July 1926
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of Jesus and service for him, also for guidance in my own life. My wish for all B. I. students is found in Hosea 14:5-7. With Christian love, Jennie M. Torgerson, ’ 17. Mrs. A. H. Nelsen (nee Florence Carlson, ’ 20) is living at Raymond, Montana. She writes: We have moved to a farm and expect to stay here two years. We attended an Evangelical Sunday School four and a half miles from home, where the attendance averages twenty, so you see it isn’t very large. I am teaching Junior and Intermediate girls and leading the singing. My husband has a class of boys. The children know very little of the Scriptures and come from homes where there is little if any in terest in the things of God. We pray that we may be faithful in giving God’s Word, that light may come into their hearts and they may be saved. From the “ Baptist Temple News” of April 10th, 1926, we copy the fol lowing letter from Jason P. Steer, ’ 16, who, with his wife, has recently re turned from South America. “ Dear Dr. Van Osdel and Friends: “ We want to thank all of you folks that had a part in sending the money for our passage. Although it did not reach us while we were on the field, it was even more acceptable, as the Mission decided to have us use some money belongihg to another fund so that we could come at once, rather than crowd three families into one house. “ Now, thanks to you and others of the Association, this other fund of the Mission will not have to be called upon to pay this.” 6007 Enright Ave., St. Louis, Mo. We have quite a B. I. colony right here In St. Louis. Mr. Aeschllmann, Mr. Cliff Rogers, Victor Ford, Stanley Nicholls, and Mr. and Mrs Leonard Gaylord are all attending Xenia. Edith Overman is in St. Louis waiting defin ite word concerning her appointment — 0 — - — o —
and love it. There are nine in the home at present. We could have many more and hope to have some day. They sleep on beds made of four ten inch boards, with just a blanket under them and one over them, three in a bed. I hope to have native beds some time with corn bush mattresses for them. I praise Him for all His love and goodness to me.” — o — Napoopoo, Kona, Hawaii. Dear Fellow Workers: I would ask prayer for one of the churches which I have been serving for the last two years. My call expired the end of February this year; a new call has been prepared, but owing to the opposition of a few unconverted members, nothing definite has been done so far. Of the one month’s vaca tion which the church has given us, we spent two weeks in the mountains at a little village 65 miles from here. In the short time spent there the Lord gave me a wonderful door of utterance. I preached in the village church morning and evening. In all we conducted five Gospel meetings in which twenty souls came out for Christ. Asking your prayers and praying God’s mighty blessing upon each mem ber of our Alumni family, I remain, Yours in Him, Edward Kahale, ’ 21. Beloved Fellow-Students: A couple of years have passed since I last sent a message. A little over a year ago I left Lodi and moved to .Minden, Nebraska. Since then I have not been engaged in definite Christian work but have tried to do the little things by the wayside. Have been teaching a Sunday School class, and last year took charge of the Junior de partment of a Vacation Bible School. This year a friend and myself have or ganized a Bible Class for High School girls. Though the attendance so far has been small, the work is encour aging, but my heart is yearning for work in a more needy field. Would be glad to have you pray for this Bible class, that they may get p. real vision Minden, Nebraska.
MARRIED On the twenty-first of May, at the First Baptist Church, Sixth and Bur lington Streets, Los Angeles, Mr. Harold Mason Young of Burma, and Miss Ruth Saada Pinkerton of Los Angeles, were united in marriage. Both of these young people were students at B. I. during tho last school year. They spent their honeymoon attending the Northern Baptist Con vention at Washington, D. C., later re turning to Los Angeles for a short stay, after which they sailed for Bur ma, where Mr. Young wjll resume his missionary duties. . . $ --- o--- Lela V. Freeland, a student for one year (1924), is now married to Mr. L. F. Barrows, and stationed at San Jose (Apartado 289), Costa Rica, Cen tral America, where her husband is the pastor of a church of about two hundred Spanish speaking people. jjjf GENERAL NEWS From Carupano, Venezuela, M i s s Lorinda Warren writes: "My greatest fight is to have my prayer time; my request is that I be kept faithful in prayer, especially private prayer. I know the special needs for prayer here, so please pray that I will be faithful in my part of the prayer ser vice. It will be two years in August since I heard a sermon in English. How starved I feel sometimes.” — o— In a letter from Miss Aurora Fluker of Kwong Tung, South China, she says: "I wish I could describe to you some of the things we see day after day. Just outside our gate there is a family who live in a little one room hut together with a big family of pigs, and such filth! As we pass there so much we see a good deal of their fam ily life. They are very friendly toward us, but it seems that no one has been able to win them to the Lord as yet.” — o— Mrs. Marlon Jackson, of Chania Bridge, Kenya, East Africa, writes in a letter bearing date April 11th: “ I have tfte girl’s and women’s work here
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