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August 1928
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Mr. Fairclough continues: “ Just a closing word about our Bible Conference. W e had a week of preliminary meetings, beginning on Monday, April 23; the conference proper began on Tuesday, May 1. About 100 people are regularly attending the conference sessions; over seventy of these are living in our dormitories; the others come from the different churches in the. city. The interest is great and many testify to rich blessing received. How I wish you all could be here and feel for yourselves the splendid spirit that exists. The speakers last week were Mr. T ’ien Hsin Pei, who took one hour every day.- Liu Hwa Neng and Ho Dzi Gien took the other hour alter nately. “ Much blessing has attended the evangelistic work which is being carried on by the delegates every afternoon. There have been some striking conversions, among them an old lady of eighty years living not far from here who is just overflowing with joy in the consciousness of her sal vation. She said to those who had led her to Christ: ‘Oh, I am sure that God Himself sent you to me with this won derful good news.’ ” Another letter from Dr. Keller says: “ It seems very likely that we will be able to open the" Bible School this autumn for our regular course.” The Practice of Profanity P RO FAN ITY is one of the most inexcusably indecent practices, and one which lowers the spiritual life of its perpetrator.: “ A General Order of Washington, com mander of the Continental Army, issued at New York in July, 1776, reads: ‘The General is sorry to be informed that the foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing, a vice heretofore little known in an Amer ican army, is growing into fashion. He hopes the officers will, by example as well as by influence, endeavor to check it, and that both they and the men will reflect that we can have little hope of the blessing of heaven on our arms if we insult it by our impiety and folly. Added to this, it is a vice so mean and low without any temptation, that every mah of sense and character detests and despises it.’ ”
Biola Band Captives
Like Paul and Silas
ECENT letters from Dr. Frank A . Keller, super intendent of our work in Hunan, China, bring us the first brief accounts o f ' the kidnaping of our Biola Band leader No. 9 and six o f his evangelists. Says Dr. Keller: “ On the 3rd of May, Mr. T ’an, our leader, divided the band, and he with six others went to San Li, about 13 Li miles) away from Tang Hsia. A t this time, all the soldiers had left Yuanchow, Fen-1, An Fuh and Kih-An, so about 500 or 600 bandits from these, places went to the borders o f these four cities to capture people and hold them for ransom. Yesterday afternoon very suddenly they arrived in Sung San Li, and the cook, Peng Si Fu, whom they took captive and afterwards re leased, told us the following: “. ‘When the bandits first came they were very friendly. They talked with us, asked for books, drank tea with us, etc., and were not at all fierce, so we all thought every thing was all right, but at night, when we had put out the lights and were going to bed, they came here suddenly firing off their guns. “ ‘They came into thefetreet, knocked at doors, took people captive and carried away their things. At this time they captured our leader, Mr. T ’an, and all the men with him, bound them, took all their personal belongings as well as the things belonging to the band. They just allowed the men their inner garments, shoes and stockings; They were bound tightly all night and at daybreak in respotise to a request of the men they loosened their bonds a little. They insisted on Mr. T ’an writing a letter to Mr. Porteous and then they released the cook to deliver the letter to Mr. Porteous., In the letter they demanded $30,000 within three days for the release of the men.’ ” L The following extract from a letter of Mr. Porteous dated May 1st, gives further light: “ The cook who was released says that a number ,of the uniformed armed band were not in favor of taking the Biola eet the new Circuiti' tion Manager of The King's Business On July first Mr. Keith L. Brooks was relieved o f the re sponsibility o f circulation pro motion in order to give his entire attention to writing and the compiling o f material for T he K ing ’ s B usiness . W e are happy to introduce Mr. Ernest E. Nichols, who w ill be known as “ Circulation Manager.” Mr. Nichols is an Insti tute graduate and has had valuable experience along the lines o f the work, having formerly been connected with this magazine.
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