T h e B u s i n e s s Supplement T HE C H A L L C N 6 E K K i n g ’ s
November 1930
OFFICIAL ANNOUNCER OF THE BIOLA CHALLENGE
Oct. 22, 1930
No. 6
were named: Mr. Harry A. West, Porter Building, Port land (Phone Atwater 2522); Mr. Frank Hickcox, 209 South G St., Tacoma; Mr. W. O. Williams, 1225 East 61 St., Seattle (Phone Kenwood 3122). Challenge Goes East In November the Biola Challenge will be delivered to other thousands of friends in Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Maryland and the District of Colum bia. Dr. White will conduct Bible conferences, beginning
Echoes From the North HE Biola Challenge was carried last week to thè friends in Northern California, Oregon, and Washington. Enthusiastic meetings were held in Oakland, San Francisco, Portland, Tacoma, and Seattle. In each place Dr. White, Presi dent of the Institute, answered the questions, Why a Bible Institute? and, Why a Bible Institute in Los Angeles ? He rehearsed some of the achievements of Bio- la in its twenty-five years of ministry! He told of the
in Philadelphia on November 2nd; in Washington, D. C., November 9th; in Pittsburgh, November 16th. He will carry the news that California, Oregon, and Washington are united in the single purpose of preserving and enlarging the Institute, and that they are inviting the friends of the east to join them in this great task. of the volunteer committees of The Biola Challenge in Southern California rallied for a dinner with the student body in the din ing room of the Institute. Reac tions and reports came in from most all of the communities in the Southland. The Challengers re solved to press on so that the fel low-laborers of the north and the east may know that the friends of BIOLA close at hand are sensing the seriousness of the situation and are doing their full part to meet it. Challengers’ Rally On Oct. 21st many members
thousands of students who had come to its halls from every state in the Union and from many for eign lands, and who, after a per iod of training, had gone forth with the Gospel message—more than 500 of them as foreign mis sionaries. The recital awakened a new lively interest in the school among these neighbors in the west. In each place visited, the spir it of the Challenge was caught and volunteers came forward ask ing that they might have a part in presenting the claims of Biola to their friends and neighbors. In Oakland and Berkeley sixteen challengers were enlisted; in San Francisco, twelve; in Portland, twenty; in Tacoma, eight; in Seattle, twenty. Special repre sentatives for the Bay District were appointed as follows: Mr. and Mrs. Ivan C. Frickstadt, 1401 Blake St., Berkeley (Phone 7864W ) ; J. A. Gustavson, 1918 Blake St., Berkeley (Phone ■8473W ) ; Miss Marie Carter, 228 McAllister St., San Francisco (Phone Market 3030). In the Pacific Northwest section, the following special representatives
This Property M U S T B E S O L D
construction, thirteen stories high, and well equipped. It is doubtful if any Bible school in the world is more favor ably situated to become a real force in the community where it is located than is Biola. This magnificent property and the activities it makes possible are “ for sale.” Do not become alarmed! The Challengers are, as the commercial world puts it, “ selling” this proposition to the Lord’s stewards, so that Biola’s excellent property may continue to be a place from which the light of the Gospel shall radiate to the remotest corners of this dark world, t or to outside interests
The property of the Institute has a frontage of 240 feet on Hope Street, near Sixth Street, adjoining the Los Angeles Public Library, one of the finest libraries in the country. It is in the heart of the downtown business dis trict of the city, the centre of an area having a population at present of two and a half million and growing faster than any other section of our land. The building— really three buildings in one—has in the centre a famous large auditorium, smaller lecture rooms, library, social halls, radio broadcasting rooms, etc. On cither side are the Men’s Dormitory and Women’s Dormitory, with 300 rooms each. It is all of fire-proof Either to friends of Bic
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