BIBLE INSTITUTE OF LOS ANGELES
The Hall is light, cheery, and well equipped for definite, pe rsonal, evangeli stic work. Meetings are held in the entrance of th e hall, which is so arranged that at least fifty men can gather from the street, without interfering with the traf fic and on our own premises. An audience can be secured in fi ve minutes at any time of the day or night, thus providing the bes t p lace for personal work we have ever had . Num be rs of men a re brought to Chri st each day. Tn connecti on with thi s work, a noon-day prayer meeting is held , and a Men' s Bibl e Class on Sunday afternoon. Th e hundreds of young men who are coming to the city afford us an unu sual opportunity of reaching them at the crucial time. Thi s is a real trai11i11g school for the practical work of learning how to preach by preaching.
The Fishermen's Club ( See P age 6-+ )
On Monday evening, April 16, 1906, a little group of seventeen young men gathered together to study the Bible, and to engage in personal work. Under the leadership of Rev. T. C. H orton a systematic and inspirational study of the Bible was begun. A few months passed and the class grew in numbers, until in the summer of 1906 it was organized under the name of the "Fishermen' s Club," ( See Matthew -+: 19) and now has an attendance of between two and three hundred. There has been st ri ct adherence to the principl e of stri ving fo r ~, single object, vi z., the study of God' s \Vorel , and the doing of ac ti Ye . aggress i\·e personal work fo r the Lord Jesus Chri st. I n these thirteen yC,c1.rs, more than one hundred men have gone out from the Club in to definite Chri stian work, some as mi ss iona ri es in fo reign fi eld s, under the various evangelical cienominati ons,-one a medical mi ss ionary. They are found in China, J apan, Siam , A fri ca and Central and South America, as well as in many field s in our own land .
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