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them into love and life were leaving them, and though happy in the Lord, they were now with no human as a regular leader. As we reached the top o f the mountain, we looked back. Though it was hazy, we could see for a few miles in a semicircle. What did we see? Even with the very poor visibility, we saw nearly one hundred villages scattered closely over the plain. Each village has its heathen temple, almost every house its false gods. But only one village in the entire group had a church and more than one or two believers in the true God. W e crossed the ridge, and what met our eyes? Almost exactly the same sight 1 As this letter goes out to many praying friends, will you pray that mqre workers may be sent? Please pray that the unreached villages may be opened; to those able to go.” A. A. Kroeker, ’22, Winkler, Manitoba, Can., is engaged in farming during the summer months, and spends his winters teaching in a Bible school. There were seventy-six students in the school this year, coming from widely scattered regions— Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia, Ontario, and . North Dakota. There were thirty-one graduates from their course based upon the Ev.angelical Teacher Training Association’s course. A still larger number of students seems in pros pect for next year. A bulletin recently received by the Alumni Association gives information concerning the following three graduates o f Biola: John W . Dunlop, T5, o f Carcar, Cebu, P. I. (Presbyterian Board of Foreign Mis sions), with the gift o f a mimeograph, is turning out from three to four thousand tracts each week fo r use at open-air meet ings. His two oider sons, John and W il liam, are now enrolled in the University of California, Berkeley. Albert G. Siegle, ’ 14, o f Bangkok, Siam (Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions), writes that the Cantonese Chinese group has purchased the Loyal School compound, which is now being used as a center for their Christian activities. David J. Donnan, T6, has been pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Santa Monica, Calif., for the past two years. On Novem ber 5, sixty new members united with the church. Eva Doerksen, ’21 (Sudan Interior Mis sion), on her way back to America for her furlough, wrote: “ It hardly seems pos sible that am coming home for my second furlough. This has been a very precious term. It was a much harder pull to leave Africa this time.” Miss Doerksen’s home address is Denair, Calif. Elva Widlund, ’29, reports that her four years at the Oregon State College, Cor vallis, were interesting ones, “ almost like a story book.” Mildred Sloper, ’29, also was graduated from the same college. Miss Widlund has been teaching in the junior high school at Redlands, Calif. Mrs. Bert Fugate (Della M. Payne, ’25) is living in Scottsdale, Ariz. She has four children: Lillian, Truman, Kathryn, and Bonnie Lee.
Nebr., is teaching in the Henderson High School, where she has been for five years. She is serving the Lord in her home church, in the Sunday-school, and in the Christian Endeavor society. Margaret G. Thomsen, ’25, 3000 Ninth St., Berkeley, Calif., is working under the Woman’s American Baptist Home Mission Society, as secretary and group mother in the Chung Mei Home for Chinese Boys. She has been in this home for underpriv ileged Chinese boys for five years. At the time she wrote, there were sixty-five in the home, and it had been necessary to refuse admittance to about ten others within the past six or eight weeks, because of lack of room. Ernest H. ( ’28) and Mrs. Brown (Elsie L. Hollinger, ’27), Prineville, Ore., have been greatly blessed in the three .years of Mr. Brown’s pastorate in the Missionary Baptist Church there. James W . Black, ’20, 2011 S. E. 35th PL, Portland, Ore., is field missionary for the Missionary Baptist Churches of Oregon. Mr. and Mrs. Black have four children: Lee, Martha, Francis Dan, and Joseph. John G. Fee, ’30, with the China Inland Mission recently in Hiangcheng, Honan, described the experiences of five workers as they left some of the new converts from a village where the band had been witness ing for two months: “ Thirteen o f these dear folk . . . from a man in his sixties down to a couple of young girls in their teens, and young men and boys, all without exception burst out crying bitterly! Such an exhibition of love I have never seen before. W e ourselves could hardly keep from joining them in weeping. One chap of thirty-three grasped my hand heartily; and as I gripped it, he threw his other arm around me, and putting his head on my chest, he sobbed like a child. Why all this? Because those who had helped
Herbert G . Tovey Honored H erbert G. T ovey , director o f the music course at the Bible Institute o f Los Angeles, has been at the Institute since 1919, with the exception o f three years when he was chairman of the music faculty at the California Christian College. He has recently been honored with the degree of Doctor o f Music, from the Houston Bible Institute, Houston, Tex. The degree was formally conferred on him by the California Christian College, acting for the Houston Bible Institute, at the commencement exercises on June 8, 1934. Missionaries on Tour T hrough the Bible House o f Los An geles, o f which J. E. Jaderquist is the Executive Secretary, a series of meetings in the Pacific Northwest was ar ranged for a group o f speakers represent ing various faith missions. Included in the company were four graduates of the Bible Institute o f Los Angeles. In the six weeks’ itinerary, in May and June, over twenty-five points were touched—chiefly in Washington and Oregon. Presenting the needs of widely separated fields, the mis sionaries (pictured elsewhere on these pages) were used of God to visualize the vastness of the unfinished task of world evangelization. The welcome with which the speakers were everywhere received seemed to be God’s seal upon this method pf making known the need “in the regions beyond.” Alumni News H elen L ouise A ntisdale , ’29, Evans ton, 111., is looking toward Africa as the field in which the Lord would have her serve. She will graduate this year from the Evanston Hospital, where she has been in training for three years. She writes: “ The Lord has shown me how real He can be to me, here among many girls who do not believe in God as Father and Saviour. I have come to love the Lord and His people more than ever before. He has been my Guide and Help in going through training.” “Abundantly above all we are able to ask or think, are the blessings bestowed as we teach and preach the Word of God. He has encouraged us so often with the response of many young people,” is the testimony that comes from Neil J. Barnes, T9, pas tor of the First Baptist Church of Marsh field, Ore. Mrs. R. R. Shirk (Magdalena M. van Teylingen, ’28), Neodesha, Kans., has been wondrously blessed in the evangelistic work in which she and her husband are engaged, working among various denominations. They have had thousands in boys’ and girls’ and young people’s meetings. The Lord has blessed them also in the distribution o f Testaments, in personal interviews, in Bible lecture hours, and in the ministry o f song. Helen Klippenstein, ’22, Henderson,
SPEAKING ON BEHALF OF M ISSION S Left to right (standing): C. H. Judd, China Inland Mission; Harold R. Cook, Orinoco River Mission; C. F. Koehler, pastor of Knox Presbyterian Church, Spokane, Wash.; J. E. Jaderquist, Bible House of Los Angeles; Karl D. Hummel, '18, Central American Mission; (seated) Dr. and Mrs. F. Howard Taylor, China Inland Mission; Mr. and Mrs. George C. Van Dusen, '20, E.S., Africa Inland Mission. George H. Ekdahl, '18, Bolivian Indian Mission, was also a member of the group.
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