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in Belfast, Ireland, where he expects to spend six or eight weeks before leaving for his field of service in Africa. Mrs. Samuel D. McGuigan (Bertie Guiteau, ’22) and her mother have both suffered with pneumonia. Mrs. McGuigan was formerly a secretary at the Bible Insti tute. She is now living in Pasadena, Calif. H. Elson McCutcheon, has been for three and a half years the pastor of the Baptist Church, Watts, Calif. Ernest E. Nichols, ’24, was ordained to the gospel ministry at the Hoover Street Baptist Church, Los Angeles, on May 13. The Church-at-Work, published at Port Isabel, Tex., contained in its issue of June 2 the following item concerning O. E. San- den, ’23: »“One of the most outstanding pieces of church work that has- been wrought in the valley in years has been accomplished by the faithful and sacrificial work of the Presbyterians o f LaFeria un der the leadership of Rev. O. E. Sanden. . . . On arrival in LaFeria he found a faithful little band of fourteen members and an unsuitable building. During all the period of so-called depression, he inspired and led the people in a building program that was so thorough and complete that they recently dedicated their new building, free o f debt. . . . The congregation has grown from fourteen members to a con sistent attendance of 160.” With the Lord Elsie Irene Hummel, six years of age, youngest of four children o f Karl D. ( ’18) and Mrs. Hummel (Guelph Mc- Quinn, ’19), passed away recently after a short illness with diphtheria. Students in Summer Work I n addition to the account o f some of the proposed summer work of Biola graduates and students, given on pages 211 to 213 of this issue, it will be of in terest to readers of the Family Circle page to know the names of the young people who are going forth. For the sake o f brevity, the year of graduation is omitted in each case. A majority o f those mentioned are graduates of ’33; others were students dur ing that year or other years. The Ambassadors include Helen Cather- wood, Dorothy Drake, Genevieve Hinote, Lottie Jordan, and Evelyn Walden. They plan to spend most of their summer in Oklahoma where, in company with Thelma Frith, they will conduct Daily Vacation Bible Schools. The American Sunday School Union, ac cording to present arrangements, will use over forty Bible Institute students in sum mer work in California, Louisiana, and Washington. These include: Marian Ad ams, Allen Backer, Katherine Baerg, Isa bel Bateman, Mrs. Anna Boehler, Lossie Brown, Alys Cornell, Glen Cox, Kathryn Dodson, Gayle Fullarton, Marion and Mar tha Gregg, Edith French, Mrs. H. R. Hamilton, Meredith Kehrli, Sterling Keyes, Vera Klemenok, Eugene Knautz, Mrs. Emma Lichty, Flora Loughead, Margaret McCandless (part time), Eunice Morrill, Hamilton Morrow, Emily Moses, Stanley Norwick, Edith Nowell, Jennie Pederson, [Continued on page 248]
The Call of the Palisades
As the invitation was given, one could look up the hillside and see first one and then another quietly slip out of the wooden benches and down to the platform. Here was an earnest teacher pressing the claims of Christ on the unsurrendered girl, and there was a girl putting her arm around a chum and leading her down the steps, until the platform was full of girls—saved girls laying their lives on the altar, worldly girls coming apart from the world to live for Christ, lost girls opening their hearts to the Saviour. Truly there was joy in the presence of God as heavenly beings looked down upon this closing scene of the 1933 Euodia conference. Alumni Gleanings Lyda Carter, ’25, is a missionary at Krypton, Ky. A recent letter from her con tains this significant sentence: “ The work here is challenging, in that it is discourag ing.” She is bravely accepting the chal lenge, assisting in the work of two Sunday- schools, three Christian Endeavor socie ties, choir practice, and prayer meeting. “I graduated from B. I. in ’25,” she writes. “At that time, I promised if possible to send ten dollars each year, until I had sent $200 to B. I. This I did for four years . . . Now, although I get less per month than I have at almost any other period since being here, I want to try to make up for lost time.” This is the spirit o f Biola alumni, and this is the spirit of Christ! J. Clarence Orr, ’22, is pastor of the First Baptist Church, Corning, Calif. C. Logan Landrum,'124, a graduate of Atlantic Christian College and Union The ological Seminary in Virginia, has been for five years a pastor in Kenly, N. C. He is also chairman of the Presbytery’s com mittees on evangelism and Sunday-school wdrk. He and Mrs. Landrum have two children, Charles Logan, Jr., age three, and Louise, age four months. Joseph H. Beckett,; ’32, has been ac cepted by the Sudan Interior Mission. He left Los Angeles on June 13 for his home
pringtime means conference time to the girls o f the Euodia Clubs. These girls, in groups from about forty dif ferent high and junior high schools in Los Angeles and vicinity, are faithful and en thusiastic in their weekly Bible study meet ings, but their interest is just a little keener as they look forward to a week-end at camp, when they can have the added in spiration o f fellowship with the girls of every school where a Euodia Club has been organized. This year the twelfth annual conference was held on May 19 and 20, at the Pacific Palisades near Santa Monica, Calif., a beautiful and well-equipped grounds in a wooded canyon within walking distance of the ocean. From early afternoon on Fri day until dusk, carloads of happy school girls arrived—nearly 250 in all. > The conference, under the able super vision of Miss Elizabeth Merritt, Director of the Euodia Clubs, opened with a ban quet in the artistically decorated dining room. The meal finished, the air became tense with excitement as nine girls, representing the larger clubs, went for ward to compete in minute speeches on the conference theme verse : “I will bless thee . . . and thou shalt be a blessing” (Gen. 12:2). The evening evangelistic message, in thè rustic indoor auditorium, was given by Dr. G. H. Stieglitz, pastor of the Gospel Tabernacle of the Christian and Missionary Alliance, of Los Angeles—and with blessed results. As the girls gathered in their tents for the evening, one could hear from some tents the sound of gospel song, and from others, the voice of prayer, as teach ers and chaperones led in bedtime devo tions. On Saturday afternoon, after a morn ing o f outdoor sports, the last message was brought by Miss Myrtle E. Scott, Di rector of the Lyceum-Eteri Clubs, a similar work for college and business girls. All but the birds were hushed in the tree-shaded am phitheater as she set before those youth ful hearts the challenge of living a life which would merit the Lord’s “well done.”.
FRAGRANCE B y M argaret R. E lliott
i ased on the Euodia Club verse—2 Corinthians 2:14, literal translation—and the club motto, “ Be fragrant for Christ,” the following poem was written by Margaret Elliott, ’26, the first president of the Euodia Club organized in Long Beach in 1921. Miss Elliott is now a missionary of the China Inland Mission, sta tioned with her sister, Ruth, ’27, at Tungcheng, Anhwei, China. His the fragrance, We the vessels Into which H e pours His love. H is the sweetness, W e containers Holding richness from above. H e diffuseth, We the medium By which others may be blest. He a n o i n t e t h . We abiding Triumphing the while we rest. He the Leader, Ours to follow, Going forth to every place. Reaching others In His power, Spreading knowledge o f His grace. His the fragrance, His the knowledge, His the power to diffuse. His the triumph, His the glory, W e the vessels fo r His use.
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