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and General Director of the Abyssinia Frontier Mission; Rev. Arthur G. Moore, F. R. G. S., of the China Inland Mission; Dr. T. A. Lambie, of Abyssinia; Rev. Frank Dickie, who has had forty years of fruitful ministry in China; Rev. Thomas Titcombe, of the Sudan Interior Mission; Rev. Fred Lasse, of the Africa Inland Mission; Rev. Don D. Turner and Mr. George Jackson, of the Orinoco River Mission in Venezuela, South America; and Rev. Ford L. Canfield, of the China Inland Mission. Great audiences listened to these heroes of faith. Two sessions were held each day with two and three speakers at each session. We have never before seen audiences so stirred by stories of heroic effort and by appeals for con secration of life to the Lord Jesus Christ. On the last Sunday night of the conference, fully two hundred and fifty young people, from the Institute and the Church of the Open Door, stood before the great audience and proclaimed their full surrender to the Lord and their willingness to go where He might want to send them. A report of Dean McCreery contains the following: “The past year has shown a steady and marked up ward trend in spiritual life among our students. I do not know of any week having passed in which there has not been a surrendering of life to the service of God on the part of our student body. The culmination came with the week of the missionary rally. At the close of the -rally, a wonderful response was given by the students and the young people of the Church of the Open Door in answering the call of God for service. While it is impossible to give an accurate tabulation of figures, I feel quite confident that fully twenty-five per cent of our student body are definitely looking forward to service on the foreign field. Not only has this large group been brought to definitely face the call of God to foreign service, but there has been a yielding of heart and life on the part of scores of others who have surrendered their lives to the Lord to go wherever He shall show them. On this basis, I am confident that ninety per cent of our entire student body are eager to be in the perfect will of God in the matter of their life service.” S tewards of G od Does this mean anything to you? Here is a Bible Institute with more than four hundred day students— young people of the highest type, most of them from pray ing homes, going through a most strenuous course of Bible study, with a burning desire to amount to some thing for God; an Institute with a glorious past—-so glorious that Satan has tried to wreck it, and so dear to God that He has brought it out of confusion and has ban ished from it all strife, discord, and suspicion. We have never seen so many remarkable answers to prayer as we have witnessed in the last two years. But we are burdened with debt—debt of the past that must be paid if the Institute continues with her great testimony. Will you not come to our help in a large way ? A dear brother from Canada telegraphs us that he will give $100,000, provided ten others will each give the same amount. Here is a place for a great investment for God. The Bible Institute of Los Angeles will not die but will live and declare the works of the Lord.
pible his ideals, consoles him in sorrow, and gives him victory in life and death. The love that never finds an object, the genius that never finds a sphere, and the greatness that never finds a mission suggest a pathos beyond that of martyrdom. But the life that fails to find God through the Lord Jesus Christ is the most terrible experience of all. — o — A False Tongue It is wicked, and foolish to tell a deliberate and thor ough-going lie, but in the end it is quite often harmless. It can be exposed at once, and it is never believed. It hits the man against whom it was told and remains on the head of the man who told it. Nothing is so coarse and vulgar as a brazen lie, and no respectable person would condescend to such an act. Half truths are ten times more dangerous than untruths, but they are toler ated by a certain kind of conscience. Given a little skill, a little malice, and no scruples, and anything can be done with facts. If you would allow me to select from among the words and actions of the best of men just what I choose, and let me use-what I have selected in any way I please, I could make the man’s character look like that of Judas Iscariot. I could poison the minds of his friends against him, and I could convict him before a jury of hon est men. Just a sentence without the whole letter, just a saying without the circumstances, just an action without the reason, just a text without the context, just some ju dicious selection and some judicious omission—and out of the man’s innocence I could create the plausible evidence of his wickedness. There is nothing on earth quite so mean or so clever as the evil tongue working deceitfully, decent ly, politely. What course a single slander may wreck! And who is safe from the arrows of a tongue set on fire by hell? Neither position nor service nor even character can afford to bid it defiance. Its influence runs through church and state. Life and death are in its power. Jo seph is flung into prison on the false charge of an abandoned woman. Paul is followed through all his life by the envenomed accusations of Jewish bigots. We are all in one another’s hands. A congregation’s character hangs on the testimony of their minister, and he in turn must trust to their charity. One merchant may ruin an other by a skillful word of depreciation. One man may damage his friend for years by a single sentence. One woman’s tongue may break up the peace of a family. A habitual talebearer and willful slanderer should receive no more mercy at the hands of society than an assassin. Indeed he is worse than a common murderer who only wrongs the body, for this person is apt to break the heart. Blessed and honorable is that person whose tongue is obedient to the. law of Christ, and whose words are as a spring of wholesome water, who never uses scorn except to scourge sin, or satire except to prune folly, who never puts the simple to confusion nor flatters the great, who says no ill of any man except under the last com pulsion of truth and justice, who delights to speak well of every man, and who bids the castdown to be of good cheer. __ Tokens of God’s Approval The Bible Institute and the Church of the Open Door have been rejoicing in the great spiritual blessing which has come through the missionary rally, April 5 to 14, 1931. The missionary speakers were: Rev. Roland V. Bing ham, Founder and Director of the Sudan Interior Mission
President.
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