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FAMILY CIRCLE . . . B y C utler B. W hitwell
A Missionary to Arizona q HARLES P. C hamberlain , ’24, is working under the American Sun day School Union, whose object is to state of Arizona, and he conducts an aver age of fourteen Sunday-schools, located in small towns, mining camps, and rural dis tricts. Some are as far as sixty miles from a town or church or railroad. With few exceptions, they meet in the district school.
the Lord’s seal of approval upon their united efforts are continually being re ceived. The group will visit Denver, Colo.,- North Platte and Pawnee City, Nebr., and Kansas City, Kan., in most cases holding city-wide union meetings. Alumni News Edwin B. Singer, ’18, was obliged to give up his pastorate at the Florence Avenue Baptist Church because of ill health. He is now much improved, and with Mrs. Sin ger, ’19, who is an accomplished musician, he is open for engagements. He may be reached at 1615 East 70th Street, Los An geles, Calif. The Brooklyn Heights Presbyterian Church, San Diego, Calif., of which Clif ford F. Jones, ’17, is the pastor, held two weeks’ evangelistic meetings, beginning March 19, with Dr. Isaac P. Ward, form erly of the Institute extension staff, as the evangelist. Nellie H. Pierce, ’28, is located at Fort Harrison, Helena, Mont., working for the Veterans Bureau Administration. “I am serving among our ex-soldiers,” she writes, “living and speaking for Christ.” John T. Morris, ’24, is engaged in inde pendent union evangelistic work. His ad dress is 836 Leadenhall Street, Baltimore, Maryland. Helen Dorothy Whitney, ’28, is the ed itor of an interesting little booklet called The Lamp, published by the Nurses Fel lowship Society for student and graduate nurses. From its pages, we learn that Alice Whitney, ’27, E.S.j; is happily en gaged in work for the Lord in Northern Rhodesia, South Africa. Ellen T. Radant, ’26, E.S., is engaged in a faith work at Peniel Chapel, Los Angeles, holding two services on Sunday and sev eral during the week. Ethel L. Brookes, ’28, E.S., and Mabel W. Jones, ’28, E.S., are working in North Africa. “We do wish we could say that our Arabs are hungering for the gospel,” they write, “but the very opposite is true. However, the seed is faithfully sown, and it is bearing fruit. Please pray for a class of bootblacks—fifteen or twenty of them who are willing to leave the opportunity of earning a few pennies, in order to come to hear of Jesus.” Maxine McNeal, ’23, is in Los Angeles on furlough from Wei Hsien, Hopei Pro vince, China, where she has been serving the Lord since 1924. Last year, there were three new villages opened to the gospel. Goldie L. Wilson, ’25, is Miss McNeal’s coworker on the field. Katherine Baerg, ’28, is taking the med ical missionary course at the Bible Insti tute. She is also singing in a glee club, teaching in a Chinese mission, and witness ing in jails in Los Angeles. The following item appeared in the Cen tral American Bulletin: “Our C. A. M. has very little medical work; but we can be heartily grateful that in times of sickness we are not left without help. The Ameri can Hospital in Guatemala City, under the Presbyterian Mission, has been a refuge for sick missionaries for many years. There are few missionaries who do not owe a debt of gratitude to Dr. Ainslee and Mrs. Bess
Nurminger (’22), who are carrying on this work of healing, evangelizing, and of mani festing a spirit of Christian love as a wit ness to the whole community. Mrs. Nur minger has a big task on her hands to train more than thirty girls to be nurses, and her problems are many and serious; but she has the gift of a hopeful disposition, never loses heart, and carries about a cheerful face which is reflected in the faces of the nurses.” Grace Ogg, ’26, and Leona Renkel, ’26, have each given seven years of faithful service in the Shweifat schools, under the auspices of the Bible Lands Gospel Mission, with headquarters at Beirut, Mt. Lebanon, Syria. Their furloughs are due in June of this year. Pray that necessary funds may be forthcoming for this purpose. When local authorities in Venezuela granted the request of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Fuller (Rebecca Harrison, ’27) for a chapel location, a real victory was achieved. Construction was expected to be gin in January. The work of the mission aries has been persistently hindered by Satan, but in spite of this, there have been a number of conversions. Mrs. Fuller, with her daughter Ruth Wynola, arrived in Los Angeles on March 20, greatly in need of medical care. They were accompanied by Mrs. Van V. Eddings, of the same mis sion (Orinoco River), and her little son, Cedric. Mr. Fuller’s furlough is also due, and he hopes to return to the States in September. William B. Weightman, ’26, president of the Alumni Association, has a class of boys at Juvenile Hall, Los Angeles, each Sunday morning. The work is sponsored by the Church of the Open Door. As many as twenty boys have raised their hands, on one occasion, signifying a desire to accept Christ. Carl A. Ort is in Thermal, Calif., serving in one of four missions founded about forty years ago by a Moravian missionary to the Indians of Southern California, Un til he came, the station had had no resident work for about three years. The progress has been slow, but there is deep interest irt the study of the Word, and the attend ance is increasing. This is a faith work in a needy community, for which the pray ers of the Lord’s people are earnestly re quested. [Continued on page 142] With the Lord J. Austin Brillhart, T8, for many years an evangelist with an especial ministry with children, was called into the presence of the Lord on March 9, from his home in Los Angeles. Married E. S. Mansfield and Ruth D. Colquhoun, ’26, November 26, Running, Yunnanfu, China. Bom To Mrs. Lee Brantley (Adelma Morrill, ’29), a daughter, Ethalee Jean, February 28, Redding, Calif. Mr. Brantley went to be with the Lord last July.
reach the “otherwise unreached” commun ities. His field is the northern half of the
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One Sunday, while visiting one of these Sunday-schools, Mr. Chamberlain gave a message, as usual, after the lesson period. The subject was, “Ye Must Be Born Again.” When he had finished, the super intendent called for a closing song, and one bright boy called out, “Let’s sing, ‘Softly and tenderly Jesus is calling.’ ” “But we sang that in the opening exer cises,” the superintendent reminded him. “Let’s sing it again!” the lad persisted. So they did. The missionary thought at once that perhaps the words, “Earnestly, tenderly, Jesus is calling, calling, ‘O sinner, come home,’ ” expressed the desire of this boy’s heart. He had been sitting c\n the very edge of his chair, as though ready to move at the first opportunity. An invita tion was given, and he was the first to re spond. With eight others, he found the Lord Jesus Christ as his personal Saviour that day. Later, this whole group went to Prescott one Sunday and were baptized. They have united with one of the churches of Prescott. This is just one leaf from a home mis sionary’s diary, but it speaks of hungry hearts and bending wills and resulting blessing that crowns the preaching of the Word—anywhere. Crusaders for Christ A group of six Bible Institute students, most of them graduates of 1932, organized into a gospel team known as “Crusaders for Christ,” left Los Angeles on March 9, with engagements booked through June 10. The team is in charge of Neil M. Chris- man. Excellent quartet work is done by Paul Roper, Norman Foland, and Dick and Don Hillis. Oran Smith directs the congregational singing. Each of these young men has a clear, ringing testimony for the Lord Jesus Christ, and knows how to seek the Lord’s guidance through prayer. Without application to any human source, a hundred dollars in cash was received within two days, during the national bank moratorium, toward the defraying of the expenses of the group. Other indications of
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