Allan ’24, ’25 and Marjorie McIntosh, Rethy, Irumu, Congo Beige, Africa, write enthusiastically of the encourag ing signs of progress in the work of the A.I.M. in Africa. Several districts are building new and larger churches better fitted to the work. Visiting one place they found twenty new houses, a new church building, and a new four-room guest house. Outside of the door of this guest house, hanging from the eaves, were two large, freshly-killed bush bucks: a large one for Allan, and a smaller one for Marjorie. Here the Mclntoshes held a five-day conference with much hand-shaking and singing. Prayer is asked for these important Bible conferences for the native Chris tians and leaders. Tordis Christoffersen ’29. Her ex periences during her twenty years in France under the American-European Fellowship read like chapters from the book of the Acts. The director of a great American institution in Paris granted her permission to evangelize their hun dreds of employees. All were most gracious, and only a few refused the proffered Gospels. A director of a bank in Paris came forward to greet her. He said he enjoyed the Gospel very much, but would like one in French, which she procured. His first assistant, an American, always greets her as a friend, and is now reading the Word. Two others in this bank expressed a desire for a New Testament. Pray for this faithful missionary of the Cross who taught many Biola students to pray during her school days in the Bible Institute. Peter F. Wall ’21 is now Professor Wall, teaching in the department of Apologetics and Philosophy in the Bap tist Theological Seminary. He has been active in the American Council of Christian Churches and has recently been elected president of the Los An geles Regional. Martin and Virginia Jackson-Soper ’49, are the parents of a fine baby boy Daniel Martin, who knocked, at their front door on June 17th, and was in stantly received into the family. The Sopers live at 411 N. Ave. 64, Los An geles 41. Martin will work toward his Master’s degree this coming year. Beth Albert, now at the Summer In stitute of Linguistics at Norman, Okla., has finished a series of Kodachrome slides with lecture notes describing her work among the lepers of Yunnan. Beth is scheduled to work in India until the China work is open again. A. Owen and Marion Cribbs-Brand ’45 picture a glimpse of their outschool work in the Congo: “ In both primary and second-year schools, the emphasis is on spiritual matters . . . Day by day as the teacher meets his pupils the way of salvation is taught, Scripture is memorized, and believers are led on in the knowledge of the Lord . . . It is the faithful Christian teacher in each vil lage who is the mainstay of the work, and the spiritual leader of the village as well. When you pray for Africa re-
School of Music, then associated with Radio Station HCJB at Quito, Ecuador, is now in Europe securing Gospel tran scriptions in several languages. These will be broadcast over the facilities of HCJB. Grace Pike-Roberts ’21, ’39, has arrived in China to assist her husband, Dr. Charles A. Roberts in his day-and- night program of Bible teaching, con ference speaking and supervising the Scofield Correspondence course taught in connection with the work of the Hunan Bible Institute. DeVon Williams and Edna Crisler were married July 30th. They have set the goal for service in medical work, and may return to Biola this fall. E. Ruth Elliott ’27, Kuling, Kiangsi, China, reminds us to pray for the health of the children and staff of the Chefoo school. An epidemic of influenza last spring put sixty persons on the sick list at one time. Ethel Coy ’31, New Tribes Institute, Stonyford, Calif., has spent the last five years in seeing the Lord work in the lives of the missionary candi dates, whose field as they leave for active service, will be the world. As a teacher in this school for the past three years, Ethel says, “We never try to make missionaries of our candidates; only God can do that.” Living conditions at Stonyford are primitive, but are far superior to many places on the fields. Ethel has not visited Biola for nine years. Roberta Tewksbury-Preedy ’31, Sining, Tsinghai, is carrying on her mis sionary work under the China Inland Mission at her station. Mr. Preedy has been engaged in evangelistic tent cam paigns with the help of two students from Lanchow. He has been dealing with a Taoist priest who seems to be complete ly disillusioned with his religion and greatly interested in the gospel. Pray for them. With The Lord Deepest sympathies to Carlton Hilker, former student at Biola, whose wife Betty, and their three children, met instant death in the crash of the DC-3 Tribesman on June 9th. The plane, carrying fifteen missionaries of the New Tribes Mission back to their field of service in Venezuela, was not heard from after it left Kingston, Jamaica, where it stopped to refuel. The families of the passengers were in suspense for many weeks while an intense search was made. for the missing aircraft. Mrs. Hilker had been visiting with her mother in Minneapolis. Carlton is a brother of Bee Hilker ’38, and of Harry H. Hilker, who has been on the Board of Trustees of the Bible Institute for many years. Carlton is also a nephew of Mrs. Matilda Boehmer, for more than ten years superintendent of women at Biola. Biola faculty and friends extend pray erful sympathy to these bereaved fami lies who have perfect assurance that for their loved ones, who were all in missionary service, “ to be absent from the body” was “to be present with the Lord.”
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“Pray without ceasing" (1 Thess. 5:17). member the many hundreds of the faith ful village teachers.” Agnes Scott Kent ’21, 366 Bay St., Toronto 1, Canada, describes an air plane journey she took to Florida in these words: “ Up there amid the sunset splendor, how inconsequential did the world of men appear! The heavens did indeed declare the glory of God and the things of earth did grow strangely dim in the light of His glory and grace.” Miss Kent is a keen observer of the Jewish outlook and conducts a page, “ The Sign of the Fig Tree,” in the monthly publication of the Sudan In terior Mission The Evangelical Chris tian. Oran H. Smith, President of Prac tical Missionary Training, Inc., and Biola faculty member, is now in Cuba with a group of future missionary can didates including Bible Institute stu dents, Alberta Hanson, Joan Collett, Ruth Hitesha/w, Charlene and Wayne Harris. All are enthusiastic over the open doors there, and find daily rejoic ing in the service of the Lord among the Cubans. Jose Moralis, special stu dent at the Institute, is teaching Spanish to the group. Edward B. Hart ’17, many years suc cessful pastor of the First Baptist Church at Corvallis, Ore., was recently installed as the new pastor of the Immanuel Baptist Church, Pasadena, founded by the late Dr. Cortland Myers. Dr. and Mrs. Hart have five children: two married daughters and three sons. One son, John, 18, is a student at North western Schools, Minneapolis, Minn. Biola Flashes Ruby Carver ’41, zealous encourager of missionaries, has visited the Lee County Children’s Home at Beattyville, Ky., and is delighted with the scope of this institution which cares for seven teen little ones, seven of whom are “ babies on bottles.” Ruby saw, also, that the washing of dishes alone requires eight hours a day, and asks our prayers that an institutional dishwashing ma chine may be provided. Jack and Helen Brown are also graduates of ’41. Helen Yeths-Rich ’26, formerly a missionary in China, later an assistant in the Biola
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