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Alumni Reunion The Alumni Association of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles met for dinner in the Fishermen’s Club Room on February 13, 1931. After a delicious meal served by Institute students, at tables beautifully decorated by Alumni members, the com pany adjourned to the Lyceum Club Room. At the service which followed, President Hazelton presided. Testimon ies to answered prayer were given by many former students. Missionaries at home on furlough brought especially fine messages. Dr. W. P. White, President of the Institute, gave an address, after which a vote of confidence in the Board of Di rectors of the Bible Institute was unani mously passed by the members of the Alumni Association present. A season of prayer, greatly blessed of God, closed this mid-year reunion. —o— Bible Conference President W. P. White and Dr. John C. Page, of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles, and President James M. Gray, of the Moody Bible Institute, held an eight- day Bible conference, in the First Presby terian Church of Berkeley and the Meth odist Church (South) of San Jose, Calif. —o— Married GEORGE BIRC.H, P. G. ’28, and GRACE' POLAND were united in mar riage in Shanghai, China, late in Septem ber. Mr. and Mrs. Birch and NATHAN WALTON, ’29, who served as best man at the wedding, are affiliated with the China Inland. Mission. — o — General News BYRON ADAMS, Polacca, Ariz., is working among the Hopi Indians. Re cently he secured a piano for use in the Sunday-school—the first one ever brought to a Hopi village. Mr. Adams’ program for 1931 includes much extension work. HARRY O. ANDERSON, evangelist, recently held meetings in his home church, the Temple Baptist, of Los Angeles. MRS. C. R. LU TH ER (THAK LA LANG, ’21), of Roseville, Calif., has been ill in the hospital at Arbuckle, Calif. MR. and MRS. REXFORD SMITH are working in the Coachella Valley, Cal if., along the shores of the Salton Sea. They have organized two Sunday-schools, one in Coachella and one in Indio, among the Mexican people. Street meetings and Sunday services are held regularly. A club for girls has been formed where the Bible and sewing are taught. A similar work among the boys is contemplated. In a remarkable way, God has supplied the needs of His servants and has given them a fruitful ministry.
RAY KLINGENSMITH, a student at Ashland College, Ashland, Ohio, held a meeting at Ankenyton, Ohio, at which fourteen persons confessed Christ. MR. and MRS. EVERETT B. COW AN are located at Princeton, N. J. Mr. Cowan is attending the Theological Sem inary there. FRED H. WIGHT, ’20, has given up his pastorate at Banning, Calif., and is now pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church, North Long Beach, Calif. JOHN LIENHARD, ’20, is pastor of the Second Brethren Church, North Long Beach, Calif. MR. and MRS. W. STACE GOULD- ING (MAY L. SADLER), ’27: and ’28, are affiliated with the Baptist church at Maxwell, Calif. The Lord is blessing their work although, they say, it is hard to see the results. MR. and MRS. CLAUDE PEARSON, ’21 and ’22, are continuing their work among seamen at San Pedro, Calif. They have- been especially encouraged in their efforts among Japanese sailors. HUGH ANDREWS is pastor of the Bethany Baptist Church, Seattle, Wash. PAUL O. STEPS, ’27, is pastor of the First Evangelical Church at San Bernar dino, Calif. He is also attending Red lands University. God is greatly blessing the Fundamental Evangelistic Association founded by MARION REYNOLDS, ’17. The asso ciation ministers to the unreached in rail road shops and desert towns. Mr. Rey nolds’ coworkers are: KATHRYN ORR, ’25, who serves as private secretary, and MR. and MRS. ARTHUR LAYNE (THELMA A. MOON). The two last named are stationed at Yermo, Calif. The headquarters of the association are at 212 Columbia Bldg., 313 W. 3rd St., Los Angeles.
P. E. FRY is. pastor of the Community Church of San Jacinto. He speaks ap preciatively of the meetings held by HAR RY VOM BRUCH in the San Jacinto valley. Among the Missionaries MR. and MRS. T. F. F. DIXON (AN NA KRUGGEL), missionaries of the Central American Mission, who are at home on furlough, are in charge of a Mexican church at Belvedere Gardens, Calif. MR. and MRS. KENNETH POWLI- SON, representing the Bolivian Indian Mission, write with great enthusiasm about open doors for the presentation of the gospel to the Indians of Bolivia. MRS. FRED H. McKENRICK (BET TY PIERSON, ’14), writes from Thika P. O., Kenya, East A frica: “The Bol shevistic elements are o rg an iz ed and strongly supported. We have been in formed that a civil-disobedience campaign, after the model of India, is being planned. This scheme is a menace to the work of missions as well as to organized society in general. But God can bring to naught the wisdom and power of the enemy.”. MR. and MRS. PERCY L. YETT are located at Rosario, Argentine, South America, where they are serving under the Brethren Board. STANLEY T. EVANS is working un der the Presbyterian Board at Havana, Cuba. KARL D. HUMMEL, secretary of the Central American Mission, with head quarters at Dallas, Tex., sailed for Costa Rica, which will be his first stop on a proposed tour of the entire' field of the mission. MR. and MRS. ALLAN McINTOSH are encouraged in their work at Miseberi, Ituri, in the Belgian Congo. They write that the services are well attended, and a large number are confessing Christ. A recent letter mentioned the anticipated arrival of DAVE DOERKSEN and DR. and MRS. HARRIS. EDITH HARRIS, T6, has returned to Africa after furlough in the States. In land Africa published a farewell letter in which she said: “I ask prayer for our work among the women in Kenya; My heart rejoices when I think of the many women there that God has saved through the power of His Holy Spirit. But there is much land to be possessed.” B. EUGENE TANNER, P. G. ’30, planned to sail for Africa in December. His address is Gombari, Kibali, Ituri, Congo Beige, via Egpyt and Sudan.
Sowing and Reaping I cast a handful of small sins Like thorn-plant seed among life’s wheat, And then forgot them every one, Youth was so sweet. But had I known my bleeding hand Must reap the grain for autumn’s need, I would have planted in life’s field Some nobler1seed. -—The Dawn.
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