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September 1932
T h e K i n g ’ s B u s i n e s s
BIBLE INSTITUTE ¿F am ily (C ircle . . . By C utler B. W hitwell
a son, Paul Kenneth, Alhambra, Calif. To Mr. and Mrs. Ray Gardner, a daugh ter, Frances Geneva, Los Angeles, Calif. To Rev. ( ’30) and Mrs. Ernest W . Ral ston, a son, Benjamin Boyer, Scio, Ore. Married Rev. John Duddington and Irma Dud- row, ’26, Chengtu, Sze., China. Mr. Dud dington is affiliated with the Church Mis sionary Society, a British organization. Prior to her marriage, his wife was a mis sionary of the China Inland Mission. Eric S. Horn, ’25, and Syvilla E. Ferron, ’25, Addis Ababa, Abyssinia, Africa. Mr. and Mrs. Horn are missionaries o f the Su dan Interior Mission. Joseph Geddes and Ruth Smith, ’23, Los Angeles, Calif. Donald Matthews and Margaret Pinker ton, ’27, Los Angeles, Calif. Eric Walden, ’30, and Gladys Bradley, Yuma, Ariz. Herbert Eby and Verna Gertrude Rem- ple, ’29, Los Angeles, Calif, j Clyde H. Dirks, ’27, and Berndetta L. Baumann, Langdon, N. D. George Dannant and Helen Hunt, ’30, Seattle, Wash. G. Ben Swier and Martina P. Praetorius, Spokane, Wash. Mr. and Mrs. Swier are living in Pullman, Wash., where the for mer is a member of the faculty o f Wash ington State College. Richard Ralph Shirk and Magdalena M. van Teylingen, ’28, Neodesha, Kan.
cisions for Christ. Seventeen young peo ple dedicated their lives to the Lord for full-time Christian service, and three of that number are already making plans to attend the Bible Institute this fall. John W . Falconer, ’24, during a recent series of evangelistic meetings, had the un usual privilege o f leading the pastor o f the church to an acceptance of Christ as Sav iour. “This pastor had been in the minis try for fifteen years,” Mr. Falconer states, “but one night he took the sinner’s place and received Christ, and the next night he stood up before the congregation and told them of his new-found joy. Two elders and seven other persons were also ■saved during the campaign.” Angie Haan, ’28, who has been unable, because of health and other reasons, to re turn to her work in China, is finding a large and needy field in mission work in her home city, Grand Rapids, Mich. Born To Mr. and Mrs. David Johnson (Doris Klint, ’25), a son, Klinton Devere, Los An- gglgs Calif. T ° Mr. ( ’28) and Mrs. John Braun, a son, Wesley John, Dinuba, Calif. To Rev. ( ’28) and Mrs. A. E. Tebay, a son, John Frederick, San Diego, Calif. T o Mr. ( ’29) and Mrs. Sewell Landrum (Hazel S. Hulburt, ’26), a daughter, Ruth Marie, Hardshell, Ky. To Rev. ( ’25, E.S.) and Mrs. Jesse Hall,
Ordinations Robert J. Patterson, ’28, and Theodore C. Neufeld, ’31, have been attending the Los Angeles Baptist Theological Semi nary. They were both ordained to the gos pel ministry at the Calvary Baptist Church o f Los Angeles, May 25. Jack E. Wells, ’30, was ordained at the Logan Heights Baptist Church, San Diego, Calif., May 16. News from Here and There Mr. and Mrs. William R. Hunrichs, ’22 and ’23, who are working under the aus pices of the Inland South America Mis sionary Union in Matto Grosso, Brazil, were recently bereft of their little daugh ter ; but God made the sorrow a means of grace and victory. Many of the natives whose hearts had never been open to the gospel were deeply touched by the death of the little one, and fifteen of them accepted the Lord. Claude H. Pearson, ’21, continues with much blessing in the faith work among sailors at the San Pedro harbor. Every month Chinese, Japanese, Norwegian, Swedish, German, French, Italian, Dutch, Mexican, British, Hindu, and American sailors call at this port. Underneath their hard shell o f indifference, prejudice, and unbelief, there is often a hunger for God. Through reading the Scriptures in their own languages, which Mr. Pearson dis tributes, many of them find Christ as their Saviour. As a tribute to the faithful work of Miss Veva Wight, T8, among the Indian girls at Sherman Institute, over a period of fourteen years, a recognition service was arranged by her pastor and held in the First Congregational Church o f Riverside, Calif., in which outstanding leaders o f the denomination took part. Harry O. Anderson, T5, evangelist and song leader, has been elected to a new po sition in the Southern California Baptist Convention. He will assist the executive secretary in the work of organizing evan gelism in every association o f the conven tion, acting as a “big brother” to the pas tors in an effort to extend the ministry of soul winning. Mrs. Chauncey B. Sheldon (Hattie Cope, ’22) writes from French Equatorial A f rica where she and her husband man a pioneer station. Mrs. Sheldon teaches a class o f about 100 inquirers, besides groups o f women and children. . The Sunday- school at their station has an average at tendance o f 400. Mrs. Lillian I. Robinson, ’28, sends news from the John Brown Schools, Siloam Springs, Ark., where she is the director of music. “ It has been my good fortune,” she writes, “to have two o f my former Biola pupils come here to assist in the piano work—Delta Garlock, ’31, and Helen Ran dall Keech, ’30—and so our music depart ment here is made up entirely o f Biola graduates.” Benard Mason, ’28, writes of a great re vival meeting held at the United Presbyter ian Church, Multnomah, Ore., where, in one service alone, there were forty-two de
ferent call. They arF a signal for prayer, and every employee o f the Institute is in stantly responding. You respond, too, in stinctively; and as you bow your head to spend two or three minutes in definite, earnest, silent prayer for the Institute, you feel that the ministry of Biolachimes has been greatly enhanced and immeasurably extended. You feel that you have touched a source o f power—prayer power that “changes things.” You want everybody to know about this nine-thirty prayer habit— every friend of Biola, whether within the range of the sound o f the bells or not. You feel that if those few minutes were held sacred to the Lord for intercession for the Bible Institute o f Los Angeles, on the part of a multitude of its friends, God would grant to beloved Biola to experience some o f the “exceeding great and mighty things” which are so greatly needed today.
It is high noon. You are in Los Angeles—a student again at Biola, or perhaps a guest for only a brief period. You are hearing again, with a recurring thrill o f pleasure, the melody o f favorite gospel hymns as they wing their happy way over a busy business sec tion o f Los Angeles from the manual of Biolachimes, situated on the roof o f the Men’s Hotel. You are wondering, just as you often wondered before, how many weary, overwrought, perplexed men and women have been touched by the message of those hymns and made to pause and think and perhaps turn to the God who, in the rush of things, they have been forget ting. You are thinking that it must all be very much worth-while—this continuous ministry, noon and evening, that falls to the lot o f Biolachimes. But what is this ? It is nine-thirty in the morning, and the chimes are issuing a dif-
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