campus expansion campaign
Dr. S. H. Sutherland
start classes at 7:30 a.m. The last pe riod ends at 11:50 and the students who are assigned to the buses get their “sack lunches” and away the busses go downtown. While they are on their way, the students eat the lunches which have been prepared for them during the morning. Then they are ready for work downtown. The young people usually work in the afternoons and study in the evenings. The next morn ing they start it all over again. The easiest thing to do would be to say “no” to prospective students when they send in their applications. We would only have to say, “We haven’t room.” But when we receive a letter from a youth who says he’s been pray ing to the Lord and he feels that the Lord would have him come, it’s pretty serious business to turn him away. We need every dedicated youth we can get! This is what makes the school separate, different and distinct. It is imperative that we get these buildings constructed now if we’re going to be able to handle the growing number of young people seeking ad mission. In the light of world con ditions, we dare not turn one of them away. When they know that the Lord would have them come, we cannot, we must not turn them away. Do You Know!— At least 141 corporations have matching gift programs? Maybe your employer will match your gift to Biola's Campus Building Project. Pray for our present need to build 2 needed dormitories and additional classrooms. Send for: Matching Gift Leaflet Stewardship Department Biola College
D u r in g B iola ’ s Expansion Cam paign, it is our prayerful desire to build a women’s dormitory, a men’s dormitory and an added classroom building to be used primarily by the Music Department. The Music Depart ment has been operating in the library ever since we moved onto the Campus. It has been a real handicap. Our build ings. however, are going to be put up only as the funds come in. Back in the early ’40’s, under God, Dr. Louis T. Talbot was used to elimi nate the indebtedness on The Bible Institute of Los Angeles and the Church of the Open Door. It was at that time that the Biola Board of Directors vowed that the organization would never again go into debt. We praise God that this blessed policy has been maintained even until now. We are looking to God and to God’s people for every
Each day more than 250 students ride 50 miles a day in order to attend classes. need. Your prayers are vital in these days and weeks that lie ahead. Almost 250 young people live down town. They get up at 5 o’clock in the morning; get on the buses at 6 o’clock and get out to the Campus about 6:45 a.m. After eating their breakfast, they
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