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EASTER GREETINGS TO OUR GRADUATES AT HOME A ND ABROAD
I the Lord do keep It; I will water it every moment: left any hurt it, 1 will keep it night and day (Isa. 27:3).
Lawrence and Mrs. Powell (Meta chroeder) both of the class of ’39, ave been obliged to vacate the house which they have been living for a nber of months. jOwing to the ising shortage existing in this area, fa and the children have gone to so Robles, Calif., to live with her ents until the Lord opens a place them here in Los Angeles. Law- ce has found a small room near ola where he is taking extension ork. Tbry ask our earnest prayers at a has^s may be provided soon, that the family may be united. 1 may be addressed to 558 S. Hope Los Angeles 13, Calif. Gladys Helen MacKenzie ’45, an ac cepted candidate for China under the International Christian Leper Mission, has been notified that permission has been granted by the Surgeon-General in Washington, D. C., for her to take a period of specialized study through the summer of ’46 at the National Leprosarium at Carville, La. This will be of inestimable value in her future work in China, as this Hospital is a world-famous institution for treat ment and research now operated as a marine hospital under the U. S. De partment of Health. Jacob and Mrs. Wiens (Susie Wil lems ’32), Box 107, Tehachapi, Calif., write under date of Jan. 7, 1946: “We are enjoying our work in this place where Jacob is Principal and Superin tendent of the High School.” Dorothy L. Gruber ’39, from whom no word has been received for many months, sums up a long letter printed in World Conquest, published in To ronto, by saying: “The Lord has won derfully undertaken in every particu lar . . . and our hearts are full of praise to Him for the reality of His presence with us, and for the openness of the people to the Gospel. They are quite the friendliest people we have met in India. Pray there may be much fruit spring forth to His glory.” C. Virgil Hook, jB.Th. ’40, writes of
meeting some Moslems in Tibet, while waiting for a ferry to cross the Yellow River. Through an interpreter he pre sented to them the Gospel. Time for parting came, and they told him they wanted to believe in Jesus, and said, sorrowfully, “Why don’t you stay and teach us about Him, and the true doc trine?” At another stopover he met more Moslems and, for the first time in all his travels, the priests offered him money for books. On this trip Virgil rode his bicycle for about 500 miles, but found the roads so rough and difficult over a 14,000-foot moun tain pass, that he sold his wheel and bought a horse. Natives in this district had never seen a bicycle before. Fred B. and Mrs. Whale ( G r a c e Feldges '28, P. G. ’29) write enthusias tically of the Lord’s wonderful work ing in the Boys’ Brigade, and of Mar jorie Linda now in the school for mis sionaries’ children. Searching for a suitable site for the location of other buildings to house their expanding activities, they found two small out- stations and inquired of a native as to what they were. This pagan, pointing to one small building said: “That belongs to the p e o p l e who drink; the other one belongs to the people who follow Jesus.” Later this group found a spot of great beauty, sloping for drainage, suitable in every way for their needs, and this they claimed by faith for His work. Writ ing their claim and desire for the land for the work of the Boys’ Brigade, they signed their names, sealed the paper in a tin box and buried it in concrete on top of a huge rock. They are con fidently looking forward to the day when this property will be occupied by buildings to accommodate boys from all the tribes of Nigeria. Fred says they do not need to beg the youth of their territory to come to them, but the boys are coming, beg ging to be allowed to join the move ment which is doing much to Chris tianize African tribes. Pray! Marjorie Davis ’39, Concepcion Pap-
alo, Cuicatlan, Oaxaca, Mexico, writes that the Wycliffe Bible Translators are happy in the progress the work is making, and for the strengthening of their forces by additional workers, among these being two nurses. The Lord has given entrance into a new village, and a hut has been provided in which to live. Capt Timothy Pietsch has received his honorable d i s c h a r g e from the army and is in Chicago at the invita tion of Dr. Will Houghton, President of Moody Bible Institute who wired him to address the annual Founder’s Week Conference on their special missionary program. He will also a d d r e s s the Moody Young People’s Conference, and the Missionary Conference to be held in Lancaster, Pa. These are im portant events in the field of mission ary endeavor, and Timothy covets the earnest prayers of Christians that the Lord will give him the ability to im part a vision of the greatest oppor tunity for missions that has ever come to the world. Wedding-Biola Reunion hi Oregon Otis G. Whipple, Director of the "Firs” Bible and Missionary Confer ence of Bellingham, Wash., and Miss Ruth H. Walter ’27, former Super intendent of W o m e n o f Biola, were married in Corvallis, Ore., Jan. 22, 1946. Eldon C. Whipple ’26 (on fur lough from China where he serves un der the China Inland Mission) was the best man, and Miss Leonie V. Sou- birou ’28 (Director of the Missionary Medical School of Biola at the present time) was the maid of honor. Rev. Edward B. Hart ’17, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Corvallis, performed the ceremony. Among the guests and family attending the wedding were the following Biola graduates and for mer students: Doris Coffin Aldrich ’30, Lois Whipple Walton ’28, O. Grant Whipple *29, Marion Carlson Whipple ’30, Marjorie Hanson, and Mrs. Harly L. Walter.
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