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an ecclesiastic who was ruined by a wrong use of ambition—a man who made self the center and aim of his life. Let us close with a glimpse of another kind of an ecclesiastic—a man who made his fellow- men, God, and the truth the passion of his life. One of the most touching and inspir ing scenes in history is that picture of David Livingstone, as he stands by the side of Stanley, who found him in the heart of Africa after years of silence, and told him of how his loved ones, and indeed whole nations were anxious for his safety and his return home, and pled with him to leave Africa with its sufferings, toils and sacrifices, and go back to Great' Britain where he would be received with open arms and given the highest honors of the land. He was human, and in the very nature of things these words made a mighty appeal to his great heart and life. But above the sweet, wooing songs and the promised ease, honor and glory, there came to him another plea—the cry of the broken, wounded and bleeding heart of Africa— and forgetting himself and his own com forts and glories he abandoned himself to God and turned his back on the glories of this world and flung his wonderful per sonality into the gulf of Africa’s crying need, laying down his life that her great running sore might be healed. In harness ing his ambition to that sublime sacrificial service he found himself, and became a blessing to a whole continent, and one of the best loved and most honored men of all times. The thing that cursed Cardinal Wolsey, made David Livingstone one of the greatest men of his day. They were both ambitious —the one ambitious for ^himself and he lost his life; the other ambitious to please God and to serve his fellowmen, and he found his life. Ambition controlled by sel fishness is a curse. Ambition abandoned
to God in the service of men, makes glor ious and worth while even the most com monplace tasks. Be ambitious, but beware lest you have an unworthy aim and it becomes your ruin. ^ ------ O-------- G ra d u ate d T o g e th e r Rev. J. O. Booce of Port Angeles, Wash., where he is convention pastor and evange list of the Baptist church, writes us to call attention to the fact that he and his wife, Marian Booce, completed the term together as husband and wife, and hold diplomas awarded them in June, 1914, by the Bible Institute of Los Angeles, and are members of Biola Alumni Association. They, therefore, are entitled to be known as the first husband and wife to complete the course together, the three couples of last June being the first since 1914. ---------- -O—— ,— School O pens The Fall term of the Institute opened on September 26, with an increased en rollment over any preceding term. The opening address was delivered by Dr. William Evans, associate dean, at 11 o’clock a. m. --------0-------- Mr. and Mrs. Fred Abbott, former stu-/ dents of the Institute, but now residing in Oakland, announce the arrival of a boy baby at their home. --------0-------- All the way from Templeton, Wis., comes a contribution of $2.50 for the Seamen’s Fund, almost entirely contributed by a poor woman of Menomonee Falls.
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