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June 1927
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“Our press room today has completed its work on a booklet in Yiddish language for friends in Dallas, Texas. “The bound books, ‘The Passing of the Word,’ ‘Patmos Vision,’ ‘Why I Believe in the Virgin Birth of Christ,’ ‘The Twinkling of an Eye,’ ‘God’s Best Secrets,’ and ‘The Conflict,’ have been supplied to the Biola Book Room within the past few days. These are splendid books and if you have not done So you should secure one, or all of them, read them, and pass them on to someone. “Various additional religious tracts and booklets, consisting of from 2 to 32 pages, to a total number of 203,000 have been produced in the past month. “Your Correspondence School has just finished 64,000 Lesson Study sheets for its distribution. “This total of 374,000 pieces of' religious literature, exclu sive of cloth bound books, will go rapidly into circulation and be of untold value throughout the many sections of the world it. will reach. It consists very largely of Scripture, of which Isaiah 55:11 says in part, ‘It shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto' I sent it.’” He Knew He Had Been Bom I N the midst of a revival meeting held by an Institute, worker, boys and girls were testifying of their faith in Christ. One lad spoke up and said,-;‘T’ve been born again.” He wasiasked, When it took place and how? “Well, it was like-this,” he said, “I came last Friday to Boosters; I had never been to Sunday School or Church. I am twelve years old. When the message was given I accepted Christ, and now I know I have been born again.” “How do you know?” he was asked, and to this he replied, “Because' John 1:12 says so” Could you have given a better answer than that? - —o— The M in istry of Tracts R ECENTLY, some of our workers were distributing tracts ■ ¿ i n a local shop. The tract being used that day was entitled, “Whither Bound.” Later it was learned that two men, work ing side by side in the shop, read the tract. That night one of them died. Needless to say the tract that both had read served as a wedge to ’lead the one who; had been spared, into a definite ; experience for the Lord. Something like 4500 tracts a week are given out by 'our Shop workers alone. Will you be one who will pray definitely for God’s blessing upon this seed sowing? ship, can render the character of service which He offered to those disciples with the dusty feet when He laid aside His garments and took a towel and girded Himself and washed their feet. Here is a relation to God that lifts life out of its egocentric and geocentric limitations to the illimitable lib erties of a theocentric control. There is, therefore, no service anywhere in the world rendered in the name of' Christ to a needy fellowman which can be beneath the dignity of a child of God.' Let it never be forgotten that in the moment of the Master’s greatest world acclaim, when multitudes spread their garments in the way and shouted their hosannas before Him, He rode on the shoul ders of an ass, thus linking Himself with the world’s hum blest beast of burden. He laid aside His garments. What less can this mean, or what more, than that, “counting it no prize to be on an equality with God, He emptied Him self and took upon Himself the form of a servant, and being found in fashion as a man He became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross” ?
er, Mr. Pearson. They are always willing to help when condi tions permit. They took a choir of seven girls about 12 years old to assist with the meeting. The passengers were attracted by their shining faces and their sweet melodious; voices singing the Gospel songs. The mess room tables and benches were put in order for a meeting and a good crowd sat reverently for over an hour, while the songs were sung and the testimonies of these Japanese people were given. After the meeting, gospel picture cards and sweets for the children, provided by the Japanese Christians, and Gospels and tracts, provided by ourselves,, were distributed among the crew. Everyone was happy and seed was sown that may bear fruit in eternity. Sorrow Led To Salvation A SPECIAL call came to our Shop Work Superintendent, to go and see a woman who was not a Christian, but who was in deep sorrow. She had lost her husband through a train accident. Several calls were made at this homej but so far as was evident, no definite decision for Christ had resulted. The little church in the neighborhood was starting a series of revival meetings. An evangelist from the Bible Institute was to hold them. Would this'sorrowing woman be led to attend?. Prayer to that end was offered. Children’s booster meetings were in progress and God chose to work through a little child, even the daughter of this sorrowing woman. After a special children’s meeting this little girl looked up into her mother’s face and said, “Mother you must come.” She did.- God touched her heart. She has become a new creature in •Christ.? ■—o— Biola Press Bears Its T estim ony A S showing something of the extent of the testimony being ' borne by the Bible Institute work,, we are sure our re'ad- .ers will be interested in some facts brought out by Albert Haver- male, Superintendent of our printing department, in a brief talk given at a report meeting of our workers. ‘ .“Since speaking to you at a recent meeting,” said Mr. Havermale, “your Biola Press' has finished printing another 100,000 Gospels of John,—this makes a total of 1,200,000 of these little, red-covered Gospels. “We have just printed, with four-color process, illustra tions, 55,000 Portions of Scripture in the Russian Language, which are being shipped to Manchuria and Eastern Siberia for distribution. “We are now working on 10,000 sixty-four page books, Portions of Scripture for shipment to and distribution in the Philippine Islands. .¿¡fe. iSSr The Gospel in Shoeleather B y D r . J. C- M assee I HAVE a friend who relates that during the public fun eral of Edward the Seventh of England he stood in the crowd in Trafalgar Square. Near the stand erected for the accommodation of members of the royal family and their friends, the mightiest in the land were seated at points of vantage. Near him Stood a small, poor, old woman, peep ing here and there through the crowd, trying in vain to see the cortege as it moved forward. He said he had watched her with much interest for several minutes when his attention was attracted to one of the royal seats. A young woman had risen, passed out from her seat to the aisle leading down to the ground, and was being remon strated with by a guard. But she came on down the steps, crossed over to the old woman, took her by the arm, led her back to the steps, sent her up to sit in her place while she took the poor old incompetent’s place in the crowd. Only an aristocrat could have done that. So only the Son of God, or one whom He had lifted into a divine relation-
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