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know who Jesus is or what a Sunday- school is. It is a great pleasure to min ister to these neglected ones, and the Lord has been blessing the work in the salvation of souls. It is a sight worth seeing as the people come for miles in Model T Fords, wagons, or on horseback to a lit tle schoolhouse which is perhaps nestling in some pocket in the sand hills, sur rounded by bunch grass, soap weed, and cactus. This is the only place where they can go to get food for their hungry souls.” These conditions are typical of those met by many Institute graduates, and all such workers covet a share in the prayer in terest o f the Biola family. Mrs. Hugh B. Evans, Jr., and her son Hugh left Los Angeles late in the fall for Wheaton, ¡..111., where Hugh is attending the Wheaton Academy. The absence of Mrs. Evans is felt keenly by the members of the Institute family, especially by the young women of the student body, to whom she ministered in the capacity of Assistant Superintendent of Women. Bom To H. Lewis ( ’31) and Mrs. Coates (Helen Rittenhouse), a daughter, Nancy May, October 3, San Diego, Calif. To Nathan E. ( ’29) and Mrs. Walton (Lois Whipple, ’29), a son, Nathan Thomas, November 2, Wuhu, Anhwei, China. To K. Owen ( ’22) and Mrs. White (Pearl Woodworth, ’25), a daughter, Ruth Sampey, January 6, Gainesville, Ga. Married K. O. Stensland, ’24, and Adella Iver son, September 11, Bracken, Sask., Can. With the Lord On December 19, Carrie E. Brooks, be loved former church visitor of the Church of the Open Door and helper in the work o f the Institute’s Bible Women, entered into the presence of her Saviour. Her ill ness had been a brief one. Miss Brooks was in her eightieth year. She began her service in Los Angeles early in the history of Biola, for she moved into the building just as it was being completed. She led many children and young people to the Lord, and was known to many as “Aunty Brooks.” Though unable to engage in her service of Bible teaching in recent years,; Miss Brooks continued to minister to young people, for she became a prayer mother to many girls and groups o f girls. Mrs. Martin Luther Long (Myrtle Thompson, ’24) on January 10 was called Home after a very sudden and brief ill ness which was caused by blood poisoning. Mr. and Mrs. Long recently came to Bur bank from Mr. Long’s pastorate in the First Baptist Church of South Chicago, 111., to take up the work in the First Bap tist Church of Burbank. The prayers of Institute friends for Mr. Long and the five young children will be greatly needed by these bereaved ones.
Clifford Chaffee, ’35, is attending the University of Washington, Seattle, Wash., and is assisting in Sunday-school and Christian Endeavor work. Edward Bowman, ’34, is enrolled in Ashland College, Ashland, Ohio. George W. Smart, ’33, is a senior at Gordon College of Theology and Missions, Boston, Mass., and is Boys’ Work Director at Tremont Temple, Boston. Rachel C. Wood, ’24, Steamboat Springs, Colo., is teaching in the public schools and has a Sunday-school class of nearly forty high-school girls. Through the class, the high school is changing its program of dances to parties with wholesome games. Miss Wood asks prayer for herself and for the class. Meditation By S. IONE LOW M A N In quietness and confidence shall be my strength, Not effervescent flux emotional— In peace and steadiness of thought and word, Not lightsome jest and vain frivolity. In radiant joy that quiet power bespeaks— In laughter low, yet musical with praise, Not thrills and volatile imaginings, But deep realities of sacred things. In consciousness that my own soul Indwelt by God's most precious Gift Has thus become a temple of the Lord, A place for worship and for rev'rent calm. "For thus said the Lord Jehovah . . . In quietness and in confidence shall be your strength." E. Walter Peters, ’23, Macedonian and Armenian Gospel Mission, Box 242, Thes- salonica, Greece, has been affiliated with the Mission for seven years. His service includes gospel meetings for young men, visitation, and evangelization by Gospels of John and tracts. The aim of the Mis sion is to place a Gospel of John in every home throughout Macedonia, to reach ev ery seaman in the principal Greek ports with a Gospel o f John, to minister to the scattered Armenians in Macedonia, and to evangelize, through chosen literature, the Jews living in the Balkan States, Julius H. ( ’21) and Mrs. Koehler (Anna Lewis, ’28) are very busy in their work as missionaries o f the American Sunday-School Union. Their work leads them into almost every branch o f Chris tian activity. There are Sunday-schools to organize and maintain, Christian En deavor groups and gospel teams to en courage and help, evangelistic meetings and Daily Vacation Bible Schools to con duct, home visitation with its opportunities for definite work, and preaching for the Sunday-school groups on Sundays. Mrs. Koehler writes: “In western Nebraska there are still boys and girls who do not
Activities of Former Students R uth G rant , ’34, who joined the staff of the Navajo Indian Evangeliza tion Movement, Oraibi, Ariz., sev eral months ago, visited the Institute when she spent a few weeks in Los Angeles last fall. Her work on the field includes both office work and assisting in evangelism. James Hume, ’32, has been serving in a mission in San Jose, Calif. M[rs. A. L. Dennis, whose ministry to Institute classes and women’s Bible groups has been used by the Lord to bless hun dreds of lives, sailed from San Francisco, Calif., on January 16, for volunteer service in Bible teaching in the Bible Seminary for Women, 500 Recreation Road, Kiangwan, Shanghai, China. The school, established for Bible training of Christian young Chi nese women, has invited Mrs. Dennis to join the staff for a year of service. During the school terms she will teach classes in the seminary. She probably will be teach ing also a class for wives of American and British business men and missionaries in Shanghai. In the summer she will be used in Bible conference work in various centers where missionaries gather. Sailing with Mrs. Dennis, Alma Bert- schin returned to her former work as secretary to the faculty of the seminary. Chauncey B. ( ’21) and Mrs. Sheldon (Hattie Louise Cope, ’22) o f the Brethren Board of Foreign Missions, wrote that they hoped to sail December 4 for their third term in Africa. Their address is still Bossangoa, par Bangui, Oubangui-Chari, French Equatorial Africa. Mrs. Harvey J. King (Beatrice F. Tan- nehill, ’25) and her little daughter, Virginia May, are located at the Africa Inland Mis sion station at Kasengu, Kasenyi, Congo Beige, via Mombasa, East Africa. In the fall at a three-day conference for the women o f the district, the women took several forward steps in spiritual matters, and it is hoped that a group of Bible women may be raised up soon. Zoa Shaub, ’28, Friends Mission, Capilla Evangelica, Tegucigalpa, Honduras, C. A., teaches two Bible classes in the newly opened Bible, Training School at Teguci galpa. She has been translating part o f Dr. Torrey’s What the Bible Teaches, for the use of the doctrine class. Elizabeth Foth, T6, 258 E. Fifth St., Brooklyn, N. Y., sees many tragedies and many victories for the Lord in connection with her work as superintendent of a gos pel hall, a faith work at 215 Hoyt St., Brooklyn, in the slum district o f the city. Ernest and Mrs. Sitenhof (Ella Grauer, ’26), 55A Raglan Rd., Walthamstow, E. 17, England, are rejoicing in their service in St. Columba Presbyterian Church, Pros pect Hill, London, where Mr. Sitenhof is pastor. Mrs. Sitenhof has undertaken the young people’s work and has organized a girls’ guild and a Sunday-school class of teen-age boys and girls and'is assisting in other branches o f the church work as well. Mr. and Mrs. Sitenhof live where they can look out over Epping Forest, where Gipsy Smith was born.
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