July 1927
T h e K i n g ’ s
B u s i n e s s
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work of an 'organized church with two mission points. There has .been during the few months of his pastorate marked im provement in the Sunday School. —o— EDWARD TAYLOR ’23, of Tsinchow, Kansu, China, China Inland Mission, has a large and needy field in which to work. He speaks of twenty thousand people in his home city and a fairly thickly popu lated district round about. He is giving consideration to special work in a Bible Study Class, leading the Christian people through a course in Doctrine. He ex pects to find the courses at the Bible In stitute helpful in this work. —o— ARISTA STALEY T8, rejoices in work with the Protestant American Mis sion, Cameroun, West Africa. Her mes sage to the Biola Family is a happy, en couraging one. HARRY J. HILL, T2, finds his days full of Christian service of many varie ties. His testimony is that the last months have been the happiest spent in Korea. He has been going out from Pyengyang to the mountain districts to Bible Con ferences of a week each. In one district the thermometer insisted on keeping at about twenty below zero. At the close of one meeting he had the privilege of setting fire to a great pile of idols from new believers’ homes;. The evangelistic spirit of Korea is developing after some thing of depression during the past year. —o— BYRON P. ADAMS, a former student, manages to keep busy with his Indian work among the Hopis at Polacca, Ari zona. He has been building a mission home for himself and family. He has ar ranged to preach to the Indians in Eng*»; lish at Winslow, Arizona, the first Tues day of each month. Winslow is a railroad town and the Indians are employees of the Santa Fe Railroad Company. Mr. Adams’ work is being blessed. —o— AURORA FLUKER, ’24, was at her station, Koon Shan, Sai Ch’iu, Kwong Tung, South China, when she wrote to friends February 25th. Everything was 'unsettled but she and those associated with her were still on the job and finding the work very interesting. —o— Misses HAZEL and VIRDEN KIRBY, ’25, of Long Beach, California, report serious illness in the family. We join them in prayer that the Lord’s will may be wrought out in the life of their bro ther. MR. AND MRS. THOMAS F. F. DIXON (nee Anna Kruggel ’23), sailed May 23rd for Managua, Nicaragua, Cen tral America. ■Y»—o— MR. AND MRS. JOHN BAERGEN, ’21, have been spending the winter in Newton, Kansas. Mr. Baergen has been attending Bethel College. The coming winter, they plan to be in Wheaton Col lege. —o— REV. AND MRS. J. W. WILSON, Jr., ’22, write from their mission work at En carnación, Paraguay, of a terrific cyclone which struck that section some time since. Many were killed, but in a signal way be lievers and their property were spared.
Word comes of the marriage of Miss Frances M. Goin, a former student, to Fred Greenlee, at St. Helens, Oregon. RUTH McCAHAN, T9, has returned to San Pedro, Bolivia, for a second term of* missionary service with The Bolivian ■Indian Mission. She is managing two primary schools, with ninety boys and girls in attendance, with four native teachers helping her. She is also endeav oring to organize a Bible training school. —o— FRED A. JOHNSON, ’22, gives us a good word about his work among the In dians at Oraibi, Arizona. —o— H. MITCHELL, ’17, writes in an inter esting fashion of his ministry in the land of Egypt. Though work with Moslems is always difficult, the power of God has been manifest in conversions. —o— EVA DOERKSEN, ’21, writes, from Bununu, via Jos, Africa, of the blessed times in service that she and several other B. I. students are having there. MR. AND MRS. CHAS. HULL (20 and 22) are on the same station at present H —o— I ELIZABETH GOERZEN, T9, writes from Tsingtao, Shantung,- “Many mis sionary refugees are beginning to pass through Tsingtao on their way to interior stations in our northern provinces where they are being sent to help out stations there. Most of them are quite enthusias tic about returning. They have left be cause our consuls have ordered them to do so. Please tell any one who is inter ested, that the missionaries have not left because they were afraid, but because the consuls ordered them to do so.” — o — ■ ERWIN G. RANTON, ’IS, writes from Nehalem, Oregon, that he has two churches to serve., Mr. Ranton has com pleted a full seminary course since grad uating. The friends of JOHN K. L. YONG, a former student, ’22, ’23, will be glad to have a word from him from China. He looks forward to journeying to the inter ior to begin active mission work as soon as conditions are more quiet. MR. AND MRSML A. GpIN, song leader and pianist, recently assisted evan gelist D. G. Cowles in special meetings at the Logan Heights Baptist Church, San Diego. MR. GOIN graduated in ’21. —o— J. AUSTIN BRILLHART, T8, Chil dren’s Evangelist, with headquarters in Los Angeles, has -been busy during the past season with special campaigns in California. He is ready to fill engage ments. — o — MR. AND MRS. CHARLES OS- BURN, ’20, have been busy in the Lord’s work as occasion offered. Mr. Osburn has been teaching the Sunday School les son over the radio each Sunday morning at KFCB, Phoenix, Arizona. Mrs. Os burn has been helping the Presbyterian Indian Church of Phoenix. ,.lit —p—^ HELENE A. CLASSEN, ’24, sends greetings from Paso Robles, Calif. She has been at home most of the time since graduation, caring for her parents.
Prayer Requests W. R. H unrichs —Brazil. “That they might soon have the joy of seeing some of the Indians saved and witnessing to their own people.” R achel W ood —China. “Oh, pray -for us. Pray for the people.” D orothy T hompson —Chile. “Pray for a revival here in- Chile.”, A nnie B ethke —Kentucky. “That many souls be saved and that God will supply our daily needs.” K enneth W. P owlison —Bolivia. “That God will show us how to get the Gospel to the country Indians more extensively and effectively.” M r . and M rs . WA lfred R od -: man —Venezuela. “We feel the need of prayer for our work.” C. N. H iebert —Winnipeg. “Remember us in prayer that the Lord may. continue to bless His work in Winnipeg.” R uth M c C ahan —Bolivia. “I need your prayers that my physical strength may not fail.” H. M itchell —Egypt. “That our seed sowing may bring forth much fruit to His glory.”
MRS. BERTHA PAYNE, ’24, is in Indian Work at a Government Sanator ium, Dulce, New Mexico. She has under her care fifty-five children, mostly quite small, and all ill with tuberculosis. The two matrons are Moody graduates and they and Mrs. Payne have started mid week religious meetings, and have Sunday School in the dormitories for those who are unable to get'out. — o — CLARA L. KUEHNY, ’20. “It is very pleasant to receive letters from B. I.— serves to remind me of the blessed time I spent there and also that friends are praying in the homeland. When I come back on furlough (D. V.) I hope that it will be possible for me to spend a short time there. I am scheduled for furlough next year, 1928.” GRACE OGG and°LEONA RENKEL, ’26, are thankful for “ways not smooth and things not easy” in their work with the Bible Lands Mission in Shweifat, Mt. Lebanon, Syria. The people of their dis trict are so hard in their determination to let the Gospel of Christ have no effect in their lives. The spiritual welfare of, the boys and girls rests heavily upon the hearts of the missionaries. -— o — REV. H. B. TEfOMAS, T8, is now in charge of church work in Pine Valley, a wonderful farming community below the Wallowa Mountains. He leads in the
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