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The Bible Institute FAMILY CIRCLE
faith ministry in outlying districts. Last summer they served seven stations in their special rural evangelistic work. Lillian C. Curtis, T9, and Gertrude Schroeder, ’34, left in June for Tucson, Ariz., where .they have been engaged in American Sunday-School Union work. Mary E. Hunter, ’28 (Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions), called at the Institute while on furlough from her work in the French Cameroun. After spending a number of months with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John H. Hunter, in Pacific Grove, Calif., she sailed from New York City early in July. She will spend several weeks in the British Isles en route to her field. Dick Hillis, ’32, Shenkiu, Honan, China, working under the China Inland Mission, writes: “I have just returned from a long trip. In the three weeks we were on the road, we had the joy of preaching in over a hundred villages. What a joy it is to tell these poor hungry souls of Jesus our Sav iour ! Most of our villages of any size have high walls. As we go in the gate, we call the people to come and listen to the gospel, and as we sing a hymn, the folk of the village gather around. At first they are taken up with looking at the foreigner, and one hears such remarks as, ‘His eyes are blue,’ and, ‘Look what a big nose he has.’ Soon they become interested in the large gospel poster we have placed before them, and they want to know what is the meaning. What joy it is when some of them turn from idols to serve the living and true God! We have several hundred more villages to reach. Do pray for us as we journey on.” Mrs. Harold Coen (Ella Penner, ’29) writes in March from Katenga, Jos, Nigeria, Africa, where she and her hus band are serving under the Sudan In- [Continued on page 319]
mean acquiescence and indifference to the dishonesty, deception, and unreliability that constantly confront us.” Of her work with the children, Miss Frith adds: “They are a constant joy to me. It is unbeliev able the progress they have made and the far-reaching effect of their influence . . . I felt as if a new world had opened up to me when I found I was able to tell a story all by myself. Now I am doing all the work alone in school, am head of a Sun day-school department, have J u n i o r Church, and have added to my responsibil ities the august title of church treasurer! ....T h e re are two old ladies of whom I am particularly fond. When their quartet sang from their hearts the other night we tried so hard to say something to each other, and finally the little old lady wiped a furtive tear from her eye with the cor ner of her head shawl and pointed to her own heart and to mine and held up one finger. Eloquent enough—wasn’t it, and now we just grip hands and hug and smile and we both understand.” Marie Carter, ’IS, spent several weeks at the Institute recently. She has been teach ing Bible classes in Southern California. R. David and Mrs. Bender recently con cluded four years, of ministry in Colorado Springs, Colo., and are now engaged in service under the Presbyterian Board of National Missions in three rural fields in Douglas County, Wis., and Carlton County, Minn., making their home in Foxboro, Wis.. They write: “We are glad to be able to ‘keep the lights burning’ among the lum bermen and farmers of the northern woods, and covet your prayer fellowship.” Mr. and Mrs. Bender have d daughter, Barbara Rdth, who is two and a half years old. L. P. and Mrs. Sanford, Route 3, Kali- spell, Mont., have spent many years in a
Two Bible Institute Leaders Honored G ibraltar Faith for Drifting Times” was the subject of the address deliv ered by Louis T. Talbot to grad uates of Wheaton College, Wheaton, 111., on June 10, at the seventy-sixth annual commencement exercises of the college. A message of similar import had been given by Mr. Talbot a few days earlier at the John Brown University, Siloam Springs, Ark. Both institutions, desiring to recog nize Mr. Talbot’s excellent work in pas toral and evangelistic fields, granted him honorary degrees. At Wheaton, three men were chosen to receive special distinction. In an impressive service at which the President of Wheaton College, Dr. J. Oliver Buswell, Jr., presided, the degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred upon Rollin T. Chafer, Kenneth Mackenzie, and Louis T. Talbot. On Sunday, June 9, the Los Angeles Baptist Theological Seminary conferred upon John B. Trowbridge the degree of Doctor of Sacred Music. Dr. Trowbridge has. served for the past two years as Di rector of Music at the seminary, and has been a member of the music faculty of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles for many years. Since 1922 he has been the director of the Los Angeles Choral Union, a musi cal organization which presents Handel’s Messiah annually and which also ren ders other oratorios. As high as forty churches have been represented in one chorus. Dr. Trowbridge has served for five years as musical director at the Ver mont Avenue Presbyterian Church of Los Angeles. At Work in Many Fields T helma F rith , ’29, Colegio Batista, Caixa 118, Porto Alegre, Brazil, S. A., from “The Appointed Place,” sends a letter which will bring memories to ah who knew her at Biola: “ ‘If Jesus planted a garden, He would make it like Paradise.’ And He did plant a garden! If you were winged creatures now and could swoop down over our fairyland city, you would not think of attributing it to any one else. This morning on the way to Sunday- school I stopped before a garden and sur reptitiously inhaled as fast as I could the breath of at least fifty cape jasmines, on one bush. Imagine! I heard a window up stairs open and I flew, but I took that smell with me! I have not yet outgrown the thrill of having a cherub in kinder garten hand me three or four orchids, al though they grow on our porch . . . It is a garden—and so like that other Garden that I know now heart-breakingly what it meant when that reptile came. Oh, I wish he hadn’t come—and yet it is so much easier here to see why the Lord Jesus had to come. . . . How quieting is the idea that we are not bound to make the world go right, that no poison injected by the evil one can counteract the healing of the Great Physician 1 . . . They call the first year or two ‘adjustment,’ but it can never
Courtesy, Dollar Steamship Lines
Junks, sampans, and other kinds of native craft are a common sight to Institute graduates whose service takes them to Oriental waters.
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