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L. C. R obie (Biola, ’ 18), Union Springs, N. Y., known as “ Sky-Pilot Robie,” opened services at the United Church of Spring- boro, Pa., early in April, planning to hold a three-weeks’ campaign. John Dornhoefer, pastor of the church, writes concerning the spiritual awakening that the Lord gra ciously gave: “You would be aware of it if you kept stumbling into prayer meetings as you visited from home to home. You would feel it in the air as nearly every body is singing, ‘It is morning in my soul’ . . . Nor are the meetings without decisions. Boys and girls, young people and adults, have been on their knees accepting Christ as Saviour. Mr. Robie’s itinerary includes the following engagements: May—Niagara Falls, N. Y .; June—Mohawk, N. Y .; July— Cannard, Pa.; latter part of August— Syracuse, N. Y., and October—City Temple, Baltimore, Md.
T h e W m . F. R aw lins E vangelistic P artv recently closed a very fruitful cam paign in the First Baptist Church of Em porium, Pa. Crowds filled the auditorium each night, and forty-five persons came forward to confess Christ as their Saviour. The children’s meetings were well at tended, and many of the boys and girls were led to Christ. The Rawlins Party held another campaign in the Erieside Church, Willowick, Ohio, from April 18 to May 2 with good results. To enable the children to retain the message they hear, these evan gelists use E. J. Pace’s colored cartoons in their work. The music on bottles, bells, cathedral chimes, the vibraphone, and the piano accordion is well received by adults as well as by boys and girls. The Rawlins Party may be addressed at 558 So. Hope St., Los Angeles, Calif.
To Newton A. and Mrs. Kapp (Doris Blackwell, ’31), a daughter, Pauline Joyce, April 26, Pasadena, Calif. T o Henry and Mrs. McCune (Gladys L. White, ’29), a daughter, Grace Ellen, Jan. 18, Tsung Fa City, China. Married Arthur H. Hadsell, ’26, and Hulda Irene Morris, May 7, Kansas City, Kans. With the Lord John M. Van Dyk, the seven-months-old son of Albert (’29) and Mrs. Van Dyk of Gardena, Calif., went to be with the Savr iour on May 9, after a short illness. The prayerful sympathy of Institute friends is extended to the parents of the little one. Greenwood Hills Conference in Pennsylvania With the rich ministry of spiritual men of God, the Greenwood Hills Bible Con ference, held under the auspices of the Philadelphia School of the Bible, will meet from July 24 to August 8 at Greenwood Hills on the Lincoln Highway near Fayette ville, Pa. Horace F. Dean, Vice-President and Treasurer of the Philadelphia School of the Bible, is Conference Director. Dates of the periods during which the various speakers plan to be present are as follows: July 24 to 26—Captain Reginald Wallis; July 26 to 30—James R. Graham, Jr.; July 27 to 31—Albert Hughes; Aug. 1 and 2— E. Schuyler English; Aug. 1 to 4—W. Douglas Roe; Aug. 2 to 8—Bishop William Culbertson, and Aug. 5 to 8— Isaac Page. Franklin W . Wiley will be the Director of Music at the conference. Inquiries may be addressed to: Greenwood Hills Conference, Philadelphia School of the Bible, 1721 Spring Garden St., Philadelphia, Pa. Evangelistic Notices M ark J. G oodger , known as the “Hiking Bible Evangelist,” left Los Angeles in April to make a tour around the border of the United States. He started north to ward San Francisco and planned to stop in each town or city, preaching and giving out tracts. After going on to Vancouver, he expected to cover the northern border states, going to Toronto and New England and thence south on the Atlantic Coast. Mr. Goodger can be addressed in care of the Moody Memorial Church of Chicago, 111. O scar L owry was the evangelist whom God used to bring spiritual stimulation to men and women in Buffalo, Minn., in a three-weeks’ series of meetings in the early spring. Four churches cooperated—Meth odist, Swedish Covenant, Evangelical Free, and Presbyterian. There were three hun dred individuals who accepted Christ as Saviour. Fifty young people surrendered their lives for full-time Christian service. Mr. Lowry returned to his work in Phila delphia, Pa., where he is President of the Bible Institute o f Pennsylvania, with much gratitude to God for the evident working of the Holy Spirit in many hearts.
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Happy Hearts and Smiling Faces T h is group of American country-bred boys and girls—and many other similar groups -—met daily to study God’sWord. During a recent summer, the American Sunday School Union conducted 882 such Rural Daily Vacation Bible Schools; and 23,603 otherwise unreached rural youth attended them. The need is great. The spiritual life o f rural America is more neglected than even twenty-five years ago. A leader in home mission work states that over half o f the children o f America now know little o f God. Many never had an opportunity to accept Christ as Savior. Y et these rural young people supply much more than their proportion o f national leadership. 8 5 % o f our Ministers; three-quarters o f our most successful busi ness men and more than halfo f all city school teachers, come from the country. T o be Christian, and thus to be a really vital factor in America’s uplift, such leader ship must be molded under Christian influences . A public school teacher who attended Daily Vacation Bible School at fifteen recently said: “ The most valu able thing I learned was, how to be saved.” This young woman now teaches and exemplifies to her pupils the Bible truths she learned when a girl.
Antioch Daily Vacation Bible School in Indiana. Gospel meet ings were held in this old Chapel by the A.S.S.U. Missionary. A church was organized, and they now have regular preaching and a transformed community, un der the denomination chosen.
U nreached R ural A merica is the chosen field of the A.S.S.U. W e are evangelical in purpose, non-sectarian in method, and true to the Word of God. W e establish Sunday S ch o o ls, V a ca tio n B ib le Schools, Young People’s So cieties and Youth Bible Con ferences. W e conduct Home Visitation and render Com munity Welfare Aid to the otherwise unreached. Our Organization covers the Nation. You may sponsor this fruitful work. $ 12.50 annually estab lishes a class, and $ 25.00 maintains a Sunday School. $ 50.00 annually maintains work in an Unreached Com munity and $100 in a County. $1200 annually fully supports an A.S.S.U. Missionary. The need is tremendous— the work arduous — but the re sults in immortal souls are abundantly worth while.
Hundreds have found Christ in Daily Vacation Bible Schools “ along the old. back road” . Will your prayers and your gifts go with us in this Gospel work?
AMERICAN- Sunday School Union
DEPARTMENT OF MISSIONS, KB 637, 1816 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. I wish to sponsor the work of the A. S. S. U. with the unreached millions of Rural America. Enclosed find $ _____ to be used for___________________ ( ) Send your quarterly Field Magazine — “The Sun-
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( ) Mail your Booklet on Annuities. ( ) Send Sample Sunday School Literature. Name________________ ________ _ _ _____________ Address___ j ________________ _____ . *__________________ C ity_______ _____________________ State____ ,________ __ WITH CHRIST ALONG THE OLD BACK ROAD PIO N E ER S U N D A Y S C H O O L O R G A N IZ A T IO N O F THE U. S. A.
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