Bible Institute of Los Angeles
The Thanksgiving Dinner. It was a happy family that gathered around the table on Thanksgiving Day for a class dinner. Nearly one hundred of the students with the faculty and a few friends spent a most delightful afternoon. The committee on entertainment made such abundant provision for a good time that not a moment was lost. Everybody got acquainted and there were some interesting stunts for the uninitiated. Dr. Torrey con ducted a praise and testimony service at the close and all present voted it one of the red letter days. The Girls’ Lyceum Club. Bigger and better than ever before the girl’s club rounded out the year with mani fest signs of God’s favor. The motto of “Help the other girl” has been worked out in behalf of a multitude, and scores of girls during the past year have' been brought to Christ and other scores have been stimu lated to a life of devotion to the Lord. The closing gathering of the year was memorable. Over two hundred grrls listen ed to a soul-searching and heart-stirring ad dress by Dr. John Balcom Shaw, of Im manuel Church, on “ How Can I Live With out Jesus?” A number of girls responded to the invitation to live with Jesus.' “kjMiss Miller, who has been for nine years in A Word From Africa. November 13, 1913.—I just got back yes terday from a five days’ trip with Mr. Hurl- burt and Hugh Wallace. We traveled about one hundred and twenty miles and saw some beautiful country. The bamboo for ests are wonderful, as thick as a field of barley and about seventy-five feet high. They are quite swampy after the rains and some places almost knee deep on the mules. Personally, I like the north side of the ridge the best, that is the side Matara and Kinyona are on, Kijabe is on the southern slope. It is warmer, less windy, and has
girl’s work with “Billy” Sunday, closed with an earnest address, and Miss MacLaren sang very sweetly* into the hearts of the girls. The tlub looks forward to a great work during the coming year. The Fishermen’s Club. The club has reached its greatest attend ance during'^tfiè 'lafets tftfëép%lonths. One hundred and fifty men have beeri present for a number of Monday1nights and there has been a manifest increase of interest in Bible study. The book of Romans ljàs (fur nished lessons of the most engrossirjg^char- acter and the truth has gripped the men with unusual power. A number of unsaved men are present at every service and are always faithfully dealt with personally; and-there are conversions at most of the meetings While the class is primarily for study, there is always enough of the Gospel in the mes sage to awaken corivicîîôn liftd 6pen the way for personal - d'ea’tkig. ^' One Monday night recently ‘se$èn fne#3Ïfede confession o f Christ.1“* ^ à récent melting a hundred dollats-' u^iS 'raised in fom e n ts for one-of tKe -members, a missionary in China, whit had met with the loss of his outfit. The cèab is supporting one of the charter membéfS whô vis Vnovy a missionary in Africa. The weekly gatherings are a con stant source of inspiration. 'Andre water. They are planning to open a ne\v “station at Gatitu right in the center o f a dense Kikuyu1population. We visited the proposed site and'wefe mujh taken with it. The view on a clear day from there commands both Kenia and Kilima Njaro. The stations we visited are all undermanned, one very much so, as there are only two leaders there. It is sure plucky of them to work there alone, fifteen miles or so from the nearest white person. It is too soon yet to write about conditions and plans here on the field; that wjll come later.— Tom Hannoy, Jr.
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