young men who went to work imme diately to help in construction work. W hat a blessing this unexpected help brought. Marguerite Johnson ’43, 505 Goodman St., Bakersfield, C alif., has written an Eteri Club Manual for junior and high school girls. It w ill be used in the San Joaquin V alley and Arizona. Marguerite has supervision of 18 clubs, and 10 young' women are working with her. Jack Dixon ’50, and presently continuing his studies in evening school, was or dained to the m inistry of the Brethren Church in Los Angeles last January. For the past three years he has been assistant pastor of the First Brethren Church in Los Angeles, and is also working with the Radio Kids Bible Club. Nathaniel A . Mitchell ’53, has been or dained to the m inistry by the Calvary Baptist Church of Burbank, Dr. Jesse W . Baker, pastor. Harold ’34 and Agnes Dut ton have been asked to take charge of the Dalat Home and School for M issionary Children for 1953. P.O. Box 151, Dalat, Vietnam , Indo-China. Their one young son Teddy now has a new little sister, Mary Florence. Don E. Ken ney ’38, Mrs. Kenney and Richard, are at Riverdale, C alif; Don is pastor of the Evangelical United Brethren Church, where a new educational unit is under course of construction. This organization is also conducting m igrant services on Sunday afternoons in an unchurched com munity about twenty m iles distant. John and Violet Bergen ’45 and their two little sons have been requested to move to the S IM Bauchi Leper Settlement where a new hospital is nearing com pletion. Their m inistry is spiritual with a business aspect. The four Neufelds (N ick ) Box 443, Stayton, Oregon, are now the six Neufelds since Gwen Ellen and Beth Marie came into the fam ily fold on New Year’s D ay of 1953! Your BIOLA Family Circle editor would appreciate items of interest concerning faculty members, graduates or former stu dents, serving at home or abroad. ■Present ulty extends Christian sympathy. They grieve not as those who have no hope. Mildred Crump-Smith ’21, beloved wife of Leslie E. Smith ’22, ’23, 3926 Los Oli vas Lane, La Crescenta, C alif., met with an accident in a Glendale store where she, with her young daughter, had gone shopping. M r. Smith was notified by the Glendale Police Department of the acci dent, but before he could arrive at the hospital she had gone to be w ith her Lord. Funeral services were conducted by Dr. Jack MacArthur who has stated it was largely through the influence of Mrs. Smith that he entered the ministry. B iola Fam ily Circle and Faculty are aware of the powerful influence this pre cious woman exerted over the lives and decisions of students in the institute. She was faithful to the heavenly vision. “ Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints.” THE KING'S BUSINESS
to Africa many years ago and they were married in December, 1951. Together they are laboring in a hard field, among a people decidedly opposed to evangeliza tion in any form . The Bonkutu tribe cannot read, write or do any of the things that civilization has brought to many of the tribes. W hat a thrill it must be to teach the heathen the plan of salvation and to be the very first to put into their hearts the name of Jesus! Robert has been an aggressive winner of souls for years. He gave the gospel message when barely in his teens. M ay the blessing of God be upon these two as they travel the jungle paths in H is service. Beverly Page ’51 P .G . ’52, has been chosen as soloist at the dedicatory services of the Brethren Church of Alexandria, V a. Beverly was form erly in the choir of the Old Fashioned Revival Hour, founded by Charles E. Fuller ’21. Matilda Alexander, ’42, Child Evan gelism Fellowship (International) worker in Jerusalem says: “The work here is beset with its own peculiar difficulties about which it is not easy to write. I cannot report eager hands reaching out for the gospel, nor the conversion of m any, many children. I can report that the need is appalling . . . and also that the opposition is becoming more open and organized.” Matilda has recently re turned from a much-needed rest spent on the Isle of Cyprus. It appears that she visited the site where Paul and Barnabas preached the W ord of God in the syna gogues (Acts 1 3), and Paphos, where the Roman Governor, Sergius Paulus, was converted. She describes it as having a long and colorful history; it is now a British Crown Colony. Sylvia Mae Arnold ’51, Navajo Chil dren’s Home, Box 492, Cottonwood, A riz., and co-laborers among the Navajos are rejoicing that work has been started on the infirmary so badly needed in their work. Milton C. Gould (’4 7 ), recently called to work with Temple Baptist Church in Los Angeles, proffered a won derful helping-hand in arriving by bus from Van Nuys, C alif., w ith eight strong Absent — Identified with the work of the Bible Institute from its very inception was Lewis Henry Jamison who passed into the presence of his Lord March 30, 1953. Just an ordinary day w ith no unsual emo tional or physical exertion, on a short drive w ith Mrs. Jamison and Arthur, he complained of a slight ailment, and was driven immediately a few short blocks to a hospital where aid was administered. In a comparatively few minutes he went to the glory-land. A lw ays deeply interested in personal work, Mr. Jamison was superintendent of the Spanish work, holding nightly meetings at the Institute headquarters on M ain Street, and visiting in the homes during the daytime. H is zeal and enthu siasm knew no dampening ardor even in his last days. A great warrior has gone home. To Mrs. Jamison, Arthur, M ilo and other members of the fam ily B iola Fac-
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“Blessed is every one that feareth the Lord; that walketh in his ways" (Psa. 1 28 :1 ). Sydney and Dorothy Comeli-Best ’34, 30 Ochaiai Kurume-mura, Kitatame-gun, Tokyoto, Japan, say the work at .the school for missionaries’ children has been so successful that larger quarters are a “must” on their program. These little ones are largely deprived of parental nur ture in spiritual things which Dorothy and the teaching staff of the home en deavor in all faithfulness to supply. There is encouragement in Sydney’s Thursday night Bible class. A good foun dation was laid by beginning the class teaching on the life of Christ, and con tinuing in the book of Acts. Mary E. Hunter ’28, was the first mis sionary speaker invited to define the dif ference between “ Christianity and Com munism” at the fourth annual synodical conference sponsored by the African church leaders in the Cameroun district, W est Africa. The Basa New Testament arrived in time for the conference to of fer praise to God for this Bible portion to be put into the hands of the guests and workers of this annual event. As a thank-offering the sum of $15.00 was voted to be sent to India for fam ine re lief. B. L. Litchman ’ 17; Rethy, Irumu, Congo Beige, is authority for the state ment that fifteen thousand people in the villages have been given the gospel mes sage; seventy thousand have received beneficial medical treatments, ten con ferences of varying kinds have been held, and over one hundred have been baptized. Minnie C. Davie ’28 working under the Presbyterian M ission has returned to Japan and is making her home in Taegu. The most important item on her pro gram at this time is getting an orphanage for blind children into operation. A woman who is blind is the superintendent of the home, and she has one woman helper who does the cooking. There are five children in the home at present; and permission has been granted to increase the occupancy to ten. These little ones have been orphaned by the war, and two of them have been blinded because of the war.. They range in age from five to fourteen. Multiple-purpose food is a must to supplement their diet. Winifred Ferret ’42, has met Robert Grings whose father (Herbert ’ 16) went 32
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