THE BIBLE UP AN OLIVE TREE This is Takis
C O N S I D E R H I M Olive Wyon In prayer it is far more important to turn our minds to Christ than it is to think of self. These three meditations are intended as “point ers” to help our prayers become Christ-centered —to make him live in our hearts. The subjects are Jesus in the Upper Room, in Gethsemane, on the Cross—supreme events of the Crucifix ion. An introduction on meditation is included. $1 breathe can pray. Yet there are many of us who want to pray, who need to pray—who do not know how to pray. It is for these people that this book is intend ed—for the individual who seeks closer com mun ion w ith God through a richer life of prayer. The content of true prayer is here ex plored in depth. The beginner is shown when and how to pray, and prayer is revealed as vi tal and enriching for all who understand and practice it. $2 A S I MP L E GUI DE TO PRAY ER John Underwood Stephens A n y on e who can
Marmaras, one of the students from B e r e a , Greece, at the Macedonian Bi ble Institute in Katerini. He says: “ From the day Christ came
A monthly column of names in the news T. C. Horton, co-founder of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles, had three vivacious daughters and they all had an active part in getting the school started. But it remained for the youngest, Margaret, to carry on in the family tradition. In 1914 Margaret married the Rev. Vernon Morgan. But being a housewife and mother never slowed down her public life. One minister recently quipped: “ She’s the only woman I’ve ever known who
into my heart a struggle began with my Greek Orthodox mother which continues to this very day. Sometimes she would not let me in the house or give me any thing to eat. I hid any spiritual literature under my shirt and looked for an opportunity to read it. They searched my room and whatever books Mother found she would take away. They even broke the lock of my door so I could not lock myself in to pray. I had to climb up an olive tree in our yard and there read my Testament and pray. Up there they could not reach me. I tied my Testament to a branch when I wanted to hide it.” Takis endured this for 12 years. Don’t you think he will make a wonderful Gospel work er? Such testimonies could be repeated by many of our Bible students. Shall we not he held accountable before the Lord if we turn such students away? We shall have to unless you rally to their support which is $25 a month. There is really a desperate need at our Macedon ian Bible Institute, where we are training the Greeks to bring the Gospel to their own people. No foreign missionaries can go there. We hope the Lord will speak to your heart so that you will help this work by undertaking either full or partial support of one of these Bible students. We shall be glad to send you the picture of the one you will pray for and help. May God lead you to do His will. Send your gifts to: American Mission to Greeks, Inc., Dept. K, P.O. Box 423, New York 36, New York (In Canada: 90 Duplex Ave., Toronto 7, On tario.)
Mrs. Morgan: 63 equals 100. in 63 years of living has crowded in 100 years of work.” The most spectacular work of the Morgans was on the campus of the University of California at Berkeley. There for some 20 years they brought a hard-hitting, vitally alive Christian witness geared into a daily radio broadcast. Started as Bible League, the work was later renamed Univer sity Christian Fellowship. Housed in Horton Hall (a huge three-story for mer Jewish fraternity house) the work reached literally thousands of students on the big campus. It was routine for Mrs. Morgan to work with her husband until two or three in the morning. Then in 1950 Vernon Morgan died from cancer. Mrs. Mor gan pitched in harder than ever. The youngest of the Horton girls was in deed a bright image of her godly father. But one day recently death from a heart attack ended the prodig ious career of Margaret Morgan. And with her death the work of UCF end ed. Horton Hall and most of the cash assets were turned over to Bill Bright's Campus Crusade. The remaining cash went to another campus work, Inter- Varsity Christian Fellowship.
' at a ll bookstores Abingdon Press
8
THE KING'S BUSINESS
Made with FlippingBook flipbook maker