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A WIDOW AT 22, WITH A LITTLE BABY, OPENS HER HEART TO YOU My dear Christian Friends: Please forgive me for writing to you all the way from Greece to ask for your assistance. I am only 22 years of age, yet already a widow. My husband was tubercular when I married him, but we did not know this. We had one year together and then he died. Soon afterward I dis covered I had the same dread dis ease. I would not mind so much for myself, but I have a little baby and I want to get well so that I may care for it properly. My great fear is that it will be left alone in the streets to die. My baby has lost its father; it will he tragic if it loses its mother also. I cannot write in flowery words because I am a simple girl from Kavalla (the ancient city of Nea- polis where the Apostle Paul landed in Greece). I trust that these few words, written as best I know how, will not make you feel bad. If you would write me, and above all send me a Bible in modem Greek, it would help me forget my terrible distress and increase my faith as I lie on this bed of pain. I shall be looking forward with great anxiety to hearing from you. Just think of me and my little baby, and do what God prompts you to do. With love and gratitude, AGAPI (Love) PARASKEVOPOULOU Sanitarium Soteria, Greece We receive many letters like this, and oh, how our hearts long to be able to help all who write! We do want to send this dear young mother a Bible and the medicine and good food she so urgently needs. — ---------------------DETACH AND M A IL --------- ---------------- I WANT TO HELP AM ER ICAN M ISSION TO GREEKS, INC. P.O. Box 423, Dept. K, New York 36, N.Y. Canadian Address: 90 Duplex Ave., Toronto 12, Ont. Enclosed find $.............................. to help AGAPI PARASKEVOPOU LOU and others like her in their need. Name .................................... ..................... Street ......................................................... City ................................ State ................ — Adv. —
Look ing at the New Y e a r 1 s each New Year approaches, we look back upon the preceding year /I that we thereby may review the mercies of God and profit by our failures. As we discern the Hand that led and the Heart that planned, our hearts are filled with rejoicing, and our faith is encouraged. Hitherto God has led us; henceforth we know that His presence will go before us into the untried future. We look back as a Bible Institute, and we are overwhelmed by the providences of God over the years. As individuals, we look back, and our hearts are melted at God’s goodness to undeserving “ sinners saved by grace.” LOOKING AROUND Occasionally it is very profitable for us to lift our eyes from the tasks on which we have been concentrating, and to take a look around us, to observe the kind of world in which we are actually dwelling, and to realize anew the opportunity of being allowed to live in this day and age. It does us good to ask God how we may best serve Him here and now while it is called today. As we look around in the Bible Institute, we see a company of alert Christian young men and women whose training would challenge any school. Ours is the responsibility, under God, to give them the best. LOOKING UNTO The object of our faith is what determines the kind of men and women we shall be in 1955. As children of God, we shall not make much prog ress unless our deepest love and greatest hope are centered in Christ. “ Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith” (Heb. 12:2), might well be the watchword of the year. As we look unto Him, we shall ever be looking up, and this involves a life of communion and prayer which will fortify us for the tests of life, and draw us into an intimate acquaintance with God. Let us not fail in this point, either as a school, or as individuals, for if we do, we shall fail in everything else. LOOKING FORWARD We cannot live on the victories of yesterday, and the accomplish ments of today will soon pass into eternity. Ours must be the forward look —the look of expectation. Vision we need, but there must also be the practical working out of the dream. Let us be dreaming doers in 1955. Let us put feet and hands and voices to our plans. As a Bible Institute, we face the greatest step of faith in our history. God has challenged us in His Word: “ Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not” (Jer. 33:3); “ . . . prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it” (Mai. 3:10). LOOKING FOR The song of our hearts is, “ Sweet is the hope that is thrilling my soul, I know I’ll see Jesus some day.” This is the inspiration for our work and for our sacrifice. “ Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appear ing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ” (Titus 2:13). As each new year rolls around, the question in every believing heart is this: “Will this be the year of His return?” The thought that we will see Christ face to face and be like Him spurs us on to the utmost endeavor. There is so much to be done ere He returns. There is no time to waste. Listen to His own words: “ . . . I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest” (John 4:35).
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