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We will need your help. Tuition is, and always has been, without cost at Biola. The student pays only for food and lodging. The. costs relative to the intensive training amount to approximately $125.00 per year per student. With a growing student body, there will be additional costs. We will need also more dormitory space. Our classroom facilities are al ready taxed to capacity. Social and recreational rooms are greatly desired. An apartment house for our married students would indeed be a wonderful gift. Above all we need prayer help ers. May God give us ten thousand Christians who believe in, and who constantly practice prayer! ★ ★ Bible Institute o f the A ir Without a doubt one of the most fruitful phases of the ministry of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles is its radio b r o a d c a s t i n g . 'Now in its fourteenth year under Dr. Talbot’s leadership, (although it is to be re membered that itocSnany years Biola owned and operated its own radio station, KTBI), this work has pros pered and blessed the lives of un counted thousands. - The mid-morning hour of 11:00 o’clock was the first to be taken. At this time Dr. Talbot pioneered in a p o p u l a r Bible teaching, verse-by-verse ministry. To accom pany and fortify this Bible teaching, Dr. Talbot began printing his radio messages in book form and sending them w i t h o u t cost to the radio audience. Today the results of this radio printing vision are seen in the homes all over Southern California. Several years ago the Lord seemed to be leading in the acquisition of time over a chain of Pacific Coast sta tions. This work grew until the Mu tual network enacted a new ruling limiting the time of religious broad casting to Sunday mornings. Forced to discontinue here, the Bible Institute of the Air began a new climb over a new Associated Broadcasting Company network. At the present time the net work program is released on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 8:00 a. m.
Praise Be Unto Our Great God As this page of THE KING’S BUSI NESS is being written, we are looking forward to Easter Sunday when, God willing, the mortgage on the large auditorium building of the Church of the Open Door, which lies between the two thirteen-story hotel buildings of the Bible Institute, will be burned. Surely this is another concrete demon stration of the fact that God hears and answers prayer. With deep humility we recall that only a few years ago all three build ings were heavily burdened with a ' Crushing debt. The advice of bankers and many friends was to give up. Instead—perhaps in desperation—un ceasing prayer was made to God. The answer came, and friends were raised up. Not all at once, but little by little, and dollar by dollar, the debt was paid. Now with heartfelt thanks giving to our Heavenly Father, we are to witness the complete liberation from this financial burden. We thank God for the coming of Dr. Louis T. Talbot. In an all but hopeless situation this man of God exhibited magnificent courage and undaunted faith. Sometimes, with no one upon whom to depend but God, he learned the lesson that God is enough. About a year ago the mortgages on the two side buildings were paid. Soon it will be the privilege of Dr. Talbot to apply the match to the papers on the central building. “Credit to whom credit is due” demands that we thank God for sending us this faithful pastor and friend. Now as to the future! Surely there is a ringing challenge to both the Bible Institute of Los Angeles and the Church of the Open Door. The pres ent student body is larger than ever before. Indications are, that in post war days additional hundreds seeking training will be knocking at the doors of Biola. And the mission fields? With doors wide open, and with pre viously unheard of transportation op portunities, there will be need for literally thousands and thousands of dedicated and consecrated young peo ple. Biola earnestly and prayerfully desires to help to meet this need.
to about thirty stations from San Diego in the South, to Seattle in thé North. Letters testifying to the help and blessing of the Bible Institute of the Air continue to pour in. The music is ably furnished by a large stu dent choir which includes smaller groups of trios, quartets, sextets, and octets. The Bible discussion has in cluded the themes of Biblical Natur- ology, Astronomy, Archaeology, An thropology and lastly, the personal return of Christ. God willing, it is the earnest desire of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles to broadcast this network program through the Middle West. We need much prayer. We know that the air is particularly the dominion of our arch enemy, Satan. But God is able, and we earnestly desire to press the battle for Him until Jesus comes. Please place this ministry on your prayer list. ★ ★ Family Altars In a recent issue of the Reader’s Digest there appeared a fine article on prayer in the home. It is a true story of a family that regained peace, satis faction and inner strength by setting aside a daily period for home devotion. While the conclusions of the writer are not in agreement with our views, his article is certainly newsworthy as denoting a definite trend in American thinking. It seems that the parents, having themselves been reared in Christian homes, sensed a lack of spiritual progress in their children, although they attended S u n d a y School re gularly, and evèn repeated nightly prayers. A d a n g e r o u s accident brought both parents and children to a realization of the instability
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