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T H E K I N G ' S B U S I N E S S
July. 1933
“ I am enclosing pictures o f two Daily Vacation Bible Schools which were conducted by two Bible Institute1stu dents last June. At Wickersham, they conducted a very fine school in a vacant church, where last fall, as a result of the D.V.B.S., I organized a good Sunday-school.” A group of six choice young women are turning their faces toward the hot dry plains of South Dakota, there to answer as many as possible o f the increasing number o f calls for'summer Bible, schools and.young people’s meet ings. A few o f the girls spent a strenuous but wonderfully happy summer there last year, and came home repoicing in having led approximately 162 to the Lord. Space forbids all but the mere mention of other groups. One o f these, the Women’s.Qqartet, accompanied by Miss
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etc., is no amateur cyclist. Last summer he traveled 700 miles in three weeks, and for this vacation he has planned a m u c h longer trip, spending all the time from early June to late September in t h e field, going from Los Angeles to his home in Yakima, Wash., and then into t h e whole central Ore gon region. “ You know,” he said with the quiet
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Mabel Culter, Super intendent o f Womep, will assist with the music at several Chris tian Endeavor conven tions, singing espec ially in the homes of C. E. members who are shut-ins. Another, a qu a rte t o f y ou n g m e n kn ow n as the King’s Heralds, is be ginning a second sum mer tour. La st year, in n in e ty days, they covered 8 ,0 0 0 m iles and were instrumental in leading over 100 individuals to Christ. They seek especially neglected communities. In addition to the sev eral groups o f students
conviction that characterizes him, “ I feel I must go back. I tramped that country as a boy, unsaved. The people know me. And before I go to the savage tribes of South Amer ican Indians—as I will, the Lord willing, as soon as I finish the Medical Missionary course at the Institute— I want to tell my own folk what the Lord Jesus means to me”— sep arated unto the gospel now, as well as in the tomorrow o f things! “ T o t h e J e w F ir s t ” See that grqup o f five alert young men. One of them is an outstanding musician. Another gives telling chalk talks. They are Zion’s Watchmen, students of the Jewish Missions course. One o f them is the son o f a prominent Jewish family. His father and his grandfather were rabbis, and he himself spent twelve years in study for the rabbinate, until, through the influence and efforts o f a member of the Institute faculty, his eyes were opened to see the Lord Jesus Christ as Israel’s Messiah and his Saviour. Now a passion to evangelize Israel consumes him. His own family is still without Christ. To them and to the other thousands o f Jews oh the Atlantic coast, this group is hastening with the message dearest o f all to their hearts. M a k i n g P l a y t im e P r o f it a b l e As restless as the sea they love, hundreds o f vacationists —with uncounted boys and girls among them— come each year to Hermosa Beach, California. They are ready for anything, so long as it is consumingly interesting. Bible Institute leaders and students were quick to recognize this unique field for evangelism and were ready to repeat this year the effort carried on so successfully last summer, known as the Children’s Special Service Mission. Lessons
King’s Heralds (standing): H. Remple, W. Retts; (seated) H. Van Loon, J. Wiebe.
that are going forth, scores of other Biola young people will be serving just as effectively in their home towns and churches, witnessing for Christ wherever they are. “ Where is the Lord leading you?” one young woman was asked on the day following graduation. “ He’s leading me right back to the home from which He called me, two years a g o ! I’m going back to the old scenes, the old tasks. But oh, I’m so much richer than when I came away!” And who can say that that humble home, and many others like it, will not partake in generous measure of the riches o f God’s Word and o f His grace that this grateful graduate, and others like her, are going home to share ? F a i t h ’ s A n s w e r t o t h e S e e m i n g l y I m p o s s ib l e “ Are you coming back next fall?” The question trembles on unwilling lips, for however alluring the summer trips may be, B. I. has been home, and it is not easy to leave. •“ Sure, we’re coming back!” Graduates— some o f them— are saying it; last year’s students—most o f them—are saying it. New students are chiming in, “ W e ’re coming, too !” Already at this early date, there is prospect of about. 400 students for the fall. And Biola’s silent corridors, that have witnessed the coming and the going o f warm-hearted youth year after year, are echoing hopeful, tender words, words o f fa ith : “ Yes, you’re coming back!” Dedicated “ unto him that loved us and washed us from our sins in his own precious blood,” Biola will, by His grace and His enabling, swing wide its welcoming arms on September 21 to every young person whose purpose makes him qualify. How it is pos sible in the face o f humanly insurmountable difficulties is God’s problem; “ our eyes are unto him.”
and illustrations are in s c r ib e d on the s a n d , in p la ce o f more p r o s a ic black boards, with delight ful results. And so. they are o f f , Mr. and Mrs. Gordon E. H o o k e r and their four versatile help ers, for a novel ex perience that prom ises rich sp iritu a l returns.
A group in Washington, organized by B. I. students under the American S. S. Union.
T e a c h in g t h e W ord By far the largest number of students, especially of young women, will spend the summer in Daily Vacation Bible School work. Many will serve under the American Sunday School Union. Among them are several young men who are going north to assist Rev. Charles Knautz, the Union’s representative in northwestern Washington. Writ ing to the Institute, Mr. Knautz says:
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