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THE BIBLE INSTITUTE OF LOS ANGELES

women to our force as the Lord shall supply the means. Our resident worker in San Francisco has held classes in many of the surrounding cities and towns, and has been greatly used in ministering to the men in San Quentin and Folsom Peniten­ tiaries, where large classes of men gather on Saturday after­ noons, giving the study of the Word preference to out-of-door recreation. The Fishermen's Club 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. Horton 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 4:19) and now has a membership of 150. The class has continued meeting each Monday evening without a single interruption from that day until now. There has been strict adherence to the principle of striving for a single object, viz., the study of God's Word, and the doing of active, aggressive personal work for the Lord Jesus Christ. In these ten years, 100 men have gone out from the Club into definite Christian work. Eighteen are missionaries in foreign fields, under the various evangelical denominations, one a medical missionary. They are in China, Japan, Africa and South America. Eight are occupying pastorates, and six­ teen are in theological schools preparing for the ministry. Fifteen or more have volunteered for foreign missions, and twenty others are engaged as evangelists, Sunday School mis­ sionaries, city missionaries and in seamen's work. The meetings -and privileges of the Club are open to all young men between the ages of sixteen and thirty-five years. See pages 54, 55. The Lyceum Club This unique organization still proves its need of living and the power of its well-lived life. Its purpose is not to af­ ford amusement to girls, but to help them mature into a well-

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