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Recent Sailings Frank' E. Lee, ’33, sailed early in April from Port Arthur, Tex., for Nige ria, Africa, where he will serve under the Sudan Interior Mission. ' Hamilton (’33) and Mrs. Morrow (Emily Moses, ’34), with their two chil dren, sailed from New York April 19 for Uzinza, Mwanza P. O., Tanganyika, E. Africa, where they expect to be doing boys’ and medical work under the Africa Inland Mission. George and Mrs. Tobelmann (Grace Pietsch) were to sail July 3 from Van couver for service under the Alaska Evangelization Society. Mrs. Tobelmann had previously served in this field. Their field address is Box 64, Ketchikan, Alaska. Activity at Home Lionel F. Brown, ’33, was graduated from the Dallas Theological Seminary, Dallas, Tex., on May 14. The subject of his thesis was “The Offense of the Cross.” Mr. Brown held special meet ings at the Church of the Open Door in July. William Nyman, Jr., 1305 N. Louise, Glendale, Calif., returned to Los Angeles on July 3 from Honolulu, T. H., where for five months he has been studying Chinese and helping in the Kakaako Mission under the leadership of Guern sey and Mrs. Brown, ’21. The Mission is located at South and Queen Streets, Honolulu. Mr. Nyman expects to attend Wheaton College in the fall. H. George Prescott, ’26, Menaul School, Albuquerque, N. Mex., has been taking his college work summers and evenings since he has been teaching in this mission school under the Board of National Missions of the Presbyterian Church. He wrote o f expecting to receive his bachelor’s degree this summer. Ernest E. (’24) and Mrs. Nichols (Hope M. Hepbume, ’25) are serving in the Baptist Church of Escondido, Calif., where Mr. Nichols is pastor. Paul Leuschner, ’29, and T. Nishika- wa, ’34, were graduated from the Los Angeles Baptist Theological Seminary, Los Angeles, Calif., on June 2. Married Burns Anderson and Margaret Fra ser, June 24, Hollywood, Calif. Stanley Anderson and Bonevieve Rood, daughter of Paul W. Rood, for mer President of the Bible institute of Los Angeles, June 15, Los Angeles, Calif. Herman Baerg, ’39, and Marguerite A. Hoffman, June 19, Sunnyside, Wash. Lacey Bradhurst and Eunice Havens, ’39, June 13, Sanger, Calif. John C. Ganiatsos,, ’36, and Helen Vlahos, July 12, Toronto, Ont., Can. Edward Goodrick, B.Th. ’40, and Gwendolyn Davidson, June 9, Santa Bar bara, Calif. [ Continued on Page 317]
FAMILY CIRCLE tainly ashamed of the churches at home. Every day at daybreak, those Who are able come for about an hour for morning prayers. After the prayers, the chil dren come for a Popular E d u c a t i o n School. This school is in charge of one of the men, who has had little educa tion, and he teaches the three R’s. . . . The children stay until about nine or ten o’clock, when they go home for an hour or so for the morning, meal. They return to stay until about four in the afternoon. After the afternoon meal, the adults, and those children who are allowed, come for an evening serv ice. This meeting is in charge of one of the members of the church. Can you imagine one of our churches at home being used every day of the year for two services each day, and a school for the children? These peopleware real Christians, and though they may not all know how to read, they still can sing and commit Bible passages.” Ethel L. Brookes, E. S., ’28, has told of experiencing a growth in her work among Mohammedan girls In Gafsa, Tunisia, North Africa. “Won’t you re joice and give thanks with me,” she writes, “for the children who are com ing weekly to the house. For so long only one or two girls would come— then about a year ago more began com ing, six, seven, twelve—now there are fifty to fifty-five girls who come regu larly. They come in two groups, as they are too many for one group for the sewing as well as the Bible lesson. Some of those who come are poor and ignor ant; others come from homes where the fathers have government positions. One of these fathers made the pilgrimage to Mecca this year . . . The father of two of the girls is one of our police men who some time ago refused to ac cept a Gospel. I am privileged to visit in this home, where there áre two older sisters and the wife, who listen to the Word of God and like the gospel songs.” Godfrey (’24) and Mrs. Lindholm abe happy to be back on the field in their work with the Scandinavian Alliance Mission. They may be addressed at Chao Ho, Wuchuan, Suiyuan, N. China. George H. (’18) and Mrs. Ekdahl (Gladys Gibson, ’19) have been trans ferred back to San Pedro, Charcas, Bo livia. They speak of the townspeople as being very friendly to them per sonally, but indifferent to the gospel. They found a real need for the Lord to pass in cleansing power through the church there. But among the children there was much that was encouraging, especially in the profession of a fifteen- year-old boy, whose father claims to be the first Christian of that town.
Bible Institute Biola Rally Transoceanic communications with former students of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles now in Europe, Guatemala, C. A., and the Philippine Islands -were interspersed through the program of the Biola Rally held in the Church of the Open Door auditorium on the after noon of May 26, the last Sunday before Baccalaureate Sunday at the Institute. William fevans, veteran Bible, teacher and conference speaker, gave -the prin cipal address, on the subject, “How to Get Victory in Great Crises.” Various musical organizations of Institute stu dents brought special music. Louis- T. Talbot, President of the school, and Kenneth M. Monroe, Dean, conducted the radio conversations with Karl Faulkner, ’37, of Budapest, Hungary; Herbert W.- (’26) and Mrs, Cassel (Doris Myers) in Guatemala, and Samuel Fisk, in Manila, Philippine Islands. A letter received from Mr. Faulkner at about the time of the direct radio communication, told of the need for prayer support and spoke of his needing to secure permission month by month from the authorities in order to stay in his .field of service. He remarked that these circumstances “make me rely upon the Lord and realize more and more that even these things are in His hands and if He closes the door it is better to go than to try to stay without its being His will. But I promised the Lord when He opened the door for me to come back here that I would not leave again of my own accord, but stick until He closed it.” Mr. Faulkner’s special ministry is to Jews. Mr. Cassel served as superintendent of the S,unday-school in the Church of the Open Door prior to going to the mission field. Mr. Fisk, who sailed for the Philip pines in December of 1937,' recently has served for several months as Director of tSe Manila Evangelistic Institute under the Association of Baptists for Evangelism in the Orient. He was also pastor of the First Baptist Church of Manila, but has been forced by poor health to give up these responsibili ties. Prayer is asked for the restora tion of his health and for blessing to rest on his ministry of evangelism in the islands as the Lord gives him strength. In the Work Abroad Marshall and Mirs. Welles (Helen An- tisdale, ’29), with their little son, Bob bie, have been assigned to the station of Ichowfu, Shantung, China. Dr. Welles tells of a Chinese outstation which he visited there: “After I heard the story of this group of Christians, I was cer-
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