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Sunshine Mary [Continued from page 101] , “Oh, Daddy!” she cried. “He’s alive! My Jesus is alive!” “Daddy’s girl,” he said, “whait does all this mean? You’ve been so unhappy lately, and now you’re so gl^d. What have you been hearing?” “Oh, Daddy, didn’t you know they cruci fied Him? And He came alive again and went up to heaven to God, and He’s getting a place ready for us —if we love H im ! Oh, I love Him so! Don’t you love Him, Daddy ?” “Well, I have heard about Him, Mary, but I haven’t thought much about Him for a long time—not for a good many years, I guess.” “Oh, Daddy!" said Mary in a small, hurt voice, as she turned away from him and began to cry harder than ever. Her father gathered her into his arms and said gently, “Would you like to tell me all about Him, darling?” ;-.: And Mary told him, in her childish lan guage—told him all her teacher' had told her o f the Lord Jesus’ life upon the earth spent in caring for the poor and sick and wretched, of His death on the cross, and of how, because He was God, death could not hold Him in the grave, but He arose and finally went back to heaven to prepare a place for every one who loved Him. God carried the little child’s words home to her father’s heart, so that he said, rather huskily: “Darling, that was an awful lot to do for' folks who treated Him so. And I have been hurting Him, too, by forgetting about His love and what He did for me. But we do both love Him, don’t we, Mary? And shall we try together to show Him that we do?” Mary’s blue eyes smiled up at him hap pily. Then some o f the troubled look came back into her face, as she said, “But Muvver said she had heard about God. Do you suppose she knows that - Jesus is alive ?” Mary’s father turned his head away from the anxious look in the little girl’s eyes. She could not understand why he held her so tightly without speaking for several moments before he was able to smile at her -and answer quietly, “We must talk to her about Him, mustn’t we, Mary ?” This is how it happened that before a month had passed, there were three in that mountain cabin at Gold Rock who loved their wonderful Saviour. A little child had carried the “good news.” Biola at Work in “ Jerusalem” and “ Samaria” [Continued from page 105] lyatch that Word as it operates in chang ing lives as faith accepts the truth, is a choice privilege. About twenty-five adult classes are held each week in churches or in homes where they are desired. Some of these classes have an average weekly attendance o f seventy members. Friends and neighbors of Christian women, who would not think o f attending a church service, will slip into a meeting in a home, and there many o f them find Christ as a personal Saviour. In one class, riot long ago, two women tarried after the group had been dismissed. One was a Roman Catholic; the other was a Christian Sci entist. Both were dissatisfied, hungry- hearted. T o each troubled inquirer, the teacher explained the plan o f salvation, using the Word of God. Both women ac cepted Christ as Saviour that day, and
went away rejoicing. Another class, on one occasion, entertained a group of Jewish women as guests. They partook o f a bountiful meal, they listened atten tively to a clear gospel message, given by the Bible Woman in charge of the class. A t the close of the meeting, five women “of the seed o f Abraham” expressed a de sire to know more o f Christ. Rarely is a class held in which some one does not find Christ as Saviour. W ork A mong B u siness and C ollege G irls . Perhaps even more needful than the classes for adults are the club meetings for business and college girls. An ob server of conditions in many colleges has said, “ The American college campus is one o f the neediest and most difficult mission fields.” The Lyceum and Eteri Clubs help to solve the problem o f where a girl who loves the Lord may find Christian com panionship and where she may bring her unsaved friends with the assurance that they will find opportunity to a c c e p t Jesus Christ. The Lyceum Club meets each Tuesday evening at the Bible Insti tute. The Eteri Clubs—o f which there are about twenty, meet either at the noon hour on the school campus, or else in a convenient location in the community for an evening meal and Bible study period. According to the testimonies of the girlsL something like this occurs almost every Tuesday evening: A business girl or a lonesome student is invited to the Lyceum Club. She is tired and a bit discouraged, but she decides to go. At the door of the spacious Lyceum Club Room in the Bible Institute, a group o f enthusiastic young women welcome the newcomer. The greeting is cordial and sincere; the new girl enjoys the warmth o f it." She is in troduced to other girls, who are gathered in friendly little groups, chatting. The supper hour follows, when, because of the abundance o f joyous Christian fellowship that is provided, a twenty-cent meal be comes a feast. After supper, the new girl joins one o f several prayer circles, where the burden o f individual problems—per haps her own heartbreaking need—is shared by other girls, through prayer. It is a sacred hour! At its close, the visitor finds her way into the auditorium where, with perhaps 100 to 150 other girls, she listens to a simple message from the Word o f God. She is brought face to face with the Lord Jesus Christ. If she already knows Him as hör Saviour, 'the new glimpse of His loveliness makes her love Him more. If she is unsaved, she sees Him standing at her own heart’s door, knocking. W ork A mong Y oung G irls There is one other group—the largest, and perhaps the neediest as well as most responsive of all those among whom the Institute Bible Women work. It is an energetic company, composed o f girls of high school and junior high school age. For them, the Euodia Club has been formed —the name taken from the Greek word meaning “ fragrance.” There are at the present time forty-five individual clubs among high schools and junior high schools: in Los Angeles and vicinity. In one month, the total attendance in Euodia meetings was 2,700. Classes meet weekly in schools or near-by homes. The arrange ment of the study course takes a girl through her Bible in four years of Euodia Club attendance. The response that these girls give to the gospel, and the glorious results that follow their acceptance of the Lord Jesus Christ as Saviour, may be judged from one in cident, chosen from among many. The
story concerns a little Hungarian girl, Julia, who became a soul winner. Julia came to Euodia for the first time in 1932. She accepted Christ as her Saviour and yielded her life to Him. Almost immedi ately, she became burdened for her fam ily’s salvation. She insisted that the old family Bible be brought from the trunk and read aloud. Each night, as the mother would read from the Hungarian Bible, the girl would read from her New Testament in English, explaining the plan of salva tion to her loved ones who listened. The Lord kept the girl faithful in prayer for the unsaved members of her household, and last summer, when two Bible Institute students held evangelistic meetings in a tent near her home, Julia brought her sis ter to the meetings and to the Lord. She wrote at once to her Euodia teacher: "We went all week t o .the meetings,” she said. “ Then, on that blessed Friday, August 25, 1933, my sister really accepted Christ as her Saviour, and I was so filled with joy and glory that I had to cry for joy. Oh, we have the loveliest fellowship between us that could ever exist!” Not only in. this home, but also in scores of others in Biola’s “Jerusalem” and “ Samaria,” there is a daughter saved, a Bible read, a family influenced for Christ, and an enjoyment o f “the loveliest fellow ship”.—all because an Institute Bible Woman has faithfully taught the Word. It is a significant fact that among the 448 students who are enrolled at the Insti tute at the present time, there are more than fifty who turned to God and to Biola through the ministry o f the Lyceum, Eteri, and Euodia Clubs. Eager to know more o f the written and the Living Word, these young women have come to the In stitute in order that they may be prepared to stand, in their turn, as witnesses in fields of the Lord’s appointment. With what awe and wonder those early followers must have listened to the prom ise made by the Lord H imself: “Ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part o f the earth.” And looking back over the years since the Words were uttered, with humble reverence and praise to God one observes the bless ing that has come to all the world in the fulfillment o f the Saviour’s words. Through the mercy of God, the Bible In stitute of Los Angeles has had a share in that blessing. In the willingness o f her sons and daughters to go as witnesses of Christ’s saving power in the home city, in the more distant regions, and to the uttermost part of. the earth, is found one more proof, if proof were needed, o f the literal and glorious fulfillment o f the Word of the eternal God. Easter Bible Drill [Continued from page 102] 2. Who said: “Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulchre?” . “Woman, why weepest thou?” “He is not here: for he is risen . . .” ? 3. Locate the following verses : “ I am the resurrection, and the life. . .” “. . . because I live, ye shall live also.” “ But now is Christ risen from the dead. . . .” 4. Copy in your notebooks God’s defini tion o f the gospel, as given in 1 Corin- thiaris 15 :l-4. 5. Memorize Romans 10:9, 10. Scripture Alphabet (Continued) “ God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble” (Psa. 46:1).
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