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They found the people of the outer vil lages very ready to receive the Gospel message and quite a number were bap tized. Mr. and Mrs. Henry James have just been called to the Lord’s service in the Methodist church at Lemob, Wash. It was an agreeable surprise to them to find that the Baptist pastor of the town was an old friend of theirs and a staunch pre-millenarian. Because of their fellowship, they hope to bring the community in a remarkable way, to take an interest in the Word of God. W. H. Hall, a former student, has accepted the call to the first Baptist church of Fairview, Okla. Diplomas were handed to fifty-seven graduates of the Institute by Mr. Lyman Stewart, president of the Insti tute on June 27. The graduates are as follows: M ary Brooks ' A ndrew s, M odesto, Cal.; B ertha R. Beutow, Cologne, M inn.; B ertha Mae B ircher, Los A ngeles, Cal. ; K atherine A ym ar B om berger, Bala, Pa^. ; Pauline B onney, P a sa dena, Cal.; Jennie I. B randt, H udsonville, M ich.; Florence ing to th is larg er house the first;o f D ecem ber we have had g reat blessing in the services; and m uch in te re st am ong the people; though on th eir p a rt th ere is m ore or less persecution, and th a t is p re tty h ard for th e “beginners,” the p riest also m aking it as h ard as possible for thenij as well as us, b u t C hrist is the V ictor, and in H im we live and m ore and have our being. . . . I have been busy of late m aking benches for th e Chapel room , and as I get one m ade we are so glad to see it fill up w ith h u n gry souls to hear th e Gospel. W e have three long benches and a half dozen chairs, and these are generally filled and tw ice th a t m any who stan d in the doors and stre et to listen .” From Harry Hill, B. I. graduate (1912) and member of F. C. His wife, formerly Mary Ross, also a B. I. grad uate, now at Pierson Memorial Bible School,in Seoul, Korea: “The new term of the Bible School has Opened w ith 31 stu d en ts. Every W ednesday and Saturday afternoon they all go out to do p er sonal w ork under the direction of one of the various K orean p asto rs in th e city. They go two by two calling on m en whose nam es they have been given, and also doing personal w ork in the street. L as^ week I w ent w ith them and expect to go considerably in the future even though I can speak b u t very little. M ary has been going calling w ith one of th e m issionary ladies and a Bible woman, and enjoys it very m uch.” Franklin G. Hurling, a former B. I. student, is now taking a Seminary course at the Baptist Theological Sem inary, Louisville, Ky., writes that he is expecting to give his full time this summer to the Camp Pastor work among the soldiers at Camp Taylor. He has already been giving as much time as could be spared from his studies to this work. He says: “Believe me, I hit that idea that dying for one’s country gives one a passport to heaven. I tell them that a sinner in khaki is the same as a sinner in civilian clothes, and the way of salvation for both is through personal faith in the atoning blood of Christ. They appreciate a straight- from-the-shoulder, and straight-from- the-heart message.” Irwin J. Smith and wife, Bible Insti tute graduates, writes from San Salva dor, C. A., of the joy they are having in the Master’s work there. They tell of one preaching tour of 270 miles which they took on mule back, over roads that were very steep and rocky.
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