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THE KING’S BUSINESS
as often as temptation approaches; call upon Him a hundred times and believe firmly, and the temptation will depart. Then will we speak with new tongues; we will speak with God. We shall drive away serpents; the enticement of the senses are these serpents. If we drink anything deadly it will not hurt us; if anger and lust arise in us, at the name of Jesus they will have to give way. We shall lay our hands upon the sick and heal
them; with good deeds shall we strengthen the weak soul. If thou feelest thy weak ness, flee to God, and He will strengthen; therefore He is thy only refuge. He is thy Saviour and thy Lord, who went into the Heavens to prepare a place for thee, and to wait thee there. What do you intend to do? Go and follow Jesus, who is praised from everlasting to everlasting. Amen.
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AMERICAN SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION
Former Students of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles making Successful Missionaries in this Special Field of Endeavor
O NE of the great present day forces in evangelism in our own country is the American Sunday School Union. ' Its work in what is called the Lower Coast District, composed of a number of Southwestern States, hashad a remarkable growth within the last few years, under Rush E. Criss- man, District Superintendent. Men, women and children in outlying districts are being sought out and reached for Christ. Sunday Schools are being organized in ranch cen ters, mining towns, lumber camps, and in many other places where groups of schol ars can be gathered together. One repre sentative writes that, obviously, it only takes k group of scholars and a teacher to start a Sunday school. From such schools thus started'we have seen churches grow in a remarkably short time. Their latest representative in the field is A. C. Stewart, a former Bible Institute student, who has taken up work in Ari zona, with his headquarters at Prescott. This has been a needy field and we envy Mr.^Stewart his opportunity. A summary of what Bible Institute students have done in this, one of the many lines of Christian activity into which they enter, would be interesting. Aside from the work that Mr. Stewart is doing in Arizona, where he has
been but a few months, the records of the American •Sunday School Union demon strate the effectiveness of the preparation students receive in the Bible Institute of Los Angeles, through what has been accomplished by the following former stu dents : In two and a-half years B. F. Stead has organized seventy-seven Sunday Schools among the lumber camps of California; in two years, W. L. Guinn has organized six ty-six schools in the neglected State of Nevada; in sixteen months H. M. Roberts has organized forty schools in the north ern farming districts of California; in ten months C. E. Roark has organized sixteen schools in the grape-growing districts of California, and in seven months, A. F. Witt has organized twenty-two schools in the lumbering counties .of Northern Cali fornia. ; The Institute prescribes and provides a course of study that it claims will best fit for general, all-round Christian work. The fact that these men have gone into this branch of work without any previous experience and have been so wonderfully blessed of God in the work demonstrates to a certainty the effectiveness of the train ing received at the Institute.
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