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welcomed during the five days by churches of five denominations; Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist, Mennonite and Con gregational. —o— Miss C hurchill ' s N oble W ork QELEST IA R. CHURCHILL, ’17 is doing a real work for the Lord in connection with the Mary Martha Home which she started several years ago. The Mary Martha Home for girls, located at 163 Chicago Street, is a faith home with no regular income. The words “Mary Martha,” as you may know, stand for worship and service. The Home is for girls out of employment, strangers in the city, girls short of money, girls from the hospital recovering from a sickness or an operation and with no funds, no home and no friends to whom they can go—in fact a home for any worthy girl in tem porary need. It was opened in Nov. 1922 and has grown until now it occupies a twelve room house. The first obj ect is that the Home may be a soul saving sta tion—a place where the girls may find something more needed than the mere food and shelter the house affords. The Lord has blessed the work in a wonderful way and the Home has not once gone in debt for any of its needs, although the funds have been almost nil at times. Our God is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think. Eph. 3 :20. —o— S tudent M issionary U nion M eeting 'T H E regular meeting of the Student ■*- Missionary Union on Thursday even ing, December 2nd, .took the form of a 'farewell for a number of graduates of the Institute who were soon to leave for their chosen fields of service. Miss Rachel Wood, ’24, together with her traveling companions, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas, of Wheaton College gave ringing testimon ies to God’s faithfulness to them and to their assurance of His continued bless ing in the work to which He had called them under the China Inland Mission. They sailed from San Francisco on De cember 7th. Mr. and Mrs. Don Turner ’ 21 , are soon to return to their field under the Orinoco River Mission and will take with them Miss Agnes Hosie, ’25 and George Jackson, ’25. Mr. Turner told briefly of the work already done in this field and of the great need of more work ers and Miss Hosie and Mr. Jackson both told of the way in which the Lord had led them up to the point of complete sur render to Him for this needy work. This party sailed January 3rd from San. Pedro. A number of the members of the class of ’24 gathered in the Lyceum Club Room on Friday evening to renew their acq uaintance with Miss Wood and wish her God-speed on her journey. The evening was spent in playing games, recalling the happy school days now past and closed with a short devotional service. Those present were : Miss Rachel Wood and her mother, Misses Anna Cederlund, Della Evanson, Bethel France, Natalie Romans, Carmen Carpenter, Mrs. Anna Schlatter Liebman, Messrs. Godfrey Lindholm, Allan McIntosh, Harry Herd- man and Martin Long! —o— Rev. H. J. Lorenz, ’21, is pastor of the Florence Avenue Baptist Church, Los Angeles.
Rev. W. B. Pearson has resigned as pastor of the Baptist Church at Ventura and has accepted a call to the First Church of Santa Cruz, California. —o— Rev. Clifford F. Jones, ’17, is now the pastor of the La Crescenta Community Presbyterian Church. His weekly cal endar indicates an active membership and speaks highly of the work being done under Mr. Jones’ leadership. . —o— Inez Kaartinen, ’26, writes of the pos sibility of returning to the Institute for the second semester. She and her sister, with another person, held some meetings while vacationing last summer on a forty acre estate among the California Red woods. —o— C. Logan Landrum, ’24, is at present onei‘j|of the ministers of the Fairmount Presbyterian Church, Richmond, Virginia. He reports an interesting and enjoyable work. Frank Faucette, ’21, is spending the winter in Princeton Seminary. He is quite satisfied with the opportunities afforded there .and finds himself quite at home among the California men in attendance. He writes that Ashley Law, ’26, has been quite sick and asks prayer for the recov ery of his health. .—o— . - Rev. W. A. Hick, former student, of the China Inland Mission, has been called to pass through a grievous trial. With his family Mr. Hick was returning to Amer- ice on ¿furlough when in Seattle Mrs. Hick was suddenly called home to be with the Lord. This devoted mother leaves two small children. We remem ber this family in our prayer. —o— Rev. Herbert H. Skeels, B. I. T9, is now pastor of the Baptist Church at Brawley, California. He writes encour agingly of the work there. —o— Mrs. Mabel Gray Porteous, ’16 re cently paid the Institute a visit. During the past six months Mrs. Porteous has been on an evangelistic trip through the north and east. The year previous she had charge of the Burbank Chapel under the First Baptist Church of San Jose, California, where Harold E. Barton, ’23, is Assistant Pastor. Mrs. Porteous re ports Mr. Barton as developing into a very successful preacher. —o— Rev. Jacon P. Steer, ’16, and his wife and little son, David, are at home on fur lough from Bolivia, where they have been working under the Bolivian Indian Mis sion. Take Your Bible to Christ Coleridge finely said: “The Bible with out the Spirit is a sun dial by moonlight.” The Spirit who inspired the Bible is its best interpreter. Robert Murray Mc- Cheyne said: “When you are reading a book in a dark room and come to a diffi cult part, you take it to a window to get more light. So take your Bible to Christ.”
“I t ’ s J ust L ike H is G reat L ove ” A young . woman student was sit ting in the lobby of the Women’s Hotel recently . It was something she very, seldom did, but she saw later why she was led to do so. A young woman, a teacher in the'public schools, came and sat beside her. They entered into conversation. Our student found her friend educatedÚ intelligent and a respected member of society, but without a knowledge of the Scriptures,—had never owned a Bible,—had no conception of what it meant to be a Christian. A deeply interesting: conversation followed with the result this young woman in a very definite way accepted the Lord as her Saviour. Will you notice how the Lord works? This student had just suffered a severe disappoint ment and was feeling very much dis couraged. A t this very moment the Lord brought this needy one to her X and she had the joy of presenting the Lord to her. Thus both were made glad. H ere ’ s A ll T he L atest Ruth McCahan, ’19, has safely arrived in San Pedro, Bolivia, after her furlough in America. She speaks of illness among several of the missionaries working under the Bolivian Indian Mission, and the pos sibility of several’being obliged to leave for home very soon. “There is much sickness among us just now. We need to be much in prayer that the enemy may not be able to close any more stations.... There are several new workers here, for which we thank God, but they must learn the language before they can take a sta tion.” — t - o — Rev. and Mrs. John Roos, ’22, of Riley Kansas, announce the birth of Audrey Elsie on December 16th, 1926. Congratu lations. — o— A splendid picture of Rev. Van V. Eddings, T3, graces the cover of “Praise and Prayer," organ of the Orinoco River Mission, October-December 1926. Mr. Eddings is being largely used in the di rectorship of the Mission. ■—o— Ellen Scheidt, ’20, writes: “I am teach ing cooking and sewing classes of the for eign women and girls at the Steel “Y” here in Pueblo (Colorado). It is one of the largest Industrial Y. W. C. A.s in the country. I am learning to love the girls very much, but haven’t given up the idea of some day going to Mexico.” —o— Ruth Sale, ’23, is at present working in the office of the Board of Education in Los Angeles. —o— Rev. and Mrs. Vincent J. Steffan (nee Elsie Hammarlund, T7) and baby have moved from Los Angeles to 6643 North Uber Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Mr. Stef fan is engaged in evangelistic and reform work.
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