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tribes which reach out in every direction. Our work, to be impartial to all, must be located very near here. The natives implore us (if it may be put that way) to build here. The chief, a fine intelligent man with a host of stalwart men about him, has taken us all around. I wish you could hear him in broken French and in Ban- javis beg us to be satisfied with his country and his people and to build here. They all carry machetes and continually ask whether they may cut down the brush and trees for a clearing on which to begin house building. When saying good night, the chief said to me that he can never be content again until he has seen us settled right near him. W e have explained our mission, and he is earnest in his expression of his desire to know the things of God. It is most touching. May the Lord lead u s! As I have written this letter I have been chatting with some Banj avis lads who are helping us here, and I have writ ten down a dozen sentences. The Ban- j avis won’t be hard for us to learn. A little later, two shy Mitsogo lads, who have attached themselves to our camp, came to bid us good night. Here is what they said — ‘ T u k e i o etukeboabo-we-boakakenge,’.- and so I am sure we’ll have a good night. Isn’t that a language for you? A wonder ful people I I want to learn their language also. I don’t know yet when I’ll be able to come to get you all. May it not be too
long!” Mr. and Mrs. Fairley have two children. Their new address is Mission Evangélique, C. & M. A., Mouila, sur l’Ngounie, via Port Gentil, Gabon, French Equatorial Africa. B. L. J. Litchman, T7, Africa Inland Mission, o,n furlough in the United States after an absence of more than eight years, has been fulfilling deputation engagements in and around Seattle, Wash. Early in May he was a guest in the home o f Leon ard L. (’22) and Mrs. Gaylord (Fern Atkinson, ’22) of the United Presbyterian Church in Bellingham, Wash; At the church there he showed pictures o f his work in the Congo. Mr. Litchman looks forward to returning to the field in De cember, and hopes to be in Southern Cali fornia for a week or two in the fall. Mrs. Cutler B. Whitwell, ’26, has been re-elected for her fourth year as Evangel istic Secretary for the Women’s Federated Aid of the Los Angeles Presbytery. Byron W . Travis, ’25, Portland, Ore., entering the fourth year o f his pastorate in the Unity Presbyterian Church of Port land’ has witnessed great blessing in the work of the church. Eighteen new mem bers were received on Easter Sunday, five of them being on confession o f faith and five on reaffirmation. Adolph M. ( ’24) and Mrs. Kurkowske (Anna E. Cederlund, ’24) are living in Chico, Calif., where Mr. Kurkowske is
Commencement Week L ooking backward upon years of service enriched by spiritual lessons learned at Biola, or looking forward to the new experiences to follow closely upon the recent twenty-fifth commencement of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles, alumni, graduates o f the class o f 1935, and many interested friends shared in the varied program and in the spiritual blessing of Commencement week. Sunday evening, June 9, Dr. John A. Hubbard gave the baccalaureate sermon in the Church of the Open Door. The gradu ates of this year’s class were formally re ceived into the fellowship of the Alumni Association on Monday, June. 10, at the spring reunion. Dr. Elbert L. McCreery, Dean o f the Bible Institute, welcomed the graduates o f the present and former classes, and Dr. Hubbard brought a rich devotional message. Officers chosen for the coming year are: Herbert W . Cassel, ’26, President; George W. Jackson, ’25, Vice- president; Helen J. White, ’20, Secretary; Annabel Crumley, ’30, E. S., and L. Mar tha Holloway, ’31, Assistant Secretaries; and Pearl Piatt, ’30, Treasurer. “Kept by the power of God,’’ .the motto chosen by the class o f 1935, formed the theme of the class exercises in the Church o f the Open Door on the evening o f June 12. The faculty reception to the graduates on the afternoon of June 13 was followed by a dinner. At the graduation exercises, held June 13, Dr. Paul W . Rood, President of the World’s Christian Fundamentals Associa tion, addressed the members o f the class and their friends. Diplomas or certificates were granted to 106 members of the day school, and the group have gone forth supported by much prayer for their guid ance as the Lord’s plan for their lives unfolds. Word from Former Students D onald A. ( ’28) and Mrs. Fairley ( ’28), o f the Christian and Mission ary Alliance, send a fine account of the Lord’s guidance in their effort to reach a great unevangelized region in French Equatorial Africa. From letters received in March from her husband, who, with another missionary, was searching for a suitable station site in South Gabon, Mrs. Fairley quotes: “At Ivouta, we were wel comed by such ‘carrying on’ as you never saw. It reminded us o f the verse, ‘Weep ing may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.’ Ivouta is the town of the ugly-faced old chief who created such a stir in our series o f pictures in America. We found that he had just re cently died, but his people were all pre pared to receive us, for they were delighted when our boat pulled up. Every one clasped our hands and laughed and yelled . . . Our arrival and welcome here at Macombo has been no less miraculous than that at Ivouta . . . It is an established fact that this is the center of the different
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The writer of this chorus is a graduate of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles, in the class of 1935. This selection appears in NEW SINGABLE SONGS, a book of thirty-two gospel songs and choruses published by Harold Alexander, Box K-321, Station C, Los Angeles, Calif. The book appeals to young people especially. The price is 25 cents.
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