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o f Tucson, Ariz., of which R. S. Beal is pastor, concluded a most profitable series of evangelistic meetings under the leader ship of Carl Bassett, son o f A. E. Bassett who, for many years, has been a' member o f the staff o f the Bible Institute. After two weeks of faithful preaching o f the Word, 111 souls professed faith in the Lord Jesus Christ as personal Saviour, A large percentage o f this number sought be liever’s baptism, and a number united with the church. Mr. Bassett is not only an able preacher, but he leads the congrega tion in song with his trombone, and draws attention to the services with his work as a chalk artist. This was his third engage ment with the Tucson church as evangelist. Zohora Ismail, ’29, is in New York City visiting her parents. She hopes soon to be able to complete her medical missionary course. Berta B. Dyer, T8, underwent a serious operation. She is praising the Lord for rapid recovery. [Continued on page 427]
giving the gospel to many. As soon as it is possible for me to leave Shanghai, I hope to return to Wuhu. This will be new work for me and will mean the shoul dering of a great responsibility. Most of my cases will be several days’ journey from a doctor. Please pray especially for me in regard to this work.” Another graduate to whom T h e K in g ’ s B u sin e ss means much is Harry Jones, ’22, who is stationed at Brahmanbaria, East Bengal, India. “ The first page I turn to,” he writes, “is the one containing news of Biola students. For over two years, Mrs. Jones has had to remain in New Zealand with our two boys. The climate o f Bengal is too severe for the children. It is our hope that my wife will return to India near the end o f November, but the boys will have to remain in New Zealand. Our work in the Hindu and Mohammedan schools goes along steadily. ' Every week we are able to give one hour’s teaching to about 400 boys. In addition to this, I oc casionally give lectures in high schools. This winter we hope to go tenting in some o f the districts not often visited.” Mrs. Carl H. Wintersteen (Ellen V. Hoffman, ’20), praises the Lord for His blessing on herself and family, and upon their work in Puna, Bolivia, So. America. Mrs. Wintersteen has two children, Elva, five years old, and Melvin, one. Theresa Bush is working in the Gos pel Hospital, Anshun and Kweiyang, Kwei chow, China. She reports many opportu nities for witnessing to the patients of the saving power of the Lord Jesus Christ. A number have, seemed interested in the gospel and have attended meetings after they have left the hospital. Charles Thomas, ’32, Lawrence Begley, ’33, Henry Hedrick, ’32, and Bob Haley, known as the Calvary Four;, «left Los Angeles - last June on an '.extended t'oiir of the United States, singing and con ducting gospel meetings. The first four months were spent in various churches in Southern California. The quartet then pro ceeded East as far as Illinois and Minne sota. They plan to be in Florida during part o f the winter, and to visit Atlantic Coast cities before returning to California next summer. Prior to October j, they had had the privilege of conducting ninety- three meetings in schools, hospitals, camps, and jails, and had sung on 168 occasions, including eight radio programs. There have now been more than 200 decisions for Christ as a result o f their ministry.. On October 23, the First Baptist Church
Mrs. Don Turner (Faith Hollings worth, ’21), writes from Porlamar, Vene zuela, as follows: “ The Lord has done great things for us here since I last wrote. In June, a cyclone swept Margarita Is land, the northeast coast of Venezuela, and Trinidad Island, causing many deaths and much loss of property. The Lord kept us from harm and in perfect peace in the midst o f frantic and frightened people. This distress has been the means o f opening many conversations on the things of the Lord, and we have been able to place Tes taments in homes where before we were scarcely able to mention the gospel. We held a Victorious Life Conference in July, and the Lord really undertook for us, though in no other conference have we seen the enemy as active. The children keep well in spite of the intense heat.” T h e K in g ’ s B u sin e ss is a source of joy from month to month to Olga E. Noreen, ’26, who is in Navapur, W. Khandesh, India, serving under the Scandinavian A l liance Mission. There is a boys’ boarding school, and also eight village schools in dis tricts near there. A number of persons have accepted Christ as a result of the school work. K. Owen White, ’22, expects to write his thesis this fall and take a Ph.D. ex amination in the spring, which will com plete his studies at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Ky. He has a student pastorate in a church about thirty-five miles from Louisville. David E. Weaver, ’29, E.S., is pastor of the Pleasant Grove Baptist Church, Avoca, Ky., in which K. Owen White recently held evangelistic services. ■ Eva Doerksen, ’21, has left Bununu, Ni geria, West Africa, to take up duties one hundred miles away, in Tiffi, via Jos, Ni geria, West Africa. Here the people are living in one large village, which makes it much easier to reach them. The work is comparatively new, and there are as yet few believers: Miss Doerksen requests prayer that heathen darkness may be pen etrated by gospel light, and that hearts may be opened to receive the truth. Laura Woosley, ’30, is serving under the China Inland Mission as provincial nurse for Anhwei. For a time, she was cohfined to the C.I.M. hospital in Shanghai as a patient. While convalescing, she wrote: “Last summer, the C.I.M. sent me to a large hospital in Hangchow for special study. This hospital is conducted by the Church o f England, and besides doing a wonderful medical work, the workers are
Northbound Gospel Teams
C hristmas G ospel T eam (standing, left to right) Stewart McDougall, Warren Hall; (kneeling) Neale Thomas, Allen Bacher. The three groups of young men shown on this page are representative of a number of other groups, both o f men and of women, who expect to go forth from the Institute in various directions, to spend the Christmas vacation period in definite evan gelistic work. Many of the students have engaged in such team work before, to the strengthening of their own faith and cour age and to the enrichment of unnumbered lives. Other team members are going out for the first time. All of the young men pictured here are planning, the Lord willing, to proceed north —the Conquerors to Bellingham, Wash., the King’s Messengers to Vancouver, B.C., and the Christmas Gospel Team to Grants Pass) Ore. Even at this early date, each team has a well-filled schedule of appoint ments all along the way. The Christmas Gospel Team will follow largely the route used by Warren Hall in his bicycle tour o f last summer, giving special attention to out o f the way places. Each group is eager to be on its way, giv ing the gospel in sermon and song. The students’ musical programs have an irre sistible charm—the appeal o f the gospel itself presented by young people who are held by its quickening power. Many of these students, if the Lord tarries, expect to take this same gospel soon to distant mission fields.
Group at left, C onquerors (standing, left to right) Peter Rutschman, Glen Cox, Eugene Knautz, i Raynor; (kneeling) Robert Shields, Walter Lyons. Group at right, K ing ’ s M essengers (standing, left to right) Norman Dirks, Orrin Rutschman, Ray de la Haye, William Eitzen; (kneeling) Donald Allan.
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