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JULY, 1946
AN EXPLANATION To Our Subscribers
We feel that an explanation is due our readers who did not receive a full forty-eight page magazine for June. Arrangements were made long in ad vance for the purchase of sufficient coated stock to include in each maga zine a four-page “spread,” dedicated to the 1946 graduating class of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles, featur ing photographs of the Biola faculty, the Institute buildings, the graduates and their officers, and a letter written by President Louis T. Talbot in his own hand. However, when the maga zines were delivered for mailing, only a little more than half of them were found to contain this “spread.” This left thousands of our subscribers with copies short of four center pages. The paper shortage is the explana tion given us. We were greatly dis appointed, and are sure that our read ers are sorry not to have received these fine photographs. The King's Business had hoped ere this to be using book paper altogether, and we ask our readers to join us in prayer that our desire to give them a better looking magazine may soon be fulfilled. OUR AUTHORS THIS MONTH In addition to the members of the faculty and administration depart ment of the Bible Institute of Los An geles, whose personal testimonies ap pear on pages 287-288 of this issue, we are happy to have articles from Miss Ruth A. Woodworth of Avoca, New York; Reverend Coleman G. Luck, of Hugo, Oklahoma, and Dr. Charles E. Fuller of the Old Fashioned Revival Hour. Miss Woodworth, who is a mis sionary to the Philippines under the Association of Baptists for World Evangelism, was interned in Manila as a prisoner of the Japanese during the war. She hopes to return to her field soon. Rev, Mr. Luck, a graduate of the Dallas Theological Seminary, is the newly appointed superintendent of the Goodland Indian Orphanage (Presbyterian U.S.) of Hugo, Okla homa. Mrs. C h a r l o t t e s. Frampton, of Santa Monica, California, who has been writing the Bible D r i l l s for Juniors and Intermediates, is a train ed Sunday school teacher and chil dren's worker. "Greek Word Treasures” is missing this month, due to the serious illness of Professor Bernard Ramm. Mr. W. R. Hale, Dean of Men, whose testi mony is included in the article, “How I Was Saved,” is also critically ill. Prayer is requested for these friends.
LYMAN STEWART O N July 22nd we again observe the birthday anniversary of Mr. Lyman Stewart, who, with Dr. T. C. Horton, founded the Bible Institute of Los An geles. As a tribute to this mighty man of God, we again reprint the editorial which appeared in the Los Angeles Times at the time of his death, Sep tember 28, 1923.
“Nor will they be thinking of the faith and foresight he displayed when after the first discovery of oil in Pennyslvania sixty-four years ago he invested all the s l o w l y collected savings from his hard-earned wages in buying a fraction of a lease in the new fields—though the example is one with a lesson for all the toilers and spinners of today. “They will not be thinking of the pluck and endurance that in the early California days saw him win victory from defeat, staking his all on the small loan offered at the eleventh hour by a true friend who knew his worth and believed in his success. “Rather they will turn their eyes to the building of the Bible Institute that his faith in God and his desire to serve gave as a monument to his memory—such as before all else he desired to leave behind him. And they will recall how continuously and without one thought of self he gave, freely as he had received, to every good object for the r.dvancement of a better and brighter world. “Not because of his indomitable spirit, not to glorify his earthly successes, would our old friend, we feel sure, wish those who knew him and miss him to pay their last trib ute of sympathy and respect to his mortal remains. But looking down, his spirit would say to them simply: “ ‘Write me as one who loved his fellow man.’ ”
"LYMAN STEWART PASSES “ After a long life, filled with good works and crowned w i t h success, Lyman Stewart, pioneer, fighter, oil magnate, philanthropist, has passed on. “Perhaps only some such simple statement can express that something, transcending all words, that passes into i m m o r t a l i t y with the earthly closing of so useful and so noble a career. “The record of his life is one of brave struggle, often against over whelming odds; of patient endeavor, often und?" disheartening circum stances; from a poor boy working in a Pennsylvania tannery to the chair manship of one of the world’s largest oil corporations. “But the grander part of that record is told in a far better story—the story of a man who fought his way to com mercial leadership not at the expense, but always in the service of humanity; who wrested the wealth that gave him power to fill his life with good works, only from the h a r d ,and hidden treasure house of mother earth. "Those who gather in sympathy to day, to pay the last honors to Lyman Stewart, will not be thinking of him as the head of a great corporation, who from a single well drilled at Newhall twenty years ago built up the powerful Union Oil Company—all worthy of praise and honor though he be for so splendid an enterprise.
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