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gave, by request, a special address on th e secret of a successful Sunday School, and he speaks as one having .authority for he has w ithin a few years built up his Sunday School from a couple of hundred to over six thousand. Both Dr. Myers and Dr. Chafer brought strong, virile messages calcu lated to build up th e saints in th e faith, increase th eir devotion and deepen th e ir sp iritu al life. It is in teresting to note th a t visitors to th e Conference y e re registered from seventeen states of th e Union, and five foreign countries. The g reater num ber of those attending, natu rally , were from Southern California, forty th ree towns being thu s represented. J. W. Rodm an ’20 w rites from L a V ic toria, V en ezu ela: “It is ju st eig h t m on th s tod ay sin ce, w ith four others, I arrived on th e field. T h ey h ave been m on th s of th e Lord’s p resen ce and d a ily support. The Lord is op en in g un to u s a wide, field. S everal c itie s and tow n s are a sk in g for G ospel w o rk ers . . . M ost o f th ese are s till g o in g u n an sw ered a s B rother F in strom , th e p ion eer in th is field, is s till p ra ctica lly alon e, w ith th e ex cep tio n of three n a tiv e w o rk ers w h o h ave ch arge of th eir resp ectiv e sta tio n s. W e n ew com ers are ju st b eg in n in g to sp ea k p u b licly w ith o u t in terp reta tio n . . . L a tely sev era l h ave com e ou t v ery d efin itely for the Lord and sev era l oth ers are m uch co n cerned about the sa lv a tio n of th eir souls, w h ile m any are in terested bu t dare not ex p o se th em selv es to th e stigm a of b ein g ca lled a ‘P ro testa n t’.” C harles H. W eir w a s ordained an ev a n g e lis t b y T he W h osoever W ill M ission Church, L os A n g eles, C alif., on Jun e 19, 1921. F red Groth is in Sunday School w ork fo r th e P resb y teria n B oard and h as ch a rg e of th e W en atch ee P resb ytery, W ash in gton . The fo llo w in g is ta k en from The “A l lia n ce W eek ly :” “On Sunday, J u ly 10, a cab le from E cuador brou gh t th e sad n ew s o f th e death of Mr. G eorge L eF ev re from an a tta ck of typ h oid fev er in E cuador. M ay God com fort th e bereaved lo v ed ones, and g ra n t a fresh a n o in tin g to each w o rk er in th e fields w h ich h ave lo st efficient co -la b o rers th ro u g h th e d eath of three
THE JULY BJLBLE COJNEEKEINUE HE Annual ' Summer Bible Conference held a t the Bible In stitu te of Los Angeles dur ing th e month of July, was one of th e most successful ever held here. The morning sessions w ere-in charge of th e Bible Women’s Department, under th e direction of Mrs. Lyman Stewart, Superintendent of th e Bible Women’s work. The speakers tak ing p art are all of them splendid Bible teachers, and attracted large audiences every morning from 10.00 to 12.00 o’clock,—-many men as well as women availing themselves of th e unusual priv ilege. The addresses a t th e afternoon and evening services were w ithout excep tion exceedingly practical, profitable and inspirational. It is a m atter of g reat in te rest to be able to say th a t in Southern' Cali fo rn ia we have, over th irty prom inent pastors and Bible teachers, rep resen t ing such denom inations as th e Presby terian, Baptist, Methodist, United P res byterian, B rethren, Missionary Alliance, etc., every man of whom 'stand s four square for th e g reat fundam entals of the Word of God, all of th em com petent for Bible preaching or evangel istic work anywhere. All of these men (except such as were unable to arrange their dates satisfactorily) were rep re sented on the Conference program . The th ree speakers from “ the' regions beyond’’ were Dr. Cortland Myers, form erly pastor of T remont Temple, Boston;' Dr. Lewis Sperry Chafer, of E ast Orange, N. J., and Rev. J. F ra n k Norris, pastor of th e F irs t Baptist Church, F t. W orth, Texas. Dr. Norris
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