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just hand them my name and address. The Japanese work with the children is the most encouraging. In the tw o cen ters under my care there are about 400 children attending the Sunday Schools. Also I have a high school. Bible class with nearly 30 attending regularly. One of the great hindrances here is that so few of the white people are in any way interested in church or gospel.” The follow in g is taken from a letter from H. E. G rings, ’16, printed in “Inland Africa^, ’ the organ of the A frican Inland Mission: “There is no one to relieve us from the station w ork here so we w ill stay on another year or so instead o f goin g on furlough, as we had hoped. We have made bricks and laid out the foundation for a new house and w ill be busy build ing on the new site during the dry sea son. The babies are sick with measles, and Bobby had complications which made him very weak. His body is greatly wasted, so he w ill not be up for a week, or tw o yet, but he is getting better. Roy has not passed through the w orst part o f his sickness yet, but we have medi cine from the doctor which seems to be helping him. The poor native children in the v il lages all about us have to suffer through it w ithout any medicine, except oil and burnt clay mixed together and smeared over their bodies. This is about the only medicine I have seen among the natives. All other medicine consists of charms or w itchcraft, and we are learn ing more about its vileness all the time. The wailing custom is such a sad thing in this country, and every day one can hear the death wail in some village or other. A few days ago I was out on a preaching trip and in the night I was kept awake by women wailing for a dead child. The next night in another village it was the same thing again, cnly this time there were 20 or 30 women gathered in one house, wailing for a village father who had died. It continued for hours in the night, and I can not describe the aw ful hopelessness of the wail. Th£ir voices blended into such a peculiar strain that one could almost feel it rather than hear it. As I lay in the darkness listening to it, it seemed like the curtain of the lost world was drawn aside and I was in the pres ence of the suffering, agonizing souls of that place. | It was a big village of over a hun dred huts, and my efforts to preach to the people seemed so fruitless—on ly a few children and older folk s came to the meeting. The power of Satan draws them like chains and cables. Nothing but the power of God in answer to prayer can liberate these captives. Pray the Lord to give us this power and lib erate souls.”
The Emmanuel Male Quartette and Saxophone Club of Los Angeles, com posed o f form er B. I. students David J. Kleinsasser, ‘21, J. J. Kleinsasser, ’22, Peter D. Eitzen, ’20, and Arthur L. Ref iner, under the management of Mr. M. L. Stewart, have been greatly blessed of the Lord in giving sacred concerts throughout Southern California since last September. They have recently been touring the southern part of A ri zona, leaving Phoenix on April 20th for Springfield, Mass., where they were in vited by Bishop Leonard, of the M. E. Church, to sing and play at the General Conference, which was held there dur ing the month of May. Taking the southern route, they stopped at various places, such as Denver, Kansas City, Chicago, etc. They returned by the northern route, stopping at Buffalo, T or onto and other points. Mrs. D. J. K lein sasser and Mrs. Peter D. Eitzen joined them at Phoenix and accompanied them on the trip. Alan S. Pearce, ’19, recently accepted the position of assistant pastor of the First Brethren Church of Long Beach, Calif. Miss Hazel Long, ’23, sailed from New York for South America on April 5th, under the Inland South American Miss ionary Union. Miss Dorothy Thompson, ’19, sailed from San Pedro, Calif., for Chile, March 24th, under the Christian and Missionary Alliance. Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Osburn, ’20, have returned from Honolulu, T. H., and are at home in Phoenix, Arizona. Miss Lorna DeVanna, ’22, is the church visitor for the Belvidere Presbyterian Church, Los Angeles. Miss Lela Barlow, ’22, is secretary to Rev. John H. Hunter, Secretary of the Faculty of the Bible Institute. Miss Deborah Clark, '19, is w orking among the young people of the First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood. R. A. Mitchell, ’21, and George Hall, '22, report a fine evangelistic trip in the northern part of California. God blessed the preaching of His Word and turned people from darkness to light. Charles Bysegger, ’22, has been preaching in the Emmanuel Presbyter ian Church at Colorado Springs, and states that God has w onderfully blessed in all that he and Mrs. Bysegger have undertaken for Him. Paul H. Fuller, ’22, Bangkok, Chris tian College, Bangkok, Siam, while en gaged in studying the language and
This page is conducted by Miss El- freda Stein, ’20, Secretary of the Bible Institute Alumni Association. Miss Stein will greatly appreciate receiv ing any items which would be of in terest to Institute friends or students, and is particularly desirous of inter esting news from the B. I. O. L. A. students who are in Christian work either in the homeland or on the for eign field. teaching Bible in the Mission H igh School, has visions of translating some of the Bible Institute correspondence courses into Siamese. E. L. Garvin, ’22, writes from Stratton, Ont., Canada: “I have been on this field for a year now and although we have met with much difficulty, God has blessed us and honored His Word. I expect to be moved to Lintlaw, Sask. the end o f this month and trust the Lord w ill be able to use me there in some small way. I hope to be able to attend some of Dr. T orrey’s meetings in W innipeg. W e are praying for a great spiritual awakening and of course for many souls.” B rief mention was made in the May issue of the plan of the Rev. Stanley H. Thorpe, ’20, pastor o f the First Baptist Church at Patchogue, L. I., New York, to enlist Christians who w ill pray daily for a sweeping revival on Long Island. Those who w ill agree to do this are asked to send their names to Mr. Thorpe. The Lord is greatly blessing his work, Mr. Thorpe states, having given him in five months of his pastorate, c>ver 70 professions in the public services, 29 baptisms and over 40 member?. Ansel W . Gillis, w riting from Baha ma, Maui, T. H. says: “We have been over here since the last o f July, w orking in connection with the Methodist Mission. Mrs. Gillis un derwent an operation in November and hak not entirely recovered yet due to a set-back in January when she took up her work too soon. H owever she ex perts to try again in a week or so. I have charge o f the Mission work on this Island, that is the Methodist work. It includes Japanese, Filipinos and K ore ans. As helpers I have one Korean and his w ife, one Filipino and his w ife, two Japanese and their w ives and one Japa nese Bible woman. Of them all, only one o f the Japanese has had any train ing, having graduated from the Boston School of Theology. If you know of any one who would like to help in such a work with K indergarten and Daily Vacation Bible School supplies, or money fo r a camp church and parsonage
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