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attached to us, and we look forward to the time when they shall go out to bring the light to their own people. Most of the older boys and girls have taken a stand for Christ, and try to live up to the light they have. There are but few of the camp people that come out definitely. It is so hard for them to break away from a life of superstition, and face the ridicule of their own people. Will you please help us pray for these people, for they are those for whom Jesus Christ died. Antler, No. Dakota. This has been a happy year in the Lord’s service, and my heart goes out in grateful thanksgiving for dear B. I., where I spent three years in training. The. fields are white unto the harvest and’ the Lord bids us lift our eyes and see the whitened fields. Jesus saw and had compassion. We too must strive for that passion for lost ones which will cause us to pray and labor for the salvation of souls. Joyfully in His service, K, O. Stensland, ’ 24; P. G. '25. From the February number of Praise and Prayer, organ of the Ori noco River Mission, headquarters Carupano, Venezuela, we learn that Miss Dorothy Garrison, ’ 24, is keeping books for the Mission during Mr. Tur ner’s absence on furlough. This is no small task besides language study and other work. Mr. Julius Raplee, ’ 24, is cpnducting a Sunday School every week at Playa Grande, and Mr. and Mrs. Amel Anderson, former B. I. stu dents, are in the Mission Home study ing the language and in every way possible.aiding the other missionaries who are in training. Ellen Scheldt, *20, who spent ttwo and a half years in the Philippine Is lands under the Women’s Foreign Board of the Methodist denomination, writes from Ft. Collins, Colorado; “ This school year I am going to Col lege here taking some work in Home Economics, which is always useful in mission work. I am feeling much bet- • ter, but the doctor says I should not try a tropical climate again, so I may try Mexico or home mission work. Pray that I may know His will.’’ Let us pray that Miss Scheldt may be given health for definite Christian service again, if that is the Lord s will. PRAYER REQUESTS Mrs. A. R. Marshall, ’ 13, requests prayer for the work in her church at Santa Ana, California. "Won’t you pray that my life in the California Christian College may tell for JesusT And I would like to ask prayer for a girl here in school in whom I am very much interested. She is a Catholic but has told me that she no longer believes in the Catholic taith.’’— Christine Lichti, ’ 23. Greetings to all our friends in the Alumni. Some may be Interested to know, that following a long, hard siege with ill health, we resigned last fall from the Placerville field of the American Sunday School Union. Full restoration, however, came soon there after, and now we have rested all winter and spring, and we are again praying that God may thrust us out - once more into the service. After
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The result was that there were over seventy-five decisions for Christ and many expressed their intention of coming to the Insti tute, and many others asked for information relative to the school. On their return they were given a rousing reception by the stu dents and then were given charge of the report meeting on Tuesday morning, April 27th, where they recounted their experiences on the
Here they are, thirty-two of the finest fellows you ever met, and we are Justly proud of thetn. Together with their able leader, Professor J. B. Trowbridge, they have Just returned from a really triumphant trip through Northern Califoinia, Oregon, Washington and British Columbia, singing in churches, high schools and clubs in the principal cities and towns enroute. The trip covered*a
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period of twenty-four d a y s during which they traveled 3450 miles and sang from three to five times a day, thus rendering over f o u r hundred and fifty separate numbers. Everywhere t h e y w e r e m o s t enthu siastically received, singing to crowded houses, and w e r e urged to return soon. In some instances it
trip and told of God’s constant care and blessing and the wonder ful things He had wrought through their ministry. Tuesday evening they gave a re turn concert in the main auditor ium of the Institute and were greeted with enthusiastic applause by a large and appreciative audience.
was impossible for the people to get into the auditoriums because of the crowds. In addition to the singing, the boys gave splendid testimonies, did personal work among the young people, and presented the work of the Bible Institute in a most effective way. nine years under the Sunday-School Union, naturally our heart turns to that, though the Board is quite short of funds this year. Pray that God may again open these doors to us, or send us into some other work soon, for which we may be fitted. Arthur F. and Myrl H. Witt, '16, RFD. No. 2, Box F, El Cajon, Calif. “ God has greatly blessed the work here although there are times when I feel that I am up against a stone wall. But my Lord is always able to remove the difficulty. Please pray that I may be a stronger witness for my Lord here among the people that are so worldly. —Amanda G. Riessen, ’ 23, Osmond,- Nebraska. STUDENT MISSIONARY UNION NOTES The Student Missionary Union of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles heard something o f the work done in four different foreign fields during the month of March. Miss Mary Hall, also a former B. I. student, brought us a message from Japan. She gave several instances of definite answers to prayer in re gard to her work there. On the fourth, Mr. Harry Strachan, from Salvador, South America, told of his Itinerating work. He and his helpers are endeavoring to reach the people who will not go into a church. They hold their meetings in a public place, often putting up their tent on
some vacant lot, or any place they can get. In this work they are labor ing against the opposition of the « government and the priests. On March the eleventh, Mr. and Mrs. George C. Van Dusen, former evening school students of B, I., brought us a message from Africa. Before going to that field they prayed that they might be sent to a new field if it were God’3 will. He granted their request. They told of some of the difficulties they had to face in the work there. . *' | A striking contrast to the power of real prayer was shown in the mes sage brought by Mr. Wm. E. Hopkins, who was for many years a missionary in Southern India. He showed many objects brought from that land, one of which was a prayer wheel which the heathen turn. This is filled with prayers. Every turn of the wheel means all the prayers have been prayed. He also had a bunch of prayer strings. These the people buy and hang in a tree. If the wind moves them they are answered. Matt. 6:7. “ But when ye praly, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do; for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.” May the time soon come when these people may know the true God, and the blessed privilege of prayer in the name of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.
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