October, 1935
T H E K I N G ' S B U S I N E S S
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The Bible Institute FAMILY CIRCLE
Africa, wrote several months ag o: “ I have been here at Soddu for a year now, and it has been one of many and varied lessons and rich sweet blessing all along the path. . . . . Doctor and Mrs. Roberts (she is a nurse) had already been here about a year, and we are working together, most of our time being..spent in and with medical things. The darkness and ignorance is so deep that we want to do nothing but first bring them to the cross whereon our Sav iour died. Neither physical help nor any thing else can satisfy our hearts—except as we believe the Lord is using such means as channels through which His power and blessing can flow.; .Many come with hope less diseases. Our .highest number of pa tients for one month has been 520. The conditions are sad and terrible morally; and high above all, where every one can see, we long to hold the cross and that precious Sacrifice which is enough for all. Just the other day, a man came in saying that Satan held him or possessed him, and he wanted medicine. We had the divine and all-powerful Word of God to offer, and both Doctor and one of our native Christians talked t o ‘him. This is just one o f hundreds and hundreds possessed with the evil one. . . . No doubt soon our hospital will be started, and how we do look forward to having it! About $1,400 has come in already, and we praise our heavenly Father who is able to do all things.” Catherine J. Jones, T9, while on fur-ij lough from Portuguese W . Africa, has been in deputation work in churches of the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Cali fornia, Nevada, and Arizona. She left California in September to return to her station at Mboka, Cabinda, Portuguese W . Africa. Her mailing address, however, is Boma, Congo Beige, W . Africa. Paul H. ( ’22) and Mrs.; Fuller (Mary Margaret Mathes) of Bangkok, Siam, un der the American Presbyterian Mission, have been in America on furlough for several months. Mr. Fuller called at the Institute in August shortly before leav ing for Chicago, 111., for study in the Presbyterian College o f Christian Educa tion. Mrs. Fuller, after a visit with Mrs. Irving J. Hazelton (Margaret Fuller, ’21) at Placerville, Calif., expected to join her husband in Chicago. Though Mrs. .Fuller’s poor health has prevented a prompt return to the mission field, she and her husband hope to be able to go back to Siam in a year or two. Oscar T. Gillan, ’27, director of the Young People’s Gospel League, Holly wood, Calif., leads a young people’s radio program at 4:00 p . m . each Sunday, over station KTM. Several other Bible Insti tute graduates. assist with the broadcast, which is called “The Voice of Christian Youth.” John and Mrs. Lagar (Ethel E. Moore, ’20), Mision Evangelica, Casilla 14, Vil- larrica, Paraguay, S.A., are engaged in a faith work in this needy field. Mrs. Lagar writes: “We are opening an orphanage for
Missionary Union, have been spending part of theiri®urlough from their work among the Terena Indians of the interior of Brazil, S. All at Wheat Ridge, Colo. They plan to come to Los Angeles in Oc tober, to stay for some months. Their ad dress will be 1220 El Modeno (Eagle Rock), Los Angeles, Calif., in care of P. A. Hunrichs. Frank E. ( ’28) and Mrs. Manning (Au gusta Balzer), on furlough from their work under the Unevangelized Africa Mission, left Los Angeles in September to spend a few months with Mrs; Manning’s parents. The; address will be in care of H. P. Balzer, Route 2, Newton, Kans. A f ter Christmas, they expect to return to Southern California to do deputation work, speaking and showing their stere- opticon slides,, prior to returning to A f rica. Mr. and Mrs. Manning have a. two- year-old daughter, Grace Irene. Mrs. Julius Raplee (Ruth Russell) has been in Southern California since June on a leave of absence from the work in which she and her husband (class of ’24)^pave; b e e S engaged in Rio Caribe, Venezuela, S. A., under the.Orinoco River Mission. Mrs: Raplee has been holding deputation meetings in various churches. On the field she works with the women and children in the two communities in which she and her husband are responsible for the native churches." Their Ford touring car is ' a great aid in their evangelistic journeys. They were encouraged by the eagerness of" the people on the last country trip made be fore Mrs. Raplee left the field, for the parting question frequently was, “When can you come back?” Mrs. Raplee plans to sjHave for the field early in October. Fay Wallingford, ’34, and Clemie Miles held a Daily Vacation Bible School un der the American Sunday-School Union at Don Pedro Dam, in the Sierras above Modesto, Calif. They had twenty-two pupils—all but three or four ;pf the chil dren in the community. Bessie E. Pike, 1113, Christian and Mis sionary Alliance, is on furlough from China at 59614 North Lake Avenue, Pasa dena, Calif. Lois Briggs, -33, Sudan Interior Mis sion, Soddu, Walamo Province, Abyssinia,
Sowing and Reaping T o I nstitute graduates in the North west, the Lake Whatcom Bible and Missionary Conference held each sum mer at “The Firs,” Bellingham, Wash., un der the leadership of Mr. and Mrs. Otis G. Whipple, provides opportunity for spirit ual blessing and for the joy o f fellow ship with many Institute friends. Among those who assisted in the work of the conference this year were: .Mrs. Chester O. Rutledge, ’20—Conference Registrar; Chester O. Rutledge, ’21—Director of Boys’ Camp; Ruth H. Walter, ’27, and Doris Coffin,,-; ’30—Directors o f Girls’ Camp; Jack Murray, ’33—Song Leader ; Mrs. Grant Whipple, (Bernice Atkinson) —Assistant Director of the Commissary Department; Nora E. Jordan, ’24, and Beatrice Spies, ’27—helping with the girls’ work and singing at several meetings ;■ Grant Whipple—in charge o f the music and assistant in the young people’s de partment; and Sophie Witter — accom panying for solo work. Other former Biola students who were in attendance for all or part of the period included: Adina Bergen, ’31; Abigail Dennis, ’35; Leonard L. (’22) and Mrs. Gaylord (Fernl Atkinson, ’22) ; Leora Gerig, ’34; Mar garet;; Humphrey, ’32; Lawrence Keyes; Sterling Keyes, ’33; Eugene Knautz, ’35; Edna Lindenstruth, ’35; Mrs. Jack Mitch ell (Mary Eby, ’24) ; Hazel Norwick, ’33; Stanley Norwick, ’33; Beverly Pegg, ’33; Evelyn Peterson, ’35; John Purvis;, ’35; Marjorie Rattray, ’31; Wilbert Regier, ’35; Leslie ( ’22) and Mrs. Smith (M il dred Crump, ’21) ; Alice Stewart, ’34; Floyd Walker; and Melba Walsh. H. E. Widmer, ’23, visited the Institute on his way from Dallas, Ore., to Upland, Calif., in July. Mr. Widmer was sent as a delegate from the Grace Mennonite Church, of which he is pastor, to the an nual conference o f his denomination. Since the time o f his graduation from the Institute, Mr. Widmer has spent two years in Jewish wpr,k in Palestine, and has worked in Jewish missions in Chicago. He became pastor of the church in Dallas a year and a half ago. W . R. ( ’22) and Mrs. Hunrichs (Hazel Long, ’23), of the Inland South America
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