Evangelistic Department INTERESTING STORIES from REAL EXPERIENCE A S T O L D B Y B I B L E I N S T I T U T E W O R K E R S
WE COVET THE PRAYERS OF THE READERS OF THE KING’S BUSINESS FOR EACH OF THESE ACTIVITIES, and FOR THE WORKERS IN CHARGE OF THEM. Mk m NE day’s experience at Biola Hall differs little from an other. As we approach the hall we are sure to see the usual crowd staring in the window. The posters are always at tractive, the pictures interesting and in structive. The large open Bible meets the eye and we know the eye gate con veys the truth as well as the ear gate. We peep into our open air question box, extract all notes, and, unlocking the door, find the morning mail awaiting our perusal. Much of this is abusive and of course anonymous, so consign ed to the waste basket. We switch on the lights, start the Victrola with some old familiar hymn, hang up the charts at the entrance and settle down to busi ness for the King. Then the phone rings,— “ Hello, I’ve got a job for a jobless man. Send him at once.” This job business is one of our big problems and increasingly grows bigger as the winter approaches. Men are coming continually, many for jobs, some for “ loaves and fishes,” others to read, and some to pray. It is glorious, however, when we can furnish the Bread of Life and the where-withal for the bread that perisheth at the same time to a physi cally and spiritually hungry man, and watch him depart with new heart and courage. As It Goes From Day to Day. Then, bidding him God-speed, we set tle for a little digging into the Old Book, only to look up into the face of a discouraged seedy-looking man who needs—well, everything. Following close on his heels is a bright Christian brother who has just dropped in for a word of prayer and fellowship, leaving a ten dollar bill in our hands. No soon er is he gone than another drops into the empty chair and buries his face in BIOLA HALL WORK David Cant, Superintendent.
' The Bible Institute of Los Angeles con ducts active evangelistic work, under competent leadership, in the follow in g de partments: HUNAN (China) W O R K , F ran k A . K e ll er, Superintendent. W e have in Changsha, Hunan Province, China, a Bible Training School for native workers, from which twenty-three men graduated in 1920, hav ing completed the regular two years’ course of study. We have also nine Colportage Boats, with thirteen workers on each boat (117 in a ll), goin g up and down the rivers of Hunan Province, preaching the Gospel by word of mouth and the printed page. Over 187,000 ,heathen homes were thus reached during nine months o f 1920. B IB L E WOMEN , Mrs. Lym an Stew art, Superintendent. In this department, fif teen splendid women, assisted by ten vol unteer workers, are giving their whole time to the work of teaching Bible classes and house-to-house visitation in different sections of the city and surrounding towns. Included in this department also, is the w ork of the Euodia Club, an organi zation o f Bible Classes among the girls o f H igh School age. SEAM EN ’S W O RK , Claude H. Pearson, Superintendent. Our workers board all the large vessels reaching the port of San Pedro, distribute Gospels and other religious literature and hold services, which are attended by the members of the crew and passengers. JEW ISH W O R K , Jam es A . Vans, Super intendent. W e have a Jewish home where Bible classes are held for adults and ch il dren and interviews are had with Jewish inquirers. Street meetings are also con ducted, and a public m eeting tw ice each month in the Institute auditorium. "SHOP W O R K , Marion H. R eynolds, Su perintendent. Th irty-tw o meetings are being held each week in the various shops, factories, car-barns and engine houses of the city, in addition to which the superin tendent, of the work visits many of the men in their homes. SPAN ISH W O R K , R obert H. Bender, Su perintendent. This includes Gospel m eet ings, Sunday School classes and house-to- house visitation among the fifty thousand Spanish-speaking people in Los Angeles and vicinity. B IO LA H A L L , D avid Cant, Superinten dent. Our City Mission for men, situated in the center of the city. Meetings are held from 10:00 o’clock in the morning until 10:00 o’clock at night, including a Noonday Business Men’s Prayer Meeting and personal work. Hundreds of men are reached here every day. B IO LA CLUB , Pasadena, E l wood P. Lyon, Superintendent. Splendidly located in the heart of the business district a center for large Bible classes, evan ge listic services and personal soul-saving work.
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