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first time—of One who loved them enough to die for them. Consider another opportunity which Biola students face. A group of forty or fifty young girls at Juvenile Hall— all under eighteen years of age, many of them beautiful, and all heartsick, sinstek and lonely—form the audience to whom Bible Institute students take the gospel on Sunday mornings. The girls under twelve are separated from the other inmates; they are there be cause of broken homes, rather than be cause of personal wrongdoing. Among the older girls, there is a keen con sciousness of a burden of sin, and the mention of sin will nearly always set them to weeping bitter tears; but not always are the convicted ones ready to accept Christ as Saviour. Some, however, have truly received Christ— their behavior demonstrating that the work has been genuine. Thus instances might be multiplied to show that Bible Institute young people are indeed finding in the Los Angeles area a needy mission field. Their Motto: "Chosen Vessels” To more than sixty young people, June 10 is to be a red-letter day. These are the men and women to receive diplomas at the thirty-third annual Commencement of the institute. Of that number, several have completed the prescribed courses entitling them to degrees: in Christian Education, in Theology, and in Sacred Music. Two members of this class are now in military service, in the Army Air Corps and in the Navy. One graduate is a Navajo Indian; another is Chinese. Each year, approximately 4,000 peo ple gather for the Commencement exercises. It is hoped that every friend of THE KING’S BUSINESS will come If he can, and will remember in prayer not only the “Chosen Vessels” who are the members of the graduating class, but also every Institute-trained repre sentative of the Lord Jesus Christ
Around the King's Table LOUIS T. TALBOT, Editor-in-Chief
Lord from morning until night in churches of every denomination, in missions, in jails, in hospitals, and on the streets. The following items can give only a glimpse of some of the opportunities that are afforded and the zeal of the youhg people in accepting them. For example, until a few weeks ago, the boys and girls of Estrada Court, a new housing project in Los Angeles, were spending their Sundays in the neighborhood theater or playing1 on the streets. Members of the Bible In stitute student body obtained permis sion to use the community administra tion building, and they- organized a Sunday-school with classes especially for Beginners through Intermediates. Thè second Sunday, the attendance was forty-six, and for the next several weeks there was a regular increase of ten each succeeding Sunday. To the majority of these children, the Bible stories and the plan of salvation were entirely new. It was not uncommon to have from fifteen to twenty children accepting Christ at a single Sunday meeting. Other Institute students conduct Sunday-school for-children, ages five to eleven, in a Los Angeles boarding school for boys and girls from broken homes. A b o u t »thirty-five children spend their days in this school, en joying from its leaders the first real love they have ever known. Some of the children spend the week-ends with whichever of their parents is legal guardian, but those who are present for the Sunday-school hour present faces aglow with wonder and pleasure as they hear—some of them for the
Youth and the Crime Wave The generation that is just too young to be in military service is pre senting a serious menace to the na tion. Boys and girls eighteen years of age and younger are becoming the principals in a mounting crime wave. In the last year, juvenile delinquency rose ten per cent in such cities as New York and Chicago, and in war-boom towns the increase was actually as much as one hundred per cent. Sizable sections in newspapers and national news magazines are given to stories about Youth and Crime. For instance, this item, one among four others just as harrowing, recently appeared: “Slick-haired, eighteen-year-old Amos Raymond Latshaw coolly i confessed the murder of five kins folk. When his father and step mother fell to arguing, Amos shot ■ and killed them both; then to cover up, killed his grandfather and grandmother. His eight-year- old brother stood by, crying, ‘So I let him have it too.’ ” The condition of youthful lawless ness in the nation is taking on alarm ing proportions. Recently the chief county probation officer in Los An geles made this disclosure: “Within two weeks, Juvenile Hall has held as many as 317 boys and' girls in one day, and the hall’s school for j u v e n i'l e s , equipped to serve 200 students, has had an average daily attend ance of 260.” He pointed out that there is a steady increase in juvenile court cases in volving boys under the age of sixteen and girls up to the age of eighteen.” In the light of these facts, it is more imperative than ever that every child of God shall do his utmost for the winning of children to Christ. Young People at Work for Christ If every issue of THE KING’S BUSI NESS were a “Youth Number,” instead of only one a year, still it would be impossible to list all the activities in practical Christian work in which stu dents of the Bible Institute of Los An geles are engaged every week. Over 400 young people, who are in training fi>r a lifetime of Christian service as the Lord may direct, are even now busy in witnessing for Christ. Sunday morning does riot find Biola students “sleeping in.” Instead, it finds them rising as early as on any other day of the week, to serve their
About Soldiers By DAN GILBERT Washington, 'D. C , and San Diego, California
Before the crisis is past all of us will have learned some of the old les sons of discipline, duty, deprivation, and devotion to native land. This is total war, involving the whole popu lation. All have a job to do, a job which requires the qualities of a good soldier. THE CALL TO SELF-CONTROL: • Self-control is the' first and funda mental requirement of a trained fight- [ Continued on Pago 172]
THE GOOD SOLDIER: • Ours is a generation that has grown soft and flabby, that is lacking in self- discipline and self-denial. We have been at war for almost a year and a half, but the spirit of selfishness still prevails. Rumors of approaching ra tioning r e g u l a t i o n s produce new waves of buying and hoarding. Every new limitation on “the pursuit of pleasure” and the “freedom of self- indulgence” is met by some individ uals with complaint and protest
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