Bible Institute of Los Angeles
T HE EXECUTIVE quarters of the I nstitute are now located on the first floor of the North dormitory; the B ook S tore in its own quarters on the first floor of the South dormitory. Address, all mail to Bible Institute of Los Angeles, 550 South Hope Street, Los Angeles, Calif. The students will scatter during the va cation months. Some will return to their homes; some go to the ranches, for work; some take up special Christian work, but all will, we believe, be doing definite service for the Lord wherever His providence may lead them. Mr. Parsons goes across the country to conduct a series of evangelistic meetings in a Tabernacle erected for this purpose in Endicott, New York. The Fishermen’s Club and the Lyceum Club will continue their classes as usual and the Tuesday noon study of the Sunday school lesson will be maintained. D octor T orrey will leave early in July and is billed for Syracuse, New York, July the 26th; Montrose, Pennsylvania, for the Montrose Conference, of which he is the President, July 31st to August 9th; the Council of the Africa Inland Mission at Montrose, August 10th. He expects to be in Titusville, Pennsylvania, August 16th and Gull Lake, Michigan, August 18th to 30th, at the great gathering of the Metho dist Protestant Church of the United States. He hopes to be home for a period of rest in September. Follow him with your prayers. So far as we have been able to ascertain it is the purpose of our new graduates to labor, if the Lord will, as follows: Mr. and Mrs. Jay Bovee, in general evangelism; Robert E. Glaze, in Africa; John R. Gustafson, among our Swedish population;
Benjamin F. Stead, in South America; James A. Vaus, in our Harbor Work; Miss Edith Menzer, in South America; Miss Betty A. Pierson, in Africa; Miss Flora H. Pierson, in Africa; Miss Mary T. Smith, in Africa; Miss Helen Weightman, in Africa. Miss Lulu M. Crowell will serve as the president’s secretary. Mr. George Hampton will study medicine to qualify as a medical missionary, Mr. William B. Hunter, undecided. Miss Mary E. Ross, undecided. O n Monday, May 31st, a sad accident oc curred at our new building. One of the men engaged in the construction work fell from the seventh floor and was killed. He had been at work there but a few days and was not known to the other workmen. On the Thursday following, at noon, a meeting of the men was held upon the floor of the new Auditorium. Seated upon the rough forms some four hundred men rev erently listened while a memorial service was conducted. Carpenters, plasterers, painters, plumbers.and laborers of various crafts were there. A Male Quartette from the Institute furnished the music; a brief prayer was offered by Secretary J. P. Welles, followed by a selection of Scrip ture from 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 and Rev elation 20:11-15. Then a clear, clean-cut Gospel message of fifteen minutes followed, in which the Way of life was made plain and the necessity of definite decision was urged. When the speaker asked how many men believed the message to be true, every hand was raised. When those who could testify to an experimental knowledge of the saving faith in Christ were requested to raise their hands a number signified the fact, and when those who were willing to publicly confess Christ, were asked to raise their hands, some seventy men responded. In twenty-five minutes, without previous prep aration and without any expectation upon the part of the speaker of drawing the net, men under the power of the Spirit of God, profoundly impressed by the simple Word,
Harry Hardy,:ill Japan; Albert Seigle, in Japan;
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