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memory contest as well as for competition between clubs, aroused much interest. After a stirring song service led by Les ter Wendt in the auditorium, Dr. Oswald J. Smith, pastor of the People’s Church, Toronto, Can., brought an inspiring and practical message concerning essentials for a growing Christian experience. Next fol lowed an impressive candle-lighting cere mony, and the club members, singing “ Let the Lower Lights Be Burning,” marched to the Plaza, where a song and prayer closed the evening’s meeting, and the girls went to their tents for devotions with their leaders. At the morning session, the graduating seniors were welcomed by the “Euodia Alumnae,” an organization formed to con tinue the club fellowship among older girls. A number o f stirring testimonies closed the period, and the girls scattered for rec reation on the beach, tennis courts, and canyon trails. Following lunch, the new attendance cup, presented by the Pacific Palisades Corpo ration, was awarded to the club from Alhambra, Calif. The closing message of the conference, a heart-to-heart talk on “Happiness,” was brought by Mrs._ Ford L. Canfield o f the China Inland Mission. More than fifty-six girls stood to their feet for. full consecration to Christ when the call was made. Many others in thé gathering had taken that step at former conferences. Miss Elizabeth Merritt, di rector of the Euodia'Clubs, and the teach ers in attendance are praising God for His signal blessing upon this effort to bring His Word to the schoolgirls of Southern California. Bom To Raymond and Mrs. Ball, ’33, a daughter, Grace Lorraine, May 27, Los Angeles, Calif. To Bernhard E. ( ’28) and Mrs. Reese (Marguerite Eby, ’29), a Son, Glenn Ed ward, November 24, 1934, Los Angeles, Calif. To R. R. and Mrs. Shirk (Magdalena M. van Teylingen, ’28), a son, Richard Joe, March 23, Neodesha, Kans. To Jacob F. and Mrs. /W iens (Susie Willems, ’32), a son, Robert Gordon, May 18, Hanford, Calif. Married James S. Blake, ’35, and Mildred Hughes, June 14, Los Angeles, Calif. Robert Lyon Gates and Ruth Coulombe, ’28, June 13, Glendale, Calif. Newton A. Kapp and Doris Blackwell, April 24, Garko, Kano Province, Nigeria, West Africa. Oliver Mullen and Evelyn Gibbs, ’32, June 2, Hollywood, Calif. Herbert D. Peterson, ’32, and Judith Weborg, May 23, Turlock, Calif. Leslie Sandberg, ’32, and Winifred McCabe, December 9, 1934, Phoenix, Ariz. Grant Whipple and Bernice Atkinson, May 21, Vancouver, B. C., Can. With the Lord Harold L. Squire, who was graduated from the Bible Institute of Los Angeles in the class o f 1927, went to be with the Lord on March 9, 1935, after an illness o f two years. After his graduation from the Baptist Theological Seminary in Portland, Ore., in 1929, Mr. Squire had preached in and around Portland for three years.
mar Howard, ’33), while looking to the Lord to open the way to Africa,-have been assisting William G. Graves,. ’27, in the work of the By-way Evangelistic Associa tion, while Mrs. Graves (Madge Hender son, ’23) has been unable to be in the field, due to ill health. Mr. and Mrs. Rogers helped in the music and in the visiting and personal work in a series o f meetings in Shasta County. In January they returned to the same region alone, to aid in up building the new believers and to seek to win others for Christ. Mrs. Marie Menhennett, ’22 (National Board o f Missions of the Presbyterian Church), called at the Institute recently while on furlough from her work at Corn fields, Ariz., an outstation o f the Indian work conducted at Ganado, Ariz. With a native girl as interpreter, Mrs. Menhennett has charge o f the activities in the mission center at Cornfields, to which over nine hundred people came in the month o f De cember. She also makes visitation trips to the Navajo hogans. Mrs. H. T. Phelps (Helen Akin) has been church clerk and office secretary, as well as the director o f girls’ work in the _First Baptist Church o f San Diego, Calif. Helen Dorothy Whitney, ’28 (Nurses’ Fellowship Society), is engaged in a wid ening ministry to nurses in Pacific Coast hospitals as far north as Seattle, Wash. A motor trip •to Seattle enabled her to make additional contacts there. Through correspondence and the sending forth _of occasional issues o f the Lamp, a Christian magazine for nurses, she is in touch with girls in eastern cities and on foreign mis sion fields. Personal work and Bible classes, as well as home visitation, have a large share in the work. From “Jabbok,” her home at 1210 E. 77th Place, Los An geles, Calif., Miss Whitney writes: “Night has fallen, and three young nurses from hospitals from twelve to twenty miles dis tant have come to Jabbok to spend the night and their day off. They have re tired for the night while the soft music of a mixed quartet singing sacred num bers is coming over the radio. Morning breaks, to find one o f the girls missing. She has gone out to ‘Penuel’ to read her Bible and to pray. Penuel is the lath house. After breakfast we have our de votions. After the dishes are done, the girls scatter—one to the lath house, another to flood the house with melody as she plays over the gospel songs at Mother’s old Steinway, and the other with a book from the library and a blanket to seek the grass, sun, and back yard. . . . Jabbok is a place for the girls to get away from the hospitals and be alone with God. One girl expressed it thus: ‘Thank God for a place apart from the world 1’ Won’t you pray for Jabbok, that those who leave its doors may find it was good to have been here?” Euodia Conference E uodia C lub , members from high . schools and junior high schools of Southern California, girls who by weekly Bible study are seeking fulfillment of their club motto, “Be fragrant for Christ,” gathered at the conference grounds at Pacific Palisades, Calif., on May 24 and 25 for their annual spring conference. At the opening banquet on Friday evening, about 350 girls and friends of the club were present. Mrs. Cutler B. Whitwell, ’26, was toastmistress. Awards for the minute speeches on the conference theme, “ Shut thy door . . . and pray,” and for the
pastor of the Grace Baptist Church. They have been encouraged by the good attend ance at the young people’s hour, where Mrs. Kurkowske has been showing Bun- yan’s Pilgrim’s Progress. She has organ ized a club similar to the Lyceum Club for young women, and Mr. Kurkowske has a club for young men. A weekly .children’s meeting and a women’s Bible class are further branches of the work. Wilda A. Miller, ’32, China Inland Mis sion, has moved from Tingsi to Kaolan, Kansu, China, the capital of the province, to do country work among the many out lying villages in that region. She sends a happy account o f the Christmas which she and her fellow workers spent with the Chinese Christians at the former station. Gerhard H. ( ’27) and Mrs. Jantzen are in Culbertson, Nebr., where Mr. Jantzen is pastor of a Mennonite Brethren Church. They solicit the prayers o f the Bible Insti tute family for their work there. Virgil Thelma Pratt, ’24, has. been nurs ing on private cases for several years and praises the Lord for opportunities for witnessing for Him. Herbert and Mrs. Farrar (Mabel Phipps, ’32) have been living in Santa Rosa, Calif., where Mr. Farrar has been engaged as the minister’s assistant at the First Christian Church. Mrs. Farrar has been teaching a Sunday-school class and has been in charge of the young people’s meetings. They hope to engage in evangelistic work in the future, as Mr. Farrar is an evangelistic singer. Lorenz A. and Mrs. Carlson (Emily Ruth Elliott, ’27) live in Pomona, Calif-, where Mrs. Carlson enjoys the privilege of attending the Eteri Club taught by Irene M. Hunter, ’24. Mrs. Bessie D. McAnlis,. T6, spoke to the club some time ago, tell ing of the work of the Rehoboth Mountain Mission in Kentucky. Mrs. Carlson tells of a happy gathering o f Institute gradu ates: “Last Saturday, Bill ( ’26) and Eva Weightman (Eva Rose Pauls, ’27) and their Joan Marie and Velva Jeanne; Lo well ( ’27) and Ruth Buerge (Ruth Ray) and their Ray Lowell; Mildred von Trutzschler (Mildred Hoy, ’26) and her Buddy and Liddy Jean came out to Po mona where Lorenz and I and our Lorenz Junior and Jane Marie joined them at Genesha Park, where we,had a happy pic nic lunch and time o f fellowship. Such joy can be had only among those who love the Lord Jesus.” LeRoy ( ’22) and Mrs. Dudrow (Mabel Geiman, ’22), who have been serving un der the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society in Upper Burma, India, are at home on furlough at Doane Cottage, Granville, Ohio. Marguerite ( ’28) and Esther Lofthus ( ’28), from a Minnesota district where they have been engaged in meetings, write: “ It’s now a little over a year and a half since we left Los Angeles on this evangelistic trip. W e can say to the glory of God that we have found hungry souls wherever we have gone............This week a few have already come. Last night nine precious souls found their way to the foot o f the cross. It has been so wonderful! It has been so entirely o f the Spirit. I am sure we are reaping where others have sown (1 Cor. 3:7, 8). The fruit is barely touched, and it falls. There has been no forcing, and it is practically all hand- picked—such a wonderful age, too—the majority being between eighteen and twen ty-five. It was and is great to witness the old-fashioned conviction and to hear the earnest heart cries to God.” Raymond ( ’33) and Mrs. Rogers (Del-
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