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T H E K I N G ' S B U S I N E S S
November, 1936
Leaving fo r China
On the platform, bidding farewell to Ruth Liu, brilliant Chinese student and consecrat ed Christian who has spent more than a year in Bible study at Biola, are President Paul W . Rood, presenting flowers to the departing student, and Miss Beatrice G . Prosser, Superin tendent of Women. Below is Miss Liu's letter to Dr. Rood, written in Chinese and in English, in which she promises to pray for the Insti tute as a member of Biola's World-W ide Prayer Circle.
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O N THE morning of September 30, when Ruth Liu left Los Angeles, returning to China as a mission ary to her own people, she said goodby at a surprise gathering of students, to all of whom she had unconsciously endeared herself. In her farewell mes sage, she expressed an earnest desire to continue the happy fellowship that she had enjoyed at the Institute during the more than a year that she had been enrolled as a student, and she volunteered to give to God, expressly for Biola, one hour each week to be spent in prayer for the needs of the school. Enrolling as a member of the Biola World-Wide Prayer Circle, Miss Liu chose the hour between eleven to twelve o’clock on Friday night. That hour in Shanghai, will be seven o’clock Friday morning in Los Angeles. Her prayer for Biola, Miss Liu ex plained, will always be uttered in the spirit of deepest thanksgiving. Al though she came to the Institute aca demically well equipped (being a grad uate of the University of Shanghai and a leader in educational groups in China), it was at the Bible Institute of Los Angeles that opportunity was given to her for that intense study of the Word of God which has enriched her own life for service in China. HOMESICK FOR BIOLA A few hours before the ship sailed, bearing her to her homeland, Miss Liu
remarked naively, “Already I’m home sick for Biola—for the fellowship.” At her work at Bethel Mission in Shanghai, to which this choice young woman goes to serve among the 500 students at her Lord’s command, she will continue to have the kind of fel lowship which characterizes Biola for “our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ.” Prayer is the bond that unites believing hearts though miles may intervene. May God increase the number of Biola prayer warriors to include repre sentatives of every nation, so that in tercession for this school literally may girdle the globe. At the present time, members of the Biola Prayer Circle are located in 37 states, besides Alaska, Canada, and Mexico. WHY PRAY? True prayer is a cycle, originating in heaven, in the heart of God, brought to earth by the Spirit who touches the human heart that is yielded to Him, uttered in the name and for the sake of the Lord Jesus Christ, and borne back by the Spirit to the Father who accepts and answers according to His will. The eyes of the Lord have “run to and fro throughout the whole earth” (2 Chron. 16:9) to find men and women to whom could be entrusted the min istry of intercession for Biola. They have responded willingly to Him—
hundreds of them—and the Lord has been pleased to work through them to the meeting of the Institute’s urgent needs. Advance may be noted in the growth of the student body, in the ad dition of several new departments, in the provision of funds for the opening of the fall semester, and in the grow ing number of friends who have pledged themselves to pray and give. PRAYER CIRCLE COMMENDED Friends who have followed with in terest the work of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles are writing to com mend the plan of the Biola Prayer Circle. A. B. Prichard, who has been in touch with the activities of the Institute since its beginning, has ex pressed his joy over the Institute’s adoption of the plan for a world-wide prayer circle. “Anything that stimulates interest in or _promotes regularity in Prayer and Bible Study is to be commended,” he writes. “Our spiritual exercises must be regular, habitual, and vital. “For this reason the PRAYER- CLOCK recently adopted so widely by friends of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles has very distinctive value. Every one who enlists in the service signified by it, stimulates and strength ens his own prayer habits. Its very exactions put one under discipline, arouse attention, awaken desire, and [Continued on pagft 451]
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