the earnest testimonies and songs of those who are planning to enter a career of full-time missionary service. This organization also furnishes a channel through which students may send financial aid to missionaries of their own choosing.
KING'S DAUGHTERS
* * * The young women of Biola rejoice that they are bound together in spiritual fellowship as daughters of the King. At the regular Wednesday evening meetings of this organization, they become better acquainted and enjoy a time of real blessing and inspira tion as special music and interesting speakers add to the attraction of a candlelight devo tional service . "K. D. camps" are the special recreational feature of this organization. Twice a year finds many of the women students leaving the crowded city to spend tw·o days in the quiet of the mountains where outdoor sports and hikes are entered into with hearty enjoy ment. The evening program of stunts, followed by a sing and testimony meeting around a glowing campfire, is long remembered. * * * The corresponding organization for the men of the school also meets regularly on Wednesday evenings, and the program conducted is very similar to that of the King ' s Daughters. The Student Missionary Union, King's Daughters, and Biola Men hold annual fellow ship banquets, climaxing the year's program of activities . THE DORMITORY * * * Life in almost any school dormitory is interesting, but at Biola, where all entrants must be Christian young people, this is especially true. Imagine living under one roof with several hundred students, all having a vital interest in the Lord's work! Here one finds a fellowship both unique and satisfying. Living in close contact w i th one another, Bible Institute students learn to practice what is taught in theory in the classrooms. "Love one another" comes to have a new and vital meaning. BIOLA MEN Early each Wednesday morning the occupants of the various corridors of each dor mitory floor meet in an assigned room for Corridor Prayers. Personal requests are presented, and the students who participate experience a real blessing . Students take pride in arranging their rooms attractively, and at least once during the year, each floor holds "Open House" inviting fellow students of other floors to visit. On the eighth floor of the dormitory is the students' social hall, where friends spend many pleasant hours sitting around the fireplace or gathered around the piano. Here students engage in frequent ping-pong tournaments which arouse much competitive interest. Although Biola does not provide many facilities for athletics, the fully equipped downtown Y. M. C. A. offers reasonable rates to men students, and a number take advantage of the privilege. There are public tennis courts and ball grounds within walking distance, while the nearby mountains and beach also afford innumerable recreational possibilities. Morning and evening devotions are a daily source of strength and inspiration. After breakfast each morning, men and women students meet separately under the leadership of their respective superintendents, with the exception of Thursdays, when the two groups unite for a devotional period led by a much-loved faculty member. Evening devotions are especially popular, for they are under different leadership every night of the week. A feature of Saturday evening gatherings is the "Balcony Broadcast" of gospel singing which follows the devotional period. From a lighted balcony eight
floors above the street, mem- bers of the student body sing out the glad tidings of salva tion to a busy city which knows not the Saviour. Thus, in a somewhat intan gible way, lasting ties of affec tion are woven, binding the hearts of students to the life and fellowship of Biola days, so that the testimony of those who leave to enter fields of greater service for their Lord is almost invariably, "It is good to have been here."
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