gifts. When a day passed, they just went to bed and to sleep without even bothering to express thanks for Godls favors and mercies. One day an uncle from a distant city came to spend a few weeks in the home. During his time there, since the family wanted to please him, and knowing him to be a Chris tian, he was always invited to say grace. The morning after he left, however, an interesting thing took place. As usual, the family gathered around the table. Each one started impulsively to eat. The little daughter looked to her father and pointedly asked, “Daddy, what’s the mat ter? Isn’t there any God today?’’ That question went right to his heart. By the next Sunday he had sought out a church where he could discover how a man was to live and how he could bring up his children to fear ■the Lord. Father, what place have you given in your home and to your family concerning prayer and Bible reading? I f you don’t know Christ as Saviour you can’t lead out in this important aspect of simply holding your home together. The first step is to be come a believer, by faith in Christ as Saviour. Then, knowing the Lord, don’t let the time slip idly by. Spend the mo ments for spiritual profit with your chil dren for d iv id e n d s will be reaped
throughout both time and all eternity. “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it!” * Everyone should make the best of him self for after all that's the only thing he'll ever have to work with. A PERSONAL CHALLENGE Most of us are quite familiar with the beautiful hymn which runs, “Take my life and let it be wholly consecrated, Lord to Thee.” It was written back in 1874 by Frances Ridley Havergal who was a shut-in for most of her life. It was just four years after penning the words that she carefully went over it again, making, sure it was still what she wanted to say. For some reason the sec ond stanza bothered her. She thought on how the words went, “Take my silver and my gold, not a mite would I with hold." Suddenly the Lord brought con viction to her soul. She thought that maybe she had failed to follow her own exhortation. She remembered some of the lovely jewelry which had come to her personally through gifts or as an inheritance. She had a jewel box in * *
Showing one oi the most rapid increases in enrollment growth is Biola's Phoenix affiliate, the Arizona Bible College. The school new has a student body of mere than 140, with an additional 60 people taking courses in the evening. Mr. Merv Fishback Is executive director of A.B.C. and indicates that the Lord's blessing on the school has been a thrill to see. It is anticipated that a new dormitory-classroom structure w ill have to be built to accommodate the increasing number of young people who are seeking to be prepared ter the Lord’s service at this important three-year training center. Pictured below are this year's faculty and student body as school started in September.
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