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is to have missionary societies in the villages, and have the women meet week by week and learn the Bible .,f . A Presbyterian pastor in Idaho, a graduate of the Institute writes: “My wife and I both praise our Lord con tinually for the contacts we had at B. I. and the inspiration received, and we believe it will bear fruit in Glory. Many thanks and deep appreciation for every moment it was our privilege to have with you, and may God bless you every moment of the time between here and Glory when we shall meet again if it shall not be our joy to do so here. "They told us we could not have a prayer meeting in ------ when I came, but I said: ‘I do not know about that, but God can have a prayer meeting here if the Children of God will listen to His voice.’ Wednesday night before last we had 32 out, almost half the actual membership, and we call it a prayer meeting and conduct it as a prayer meeting, and do not have to call it ’church night’ or ‘Bible Study Night’.’’ The following items were taken from a recent copy of the Central American Bulletin, official organ of the Central American Mission: Mr. and Mrs. Karl D. Hummel, B. I. '19, announce the birth of a baby girl, Elsie Irene, on Sunday, August 29th. Mrs. Hummel and the baby are both doing well.” Mr. Hummel is the Acting Secretary of the Mission, with headquarters at Dallas, TexaB. “Miss Anne E. Thomas, (B. I. ’18), 1500 Floyd Avenue, Richmond, Va., is looking forward to taking up work in Honduras, probably in the field form erly occupied by our dear sister, Miss Anna J. Gohrman, who is now with the Lord. Miss Thomas will, however, go first to Tegucigalpa. Due to the ex cessive heat' in Nicaragua, M i s s Thomas is not able to return there, but we believe the higher lands of Honduras will not impair her health. Pray with us that Miss Thomas may soon be on her way to the needy har vest field, if the Lord wills.” The Bolivian Indian of July pub lished the following items relative to Institute friends: “It has been with exceptional pleas ure that we had the privilege of wel coming back among us again Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Powlison and family of Los Angeles. It will be remembered by our readers that it was Mr. Pow lison, ’16, who suffered so much per secution from the enemies of the Gos pel during his former term of six years in Bolivia. Altogether he was “prisoner of the Lord” for almost two years. “Far be it from us to glory over the misfortune of our enemies; but it is significant that of the five who tried to do him most harm, two have gone to their eternal reward. A third is in jail in La Paz. A fourth has lost prac tically all his property. ’Vengeance is Mine; I will repay, saith the Lord/ “Mr. and Mrs. PowliBon have been
only a reflection of their good work.*' It la a pleasure to co-operate with the churches in Kingdom service. Mrs. Marion Walter Jackson, ’21, of Glthumu Mission, Chania Bridge, Kenya, East Africa, writes: “Not one of us would stay in Africa a day if we didn’t know we had the prayers of our friends behind us. We depend so much on their prayers. Living is very ex pensive here, for nearly everything is shipped in from England or the United States. We have to pay 75c a gallon for kerosene oil (Standard Oil) for our lamps, and the chimneys cost 75c a piece and last only a short time.’’ A pastor writes as follows: “Bro. Blank is a devout and devoted Chris tian. I don’t know any better place he could go than the ’Institute.’ He is apparently well taught in the Scrip tures, but needs—perhaps if I say loosening you would understand. Laughter, Joy and the social side of his life need help. I am glad he has made application to you. I don’t know where he could get exactly what he needs as a Christian better than at the Bible Institute. We have several of your graduates.” Rev. Albert E. Kelly, Student Sec retary, and Mr. H. G. Dean, of the Book Room, represented the Bible In stitute at the fall meeting of Los Angeles Presbytery and the Annual Meeting of the Synod of California of the United Presbyterian Church at Fowler, October 12th to l^th. Mr. Kelly delivered one of the evening ad dresses, his topic being “Religious Education.” Mr. Dean was given a place on several important commit tees. Representatives of B. I. are al ways cordially received in these de nominational meetings. “Being a missionary is not a lazy person’s work. One seldom has time to be lazy, but I would rather be a missionary with no conveniences what ever, than to live in luxury in any other business. I never will be able to thank the Lord enough for calling me to this field. Here in Venezuela we do not have the opposition of the govern ment as in other South American Re publics. Here all religion^ have gov ernment protection. However, public opinion is against us. Only the poorer class come to the meetings, and only they have made public profession." Mrs. Hugh Foucar, ’26, writes from Changsha, Hunan, China, an interest ing letter about war conditions as they affect mission work: “We’ve b e e n having a merry time of it in these parts lately . . . . The Cantonese Reds have come up from the south and have taken Wuchang and Hankow, and are trying to advance north. They already have Changsha, and, though things are peaceful enough here, it is due, a great deal, to the foreign gunboats, for in Miss Lorinda Warren, of Rio Caribe, Venezuela, So. America, writes:
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the smaller places the foreigners and Christians have had a hard time. These people are anti-Christian and anti-foreign, so it makes mission work difficult. How things will come out we don’t know, but we do trust the Lord.” . — o— Two Field Representatives have been added to the Bible Institute forces: Dr. John W. Welsh, once ad vance agent for Billy Sunday, and Mr. O. C. Colton, well known In Christian work over the United States,—also two Field Evangelists: Rev. Britton Ross, first student of the Institute, and Rev. Charles E. Fuller, a more recent student at the Institute. Will all friends pray God’s blessing upon these new workers. Mr. Wm. A. Fisher has taken on new duties as Director of Publicity for the Bible Institute, and will confine his work on The King’s Business to that of Circulation Manager. Mr. Keith L. Brooks becomes Managing Editor with the January number. Miss Beatrice Tannehill, ’25, writes of a thrilling experience of herself and fellow passengers while en route to Africa, Fire broke out on shipboard. The only means of holding it in check was the use of steam. Life boats were kept in readiness day and night, but God was gracious and in answer to prayer kept them all in safety until they could put in at Gibraltar. The Captain himself (not a Christian) said it was a miracle. But with such a pre cious cargo (111 missionaries and only 4 other passengers) God had inter vened to protect. Miss Tannehill is happy over God’s abundant provision for her going to Africa. She with the others of the missionary party sailed from New York September 6th. o - Miss Edna Ward, ’22 (many will re member her as an assistant in the Book Room), of Sargoda, Punjab, India, (United Presbyterian Mission) writes under date of August 30th: “Just now I am away in Cashmere for my vacation. It is a beautiful country and reminds me in many ways of Cali fornia. I work in a district where there are supposed to be 6000 Chris tians. You can imagine the task. The women have very little chance to learn. When there is a service the men leave all the children to the women to look after, and then it is not proper for a woman to answer a question when the men are present. Our ideal
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