1086 M OST enthusiastically the Fall terra of the Institute opened on September 26, with over 300 students. Dr. William Evans, associate dean, presided in the absence of Dean Torrey, and delivered a splendid address of welcome, surrounded by all members of the faculty, except the dean. The address, which was given under thq title, “An Appreciation of Your Call ing,” will be found in full in this issue. A new department, “The Evening •School,” was opened under the direction of Rev. William H. Pike. It is for the benefit of men and women employed in business, or otherwise engaged during the day, the terms to run simultaneously with those of the day school. Bible, Gospel music and personal work will be taught, and three years are required to qualify for. a diploma. It is a splendid, opportunity for persons in and near Los Angeles who wish to secure special training, and they are urged to address Mr, Pike on the sub ject. The lessons are free, the only charge being a nominal registration fee of $1 per term of twelve weeks. The Correspondence School has made such rapid growth that it has been placed under the care of Keith L. Brooks, as sec retary,' to whom inquiries should be addressed. Students have enrolled from all parts of the world, some of them sol diers, to whom the course in personal work has appealed. May the same vision come to many of our soldier boys in camp or at the front. Every department of the Institute shows the most satisfactory advance, indicating that the strenuous times in which we are living causes the minds of men and women to turn toward spiritual things. We ask the prayers and financial support of all Chris tian people for this great institution, which gives its training absolutely free, except in the correspondence course, where a small fee is necessary, owing to the extra expense in conducting it. Dr. Torrey returned from his summer’s
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conference and evangelistic work, the mid dle of October, and resumed his work at the head of the training school. ----------0---------- D r. Keller in China Dr. Keller writes from Hunan, as fol lows : “It is just wonderful to see the men grow. What the Year Book says about the development of our men is not one bit overstated. Just recently one -of our parties was within ten miles of a vil lage where, they had been working some time before, and on Sunday morning two of the men said to the leader of the party, ‘We would like to walk over to said place and have a service with them.’ The leader tried to dissuade them, saying, ‘You will have your walk in vain; the people will not be expecting you, and you will not be able to hold a service on such short notice.’ The men felt that they must go, and so they walked the ten miles to the village, and to their great joy they found a little congregation of twenty-five villagers gath ered for worship in their simple, but true -way. In the afternoon at a second meet ing they had a congregation of forty, and this in a place where the people would have known nothing of the Gospel had not the Bible Institute colporteurs gone to their village a few weeks ago. Oh, it is just wonderful! How we do thank God for this great privilege.” ----------0---------- A Soldier’s Lam ent After a recent concert, given for the entertainment of a number of soldiers, one of them was asked to propose the vote of thanks. He aros.e and said: “We are very grateful for the amusement afforded to us tonight ; and we appreciate all the musical talent brought for our enjoyment. But we are off to the front tomorrow and I do not know how to die -—I am not pre pared to meet God : I only wish there had been something for our souls.”
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