BIOLA JUBILEE COMMENTS For 50 years, the Bible Institute of Los Angeles, Inc., has been training young men and women today to be the missionaries and spiritual leaders of tomorrow. CYRUS N. NELSON, Director Gospel Light Press,. Hollywood, Calif.
tute and as a minister of the glorious gospel of Christ for the past 16 years, it is with thanksgiving to God that I am able to acknowledge the debt I owe to BIOLA! It was here I was first privileged to study God’s Word in a concise and systematic manner. It was here I had my heart challenged to a world in need of the message of LIFE. I am grateful to God for the men He has raised up to carry this institution to new and greater undertakings. We have a supernatural message, with a G o d - g i v en , Spirit-endowed power with which to proclaim it. May He keep us and this school true to the ONE for whom to live and die is gain, both now and forever.” DR. EDWARD B. HART, Pastor Immanuel Baptist Church, Pasadena, Cal. “M y personal interest in BIOLA reaches back 43 years to 1915. The school was but seven years old when I was accepted into its student-body. I can never forget those years of study and enrichment in the Word of God under the teaching leadership of eminent scholars and spiritual giants.” chance to hear. During this past year I have been alone in an area of around two hundred thousand peo ple. Most of these have not had a chance to hear the Good News even once. What a glorious privilege is ours to be workers together with Him, ‘Ambassadors for Christ’ ! May the Lord enable us to be faithful to the task entrusted to us, but denied to angels.” God grant that we who remain at home may not sin in ceasing to pray for our missionary representatives who have gone into all the world to preach the Gospel. O Lord, thou Keeper of the doors That stand ajar o’er all the world: Against which Satan’smight is hurled: Hear Thou our prayer for distant shores! In spite of strong and bitter foes These doors were opened, through the years, By toil, and prayer, and sweat, and tears' And blood! Oh, do not let them close! Beyond these open doors still wait Lost millions, groping for the light, Souls sin-sick, wailing in the night; God grant we may not be too late! “No man can shut.” To no avail He pours out death by bomb and shell; Not all the raging hosts of hell Against Thy power shall prevail. O wondrous Saviour, God’s dear Son, Rise up today; fulfill Thy will: Keep open wide these doors until The very last, lost soul is won.
fomia Institute of Technology to pur sue my studies in engineering. Dur ing World War II, I had received, an appointment to Annapolis from the captain of the ship I was serving on and thus had had some previous col lege training. Over a period of years I had a growing conviction that I was called to the ministry, but in resist ance to God’s will, I had withdrawn from all Christian fellowship. After a period of several weeks of soul stress and searching, I promised God to go to BIOLA, study the Bible, and then decide about my future. I had been a student only two months when I began preaching. Since that time I have had many confirmations of my calling to the ministry, but my original decision was made in my early days of BIOLA training.” REV. RALPH M. HETRICK, Pastor Calvary Church of Pacific Palisades “ As a graduate of the Bible Insti in the words: “We need native nurses, church leaders, evangelists, pastors, teachers, and just plain Christians who have made Christ Lord of all.” There are innumerable requests for larger quarters, even fit quarters, for the work. “We have 330 crowded into a termite-ridden building,” E. King- man of Go-Ye Fellowship in Hawaii writes and this is a sample of the physical handicaps under which mis sionaries labor. Ray Mainwaring of Kasilof, Alaska speaks from his heart: “ Our mission ary service has no particular glamour connected with it. It is just hard work, maintaining a steady testimony for Christ, trusting that in that day we stand before Him in Heaven He will say, ‘Well done, thou good and faithful servant, enter thou into the joy of thy Lord.’ ” The veteran mis sionary, Henry Senff, of the Africa Inland Mission, reminds us of our responsibility: “ God’s children everywhere,” he writes from Riwoto, “ are longing for the coming of the Lord for His own in a way never known before, largely because of the terrible instruments of destruction that God has allowed man to prepare for his own destruction. Yet they forget that Jesus said, ‘Other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring.’ He will not come until that last member of the body is gathered in. That is the reason we are seeking to press onward until the last tribe has a
“ Through these 50 influential years BIOLA has produced a great harvest because at the heart of the whole program is the BOOK. ‘In the volume of the Book it is written of Me.’ The Bible, the living Word of the eternal God, has been the focal point of every class through all the years. The ex panding program on a collegiate and seminary level is built around the BOOK. BIOLA was founded on the Bible. It has grown on the Bible. Its influence stems from the Bible. Its growth will continue through the Bible.” REV. W IL L IA M ADAMS, Pastor Trinity Bible Church, Hollydale, Calif. “ I came to the Bible Institute in 1946 in a state of confusion. After being discharged from the navy in that same year, I had entered Cali- V IS IO N (concluded) with him and keep their ‘god shelf’ and daily prayer is made for them. We are asking God to give us more men like this elder.” The growing needs of the fields give rise to the Macedonian call: “ Come over and help us!” Mrs. Robert Bo- gema of Africa exclaims: “Here are 200,000 and two missionaries!” Dr. M. P. Welles of Thailand states: “ One church in ten has a pastor; Christian doctors, and nurses are urgently need ed” : Belva Overmiller in Nigeria asks for: “ Trained Bible teachers, mission ary and African, to follow up the new converts, for far too many are falling by the wayside.” J. W. Moore of Peru pleads for: “ Trained leaders among the Indians, and among the Peruvians a penetration with pertinent litera ture to break down the Roman Cath olic barrier.” Mrs. Armstrong of Tai wan asks reasonably, for “ Reinforce ments. Many in our Mission will soon retire. Where are the young missionaries to take our places?” Jeanne Grover and Grace Fuqua of Wycliffe in Peru beg for “Words for translation . . . More translators of tribal tongues,” while Don Turner of HCJB tells of the need for “ More funds for printing courses” and Elcho Redding of India states that “ Our greatest need is to put into words the awful plight of these people. We must have a literature program.” Dr. Chaf fee of the Cameroons sums it all up
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