africa. They write about a vacation trip to a higher altitude where they hoped to have needed rest and overcome the effects o f malaria. HERBERT,MELVILLE has been at tending the Presbyterian Seminary at Louisville, Ky., and ministering to two churches. ARTHUR LASCELLES has been graduated from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Ken tucky. He expects to go to New York for further study in the School of Social Science. During his residence in Louis ville he was employed by the city as a social service worker.
school: “We must walk, but there are interesting sights along the way. There are the market women carrying big basins on their heads. There is an Indian with a heavy load of wood on his back. When we arrive at the picnic grounds the chil dren build fires to cook their rice, green bananas, eggs, or dried meat. They sing ‘Yes, Jesus Loves Me’ and ‘Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam.’ These boys and girls did not know about the love of Jesus un til the missionary came.” MR. and MRS. ARVID H. NELSON (nee FLORENCE CARLSON, ’20) are living on their farm at Coleharbor, North Dakota. They are busy in the Union Sunday-school and the Christian En deavor. ESTHER ENDER, ’27, completed a semester’s work at Nyack Missionary Training Institute, Nyack, N. Y., on May 13. She expects to go to French Indo- China in September.
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