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blueprint for victory
by Dr. Louis T. Talbot
D u r in g m y jo u r n e y s around the world, the Lord has privileged me to meet many wonderful dedicated men and women laboring in jungles and places where the temperature was well above a hundred degrees. Perhaps you, as I, never knew that they were alive. These are brave, stalwart soldiers of the Cross, graduates of Biola. I saw that dear girl only weighing about 94 pounds, who started out after grad uation from Biola for India. But war was declared. She was captured by the Japanese and placed in a concentration camp for four years. Perhaps you have been privileged to hear Miss Carol Ter ry. During her time in prison, she al most starved to death. These wonder ful missionaries are made of stuff of which we folks who stay at home are not made. When the war was over, Miss Terry just headed on to India. I went out to see the place where she has been laboring. There were 1,500 girls, little ones who have been picked up on the streets. You see, when a girl is born in India, she is unwanted. These happy orphan children were singing, “Jesus Wants Me For a Sunbeam.” I asked Miss Terry, “How long have you been here?” She said, “Ever since the war started.” “How long are you going to stay here?” In answering that question, she showed me the place where she is going to be buried. She wants to be buried there outside of the mission compound.
When we get to heaven, my friend, we’re going to know that God wrote a great story and we have only known a part of that which we call the Bi ble Institute of Los Angeles. Having seen the missionaries whom you’ve helped us to train, I haye realized that the greatest investment anyone can make is in a life. I have often won dered just who it was that made it possible to train Arthur Mouw, Carol Terry, and Dick and Don Hillis. The people who paid those expenses will find eternal dividends in souls won to Christ. In order to train these hundreds of young men and women at The Bi ble Institute for service to a world in desperate need, we must have the equipment and facilities. It requires tools to do it with. I have an ache in my heart as I look out the window at Sixth and Hope Streets and see 250 young men and women every morning commuting from downtown because we don’t have the rooms to offer them on Campus. Communism is out to get a hold of every young man and woman in the United States of America. Com munism is making a tremendous bid for them. Let us not be slack for there is a great deal of work yet to be done. May God help us to be generous as we not just “give,” but rather invest in God’s harvest by helping to prepare His harvesters. “Say not ye there are yet four months,” look onto the fields now! We must harvest for the Lord. 33
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