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Iftiwtf EninRXnrt UemLfentel MaryAlanShll- fayarf&bfaftn OortbyHörf« UWreaPrf P 5 b » i » l . ïî K WUMA 17 M «7 Sjw*«r A Record of Results Achieved P h o t o g r a p h s o f two groups of graduates of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles are shown on these pages. Above is the Class of ’26, a class 94 strong, numbering 31 men and 63 women. Eleven years have passed since they were graduated — enough time to recapitulate their achievements and to estimate, in a measure, the value o f their work. Their record has not been more outstanding than that of other classes which have been graduated from the Institute in the more than twenty-five years of its history. been led to Jesus’ feet. In organized Christian work and in countless personal contacts, graduates of the Class of ’26 have been used in the Lord’s gracious work of bringing sin-weary souls to Himself. Although their labors are by no means ended— indeed, these workers are still in the flood tide of their powers—yet they have accomplished much, all because some thirteen years ago there was in exist ence a Bible Institute o f Los Angeles, equipped to train them without tuition cost. The Cost and the Plan And you ask how much the two years o f training given to this group have cost? Many o f the women members have married, and their service thus becomes part of the lives of their husbands. Death has o f course taken its toll. Yet there remain 49 members, more than 52 per cent of the class, in definite Christian work, as pas tors, wives of pastors, missionaries, nurses, and as workers in other forms of Christian activity. Others, in so-called “ secular work,” have demon strated by their Spirit-filled lives that any task in the Lord’s will is full-time Christian service. Considered as a group, members of the Class of ’26 have visited four continents, sailed five great seas, and served in such widely separated lands as China and England, the Argentine and Belgium, Venezuela and the Canary Islands, the United States, India, Egypt, Korea, and Central America. The souls and bodies of many natives, black and yellow, brown and white, have known the ministra tion of this group. Churches have been founded and Sunday-schools organized. The Word has been whis pered to the dying in hospitals, and children have About $300 per capita—approximately $28,000 in all—was the cost of training this particular group of 94 members. This amount could have been given (and perhaps largely was contributed) by some 1,167 j Christians, each willing to spare $1.00 monthly for f over a period of two years. When the monthly re quirement of $1,167 is divided by 94, the number of members of the Class o f ’26, the resulting answer —13—represents the approximate number of praying and giving Christians who stood loyally behind each of these students. Now a dollar a month is not a large sum; it is about the monthly cost of a daily paper, or the price of a bouquet of flowers or a box o f candy. But note the astounding results when that dollar is dedicated in prayer and consecrated to God’s work, through a donation to Christian training at this Bible Institute. Here the gift equips true soldiers of Christ for definite Christian service—as former students were
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