1£3 BIBLE INSTITUTE HAPPENINGS Particularly of Interest to Friends and Students 3
P. A ndrew s, a son, M ark Spurgeon. The follow ing from W. A. H ick shoUld s tir us all to p ra y e r on b eh alf of be liev ers in China. “C hina In a ln d M ission, Ichang, Hupeh, D ecem ber 3, 1920. D ear Mr. B rooks: Since our la s t w ritin g sev eral changes have ta k e n place. As you w ill see by th e above a d d ress we a re a t p re se n t in Ic h an g in th e province of H upeh, a city of ab o u t sev en ty thousand, situ a te d on th e Y angtze R iv er a b o u t a th o u sa n d m iles- from Shanghai. “P ossibly you have h e a rd th ro u g h some o th er source th a t th e c ity w hich w e are now in h a s been looted by th e soldiers. S hortly a fte r m id n ig h t la s t M onday we w ere aw ak en ed by heavy firing on all fo u r sides of our prem ises. The soldiers comm enced th e ir lo o tin g in th e f a r end of th e city a t a b o u t n in e -th irty o’clock and k e p t up th e ir firing an d lo o tin g u n til d a y lig h t n e x t m orning. On acco u n t of th e firing we m ade our w ay from th e u p s ta irs room s to th e s ittin g room below in o rd er to avoid s tra y sh o ts w hich w ere flying in a ll d irectio n s aro u n d us. I am g lad to sa y th a t none h it th e house bu t to be on th e safe side* w e a ll th o u g h t it best to be on th e low er floor. We sp en t th e n ig h t ly in g flat on x>ur b ack s lis te n in g to th e lo o tin g outside n o t know ing to a m in u te w hen our tu rn w as com ing. Seyeral tim es wé th o u g h t th ey h ad b ro k en in th e fro n t door and w ere com ing in to th e com pound b u t it proved to be th e Chinese shops n e x t to us. We ju st com m itted ourselves to th e Lord, who alone is able to give p ro tectio n a t such a tim e. “Mr. Squires and I to o k a w a lk around n e x t m o rn in g to see w h a t h ad been done and we found th a t n e arly ev ery place in the c ity had been looted, m o st of them ab so lu tely cleaned of ev ery th in g . The B ank of C omm unications w as broken into and m uch silv er tak e n . Most of th e ship-* pin g offices w ere robbed of a ll th e ir contents. T hose w ho h ad n o th in g m uch to lose b u t a P u ’k a i found them selves rid of th a t. I t is a sad sig h t indeed to see th e poor people, th e sto re s a re all closed as th ey have n o th in g to sell. Mr. Squires says it looks a s if it m ig h t be th e New Y ear as fa r as bu sin ess is con cerned. T hey w ere so w ell organized th a t one n ig h t w as sufficient to go th ro u g h th e w hole c ity from end to end. I believe th e re w ere ab o u t te n th o u sa n d m en in volved. “One can h a rd ly expect oth erw ise when th ey le a rn th a t th e m en have no t received an y m oney fo r a b o u t te n m onths. T hey th re a te n e d lo o tin g u n less m oney w as forthcom ing. T he G eneral w ired H a n kow fo r some b u t received none. T hree days w ere given by th e m en a n d w hen th e tim e w as up th ey bro k e loose and n o th in g coUld stop them .” T ere sa W alk er, ’20, h a s accepted a p o sitio n as n u rse in th e G overnm ent In d ian School a t F o rt Mojave, Ariz.
T he J a n u a ry term of th e In s titu te opened w ith th e la rg e s t in crease in th e num ber of stu d e n ts ever noted a t th e b eg in n in g of th e w in te r term . T here w ere sixty-five nevr fa ce s on th e open in g day. Dr. C o rtlan d M yers, p a sto r of T rem ont T em ple B a p tist c h u rch of B oston w as w ith th e B ible I n s titu te th ro u g h o u t th e m onth of Ja n u a ry . He held ev an g elistic services each ev en in g in th e big a u d i to rium w hich w a s o ften tax e d alm o st to capacity. H un d red s of to u ris ts w ere reach ed w ith th e Gospel m essage and scores of them w ill go b ack home w ith assu ra n ce bf sa lv atio n in th e ir h e arts. Dr. A. C. D ixon beg an a th re e w eeks soul w in n in g cam p aig n in Syracuse, N. Y. on Ja n u a ry 3. He w ill th en be in New Y ork fo r noon a d d resses to p a sto rs and ch u rch officers, w ith evening p reach in g in v a rio u s churches. E a rl C ochran, ’19, is cond u ctin g th e sin g in g fo r cam paigns Under th è B a p tist A ssociation in W ashington. He w rite s th a t in F e b ru a ry sim u ltan eo u s cam paigns a re p lan n ed fo r a ll th e B a p tist churches of T acom a, and th e sam e in S e attle d u r in g M arch. Geo. H. E k d ah l w rite s: “W e have changed from San Pedro, B olivia to T oro- toro, C harcas, Bolivia, and expect to r e m ain h ere fo r a good m any y e ars if th e L ord sh a ll ta r r y an d sp a re ou r lives. “T hough we a re n o t m edical m issio n a rie s we sh a ll no doubt have a good bit of m edical w o rk to do of v ario u s kinds as th e re is no o th er m edical help a v a il able, and we have had no tra in in g in th a t line. Some tim e ago Mr. M cIntosh w as called upon by th e tow n officials to p e r form a p ostm ortem o p eratio n on a wom an, w hich he did th o u g h he did not fan cy th e w ork. R ecen tly K en n eth Pow - linson, B. I., ’16, sta tio n e d a t T oracari, had to a dm in ister g e n era l a n a e sth e tic to a w om an an d rem ove a tum o r from her head. He re p o rts th a t she is doing nicely.” A llyn Cook a n d M iss L eila R obinson w h a w en t ou t to C hina w ith th e Saunders p a rty , w ere m arried on T h an k sg iv in g Day. F o rd Canfield an d M iss C arolyn L ovcjoy of the sam e p a r t^ expected to be m arried a t a b o u t th e sam e tim e, bu t Mr. Canfield w as ju s t reco v erin g from an op eration. F o rm e r stu d e n ts w ill' be g lad to lea rn th a t Mr. a n d Mrs. H. J. B aldw in form erly of th e In s titu te facu lty , have been g re a tly blessed of God in th e ir w o rk in Em m anuel P re sb y te ria n C hurch, Colorado Springs, Colò. Mr. B aldw in h a s closed a success fu l y e ar as p a sto r and h a s a th riv in g church. One excellent in d icatio n is a F rid a y n ig h t B ible class a t w hich he h a s been h a v in g a la rg e atte n d an c e of hig h school people. Chas. R. Osborn, *20, now su p e rin te n d en t of th e K a k aa k o M ission, Honolulu, w rite s th a t his w o rk has grow n rem ark ab ly . The av era g e a tte n d an c e fo r Novem ber w as 117. B orn Ja n u a ry 9 to Mr. a n d Mrs. H ugh
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