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, Apri l 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 organi zed under the name of the "Fishermen's Club," ( See Ma tthew 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 Chri stian work. E ighteen are mi ssionaries in foreign fields, under the various evangeli cal denominations, -one a medical missionary. T hey are in China, Japan, Afr ica and South America. E ight are occupying pastorates, and six teen are in theological schools preparing for the mini stry. F ifteen or more have volunteered for fore ign mi ssions, and twenty others a re engaged as evangelists, Sunday School mis sionari es, 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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