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T H E K I N G ' S B U S I N E S S
October, 1938
"One morning, the first person to arrive was at the office a half hour before the customary hour of opening. She took from her purse five crisp, new twenty-dollar bills, and told me she had been saving them for her funeral expenses, but had decided she should use them, instead, to help preserve the ministry of the place where her son had been brought to know the Lord a number of years ago. He now is very ill, she is elderly, and they both are desperately poor. She gave her all, and was happier than words can express that she had that amount to give. "On another occasion, an attractive little woman laid before me a cashier’s check for a thousand dollars. When I rather gasped at the amount, she said, 'I do not want any one to know about this. The money has been in the bank at a low rate of interest. I give it in memory of my mother. I know my mother would wish me to do this.’ ” "How were you affected personally by seeing God’s remarkable working?” the church visitor was asked, and in her answer was the expressed conviction of countless other individuals. “These days truly have been the most joyous time in my life,” she replied. “May God grant that they never shall be forgotten as long as I live. How I have been reproved for lack of faith, as I have, seen the mar velous manifestation of the grace of God! Eager young people, seeking train- ing for Christian leadership, praise God for Biola’ s open doors. Assembled with members of the faculty and Board of Trustees are shown a large percentage of the 382 students in attendance for the fall semester at the Bible Institute of Los Angeles.
Part of the throng that poured out of the Church of the Open Door on Sunday morn ing, September II, 1938, on the Institute's day of special rejoicing over the lifting of a large burden of its debt.
pared the people,’ and 'the thing was done suddenly’— for His own praise and glory." Surely He who has begun this "good work” is able to continue and complete it. Undeniably the One who has freed the Institute of a debt-burden of $700,000.00 is able also to lift the weight of the remaining indebtedness on the building of $188,000.00 and to provide for the more-than-usually heavy cost of the Institute’s maintenance. In Him is no limitation of power; for its fullest display, His people need only relate them selves to His will. May God grant that in the midst of rejoicing there may be, on the part of individuals and of the Institute as a whole, a new waiting upon Him for cleansing, guidance, victory. Time has come to "thank God and take courage,” to allow no diminution of the sacrificial flame, but to feed it, rather, until, like a blazing beacon, it points to men of every nation the way to God.
How true are the words we often sing: " ‘A mighty Fortress is our God, A Bulwark never failing.’ "For a number of weeks, as I saw that conditions in the Bible Institute were be coming more and more distressing, my prayer was the one found in 2 Chronicles 14:11: ‘Lord, it is nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have no power: help us, O Lord our God; for we rest on thee, and in thy name we go against this multitude. O Lord, thou art our God; let not man prevail against thee.' Then came the plan, the people’s response— all of which was marvelous to us. I found myself expressing praise, ^s I had formerly uttered prayer, in the words of Scripture. This time it was 2 Chronicles 29:36; ‘And Hezekiah rejoiced and all the people, that God had prepared the people: for the thing was done suddenly.’ Right here at Biola, before our very eyes, the Lord had pre
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