BIBLE INST ITUTE H A P PEN IN G S Particularly o f Interest to Friends and Students
A Bible school that is accomplishing tremen dous things among the mountain people of the South is the Toccoa Falls Institute of North Carolina. Its head, R. A. Forrest, was a recent Bible Institute visitor and brought an inspiring message to both faculty and students. The Toccoa school has a waiting list longer than its total enrollment. During the summer its stu- kept 15 gospel tents in use, preaching to 400,000 people. A missionary message from Japan was brought to the Biola Student Volunteers by F. O. Berg strom, for 23 years with the Scandinavian Mis sionary Alliance in that country. He is at pres e t evangelist among the Japanese on the Pacific Coast for the same society. The departure of Liborio Tappia for Los An geles brought great rejoicing to Mr. and Mrs. Henry Webendorfer, stationed at San Pedro, Bolivia. He is the first to start preparation to enter the native ministry for which they are praying. Christian business men and reinforcements for the school faculty are the special needs reported by John W. Dunlop, former student of the Presbyterian Mission at Cebu, Philippine Islands. Revival meetings at Silliman Institute were greatly blessed, more than 100 decisions being made in less than a week. That 200,000,000 in India can never hear of the gospel until more workers are sent out, was the startling statement of Benjamin Davidson of the Ceylon and India General Mission in an address before the student body. Delegations from un reached villages come begging for a preacher and go back in disappointment because there is no one to be spared from the work already un dertaken. “There is a big affair in the Bible, and God will convict me of sin, so I don’t read my Bible,” said a black boy under the scourge of a guilty conscience. The story'of the difficulties in which a school boy became entangled when-, in the midst of buying one wife he changed his mind and bought another, are told in a letter from Edith Harris, of Githumu, British East Africa. She is doing village work, “meeting the enemy face to face.” The women say they are unable to hear or understand when the gospel story is told, but the moment the talk changes to gardens they hear and understand without difficulty. A son has come to bless the home of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Uhlinger, of Kilo, Congo Beige. A gospel tent pitched at a large fair by Harry Costerus was the means of reaching many Chinese at Kwang Ping fu, Chi-li. “Darkness shows in their faces,” writes Goldie E. Barman from Aba, Congo Beige, where she is engaged in office and school work. . Miss Cora Pike of the China Inland Mission, is visiting her brother Rev. W. H. Pike, super intendent of the Evening School. In a talk to the Student Volunteers she reminded them that they were going out to Christianize, not to Americanize. She warned them to be prepared for unexpected disappointments and for trifling, nagging things which are hardest to bear. At least 100 villages, all within one day’s
may be seen from the mission station of Charles G. Hurlburt, Jr., whose address is African Inland Mission, Nyankundi, Irumu, via Mombasa Uganda and Ka^enyi, Congo Beige, Africa. He reports that the Roman Catholics are on the job” hindering the work. The Babira people among whom he is working are dirty, naked, immoral, great smokers and dancers. They are terrified by evil spirits and burn their old women for witchcraft. A realistic impression of the filth, disease and superstition- from which India is suffering was given the students through an illustrated lecture by Mr. and Mrs. P. W. Penner, who have been under the General Conference Mennonites at Jan- gier, India. They expect to return to the field as soon as the way is opened. “Language study is coming wonderfully,!’ re ports Loren S. Hanna, who is at Lampang, Siam. “China is very keen for any help we can give her educationally, but men’s hearts are not any different here than at home,” according to Ford « t who is at Huntung, Shansi, China. I have seen just the same indifference on the
Rev. A lex Saunders and Mission where he Preaches in China
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