DR. R O O D TAKES L U N C H AT C L IF TO N 'S CAFETER IA
Paul W . Rood (center), President of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles, Elmer J. Peterson (next right), Business Man ager, and Chester Padgett, Men's. Em ployment Secretary, are seen at the lunch hour at Clifton's Cafeteria, Sev enth and Broadway, being served by Marjory Thomson, a Biola student. The photograph illustrates an impor tant feature of student support while attending Biola. Over 308 of our 334 enrolled students are now employed, their e stim ated e a rn in g s each year exceeding $82,000, thus reducing the average additional cost of attending Biola to a little more than $12.44 a month for the employed students, as free tuition is given through the gener osity of Institute donors. witnessing for Him, perhaps just by the quiet ness of one’s life or by doing some little kindness. Men and women are hungry for the Bread of Life which alone can satisfy, and in serving the material food which satisfies the body, we can point them to Him who alone satisfies the soul.” A Record of God’ s Grace From the men’s branch of the employment department, Chester Padgett, the Secretary —himself a Biola student enrolled in the Collegiate Course— tells of the scope of the part-time work done by the students and indicates the spiritual victories that mere statistics cannot express: “ As we look back over the past semester and consider the wonderful things the Lord has done for us, we must with awe and reverence exclaim with the song writer, ‘Great is Thy faith fulness.’ “ In the midst of a trying financial de pression, God has in a miraculous way kept more than three hundred students in an Insti
tute where they are being trained and equipped to go into the highways and byways of the world, there to proclaim the ever- needed message of God and His infinite love and righteousness which have for all time been manifest on Calvary in the person of His dear Son. “ Since September 1, 1937, approximately one hundred fifty part-time jobs have been secured through this office [men’s] alone, making it possible for a total of 143 em ployed men to remain in school and to continue their education. This means that the equivalent in cash for working hours spent may be estimated at about $28,000 to March 1. By the end of the school year (June 9) it will have become, for the men alone, $39,897. “ Such earnings represent real labor and effectually dispel any possible impression that students in the Bible Institute pay nothing in effort for their education. As one watches the steady habits and earnest faces of these young men and women and observes the
The Christian As Used f The Bible Instit In a United States Government puf recently issued by the United States OfFi education averages $516.00 among the vari Applying this figure to Biola educati students would be $158,928.00 yearly. This is divided as follows (estimate for Free Tuition from Donors1 G ifts...... Bible Institute Employment (Given to* Outside Employment ..................... From Parents and Guardians or Stud^ Cost to the Student Though it is a rule of the Institute that when a student first registers at Biola, he must have a reserve fund of $150 to be used toward room and board, there is no tuition charge. The registration fee of $10 per term is the student’s entire financial obligation to the Institute, wrhether he takes one of the three four-year degree courses or one of the five diploma courses of lesser duration. When he leaves his Alma Mater, at the close of this training, he is well equipped for pastoral or other Christian service and has received an educational endowment from the Institute worth from $564 to $752, as such things are valued in the educational world. The student’s room rent of $2.50 a week in a room shared with another student will doubtless be paid for by his part-time em ployment, and his accommodations will be in an electrically lighted, steam-heated, height* limit, steel and concrete dormitory building, with 24-hour elevator service, in almdst the exact geographical center of a city of more than one and a quarter million population. His board at the Institute dining room is $5.41 a week. Thus his necessary living expenses may be placed at $7.91 minimum weekly, exclusive of his own laundry and other persbnal expenditures.
long hours that they are willing to give in ex change for an opportunity for advanced Bible study, the serious purpose behind th e ir e ffo rt is c le a r ly evident.” Student Activity in Christian Work At the present time a number of advanced stu dents among the young men are pastors of little churches in and around L os A n g e le s . Som e o f them so engaged receive sufficient remuneration for their service to enable them to carry on their studies in the Bible Insti tute without further em ployment.
Wilfred Hillyer, the Women's Employment Secretary at the Insti tute, makes this com ment on pa rt-tim e work: "I feel that every type of job that a stu dent fills at the Lord's direction while he or she is at the Institute is of real value in that student's future work, especially in the mission fields. Every co n ta c t and every situation met and c on q u e red for Christ in the business world is a va luab le asset to the Christian worker."
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