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William Gillespie, ’32, is attending Ster ling College, Sterling, Kans. He is Presi dent o f the campus Y.M.C.A. and last year toured Colorado and Nebraska with a gos pel team. He requests prayer “that the Lord may continually open doors ; that I might be abased and humble ; that I might have a more compassionate heart.” Witnessing to Seamen M en who face constant danger on the high seas need a clear presentation of the Lord Jesus Christ as Saviour and Pilot. In ports o f many nations and to seamen speaking many different lan guages, the Immanuel Mission to Seamen is holding forth the W ord of Life through personal work and through gospel litera ture. The director of the work, Oscar S. Zimmermann, a graduate o f the Bible Institute of Los Angeles in the class of 1913, writes of men who had received a gospel witness just before a time of special peril: “In Canton harbor one ship was visited by Brother Waat shortly before a terrific explosion occurred and the ship was sunk with one hundred lives' lost. A vessel reached by our evangelist in Osaka was lost between Formosa and Japan in a dreadful gale. O f the thirty men on board, only thirteen got on a raft. A heavy sea was running, and five of these men were lost overboard. The remaining ones strug gled with big billows and sharks. Five days later, one of the men (the chief fire man, an inquirer) was praying to God for help, and received assurance that all would be saved on an island called Yaeyama, twenty miles farther on. God wonderfully worked in their hearts, and they were greatly encouraged, praying one for an other. After lying between life and death for eight days, at three o’clock one morn ing they saw a tiny light, and reached the promised island, too weak to stand up, but were soon supplied with food and wa ter. At such times cannot God speak mightily to those who have had the Word given them?” But the Word bears fruit among sea men in the midst o f their daily toil as well. In many difficult places, God is rais ing up men who with patience and bold ness are willing to bear the reproach of the cross o f Christ. On his trip through important ports around the world, a jour ney undertaken last year, Mr. Zimmermann had fellowship with his coworkers in the various cities. In the opening o f new fields for service, “insurmountable obstacles were removed by God’s power.” Bora To J. Russell and Mrs. Davis (Miriam J. Grubb, ’32), a son, Frank Richard, March 14, Peiping, No. China. To William G. ( ’27) and Mrs. Graves (Madge Henderson, ’23) a son, David William, April 1, Los Angeles, Calif. To Abraham F. ( ’31) and Mrs. Kroeker (Mary Neufeld, ’30), a son, Clement, De cember 18, Kamayala, Congo Beige, Africa. Present address : Kafumba, Kikwit, Dwango Dist., Congo Beige, Africa. Married Fred Eugene Bennett, ’31, and Cordelia O’dell, November 29, Taft, Calif. Bernard Clarence Erickson, ’33, and Fern Violet Holmgren, March 29, Oakland, Calif. Frederick F. King and Gwendolyn Mil ler, ’28, June 18, 1934, Yuma, Ariz. Ernest Sitenhof and Ella Grauer, ’26, July 26, 1934, London, England.
Evangelistic Meetings Through R. S. Cyphers, Powell, Wyo., word has been received concerning the blessing which attended the preaching of the Word during the three weeks that Leonard Eilers was in that vicinity. Po well is a small town in the midst of a farming community. The attendance at the evening meetings ranged from three hundred to one thousand. “Many of our friends, relatives, and neighbors were saved,” Mr. Cyphers writes. “There has also been a real awakening in the hearts of many of God’s children. The members of the K ing ’ s B usiness family who live in and near Powell—about forty subscrib ers—join in praise to God for the wonder ful work o f grace which He has perform ed among us.” ia;; Winona Lake School o f Theology The Board of Directors o f Winona Lake School of Theology, Winona Lake, Ind., have just released a report concerning the 1934 session which indicates that the school
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bers. There are over one hundred enrolled in the Sunday-school, with an average at tendance o f about sixty. Mr. Smith travels about sixty miles every Sunday, gathering in children and adults for services, with car and trailer bus. Mr. and Mrs. Smith have two children. Olivette Swallen, who is principal of a school in Korea, had the joy o f seeing ninety-six o f her advanced pupils volun teer as teachers in Daily Vacation Bible School work. During the period that the classes were conducted, over 16,000 chil dren were taught. Miss Swallen’s parents, Rev. and Mrs. W . L. Swallen, spoke in the Student Missionary Union in March. They have spent over forty years in missionary work in Korea. Ernest ( ’21) and Mrs. Diem have moved from Villarrica, Paraguay, to Bella Vista, Corrientes, Argentina, to evangelize this latter town, which had been without a wit ness until the coming of Mr. and Mrs. Diem. ' Cut off from Christian fellowship, these workers have been praying earnestly for the turning o f the first soul to the Lord. Joseph J. ( ’22) and Mrs. Klein (Esther Witmer, ’22) and their son James,5who is two apd one-half years old, are living in Glendale, Calif., where Mr. Klein has a voice studio. H. E. Widmer, ’23, has been in the pas torate of the Grace Mennonite Church, Dallas, Ore., since a year ago last March. Vincent L. and Mrs. Crossett (Margaret R. Elliott, ’26), who were married at Nan king, Kiangsu, China, on January 22, have been asked to open a new work in Cheng- yangkuan, Anhwei. Mr. Crossett is a grad uate of Westminster Theological Semi nary, and both he and Mrs. Crossett are graduates of Wheaton College, Wheaton, 111. They are members of the China In land Mission.
enjoyed an attend ance increase over the preceding year o f thirty-two per cent. The report fur ther shows t h a t there were twenty- one denominations represented in the student body, also sixteen states, be sides two foreign c o u n t r i e s . The board at the same time announced the
W. E. Biederwolf President
1935 session, which is to be held from July 9 to August 11. There will be two semes ters of fifteen days each. Work may be pursued in either semester. Winona Lake School o f Theology is in terdenominational, thorough, and evangel ical. Its President is Dr. William E. Bie- derwolf, and its Dean, Dr. J. A. Huffman. Work is offered leading to the regular the ological degrees. The faculty announced for 1935 is com posed of the following instructors, well- known in the theological' w orld: Dr. Samuel M. Zwemer, Dr. Harold Paul Sloan, Dr. Leslie Ray Marston, Prof. Rollin Pease, Dr. Howard T. Kuist, Prof. Mable McQueen Weir, Dr. J. A. Huffman. The courses which
will be offered are as follows: English Bi ble, Biblical Archae ology, Christian Evi den ces, M o d e r n Cults, Christian Eth ics, H ym n o lo g y , Biblical Messianism, Greek New Testa ment, Be g i n n e r s ’ N e w T e s t ame n t Greek. W i n o n a L a k e
J. A. Huffman, Dean
School of Theology affords a splendid op portunity for ministers, teachers, Sunday- school workers, and laymen to study dur ing the summer weeks with teachers who are recognized as authority in their respec tive fields. A twelve-page prospectus has been pre pared giving full details of the 1935 ses sion of the school, copy o f which may be had by addressing the Dean, Dr. J. A. Huffman, Marion, Ind.
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