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terior Mission: “Our work here is small and looks very insignificant. But God is with us, and we praise Him for the wee corner He prepared for us to let our light shine for Him. Today our morning ser vice was well attended with forty-two present. In the afternoon a total of eighty or more came for Sunday-school. This was the best attendance for Sunday-school so far, and our little chapel looked quite full. How we rejoice to see a crowd of children and young people come! Not very many older people come. But the super stitions and prejudices are gradually crum bling away. I have a school with an average attendance of fifteen. A group of young lads, ages from fourteen to twenty- four, are learning to read. Several are al most ready to start studying the Gospel of John. And oh, how proud they will be; when they have earned the New Testa ment which is a reward for all who com plete the reading of the Gospel of John!” Oscar F. Walton, ’24, has for some years been in charge of the music in the North China Theological Seminary and the Mateer Memorial Institute at Tenghsien, Shantung. A member of the faculty tells of the advance under Mr. Walton’s lead ership: “Practically one-third of the stu dents are taking either piano or organ les sons. In the Men’s Glee Chorus there are forty voices, in the Girls’ Chorus thirty voices, and in the Mixed Chorus sixty voices. Every Christmas there is a recital, and one of the features is the singing of the ‘Hallelujah Chorus.’ This year the League of Christian Churches at their Tri ennial at Kaifeng, Honan, asked that the Schools’ Quartet furnish the special mu sic. Their music was so acceptable that they were asked to sing at many other places. One was at the home of Mr. Ernest Yin, the Provincial Treasurer of Honan Province, and another at the home of one of the teachers of the Government University to specially invited guests. While at Kaifeng they gave a half-hour program over the radio.” Eric S. (’25) and Mrs. Horn (Syvilla Ferron, ’25), members of the Sudan In terior Mission on furlough in Southern California, have been living at 1923 Eighth Ave., Los Angeles. They have a two-year- old son, Robert. Marion Adams, ’33, sailed June 2 for Venezuela, S. A., where she will serve under the Orinoco River Mission. Miss Adams’ address is ; Apartado 75, Cuidad Bolivar, Venezuela, S. A. Cabled Messages That Became National News F riends of Frances E. Elliott, who has been employed in one of the Institute offices, have been much interested in newspaper accounts of her journey to Port Elizabeth, South Africa, where she is to be the bride of David Thomas Wright, pastor of the Walmer Road Baptist Church. The story has appeared in papers as far distant as the Kansas City Star. The point which apparently had the widest appeal was the use of Scripture passages in cabled communications. Mr. Wright, who had known Miss Elliott at the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago during their stu dent days, cabled the message, “Genesis 12:1.” The passage reads : “Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will show thee.” Miss Elliott’s reply was “Ruth 1:16” : “And Ruth said, Entreat me
not to leave thee, or to return from fol lowing-after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge-: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God.” Her fiance answered with “Ruth 1:17” : “Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me,” Mr. Wright’s congregation is composed chiefly of a people who are termed “colored”—a race resulting from the intermarriage of Europeans with natives of the locality. Bom To David (’27) and Mrs, Doerksen (Ruth Dunn, ’33), a daughter, Miriam Lois, July 15, Sake, Costermansville, Lake Kivu, Congo Beige, E. Africa, via Aden and Dar-es-salaam. To James (’31) and Mrs. Verstrate (’34), a daughter, Katherine Janeice, July 5, Yakima, Wash. Our Light Afflictions 2 C orinthians 4 :17 I. These Afflictions Are Identified as “Ours." 1. They are: not those contracted through our own sinning. 2. They are not those which fall in general fashion on mankind. 3. But Paul is speaking here particu larly of those afflictions which Christ’s servants suffer by way of persecution for the gospel’s sake. These Afflictions Are Characterized as “Light." 1. They, are not light as compared with other earthly afflictions. 2. They are not light in our own estimation. 3. They are light when compared with the length of eternity. 4. They are light when contrasted with the glory which shall follow'. III. These Afflictions Are Fulfilled in “Glory." “Our light afflictions,” endured for Him, flower out, not into something dismal, but into something glorious. The Mouth “Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh” (Matt. 12:34). The Epistle to the Romans mentions the mouth in four places: 1. The mouth of the unconverted des cribed (Rom. 3:14). 2. The mouth stopped (Rom. 3:19; cf. Isa 6 :5). 3. The mouth opened (Rom. 10:9). II.
CHRISTIAN REST HOME New, modern, reasonable. Pleasant sit- uation, good climate. Mrs. Carnapas, Prescott, Arizona. Married Lawrence B. Begley, ’33, and Alliene E. Ziegler, July 12, Los Angeles, Calif. Warren E. Hall, ’33, and Clarissa Maude Hurt, July 14, Cheney, Wash. Raymond D. Sprague and Eunice Es ther Hart, ’25, June 29, Inglewood, Calif. Gerald G. Thorne, ’34, and Margaret Whittaker, ’34, June 30, Escondido, Calif. With the Lord Elizabeth Lish, a member of the class of 1935, was called Home from a hospital in Anaheim, Calif., on the morning of July 16, after a two-weeks’ illness. . 4. The mouth glorifying God (Rom. 15:6). —R alph H. D idier . The Christian’s Calling 1 P eter 5 :10 I. The Source of the Christian’s Calling: The God of All Grace. II. The Means of the Christian’s Calling: Through Christ. III. The Trial of the Christian’s Calling: Suffering. IV. The Results'of the Christian’s Calling: 1. Perfection. Our Commission The preacher of this church is working under a commission from the Most High God and not from man. Under this com mission he is an ambassador, not a diplo mat ; an evangelist, not an entertainer; a deliverer, not a quiverer. His supreme business is to preach revelation, not revo lution ; redemption, not reformation; re generation, not renovation; resurrection, not resuscitation ; Christ, not culture; con version, not civilization; theocracy, not de mocracy; salvation through the new birth, not through better berth; sanctification through Spirit, not through merit; the coming kingdom of God, not the coming kingdom of man. By the grace of God, we propose to stick to our commission. —S elected . 2. Establishment. 3. Strengthening. —R ay de la H aye . '
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