July 1931
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It is noteworthy that sixty per cent of the members of the graduating class have offered themselves to the Lord for foreign missionary service. A number are under ap pointment for China, Africa, and India, and one has already sailed for Japan. Others plan to serve the Lord in needy fields at home. Besides the young men and women who completed their work at the Institute as resident students, 229 others, having completed courses in the Correspondence School between May 1930 and May 1931, were honored at the commencement exercises. Equipped with a working knowledge of the Word of God, aflame with a passion for the salvation of lost souls everywhere, these young men and women are going forth to be, as their motto suggests, “hid with Christ in God.” Only thus will their service be effective. Dr. Trumbull’s Appointments series of six Victorious Life Conferences to be conducted by Charles G. Trumbull, a member of the Board of Directors of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles and the editor of The Sunday School Times, has been arranged for the Pacific Coast this summer as shown in the schedule below. The prayers of T h e K ing ’ s B usiness family are earnestly desired for God’s blessing on these meetings: JUNE 21-28.|§Placentia, Calif., Calvary Church, Dr. Charles E. Fuller, pastor. JUNE 30 to JULY 5.—San Diego, Calif., First Baptist Church, Dr. John Bunyan Smith, pastor. ■ . JULY 19-26.—Paso Robles, Calif., First Baptist Church, Rev. Rex A. Mitchell, pastor; Atascadero, Church of the Living Word, Dr. Leroy Sf. John, pastor. These churches are about ten miles apart, and meetings will be held daily in both churches, afternoon and evening meetings alternating between the two. JULY 28 to AUGUST 2.—Berkeley, Calif., First Presbyterian Church, Dr. Lapsley A. McAfee, pastor. AUGUST 30 to SEPTEMBER 4.—Seattle, Wash., First Pres byterian Church, Dr. Mark A. Matthews, pastor. SEPTEMBER 6-10.—Victoria, British Columbia, Central Bap- tist Church, Rev. J. B. Rowell, pastor! Further information about these conferences may be had by writing the pastors of the churches.
n h e twenty - first annual com mencement of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles was held June 14 to 18, 1931. The baccalaureate sermon was deliv ered on Sunday morning, June 14, in the auditorium of the Church of the Open Door, by Rev. Elbert L. McCreery, D.D., dean of the Institute. Taking as his sub ject, “The God-planned Life,” Dr. McCreery said, in p a rt: “We are God’s workmanship. The Greek word for workmanship is that from which we get our English word ‘poem.’ We are God’s poem—the harmonious expression of His thought. In general, God has two purposes for every individual: first, that his life may be a manifestation of divine power; and second, that the individual may be properly related to God’s plan for the universe. Any life which, in its influence, does not embrace the entire world, is not fulfilling God’s highest thought for it. Further more, God is waiting to reveal His specific plan for every life.- We must, first of all, believe that He has such a plan. Having believed, we must ask Him to reveal it. Then, we must seek diligently to know it. And finally, we must walk in the light that God gives. The vision that is not obeyed vanishes.” At the class exercises, Thursday morning, June 18, impressive messages were given by Miss Annie McCoy, who spoke on “The Hidden Life,” and by Clinton Kraft, whose subject was “In Step with Christ.” These addresses worthily represented the men and women of the grad uating class. Dr. W. P. White, President of the Institute, intro duced the commencement speaker, Rev. Stewart P. Mac- Lennan, D.D., pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Hollywood, Calif., who took for his theme “The Philoso phy of Paul’s Calling.” This masterful address is pub lished in abridged form in this issue of T h e K ing ’ s B u siness . Diplomas were presented by Dr. Charles E. Fuller, chairman of the Board of Directors of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles, to eighty-three graduates: fifty from the General Course, thirteen from the Missionary Course, twelve from the Music Course, five from the Christian Education Course, and three from the Christian Service Medical Course. These students represented eighteen states of the Union and six foreign countries.
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