August 1928
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1 Cor. 13. This tells better than any teacher could tell what love of one’s neighbor means. The lesson closed after a half hour of teaching, followed by prayer. While heads were bowed and the question asked: “ Are there any girls here who would like to have prayer especially for them?” out of six new girls, four raised their hands and came to the front and professed to accept Jesus Christ. They had come to Long Beach from the east. They had found work but they were lonely, having no homes and not knowing what church to attend. They had gotten out o f fellowship with Christ. Now they were seeing that the Holy' Spirit and Christian fellowship Were what they needed more than anything else. They afterwards said: “ We never knew there was such a place in Long Beach, and you can expect us back again each Monday night.” Great Work at New Mission A REMARKABLE mission has been established in Los Angeles through one o f our former students. It is known as “ Christ’s Faith Mission.” One o f the women o f one o f our adult Bible classes started it with four twenty-five-cent pieces. One of the class members asked: “ How could you do that when the rent is $100?” The rent has since gone up to $150 and God still sends the food, clothing and rent. Clothing and food are distributed free to needy girls. One day recently, Los Angeles was dedicating its great new City Hall in honor of the city government. If you had stepped into this mission on that same day you would have found a temple being dedicated to our Lord in flesh and blood. * A little mother went to the mission in her desperate need and received the help and encouragement that were so necessary. As she was about to leave, she turned to the worker and said, “ I f you had not done that! I was going to commit suicide.’* The worker gave the little woman a Bible. That Bible has been faithfully read and this woman is mow desirous o f attending the Institute as a student. This is the second student thus far given the Institute through this mission. A Glimpse at Nuntius Club Work TN a recent monthly report meeting Mr. .Leon Keys, a J- student, made the following interesting statement re garding the Nuntius Club work o f the Institute: “ I am .proud to say,” said Mr. Keys, “ that I have been having the privilege of being associated with Mr. Mac- Arthur in teaching boys in the Nuntius Clubs; About a month ago we had a track meet for the boys. The boys are always most enthusiastic about this, and one o f the boys who always takes everything to the Lord in prayer, prayed: ‘Lord, keep us from thinking we are the whole cheese if we win,’ “ A week before that I had my, boys gather about me. One was there for the first .time.' I had read them a story, ‘Taken or Left,’ which is a story o f the second'coming of Christ. It is a fine demonstration of boyhood life. I asked them for a word of ,prayer before starting, and three led in prayer. A fter the second one finished, a little fel low who had never made himself known as a Christian, blurted out: ‘Oh, ]U>rdj>-ifi,y 0 ji'S»me,tonight, be sure., and take me! I don’t want to -be left and'see the other boys taken. Please wash away all my sins,’ One of the oldest boys said, ‘Don’t worry, Bill, we are all going along.’ They meant every word of it and I believe that right there was where the youth made up his mind that Christ was going to be his Saviour.
“ The day of the track meet I was talking to the boys and they were talking about what they were going to be when they grew up. One said: ‘I am going to be a Chris tian banker.’ Another said: ‘I am going to be a preacher. Mr. Keys has come out and taught us, and from what he says, I don’t believe there is anything that can beat that.’ ’f Biola as Dr. Bingham Sees It Dr. Rowland V . Bingham, editor of The Evangelical Christian (Toronto), was a recent visitor at our Institute and upon his return home published the following im pression of the Institute: O N the Editor’s recent journey to the Pacific Coast it was our privilege to pay an all too brief visit to the Bible Institute of Los Angeles, “ We found the work going on as vigorously as ever. The classrooms were throbbing with young life, with a growing body of students. And one could not wish for a finer group of earnest, studious*,?;Christian young men and women than that which greeted us on the number of occasions we were privileged to address them. “ It was a pleasure to meet our old friends Mr. John Hunter, Mr. Hubbard and Mr. Pike, still on the faculty, with their ever-enriching and ripening experience to guide the y.pung life into the channel of consecrated service. “ Then we met old friends in new places. Rev. John McNeill is not only Pastor of the Church o f the Open Door; but is lecturing in the Institute in-the sphere o f Pas toral Theology and Evangelism, in which he has richest experience. “ Then it was a treat-to meet once more the .Dean of the faculty, Dr. Maclnnis, who,: since the departure of Dr. Torrey, has sought to maintain the theological standards that were laid down during his term of service at the Institute. “ Just now Dr. Maclnnis is being saved from the woe that domes Jo those of whom all men speak well, by an attempt to find some flaw in his teaching in the sphere of Christian Philosophy. If any of these critics would spend a few weeks in Dr. Maclnnis’ classes andr then visit the classrooms of some other theblogicdP .institutions; they would find some great contrasts! “ Moreover, they would learn that Christ is central in all the teaching of. Dr. Maclnnis—-a Christ in whom dwell all the treasures o f wisdom and knowledge, a Christ vir gin-born, spotless in holiness, crucified, the just for the, unjust, risen and ascended, and coming in power and great glory. “ An Institute where every member o f the Board and Faculty sign annually without equivocation, the doctrinal statement approved by Dr. Torrey and Mr. Horton in its foundation, ought not to have its problems made more difficult by the spreading of these aspersions that they are drifting from their orthodox anchorage. “ It is becoming quite common today with certain groups when they differ with others on matters that have scarcely any distant relationship to things fundamental, to brand those who differ with them as ‘Modernists.’ “ If one dares to preach in a church whose pulpit- is occupied by fi Modernist, or lecture in a college where there are liberal profeSsord; one is promptly branded1'’With the same title. “ Personally, we would rather get into these colleges and churches than in any other, -so long as we are given liberty to proclaim the whole counsel of God. Nowhere is the truth more needed.”
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