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A pastor of a growing church in the suburbs of Chicago, a graduate of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles, in the class of 1918, writes, “ I look back upon my training there as basic for my ministry.” Miss Lena Rempel, ’ 22, is working in a city mission in Winnipeg, Man., Canada. Miss Grace Mott, ’ 23, has taken up work among the Jews in New York City. H. E. Widmer, ‘23, is taking a Jew ish Mission course at Moody Institute, Chicago. H. F. Fast, ’21, sailed for Chile, on February 21st. His address will be Casilla 312, Temuco, Chile. Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Vroman, ’20, are in Los Angeles, haying returned from Bolivia on account of illness. Mr. and Mrs. Carl B. Urban, ’17| have returned home on furlough from Africa. Their present address is 1371 W. Avenue 46, Los Angeles. Mrs. L. L. Gaylord (Fern Atkin-j son), ’ 22, has accepted the position of secretary to Mr. D. L. Foster, Student Secretary of the Bible Institute. Jesse E. Brown, ‘17, is at Norton, Kansas in a state sanitorium for his health. He has been used to lead several there to an acceptance of Christ. Mrs. John Roos (Alice Hamilton), ’22, writes of her joy in the work at Rock Rapids, Iowa, where Mr. Roos is pastor of a German Presbyterian church. Word has been received of the ser ious illness of Mb*, and Mrs. Thomas Derr, who recently went to Brazil, un der the Inland South American Miss ionary Union. William A Adair, ’ 22, sailed on the same steamer. His address will be 46 Cummer Road, Grey Lynn, Auckland, N. Z. He hopes to take up missionary work in the Solomon Islands a little later. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Johnson are working among Navajo and Hopi In dians at Tuba City, Arizona, and de sire the prayers of God’s people in their fight against Roman Catholicism and Modernism. Mr. and Mrs. George H. Wing are in Jamaica, L. I.j New York, awaiting orders to sail for Congo Beige, mean while trying to spread the good news among those who have not heard here at home.
James Wilson, ’ 2, sa led fro Van couver, B. C., February 8th, for his home in Silverdale, Hamilton, New Zealand. He will take up work with the pastor of his home church and expects that his principal duty will be to look after several out-stations. Rev. Alden Pratt, formerly a miss ionary under the Presbyterian board in China, is now a pastor at Santa Paula, Calif. He recently welcomed fifteen new members into his church. The school of missions held on Sun day evenings had an average attend ance of 115. Rev. Stanley H. Thorpe, ’ 20, pastor of the First Baptist Church at Patch- ogue, L. I., New York, has been con ducting revival meetings at Port Jef ferson, Long Island, and expected great blessing in answer to the prayers of those who agreed to pray daily for a sweeping revival on the Island. Miss Hazel Long, ’22, who has been, since graduating, at home in Denver, Colorado, is planning to sail for south America this Spring under the aus pices of the Inland South America Missionary Union. Miss Long is look ing forward to work among the ne glected Indian tribes of Brazil. Mr. and Mrs. I. J. Hazelton, (nee Margaret Fuller, ” 22 who have been working for the American Sunday School Union for the past year at Placerville, California are planning on sailing for South America this Spring under the auspices of the In land South America Missionary Union. The Bulletin of San Francisco The ological Seminary states that Rev. O. P. LaPorte, ’ 20 and Rev. Rollo C. LaPorte sailed September 29th from Montreal to Edinburgh to study in the University of Edinburgh, the lat ter studying as Alumni Fellow. They are together acting as assistants in the Tynecastle Parish Church, a church of 1800 members, and do a part of the preaching. Miss Ruth Bergevin, who has been working under the Presbyterian board at Ludhiana, Punjab, India, since 1917, has returned home on furlough. She was in charge of the India booth at the missionary exposition recently h e l d i n Immanuel Presbyterian Church, Los Angeles, where the work of the Presbyterian church in its home and foreign missions was on exhibi tion. Harry O. Anderson, ’15, and party recently closed an evangelistic cam paign with the Immanuel Baptist Church, Salt Lake City. Conditions were somewhat adverse to a success ful campaign at the time, but these
disappointments proved God’s appoint ments. There were 75 confessions of Christ and fifty baptisms, including Jews, Mormons and Catholics. An other campaign was held at Ogden, Utah, February10th to 24th. H. H. Nikkei, ’ 23, is principal of a two-roomed school in the town of Dalmeny, Sask., Canada, and says that the work affords many opportunities for service for the Master. There is no church in town but during the winter months, when people in town found it too inconvenient to attend their churches in the country, ser vices were held in the school, and Mr. Nikkei had many opportunities to preach the Gospel. A. N. Willems, ’ 20, writes as fol lows: “ The Lord is graciously bless ing the ministry of song in which I am engaged. The experience is var ied. Have held services in tents, tab ernacles, churches and barns, yet the Lord is faithful and souls are be ing saved whenever the Word is faith fully proclaimed. God willing, I am sailing for Honolulu in early Febru ary. Will you pray much that God will use me to His glory? Am plan ning by God’s grace, to do service for Him in the Islands.” Miss Annie E. Thomas, ’ 18, writes from Managua, Nicaragua, C. A.: “ During the past year God has been good to us, calling out some very promising young people, five of whom were baptized December 31st. Sev eral weeks ago four couples were mar ried in the church at the same time and are all candidates for baptism. We covet your prayers especially for Mr. Strachan’s campaign, which be gins in March. Pray that his min istry among us may result in a real spiritual awakening.” Mrs. Ansel W. Gillis, Bahaina, Maui, T. H., writes of her work and that of Mr. Gillis, saying in part: “ There having been no one in this work before, he has to feel his way and do a little experimenting. He has oversight of the work among the Japanese, Fillipinos and Koreans. I have the healthy work of the family for I drive to six different camps, vis iting each at least twice’ a week. My biggest camp is at Honokohua, where the children go to school. I have the usual mixture to deal with and you would certainly laugh to hear the way I talk, not to mention the way they talk to me. The community life among the whites is very pleasant. There are some very delightful peo ple and we have enjoyed several lovely beach picnics.” (Continued on Page 312)
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