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Helen English, ’32, one of the Charles English Family Bell Ringers, spent the summer in Colorado, where evangelistic meetings were held and many souls were saved. Lois Briggs, ’33, recently sent forth by the Sudan Interior Mission to Ethiopia as a missionary nurse, in two recent letters writes as follows: “If I, while at home, looked forward with eagerness and thanked God for calling me, a thousand times more do I thank Him now. Saturday afternoon, the king is to visit the Leper- sorium. He has asked to meet the nurses. He has promised to help financially to complete the hospital and huts for the patients . . . Our hearts are rejoicing and praising God for the result o f the king’s visit. He is a very unassuming man with such a kind expression on his Jewish face. He drove up in a bright red car, trimmed with orange (such color schemes!). A red parasol with gold fringe was carried over him by a servant. The king gave $1,250.00 in our money and another official gave $250.00. This will almost complete the hos pital, a beautiful building on a two-hun dred-acre tract.” Margaret W. Haines, ’21, spent the sum mer in Kashmir, India. In June, she as sisted another missionary in conducting a summer camp for Indian girls who are students of the Women’s Christian Medical College at Ludhiana—girls who have no homes or are too far away from home to go there for summer vacation. It has fur nished an opportunity to refresh them physically and spiritually. Thelma Frith, ’29, expected to sail for Porto Alegre, Brazil, South America, on August 21, where she will be affiliated with the American Baptist College. Genevieve Hinote, traveling with a group o f other Bible Institute young women, wrote from Albuquerque, N. M .: “We were heard over J. Frank Norris’ radio from 12:30 to 1 :00 and from 3 :00 to 4 :00. During the evenings, we have been helping at various evangelistic services in and around Fort Worth. Last night, we went to Dallas and had a blessed time. A num ber responded to the invitation to accept Christ.” Nicholas Simponis, ’31, writes from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: “ The work among the Greeks is very difficult, but I praise the Lord for the peace and assurance that He gives that I am in His will. There have been signs o f encouragement, as homes have been open to me which were closed before.” Thelma Drongesen, ’31, has been help ing in a Mexican Mission in her home town, Selma, Calif., playing the piano for the church services, teaching a Sunday- school class of young women, and assist ing in the work of the young people. With the help of the Mexican pastor, she has worked out a most interesting and helpful series of young people’s topics, following the general plan of an airplane trip. Writ ing of this, she says: “ The first place we stopped after leaving Selma was Salt Lake City. There we learned something of Mormonism, comparing it with Christian ity. Another stop was Rome, and o f course Catholicism was the topic there. Then we [Continued on page 328]
in Los Angeles; Emily J. Alexander, ’23, who taught missions in a vacation school in Hawthorne, reported that in one week alone some forty young people had accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as Saviour; Berta B. Dyer, ’18, referred to the joy that was hers in seeing members of her Sun day-school class become foreign mission aries ; Percy E. Fry, pastor of the Union Church at San Jacinto, Calif., mentioned that in connection with his work there, he had recently baptized twenty- three children on confession of faith; Mrs. Mabel Gray Porteous, T6, spoke of her work as an assistant pastor; Helen Whit ney, ’28, referred to her “parish” o f over 50,000 nurses in hospitals this side o f the Rocky Mountains, many of whom are find ing Christ as Saviour and entering Chris tian work as a result of this evangelistic and teaching ministry. T. Henry Bandy, ’28, engaged in boys’ work in the First Fundamentalist Church of Los Angeles, and John A. Remple, ’19, chaplain of the Los Angeles County Jail, each reported gracious blessing attending the giving forth of the Word. The meeting closed with a cheering and challenging devotional message given by Dr. John A. Hubbard. Former Students at Work Fanny Amstutz, ’26, sends news o f a happy reunion of Bible Institute of Los Angeles and Moody Bible Institute stu dents on June 16, at the home of Rev. and Mrs. Esau in Bluffton, Ohio. There were twenty-four present. Among the Biola friends were the following: John M. ( ’23) and Mrs. Tosh, Edgar ( ’26) and Mrs. Toevs (Annice Salsberry, ’27), and Fern Bixel, ’24. The evening was spent in fel lowship and testimony. Let Me Go Back BY A MISSIONARY ON FURLOUGH Let me go back! I am homesick For the land o f my love and toil, Though I thrill at sight of my native hills, The touch o f my native soil. Thank God for the dear home country, Unconquered and free and grand, But the far-off shores o f the East, for me, Are the shores of. the promised land. No longer young—I know it, And battered and worn and gray, I bear in my body the marks that tell O f many a toil-filled day. But ’tis long to the end of a lifetime, And the hour for its sun to set, My heart is eager fo r years to come. Let me work for the Master yet. For there are my chosen people, And that is my place to fill, To spend the last o f my life and strength In doing my Master’s will. Let me go back! ’ Tis nothing To suffer and do and dare; For the Lord has faithfully kept His word, ; He is with me always there. —W estern R ecorder .
Midsummer Meeting for Missionaries specially called meeting of the members of the Alumni Association and their friends was held in the Social Parlor o f the Bible Institute on the evening of July 13, in honor o f missionar ies at home on furlough and those expect ing to leave shortly as new missionaries. The group was led in the singing of sev eral favorite hymns, and William G. Gravés, ’27, President of the Association, opened the meeting for informal messages from any who wished to speak. The testi monies that followed emphasized especially the privilege and need of prayer. Mrs. Carl B. Urban (Winifred Williams, ’17), who has been at home from Africa for nine years, having served under the Africa Inland Mission, expressed her desire to know the Lord’s will for herself and her two children regarding return to the field. Recently returned from China, Oscar Walton, ’24, spoke of his six years’ of happy affiliation with the North China The ological Seminary, where the enrollment of men and women has been over 100. His work in the music department has furnished choice opportunities for evangelism. From the most southerly station of the China Inland Mission, near the west border, J. Harold Casto, ’26, and Mrs. Casto (Mar guerite Naughton, ’26), have returned for their first furlough. It requires longer to travel from one end of their territory in China than to cross the United States. They are six days’ journey from a railroad and the same distance from any doctor, native or foreign—that is, six days’ journey in the dry season, which lasts only about four months in the year. The remainder of the year finds the roads largely impassable. There are seven or eight languages spoken within a day’s radius of their compound, which is located in a mountainous region among aboriginal tribes. The people are very primitive, having no written language, and never having seen an automobile or an airplane. They love music, and often by means of gospel hymns, spiritual truth grips their hearts. John Puz, from Italy, and Jason P. Steer, ’16, from the Bolivian Indian Mis sion, Bolivia, South America, spoke of problems and victories in their respective fields. Frank J. Hitchin, ’29, affiliated with the Assemblies of God Mission of Africa, giv ing particular attention to evangelization in the bush and in outstations, stressed the necessity of well-grounded native workers. Among those under appointment to go to various mission fields in the near future were the following, who spoke briefly and in happy anticipation of establishment on the far frontier: Aaron Jantzen, ’31, and Ella Gimbel, ’32, Sudan Interior Mission ; Florence Turner, ’30, Orinoco River Mis sion; Annie Maude Fulton, ’26, Central America Mission; and Nora Steiner, ’28, and Evelyn W . Woodsworth, ’31, Africa Inland Mission. Testimonies from home workers, espe cially Sunday-school teachers, were called for, and a number responded. Katherine Baerg, ’28, spoke o f delightful opportuni ties in Daily Vacation Bible School work
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