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Mary Best-Owings ’35, and five-year- old Helen visited in Los Angeles a few days before Mary starts on her homeward journey to join her husband in Africa. Helen has made a good re covery from her recent serious illness and will now go to Gowans’ Home in Collingwood, Ont., joining her twin brothers, James and Bobbie, who have been there the past year. Mary was obliged to undergo surgery, but is now ready to return to her field of service. George (’18) and Gladys Ekdahl (’19) are moving to Sucre, Bolivia, where they will relieve missionaries now tak ing a much-needed furlough. Political and governmental disturbances have had a deterrent effect upon the work, but there are encouraging movements. One new chapel is in course of construc tion th’rough the testimony of one coun try Indian who has wrought a real work for the Lord in his community. Marjorie L. Harrison ’23, 801 Union Ave., North Side, Pittsburgh, Pa., has taken a position under the United Pres byterian Church, where she is in charge of the women’s division of the Commu nity House Work. Mrs. Lubin W. Jantzen (Matilda Mueller ’42) Jagdeeshpur, via Raipur, C.P., India, sends an interesting note advising that there are nine of their co laborers in that area who are gradu ates, or have attended, the Los Angeles Bible Institute. " Kay Imamura-Horiuchi ’48 is busily engaged looking after the work and ac tivities of the Japan Bible Institute where her husband, Seiji, is the dean of the school and teaching the book of Romans. In addition they have street meetings Sunday afternoon where there is great interest manifested. Many kneel in the street and accept the Lord as their Saviour. E. Ruth Smith ’49, is also working in Japan under the Evangelical Alliance Mission and has been able to establish an English Bible class in a local high school. This is a part of the students’ study course and is not sepa rate from the school. These mission aries may be addressed, “ Tokyo Foreign Missionaries, APO 500, c/o P.M., San Francisco, Calif.” Bill and Marjory MacMillan-Nyman ’35, now at the Summer Institute of Linguistics, Woodrow Wilson Center, Norman, Okla., relate the remarkable conversion of a drunken Mexican who spent most of his time in jail or tied to a tree because of his fighting and howling in the streets. Since he accept ed Christ as his Saviour, he has become a new creature and has not tasted one drop of liquor. Wedding Bells JUNE 30: Otto Lehmann — Mary Jeanette Pietsch; Grace Church, Pomona, Calif. Robert Eugene Blake—Hertha Eberhart; Evangelical United Brethren Church, Eureka, S. Dak. George Knaupp, Jr—Eva Marie Fleischman; First Christian Church, Monmouth, Ore. JULY 9: Orval Vintson Brewer—Lynnea Joan Sko- theim; Community Baptist Church, Waterford, Calif.
Theresa Gustafson, advertising man ager of The King’s Business, who for more than twenty years served the Bible Institute in a secretarial capacity re cently flew to New York via TWA, whence she boarded the Norwegian- American liner S. S. Oslofjord. She plans a three-months’ vacation, visiting her father and other relatives in Sweden. Points of interest on the continent are on her itinerary.
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“ The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms” (Deut. 83:27). Biola Flashes Dick ’32 and Margaret Humphreys- Hillis ’33 and family have at last landed in the United States from Shanghai, having sailed on thé U.S.S. General Gordon. Ed and Betty Case ’43, write of the Lord’s doings in their field in Cuba in sending to them a young Cath olic priest desiring to learn English. What an open door! They will use the Bible in this work, and are asking our united prayers for this unusual oppor tunity. R. H. Galle ’46, 1251 Maryland St., Los Angeles 17, closed a successful 5-weeks series of Bible classes in the Reedley area, working in several churches. Rosalie Coleman ’42, former secretary in the Medical Department, graduated in June, with honors, from Whitworth College. She is continuing studies toward an M.A., and teaching part time at the College. Jack and Sally Haw thorne, Cajon 514, Cochabamba, Bolivia, announce the arrival of Stanley Mark on June 4th. Edith Harris ’16, veteran missionary to Africa, has been ordered to prolong her furlough for reasons of health. Pray for her; 'she is anxious to return to her field. Dal ’48, and Kay Washer relate marvelous answer to prayer concerning delay in getting their goods through the customs office. They live among the Arabs with whom they will work. Laivrence and Meta Schroeder-Powell ( ’39) following a siege of tonsillectomies, impacted wisdom teeth and minor ail ments, have successfully closed a preach ing campaign, and a consolidation of their work in the Kentucky schools. Prayer is asked for two brothers who came under the influence of the gospel. Don and Dorothy Fairley ’28, Bongo- loa, Ndende, par Dolisie, Moyen Congo, Gabon, Pr. Eq. Africa, relate an inci dent with regard to 150 Pygmies who were obliged to move to another district on account of inadequate food supplies due to drouth. Seven of these little peo ple confessed Christ as Saviour; others were much interested. Both Dorothy and Don have been ill and are in need of *medical and dental help. Pray for them.
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Florence Hardy ’27, Ching Kong Rd., Tung Hoh Pa, Kukong, S. China, states that her two boats have weathered the storms thus far. Florence, feeling very conspicuous in native costume, made a trip to Canton in a tiny sampan. She writes, “ God miraculously protected us through many things . . . one could never doubt His love or care.” Vernon ’40 and Dulcie Eagle, R.7, Lub bock, Tex., feel the Lord led them to this Texas town. Vernon is engaged in carpenter work and Dulcie is a nurse in a local hospital. Eldon’s asthmatic con dition is improving. R. Paul Miller ’16, Brethren pastor, teacher in the Philadelphia School of the Bible and home missions secretary, has reared two sons who are already in the ministry; two are in college in prep aration for the ministry while Wesley, the youngest, will enter University this fall. Laura is the wife of Pastor Krieg- baum of Cedar Rapids, la.; Martha Miller-Lohnes is, with her husband, now making preparation for the mission field; Mary Katherine Wilkin lives near the family home in Berne, Ind. Dawson Trotman, in the Navigators Log, describes his meeting with thirty midshipmen in Annapolis at their regu lar Bible class. At West Point Military Academy he preached to 67 cadets, four of whom accepted Christ as Saviour. This meeting was dismissed twice, but still cadets lingered to hear more. This work is expanding; pray for the work ers in foreign lands and aboard ships on the seas.
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