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ful among the men of the town to go to mass. We have four of his chil dren. Etc., etc. A number of boys from fourteen to sixteen years, who never have been in our school or Sunday School before, have also been en rolled. New ground for sowing the seed!" A very interesting letter has been received recently from Mary A. Bishop, ’ 25, written from Guatemala City, C. A. Miss Bishop and her father are very happy to be back in the work at Guatemala City again, and Mary writes: “ How many times since leav ing L. A. I have prayed for you, and for each student and teacher. B. I. is very dear to me. Father is teaching the Bible in the Indian Workers Train ing School. He teaches four weeks at a time and is scheduled to return there for July and September. I hope to go with him in September if I can find someone to take care of the home for us. You cannot lock up and leave a borne alone in this country. God has given me the joy of seeing four little children accept Christ since I came. Others also have had a part in their training. They give true evidence of having been born again. Besides the regular meetings at the Mission, local meetings are held in different parts o.f the city in order to reach many neigh borhoods with the Gospel, and reach people who will not go to the Mission. They will go to the window or door of a house and listen. So I have been placed in charge of four meetings a week in our part of the city. On the street right' back of our house we have a room where we hold three meetings. We have Sunday School at 9:00 A. M. on Sunday morning (S. S. at the Mis sion is in the afternoon) and I began with only 14. They had as many as 22 before I came. Now we have be tween 60 and 60, and the number is constantly Increasing.” . STUDENT MISSIONARY UNION NOTES The Student Missionary Union was favored in May by speakers from China, South America, and the home land. Mr. Isaac Page, of the China In land Mission, spoke to us, from a rich field of service of many years. The Misses May Robertson and Nora Jordan, former B. I. graduates, gave us a little glimpse of their trip back to the National Bible Institute of New York. They showed us pictures and told of their trip by a Ford car, which God provided for them. Many times they had only a few pennies, but God was able to take care of them. He permitted them to sow seed along the way, and in many instances to see re sults. Mrs. V. D. Tun er came to us from the Orinoco River Mission. Mrs, Tur ner was graduated from B. I. several years ago. She and her huBband have been working at Carupano, Venezuela. The Mission she represents was started seven years ago on faith.
bered by you cheered us more than you can guess. The farther one is from the homeland the greater thç comfort that there are friends at home praying for and thinking of ub . My first year here was spent in Cairo at the language school, where Rachel Seiver and Gudrun Estvad are now. ■>I was sorry not to be there with them this year. After my second examina tion I came to the hospital in Shebin and began real work at last on the first of November. I am in charge of the Women’s ward, where there are accommodations for t w e n t y - f i v e women and children. The girls here are all rather young, between twelve and eighteen, and need a good deal of supervision in their work, which af fords opportunity to reach them spir itually, too. And how they do need prayer! It seems that they have such big tests when they are still such babes in Christ.” Lois Prossor, Taianfu, Shantung, China, ’ 23, in her letter to Mrs. Mc Anlis says: "Thank you so much for that Christmas letter. We love to think— to know that we are your girls still, though so far away.. Now what would we ever do without our B. I.? I have the long picture of both students and faculty framed and hung on the wall in my study. That way I don’t get quite so lonely for you all. Tour faces are all around me, as it were. When I look at the Student Missionary Union group, I just think to myself, ‘why they are almost all on some for eign field, or if not there, on the home field, and Lois Prossor, you have no business to be any where else than on the mission field.’ Just now our country work is at a standstill because of the distressing war conditions, but I have started a children’s work here in the compound. Every day at 3:30 the kiddies come and I teach them songs, tell them Bible stories, and they also memorize verses of Scripture, for which they are rewarded with Bible picture cards. How I wish you could see them and hear them Bing, 'Jesus loves me, this I know.’ ” — o— Ellen Hoffman, ’ 20, has been doing splendid work teaching in Bolivia under the Bolivian Indian Mission. She writes: “ We opened school on the 11th, with an enrollment of 109, which has now increased to about 120. We have a more spacious school house than at any time before— two adjoin ing rooms and a patio. I have one sur prise after another in the folks that come asking us to take in their chil dren. I have to tell them that we are very crowded, but they keep begging. Some of the parents are the priest’s best friends. I just couldn’t refuse a woman yesterday, whose oldest son has expressed his intention of becom ing a priest— a boy of about thirteen years. They are our next-door neigh bors, and I have been wondering how I could reach them. Real Catholics! She has three children she wishes to put in our school. Also the wife of the singer in the Catholic Church en rolled her two children. Then the notary is such a good friend of the priest, and I believe, the most falth-
with her husband and two little boys, have been on the foreign field for almost a year, located In the Philip pine Islands. Dr. McAnlls is In charge o f a Presbyterian hospital there, and his wife is to teach High School Bible classes in Sillman Institute. They are very happy in their new home and field of service. Olive Rohrbaugh, ’ 17, also a missionary in the Philippine Islands, visited them recently. — o— In a letter from Mrs. Amel Ander son, *24, Carupano, Venezuela, she writes: “ We are very busy folks here, all working as hard as our strength will allow, and sometimes harder; but oh, there is so much to be done and so few to do it. The Eddings and Dor othy (Garrison, ’ 24) have just re turned from a two weeks trip into the interior, off in the mountains away from any church, where there are sev eral congregations of fifty believers each who have no pastor, no teacher, not even a native worker. It is months and months between the times that the missionaries are able to visit them. This is just a sample of the needs here.” Miss Angela Reynolds, ’ 26, is teach ing at Nacoochee Institute, Santee, Ga. In her letter to Mrs. McAnlis she writes: “ I am so glad to know that B. I. is prospering, and that the stu dent body is larger than it was last year. I have been hearing from some of my classmates. I am always very glad to get news from B. I. I do enjoy having a part in doing and giving things, as I know that I am in my right place— on the faculty. I feel at home here,— the teachers are women from 23 to 55 years of age, and all jolly and sociable, just good chums— all workers in His vineyard, without a thought of pride,, or age, Btation, money, or other things than just a high standard of Christian living, and genuine fellowship.” — o— In a letter recently received from Mr. George Hall, now located in Vic toria, Australia, we have the follow ing: “ Thank you for the circular let ter. It is so good to hear from the old school, and to learn how things are getting on in these hard and difficult days. "We are sending a small contribu tion for the school out of our tithe money. Both Mrs. Hall and I are grateful to ' the school for all that it has meant to us, and in all the souls won for the Master here, you have a share. It is most probable that Mrs. Hall will shortly become a member of the faculty of the Melbourne B. I., a school that is growing with a phenom enal growth. This school has a mighty missionary vision, with an enrollment of about a hundred students; which is not a bad record for a six year old baby." Martha Leal, '24, c/o Egypt General Mission, Shebin el Kanater, Egypt, in writing to Mrs. McAnlis says: “ The thought that we were being remem
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