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June, 1935
T H E K I N G ' S B U S I N E S S
...the POWER of GOD
EXPERIENCES OF BIBLE INSTITUTE STUDENTS AS THEY COME FROM, AND GO TO, THE ENDS OF THE EARTH B y M ildred M. C ook
a student at the Bible Institute o f Los Angeles, and, the Lord willing, he will receive, on June 13, a certificate in recognition o f completed studies. During the period o f his stay in California, he has gone each week, with four or five other Filipino men, to hold gospel meetings in the camps where his countrymen work as pickers in groves and fields. Moreover, in the famous Plaza, the oldest sec tion o f Los Angeles, where crowds o f Orientals and Mex icans swarm in discontented inertia, this zealous Bible In stitute student, with his ever-present Book, has preached Christ often. In the camps and on the Plaza, he has seen men saved and their lives changed. When he leaves the Bible Institute in June, he.plans to go at once to his Island home. “ My jpeople need the gospel!” Conviction sparkled in dark eyes as the young man spoke. “ And the fastest way to evangelize my people , is to help young men to love this Book , and then to go with it to the. tribes o f the interior. B. I. has helped me to help them. That’s why I ’m going!” “ Kept by the power o f God,” and depending still upon that keeping, the Filipino turns homeward with the gospel.
First, a chain o f providential circumstances led him into the employ o f a Christian family on the Islands. Through the influence o f this home, he attended gospel meetings, and there, at the age o f eighteen, he accepted Christ. At once there came upon him a burden to see his tribespeople saved, and he knew that, in order really to help them, he must himself be trained in a knowledge of the Word o f God. But before he left the Islands in 1931 to prepare himself, in America, for evangelistic work, he had witnessed concerning Christ to a number o f his friends, and had seen four of them (pictured in the front row of the group picture) follow the Lord in baptism. A stranger in Los Angeles, this determined Filipino was faced with two pressing needs. He must find work, a way to earn money. And he must find a school where the Bible was taught. He enrolled as a student in an automo bile school and studied hard, always keeping his Bible open on the bench beside him. Later, an offer o f employment led him to a ranch in northern California, and there, in the will o f God, there came one day a salesman for farm products— or at least to outward appearances that was his
occupation. The man’s real work was to witness for Christ, for this salesman was a former student of the Bible In stitute of Los Angeles, and evangelism was his vocation. “ Boy, you should go to B. I . !” The visitor clasped the hand o f the Filipino farm helper, like a brother. “ I will go— since God has shown me where.” The words must have been soft-spoken, like the lapping of the waters on a distant tropical shore, for all the speech o f this man contains a hint o f his home. For two years this Filipino has been
The Institute student who surrendered his talent to.; Christ finds joy in illustrating Bible truth for little children ,whp listen in rapt attention,
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